A friend and I stayed at the Titiz Hotel for one week in September 2006. Before we arrived we had read all the reports posted on Trip Advisor and were in a state of panic as to what we were to find. We ended up having the best holiday we have had so far.
We arrived at the hotel early evening and were promptly checked in and introduced to the manager Kemal and his wife at reception. My only concern upon arrival was when we were being shown to our room. There is a cleaning lady who works at the hotel and she was around 7 months pregnant, and she was expected to carry our heavy suitcases up a flight of stairs to our room. I point blank refused for her to do this which didn’t go down too well with the manager Kemal who instructed the cleaning ladies husband to carry my suitcase instead.
Our apartment was right on the poolside and was lovely. The apartments are small but were ok for two people they can sleep up to four which would be a tight squeeze. They have a fridge, two ring cooker, toaster and kettle. The room was clean and tidy, housekeeping was every day. Towels were changed twice a week, although I would recommend taking your own as the towels they provide have seen better days. The brochure stated hairdryers in apartments which is wrong. There are NO hairdryers provided in the apartments or rooms. We experienced no problems with cockroaches, rats or snakes as the reports stated. There is a shop next door to the hotel that provides everything you require, which was handy for us as we were self-catering.
The bar is open from breakfast until 2am. If you require a quiet holiday, this is not the place to go due to the bar playing music and the apartments being very close to the bar/pool area where you can experience quite a bit of noise.
The food at the hotel was good too although quite small portions. The restaurant is open from morning breakfast until 10pm where you can choose snacks whilst lying around the pool. They have a varied menu of English and Turkish dishes to choose from.
The staff at the hotel were friendly, polite and very helpful. You received no hassle from them as I have experienced on previous trips to Turkey. Holiday reps visit the hotel every day (which is a first).
The hotel is situated about a 2 minute walk away from the main Bar Street which is very handy indeed. You hear no noise from Bar Street at the hotel. Bar Street contains many various bars, English, Irish, Australian, Karaoke Themed Bars, Nightclubs, Restaurants, you name it, and they have it. It is very lively and friendly.
In between the bars and restaurants are a mixture of shops that sell, clothes, shoes, jewellery, ornaments etc. etc. There are barbers and hairdressers mixed in also..
The beach is a 10/15 minute walk from bar street, although, due to all out time spent on various excursions, we never managed to get to this.
We had a fabulous holiday and thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Titiz Hotel. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a fun and lively holiday at a very reasonable price.
Hello’s to Linzi and Trina, Simone and Ali, Rob and Rhona and most of all, last but not at all at least, Ercan (thank you for making my teaching of English a very pleasurable experience).
