Came here last year with the family and 2 grandchildren, staying Parkside.
It needs refurbishing desperately.
This year just my wife and I, Parkside. This is a beautiful spot, own pool bar, snack bar, plenty of sun beds and quiet. It’s a well established gardens, Colonial style apartments make it somewhere special. The decor inside is typical old Turkey, its tired, it’s a mess, its cries out for refurbishment, broken tiles, hard beds, mastic everywhere in the bathroom, it’s not good for the price paid, but you know, it’s a great position, beautiful area, they need to expand on it.
It’s ideal for people who like everything on the same level, easy on the legs and those with disabilities.
It’s a couple minute walk to the rest of the resort, which is again well kept and gardens beautifully maintained.
The big pool area is ok for families, if you can put up with the pounding boom, boom, boom music all day long. Seems to be plenty of sunbeds, obviously some reserved early on, a trait, all countrymen world wide adopt these days.
For us the Parkside area was more relaxed and quieter.
Beach is stony and a coarse dark sand, we took some cheap beach shoes which were ideal, especially on the hot sand, the sea the time of year was so warm, despite the rain storms on arrival and our first real day.
Rented a Cabana on the beach (11) it’s so relaxing and makes you feel a million dollars, orders taken for drinks in the morning, just the once though, could of stepped that up a bit. Served up with a fruit platter and bottle of sparkly wine in an ice bucket about 2pm, the cocktail bars a few steps away as was the big bar and snacks.
Main restaurant: It’s a buffet, it’s there everyday, so why put something of each on ya plate then complain it’s boring. The food is of good quality, the salads are amazing, so usually had a starters, just restaurant size, then the main and a selection of desserts. The themed nights were brilliant, but don’t be a pig and cram it all on your plate, make out you are going out a meal and pick out what you would want, I found it much better that way. The breads, Pides and Pizzas are freshly cooked and simply the best. Breakfast, much the same, so much to choose from and you can get stuff freshly cooked, good choices of breads, fruits and salads, though was disappointed, no kiwi, dates or prunes.
Evening entertainment, wasn’t on our list, but for the kids show, they love it. Adult stuff,a bit same as last year, repetitive.
The bars were running down on certain drinks coming to the end of the season, even though the place was fully booked, saw someone getting the last of Captain Morgan’s Spiced rum, gutted.
Staff: cleaning staff done a great job, even though Parkside was less than complementary on decor, bar staff and dinning room staff were excellent ( you always get the odd sour faced one) but overall happy lot.
Our biggest disappointment : our leaving time was at 5pm, we had to check out of our room by twelve midday, so obviously, we like to enjoy the sun and facilities right up to the last minute. We couldn’t get an extension on our room or pay for another room so we couldn’t get showered and changed. Our cases were in a stowaway room, so had to get our change of clothes and toiletries and use the spa showers, these are communal for either men or women, there is no privacy for men or especially women, unacceptable. My wife just washed in the toilets and got changed, hardly the ideal scenario ladies want to be faced with.
Just a lockable space for privacy, with a toilet, shower and changing facility would be ideal.
Conclusion: Would I come back? not until Parkside sees some much needed refurbishment, I prefer being away from the noise and enjoy the nice stroll to the rest of the resort. The rest of the resort is ideal for families and is updated. Food for us was ideal, good choices, atmosphere is restful or active depending on your preferences