Yalihan Una

What an absolute gem of a hotel. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left we felt pampered. Our room had a gorgeous sea view ( booked through Jet 2 at no extra cost) a fridge stocked with water, fanta orange and Coca Cola. We only had the water and it was replenished daily and we believe the soft drinks were also complimentary. Pool/ beach towels were provided and could be changed daily late afternoon poolside. In the afternoon there is a little food station serving Kofta rolls( didn’t use it so not too sure what else). The beach is golden sand and shelves gently into the sea. There are plenty of sunbeds and yes people put towels out extremely early but you could always find one. A gentleman comes along and sweeps them clean and wipes them down for you. There is a beach bar a few steps up from the beach serving lager and soft drinks and burgers and pizza. On the beach is a lady cooking flatbreads to order and they come with a selection of fillings. You can also help yourself to watermelon and bottled water. The terrace has a bar serving hot and cold drinks all day including cocktails. The restaurant is self service with several cooking stations one which is pancakes breakfast time and otherwise pizzas and the other eggs and omelettes at breakfast and fish or grilled meats in the evening. Also in the evening is a grill station on the outside terrace. Food was plentiful and good. Something for everyone. Too many different dishes to list. The hotel also has two A-La - carte restaurants one Turkish and one Seafood. You have to book in advance but both were excellent. If you want wine other than the house wine you do have to pay extra. Both menus were similar to tasting menus and you certainly come away feeling extremely well fed. During the day there is a patisserie with a selection of rolls and sandwiches and some excellent looking cakes. Jet 2 recommend the hotel for adults and children over eight, as I have found out in the past it doesn’t necessarily apply to other tour operators and there were a fair number of very young children, we found all of them to be extremely well behaved and really hardly noticed them except for the fact we saw three sets of twin girls all around one to two years of age and we thought the hotel lifeguards on the beach were also twins. The hotel did have live entertainment on three nights but it was fairly low key. Eighty percent of the clients were German and the rest Turkish. In seven days we only heard one other English voice once and we really liked the fact the hotel was predominantly non British. We took lira but the hotel, the shops and the airport like euros.