A very cool vacation, the price and quality match, everything is included, the tortillas are delicious with fillings, they are baked by a kind, pleasant woman, asks everyone where they came from and smiles. Once a week there was a belly dance and a perfume merchant. There are karaoke and discos for those who need it. The rooms are cleaned cleanly, the bed is changed in a week, a bow is made from a bedspread, a comfortable pier with sun beds, from where we watched the Perseid streams, the beach is large enough, there is a place to swim, there are fish in the sea: catfish, yellow, white, striped, spotted, you need to take diving glasses, they eat at the pier the contents of the shells. The beach is peculiar there, which is important, funny seagulls and two cats, resting on sun beds. And the pomegranate is also growing. Across the street from the hotel there is a supermarket and shops where you can buy natural juices, ice cream, tea and coffee for gifts, the prices are inexpensive.
Nice hotel. The rooms are newly renovated.There is a pier.Fruits and vegetables are diverse.ROOMS
CLEAN.the breakfasts are good.TURKISH DELIGHT, CHEESES, JAM AND FRUITS. HALVA. Water, vodka, wine, coffee. Everything IS INCLUDED. There is a dance program in the evening. There is always a fish. Tortillas, etc. the deck chairs are new. Towels. There are no squid, red fish, etc. There are no fresh juices. A decent hotel without fanaticism.
The most honest objective review of the Sumela garden hotel in Turkey in 2024:
1. Territory: other reviews write about the excellent location of the hotel and this does not contradict reality, there is no need to go to the sea, the beach is on site, there is a bar with soft drinks nearby. The airport is not far away, there is nothing in the village, only hotels and shops of shopkeepers.
2. Beach: the hotel has its own small-pebble beach, but there are also stones. There are sun beds (cheap plastic ones without a mattress), a common canopy, there is a pier, but very scary and old. The bathhouse gives out old beach towels (it is better to have your own, because they are given out only in the morning at a certain time).
3. The sea: in July it was very warm, clean, but sometimes garbage sailed in large quantities.
4. Rooms and hotel: the Large room is normal in size, the rooms were renovated, the furniture is quite fresh, but the bathroom is very damp, smells like a drain, the plumbing is old. The floor is tiled, there is a balcony, but it is unpleasant to sit there, dirty plastic furniture, low iron handrails (it is unsafe for children), the doors to the balcony do not lock. In addition, the balcony is adjacent to a glass partition. They are cleaned every day, but not very thoroughly. Rooms of other categories are very bad, I do not advise you to take them. The common areas in the hotel are very unpleasant, everything is shabby, the shared toilets are old and very dirty, they look ugly, garbage is everywhere, cats roam, they mark everywhere, so it smells. There are dirty dishes in the hallway for several days, with leftovers, which the maids pass by and do not clean. The handrails are sticky, and so are the floors. Everything is kind of untidy, the corners in the stairwell are littered with junk, on which all the same cats sleep.
5. Food. Of course, everyone has their own food preferences, but in this hotel they cook poorly. Salads, olives are sour and stale, the choice is small. They are mainly prepared from semi-finished products: frozen cutlets, French fries and onion rings. It's every day. There are a lot of vegetables, but they are cooked very poorly, everything is sour. The fish is grilled, very dry. The cafe itself is very dirty, the floor, the tables are sticky. The dishes are always wet, they put plates and napkins next to them to wipe them themselves. There is little of it, so they use a disposable one. The chefs are very sloppy and very young (17-18 years old in appearance). Inside the cafe itself, it smells very unpleasant (perhaps from the kitchen), so we were sitting in the heat outside. From 11.30 to 15.00 an elderly woman comes out and bakes tortillas (gozleme) with fillings by the beach, but she does it quite slowly, so it's tedious to stand in a long queue to try them. There are fruits every day: peaches and nectarines are excellent, ripe juicy, watermelon is rare, apricots, apples and plums every day.
6. Swimming pool. It looks pretty round in shape, but it is poorly located, in the heat itself, it is impossible to stay near it during the day, there is no shade, there are few sun beds. Such a large number of guests (the hotel was 100% full), it is clearly not able to accommodate, so I did not want to wallow there, we swam in the sea. During the day, the water gets very hot, it gets hot, it is not cooled. At 18.00, everyone is kicked out of the pool and filled with bleach.
7. Animation. This is a complete failure. Amateur performance in any rural school is better than what these would-be animators tried to portray, one of them is also a native of an unfriendly country, in connection with which he did not treat our compatriots too well, ignored wishes.
8. Bar and drinks. The bar has non-alcoholic sodas, powdered juice, local alcohol as everywhere (beer from a barrel, local white, red and pink bottled wine, tastes sour, but you can drink gin, Turkish vodka and regular). Everything is poured into disposable dishes, they save on everything. The bartenders are young, friendly, and they mix all sorts of cocktails with syrups if desired. There are three coffee machines, the coffee is passable. The bar is open until 22 o'clock. Conveniently located not far from the beach.
9. Staff. Everyone is young and active, but we noticed that the management of the hotel is lame, there is an elderly very unpleasant and rude director who yells at everyone, has many deputies who are useless. Basically, all this management sits most of the time at the table drinking tea and having a snack, while waiters rush around them. After several comments about the dirt on the windows in the entrance area, they tried to wash the windows, but not everything was washed and not clean.
10. Hammam. The hotel has one, and offers massage services. We didn't go. I can't judge the quality, but the bathhouse looks very old, it smells like cigarettes and sewage inside. There was no desire to visit her.
It's up to you to decide whether to go to this hotel, but I'm not going back to it for sure. I gave one star for the proximity to the sea, the second for the room.