Ananea Kleopatra Beach (+12 Adults Only)

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# Cook's Club Hotel Review (12–19 July 2025) ## The Good, the Great, and the Beach Let’s start with the highlights: - **Location**: Absolute perfection. The hotel is so close to the beach that any attempt to move it closer would require amphibious architecture. - **Beach Access**: Practically at … lisää

# Cook's Club Hotel Review (12–19 July 2025) ## The Good, the Great, and the Beach Let’s start with the highlights: - **Location**: Absolute perfection. The hotel is so close to the beach that any attempt to move it closer would require amphibious architecture. - **Beach Access**: Practically at your doorstep. The beach was mostly clean, barring the odd cigarette butt and piece of litter. At times, the water itself turned into a mystery of oceanography—crystal clear in the morning, but occasionally in the evening… well, let’s call it “nature’s soup of unknown origins.” Whether it was the wind, the tide, or Poseidon having a bad day, we’ll never know. - **Service on the Beach**: Quick, efficient, and refreshingly unintrusive. No aggressive sales pitches—just good vibes and the sun. - **Staff and Atmosphere**: Friendly, polite, and predominantly European guests—think more “quiet brunch” than “spring break reunion.” Cheerful staff and a distinct lack of wild children in hotel areas (beach children were present but civil). - **Room Experience**: Our room was positioned above the restaurant, which hosts DJs and live music deep into the night. With the balcony door closed, the party stayed nicely outside. Housekeeping was tip-top, and our housekeeper deserves a bonus for sheer friendliness and attention to detail. The oversized fridge was an unexpected (and much-appreciated) amenity. - **Dining at The Boheme**: The restaurant surprised us—in a good way! The food was genuinely excellent and outperformed most typical hotel offerings. ## Now, for the “5-Star Reality Check” 1. **Facilities & Design** Oh, the expectations! You call yourself a 5-star hotel, so we expect—well—5-star amenities. - The shower drain was doing its best impression of a wading pool: enjoy the authentic spa experience of standing in 5cm of water! - I marveled at the “wall-mounted” Dove shampoo, which, in reality, suffered from a wall-mounting identity crisis. - Mystery water dripping from the ceiling (let’s call it optimistic “AC condensate” and not its less appealing cousin, “sewage”). Your fantastic team tries heroically, but friendly smiles can’t compensate for questionable plumbing. 2. **Breakfast: An IQ Test with Pastries** - Food quality was decent, but the layout was a riddle wrapped in a mystery. Bowls on one end, cereals on another, spoons somewhere else entirely. If your aim is to offer light morning cardio for the brain, mission accomplished! - Service itself hovered somewhere around “let’s wake up together” level. Not disastrous, but certainly not what you’d expect for the price tag. 3. **All-Inclusive: Calculators Ready** - 60€ per person per day for all-inclusive? That’s 120€ daily for a couple—unless you’re training for the Olympic Drinking Team, that’s an expensive habit. - Considering we’re alcohol-free and value our waistlines, we found gourmet meals (steak, seafood) in town for under 50€ for both of us. That’s 70€ saved daily, which with a week’s stay buys several spa days or a decent inflatable flamingo. ## The Final Verdict - **Did we enjoy our stay?** Absolutely. - **Would we return?** Yes, we would. - **Would we recommend it?** Yes, with a caveat. **BUT… please fix those technical quirks, or at least consider calling yourselves “4 stars with a sense of humor and a very big fridge.”** Until then, we're rooting for you to earn that fifth star, one drain repair at a time.

