Side Beach Club

Location is great. Situated next to the beach, room next to the pool or seaview, 10 minute walk from the old town of Side. The pool, sun beds were of an acceptable standard. Housekeeping staff were accommodating when asked to change linen or clean room. The Aircon worked. Standard Turkish Breakfast was fine although only melon offered, no other fruit. Received good service from the member of staff on beach duty.

The advertised "Deluxe" room was not deluxe and other areas are not as advertised. We arrived to find a broken lamp, lights not working, the poorly lit bathroom had mold and ingrained dirt in and around shower and the window was very hard to open and close, so left closed. Room wasn't cleaned or linen changed automatically, so asked for cleaning and linen change every 3-4 days. Only 1 tiny cheap plastic bin to put all rubbish including the requested used toilet paper. So often emptied this bin myself. Towels and sheets were clean, but old and well used. Marks on walls, curtains, outside patio door handle was missing and the room was generally very tired looking, well used and in need of refurbishment. Reported the broken lamp, mold and lack of lighting twice. Lamp was removed, but not replaced and new light bulbs installed. A kettle would also be expected in a deluxe room. In the hotel restaurant one evening we asked for a coffee and was told " No, we only serve cold drinks after dark". If you are a light sleeper, you will hear music from the bars and guests outside. We spoke to other guests staying at the hotel and they were of the same opinion about the quality of the rooms and hotel. It seemed the management were more interested in the restaurant (which is open to the public ) than the hotel.

Excellent location, breakfast, pool were also good.

Shower/ bathroom

Nice place,nice room,good breakfest

The room standard is simple to low, the exterior with the restaurant and pool is nice, and the location is excellent, right on the beach and very central. Beach promenade in front goes along the beach to the right and goes straight into old town with impressive ancient ruins on the left. Hotel guests are supposed to get a discount at the hotel restaurant, but we didn’t always get this. Favori (“favorite”), one of the restaurants next door, serves affordable and tasty food, and is popular among Scandinavians. Side is about an hour from Antalya airport with airport transfer, we used Bizim.

Room standard is very low and does not match the pictures. Poor wifi, air condition, maintenance, and room cleaning. Uncomfortable beds. We did not always get the discount at the restaurant.

The beach was 1 mintue from the room

So the only plus of this hotel is the beach you step out of your room and 1 minute you are on the beach. Apart from that, whoever their photographer is does a really good job of not showing how rubbbish and broken the rooms are. We paid for apparently a delux balcony room. Yes, we had a balcony that you would never be able to sit on because its south facing and like an oven all day. The bathroom floor always get covered in water from the shower base when you have a shower, as the sealant around shower is poor. Half the electrical points dont work we had to share 1 bedside point for all our electricals and as usual abroad you try and plug a travel adapter, and they put the light switch so close to the point the adapter knocks the light on easily. The rooms don't get cleaned daily. They change your towels every 3/4 days if you are lucky and only empty bin in the toilet and add new toilet roll. They dont sweep or mop your room so if go to beach and have a shower you end up with dirty feet again after. The breakfast is continental consisting of the same everyday boiled eggs, cucumber,cheese, olives bread, jams and butter. They change an accompanying plate you get also every day, 1 day potaotes, then a bland plain omelette, and then chopped franfurters with onions and then repeat. For the amount of guests, i dont see why they can't cook breakfast to order its not hard either food is being wasted or re-used. Big hotels do buffet breakfast this would be better here. The restaurant was nothing special, but neither were any of the restaurtants around. Ive been to Turkey many times mainly on the Alanya side, and i found here in Side the food is overpriced and not very tasty. The best restaurant is the kebab fast food Hill park food 10 minutes walk fresh tasty and reasonable price.

The best thing about this hotel is location, have been several times already. House band on the restaurant by the night is just great, good players and good music.

The housekeeping was very bad this year comparing to previous years. Earlier they did clean up the room almost every day and got clean towels, but now only 2 times in 2 weeks and had to ask for the cleaning and clean towels.

Right next to the beach and had a pool

Was there for 10 days and the room was cleaned twice.

Fabulous location. All rooms have sea view. Nice size room

Shower took a long time to warm up.