The first room we were showed was very small, dark, had a tiny balcony, was on the ground floor by the bar and overlooked a footpath. So we paid £100 to upgrade to a "suite" or rather a single room interconnecting to a double room. In this room we had a fabulous view across the pool and out to the ocean. We were really happy until the evening, when the discos started. The hotels on this strip are squeezed next to one-another and we could here the pool-bar discos from the adjacent 3 hotels. Most night they stopped at 1.30am, although on one horrendous night they carried on until 4am which was very loud even through ear-plugs.
The "suite" was nice, a little well-worn but it was late in the season. In neither room did the curtains fully close, there was a net curtain, but if you can't sleep with the curtains open you should take a blindfold.
The best thing about the hotel is the food. Every meal is buffet style but the food is great. There is a huge salad buffet, then 3-4 hot dishes with every meal and a choice of breads. For the evening meal there is also some barbecued meat. Most of the hot food was either chicken or fish, one night there was some beef.
The pool is nice and quite large, I guess 20m along the longest length. The sea is also beautiful and clear (blue flag). The only problem with the beach is that the sunloungers are right ontop of one another, and you are less than a foot away from your fellow sunbathers.
It's a 20 minute walk into Kemer or you can get the bus which costs 1euro or 1 turkish lira. These buses do not have a timetable, they will stop where you flag them down. We never had to wait more than 10 minutes for a bus.
- Grand Gul Beach Kemer
- Grand Gul Beach