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“Not 4 ⭐️ star”

Be aware that the rooms are not as advertised! We were half board, staying on the ground floor, near the main reception. There were 8 Rooms on our side and each balcony had a lovely view of a leaf wall, right next door to another hotel!! An absolute eye sore🫣😳The noisy generator was also a bonus. … lisää

Be aware that the rooms are not as advertised! We were half board, staying on the ground floor, near the main reception. There were 8 Rooms on our side and each balcony had a lovely view of a leaf wall, right next door to another hotel!! An absolute eye sore🫣😳The noisy generator was also a bonus. Thank God for ear 👂 plugs! The balcony was also tiny. I’m presuming that the all inclusive guests got the better rooms/ possibly a sea view? The room decor was very dark/outdated and the lighting needs improving drastically, so dark! The beds and pillows however were very comfortable , but not sure why there was an extra large grey cushion and oblong striped one on the bed too?? The towels need to be renewed as they stank and were like cardboard 🥴🤢 You did get free hand wash and shower gel. There was also a hairdryer in the bathroom, which is small. We did get air conditioning, which was a bonus. There was also a kettle, fridge, safe, tv, tea/coffee facilities, waste/wicker laundry basket? And Wi-Fi. Storage space was adequate, but as usual not enough hangers provided.😩😤🤯 As for beach towels, you were given a plastic card, which enabled you to be issued with a clean beach towel every 2 days. Forget it! I ended up fortunately changing mine off the maids laundry truck, parked in the corridor 😜 The tatty rugs situated throughout the hotel also need removing, a definite trip/fall hazard, I thought the food/selection was pretty standard/edible although somewhat repetitive. Luckily we were only there a week! No English breakfast at all and couldn’t find an English teabag in sight? I did find it bizarre though that drinks were not included with your meals (half board) and you had to pay for these/put them on your room tab. However, we did find out that you’re entitled to a big glass rather than the smaller ones the all inclusive guests got. I even had to sign a chatty one night for Lipton ice teas! 😳😆😆 Be aware of splinters in your feet aswell if walking bare foot on the decking around the pool! Luckily my daughter managed to remove 8 out of my right 🦶? Ouch!😩🥺 I thought the pool 🏊‍♀️ was lovely and relaxing 😎 and the 🪴 plants/foliage and night time 💡 lighting was gorgeous, but the sun lounger cushions and scatter cushions also need renewing as they were really dirty. I know this can’t be helped with all the guests, but it was the same with the beach sun beds. Also £30 /euros for one of those tatty 4 poster beds 🛏 on the beach 🏖 really??🤣😂🤣 At 4.30 pm aswell?? You were packed like sardines aswell on these sun loungers during the day, hence we chose to visit various other locations on Kleopatre Beach, despite having to pay 210 Turkish Lire daily for 2 sunbeds and an umbrella, which I thought was ok. The booming music also gave us a headache for the first few days!😩😩 The staff were ok, but when getting the bill, you never got your change back, they just presumed it was a tip. It would have been polite to be offered the choice to tip. Not an automatic right. Also be aware of late checkouts! If you’ve got a night ✈️ flight. £10/euros per hour!! They’re also very, very reluctant to do this for you up till the day before/last day in most cases. Checkout is 12 noon. The Irish ☘️ pub is also bizarre and in fact dead!💀No atmosphere whatsoever 😆😆 The bar service was hit and miss along with the prices aswell😤🤯 In fact the entertainment in general was bad. More like indie/bougee/ background noise that’s all, especially at the beach bar/pool area. You also have to go through the Tunnel of Love ❤️ to get to the restaurant, from the rooms nearest the reception. 😆😆 On the whole not sure I’d go back to Alanya, as the transfer, with jet 2.com there was 4 and 1/2 hours! After a 4 and a 1/2 hour flight! Then when I walked into our dark, dingy room, I was soooo disappointed 😔 On the way back we paid for a private transfer, which was still nearly 2 hours and that was with the driver driving like a formula one driver/100 miles an hour!😳😆😆 So to summarise, great 🏖 beach, the sea/waves🌊 were warm, amazing and the locals were friendly, with limited English communication skills and we had great weather whist we were there! I love Turkey 🇹🇷 on the whole anyway, but this hotel does need updating in a lot of ways.

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