“Nice location but underserviced”

The hotel is only about 20 metres from quite a nice beach. There are also many restaurants all over the place. The latter point, although convenient, has its down side too. Not sure if it's common knowledge but you need to expect to be hassled every time you walk past a restaurant - which happens every 5 metres. You will be hassled mercilessly. But this is a feature of Side and possibly Turkey as a whole. Although having paid for a room with sea view it didn't have one. That is, unless you stand in one corner of the room, on your tip toes. The room was confortable though (aircon was appreciated!). The town of Side caters for German and English tourists and the split is about 50-50. Nobody in the hotel however speaks any English. Or German for that matter. This shouldn't be a problem though. The neighboring tour agent place can sort you out if you need anything, like a taxi for example. One last point, although the hotel advertises wi-fi you may not get it in your room. Their wireless router has a relativelt small radius. I got around this by standing next to it, by the manager's office, with i-phone in hand. Enjoy Side though - plenty of nice food and wine. I recommend taking a day-trip on a boat too (if you don't expect European efficiency all the time you will have a lovely day).

“Nice hotel at nice location”

Only negative thing I can say that hotel room and mattress were kind of small.

“Nice place, but crazy rules”

It's a nice hotel and I had a small, and I had a nice room. However, I wouldn't go back because of all the crazy rules they had at the hotel which were designed to extract as much money as possible from you. For example, no outside food or drink was allowed in your room, including water. You were suppose to buy it from the hotel's restaurant, at inflated prices. Also, breakfast was buffet style from only 8:30 to 10. After that, you had to pay extra, even if you got an extra cup of coffee at 10:01. The old man that owned the place was constantly watching all the guests and employees, making for a very uncomfortable time.