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The Marmara Antalya
Eski Lara Antalya|2.23km from Ziya Gokalp City Park
Great hotel with great facilities, lovely views and decent breakfast. Rooms are very weird decor but clean and had everything you'll need. Usual extremely high priced mini bar as well, including chilled condoms. We opted for a sea view which is well worth it as the view was great. The revolving part is pretty small so while more expensive, you'll only get a view half the time as it'll turn to face the hotel, in my opinion not worth it. Breakfast selection was good (if you like sweet pastry like me, watch out for them mislabeling the apple pastry as cheese pastry, not pleasant), lots of fruit and hot and cold options. Coffee wasn't great but plenty of it anyway. Pool area was great, plenty of beds and didn't get overly busy. You can order food and drink (overpriced but I'll come back to that). There's also a cliff bathing area with a small bar. We didn't use it during the day but went down for sunset as it was a beautiful view and had a small seating area. Weirdly quiet at sunset but fine by us. Lots of beds down there but rocky and choppy sea, so didn't appeal to for swimming. You'd not be able to take small children in there either. There's a few restaurants around the hotel, the one opposite, zahtar, I'd recommend, great prices, great food and great service. There's also a small supermarket and a slightly bigger one just down the road. There are lockers and showers on the spa floor that you are free to use and very handy if you have a late departure as you can check out but use these facilities. Our only frustrations were as below but these wouldn't be major issues just thought I'd mention in case they affect anyone else. We arrived very early, 5 am, but didn't want to pay for early check in with us not wanting to actually sleep in the room then, they said the room would be ready at 11am, which would have been great, we asked to pay for breakfast which was 440TRY £22 which was a lot but it was fine as it was worth it for the convenience on the first day. We could relax in the dining area as it was vast with sofas and facilities, then relax by the pool. Someone came to inform us that the to would be ready for 9, we went up at 9, wasn't ready. It'll be ready in 30 minutes, 30 minutes later wasn't ready. Again told 30 minutes. We have it 45, went back and it was eventually ready. Pretty much at 11 like they'd said previously. The other frustration we had was by the pool. We'd bought crisps to have as a snack by the pool as they only offer bigger meals like sandwiches and wraps that we saw, no snacks. The first couple of days we were able up snack pretty openly by the pool. On the third day we'd bought a big bottle of coke to have and this was clearly a step to far as they told us we couldn't consume outside food by the pool. It's a bit of an archaic rule these days especially when they are charging a ridiculous markup for coke when there's a shop over the road. Also by the pool a very loud family arrived the day we were leaving, thankfully. Who
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