Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
Marmaris, Dalaman Region

Mr B Lee, Malvern

Room was good and nice and clean but food was really poor and so were the drinks, served in paper cups. Won't be going back.

Mrs S Simms, Bedford

Mrs S Simms, Bedford

Cleanliness is excellent. Food is good, lots of choices. Staff very happy to help.

Mr D Wilson, Forfar

Hotel was spotless. Rooms cleaned everyday with fresh towels. Always a sun lounger to be gotten, friendly staff always ready to assist. Plenty activities on offer, my kids had non stop entertainment from the lovely Ally. Never stuck with something to eat, plenty choices. Free safe in room which is helpful and also a fridge.

Mr V Jakelevicius, Burton-on-trent

Need more sport activities, something like volleyball or basketball. Also all activities takes very short period of time and you don't have enough time to enjoy it. However staff were very friendly and food was very delicious.

Mrs D Lozoraitiene, Swadlincote

Nice and clean rooms, friendly and helpful staff, creative animators, tasty and every day different food. Amazing hotel with just 5 minutes walking distance to the sea.

Ms A Smart, Macduff

The hotel was fantastic.

Mr A Gopsill, Bradford

Mr A Gopsill, Bradford

Staff very helpful, wanted to join in our games such as Tri Onimoes and Dominoes. Hotel clean although our room on 5th floor small but adequate and very clean and we also had a good view from our balcony overlooking the sea and mountains.

Mrs L Vale, Wisbech

Good value for money. Located on main road so good for local transport. 2-3 mins walk to beach from front door. Hotel decor lovely, kept spotlessly clean, 24/7. Staff pleasant, animation good, food and drinks very good. Only downside was our first couple of nights the cafe/bar near lobby served drinks in paper cups. We did complain and they were changed to plastic. Pool good, water slide and kiddies play area, many sunbeds and seating, but towels were being put out before 7.30am. Very much family hotel and children catered for. All in all a good hotel.

Mrs S Johnson, South Shields

Staff are great can't do enough to please you, food is good and drinks are good, cocktails included in AI, pool and beach towels provided, room towels changed daily. The whole hotel is spotless. Plenty sunbeds for everyone. All rooms have a safe and fridge, free of charge and the WiFi is good and free. The hotel is in a prime location and great for kids also.

Mr S Hussain, Leytonstone

We checked in late at night. 3 of us in a room. The room was clean with a double and single bed. It wasn't a very big room but we didn't really care as we weren't going to spend much time in there anyway. It has a fridge which is stocked for free twice a week. A safe which is free to use. The food is great. The rooms are cleaned and new towels added when needed. Staff are helpful. To get a sun lounger you have to be up early. The location is good. Just a few minutes into the marina.

MRS J Fox, Airdrie

This hotel is spotless, rooms were cleaned every day. The food is good even though I am a picky eater I enjoyed the variety on offer here and would go as far to say this was the best hotel food I have had in a long time. The staff were very friendly and couldn't do enough for you. The bars were well tended, no long queues of people waiting on drinks. Couldn't really fault this hotel so it gets a thumbs up from me.

Mrs I Burwin, Manchester

Staff very polite and helpful. Very clean in all areas. Food lovely, but breakfasts were not to my husbands liking, he prefers bacon with everything! and only had bacon on once for breakfast. Lunches and evening meal were lovely, lots of choice. Good location, able to walk into Marmaris central harbour area, eat out a couple of times as well. Buses are really good, colour coded so you know which bus to get to where, and very cheap for almost everything. Beach at Ideal Premium not very good. Swimming pool was freezing, children were very brave going in, coming out with blue lips, far too cold water. Overall a very nice country and I would certainly go again. The taxi was waiting at the airport for us, even though we were over an hour late in arriving, and on time for our return journey. All in all, a very good experience.

Miss T Morgan, London

Our stay got off to a shaky start when we arrived after travelling for 12 hours to be told there was no food available of any kind as it was after 1am. The inside of the hotel looked nice, quite plush when you get past the reception desk. We were taken to our room via the most comically tiny lift I have ever seen in a hotel, it was a talking point among everybody on the holiday. When we reached our room the porter opened the door and we could immediately hear the roar of traffic from the road outside without even entering! This got worse when after successfully entering the room with the keycard, the porter put it into the power slot inside the room to turn everything on, nothing happened. We went back to reception to be told they were calling an electrician! We rejected that idea immediately and told them the room was the noisiest we had ever encountered so another quieter room was found. This room had the worst view, it looked onto the side of another block and over part of another hotels pool but at least it was quiet! The room was nicely finished and decorated and very clean but it was also far too narrow. There is also the issue of how hot it is in the public areas and dining rooms, they say that they put air con on in these areas between 12 and 7pm in the hotter months, it was in the 90's when we were there and not pleasant to be outside your room at all.

I said a shaky start, well it could only get better! And it did, the whole hotel is very well furnished, decorated and looked after by very hardworking staff, the food is fantastic! I really compliment the chefs here, there is so much choice of delicious tasty food of every description. The Turkish night stands out as one of the best. At breakfast there is a very 'traditional' lady who cooks the eggs while muttering away in Turkish but the eggs are fresh. We had some lovely bacon several times on our stay, a first for us in a Turkish hotel, there were lots of inventive breakfast foods as well as practically anything else any nationality on holiday there could want, the lovely bread is always a bonus too. Lunch always looked nice with plenty of choice but after we found the delicious chicken kebabs they serve at the pool bar we used it every day. They are lovely and lean, made from breast not thigh meat and served with lovely sauces and salads along with chips and breads if you can manage them. The evening meals are amazing with an such a variety of good quality tasty food to choose from that we were spoilt for choice every evening. It really feel like they have made an effort and are rightly proud of what they have achieved in the restaurants.

Something that does let this hotel down badly is the entertainment, or lack of it. A few days we were there they put on a couple of pool games; volleyball and a game of catch the ball in a cup. The pool bar staff are among the most unfriendly we have come across but they do serve lovely slush drinks on tap, alcoholic or non alcoholic, really refreshing in the heat, for the big drinkers there will not be any problems here from what we could see with tons of choice, just not very nicely served. In the evening there seemed to be nothing at all for adults just a few party songs with children clambering over the stage. It was cute to watch the toddlers trying to join in but there was no interest at all if you didn't have kids there like 95% of the patrons. There are TV's playing sports events and a pool table and football table but these were always in use by a couple of large groups staying there. The entertainment team were a nice friendly bunch but compared to other hotels we have stayed at the entertainment was dismal for adults. They have lovely rooms where they could play a film or host a quiz night or singalong, or put on a show, just something as an alternative to just sitting there, perhaps this might have meant having to put the aircon on!

The hotel is well situated for catching the dolmus into Marmaris harbour/bazaar area which is very nice, but it is on a noisy main road so if you are a light sleeper be aware. You can walk down the road along side the hotel to the beach and there is a lovely walk with lots of restaurants and bars and lovely views, especially at night. If you are lucky with your room and plan to go out or make your own entertainment most evenings I would recommend this hotel, some people we talked to did get lovely large rooms when paying for standard, so they do exist!

Miss A Phillips, Glasgow

Mrs J Mcneill, Shotts

The staff are so friendly and helpful, the facilities are great and the hotel is in a great spot.