Acanthus & Cennet Barut Collection

Stayed at this hotel for 8 days in July this year through three different bookings, with my husband for three days, alone for two days and with my friend for three days. Right now I'm still here with my friend and have two nights left of our stay. The beach at the hotel is nice, but there is almost no service here so you have to collect water, drinks and such yourself. The food at the a la carte restaurants is also generally good, although they often give you something other than what you have ordered. One can only forget to be treated with five star service here. Currently, we have only met a person who knows how to treat guests well, and it is Kamil who works in the Safran restaurant / lobby bar. He is incredibly nice and service minded, and most of the hotel staff should learn from him.

The first day we arrived, almost all of the restaurants were fully booked several days ahead, so we had to eat in the buffet the first evening (not very good even though there is a large selection). In the Safran restaurant (indoors), they have cockroaches that crawl around the floor. Last night one of them ran over my feet while I was eating, and staff gave us a new table and said it is common for the cockroaches to come out of the list at one wall closest to the kitchen (eww !!). The shower in room 2319 where we are staying stinks heavily sewage, and although the reception have told us they will fix it for over four days, it still smells awful in the whole room, even after maintenance and housekeepers have been there and washed. Reception manager Tolga is completely awful to the guests. He lies and is a snake, and can only offer us worse rooms (without evening sun, view or at a lower floor) as compensation for the things we have experienced as he says these rooms are in the same category. He is only interested in making money and requires that we pay 600 euros extra to get a room with these qualities since this is considered an upgrade. I have never experienced being met by so rude staff at a five star hotel where he interrupts you and is rude. We have already paid over 2,000 euros to stay here, and then I feel tricked if I am going to pay more for them to fix their problems. They also have Beach restaurant, but several times we have ordered food we ended up waiting 45 minutes for the food even when the restaurant is almost empty.