The hotel is nice and clean and feels like a 4-star hotel. It is located 3-4 km west of Side town. You can walk into Side town (45 minutes) or take a a bus or taxi. Thera are some disturbing traffic for some rooms. The visitors are most germans and russians (juli 2011) and allmost all are families with small children or older couples. There is a shopping street outside teh hotel.
Very good pool area for all in the family (several pooles). You have to walk to the beach approx 300m. An all inclusive restaurant is also located at the beach. Unfortunatly you have to compete very early in the morning in the german national sport "reserve the sun bed with your towel". At 7.30 all sun beds were reserved but no one was there...
The food is OK (buffé) with some new dishes each day. The Italian restaurant were you can eat once at your stay was a joke, don´t go there.
The big drawback with their All inclusive concept are the drinks. The free beer is of very light lager type with almost no alcohol. Free drinks are turkish raki, vodka, gin etc togeter with soft drinks. Coctails are extra 5 EUR each, The wine is not possible to drink (almost no one was drinking it). I am used to Greek local house wine but this is much worse!
There is a kids club which was popular. Don't expect to much (anything...) of the shows.

Conclusion: This is a 4-star hotel with a low budget "All inclusive" concept. We got a bargin price. Don't pay to much!

Björn Johansson

First of all we've got the room with the windows to the street, and there was basketball (or football?) championship at that time, so few nights were really noisy, but we were so tired - that it wasn't a big problem. Even for our little girl. The room was nice and tidy, big bed, cute little bed for our 17th month old daughter. She just loved it! Every day the room was cleaned.
Big distance to the see. We were there only one time, because sea was very dirty. We stayed near the pool. Animation was poor (last year animation in Tunisia was excellent, so my rate may be not very objective).
In all I liked it, for it's cleanliness, excellent hammam, massage and food variety.

Reading the reviews on this site I became a little bit nervous for our forth coming reservation at this hotel. I have just got back from a girlie holiday (2 Adults and 4 kids) and had a fantastic time. The hotel doesn't have many British tourists ie 10-15 per year, so the staff do not speak much English...but they do try. All of the bar staff and waiters were great and we did not witness any rudeness at all...infact they couldn't do enough for us. Most tourists were German and once again they all spoke to us in broken English and were very nice.
The restaurant had a good selection of food and quite a lot of variety. The beach was located about a 10 minute stroll down a little road and was lovely. The hotel has a beach bar/restaurant and sun loungers for all the guests.
Considering we paid less than £2000 for 6 of us on a 10 day all inclusive holiday, we had a brilliant value for money vacation.
Yes, we would definitely go back to the Corolla Hotel. A great time was had by all and the only fault we can honestly say with the place is that the swimming pool was freezing!!!!...but we still went in anyway.

We booked as a last minute deal with little other option... we read the reviews for this hotel before our arrival and were very concerned... I must say we were pleasently suprised.

The reception area was extremley clean and the staff were very pleasant- granted their english could be better but please bare in mind Side is a mainly german resort in general (regardless of hotel) we learnt a few words in turkish which was appreciated grately by the staff.
some people seem to expect to travel abroad and eat english food, talk to english people and listen to english music... if this is the case go to blackpool!!! Dont bother going to side.

The room was pretty basic but again was extremley clean and comfortable.

The only dissapointment to us was the food- lunch was usually better than dinner but still not fantastic, i must add that neither of us was ill all holiday unlike other reviews- maybe people drank too much on other holidays?
Saying this however there we 14guests in the entire hotel, ourselves included. It was obvious that they were struggling to cater for such a small group of mixed generations and nationalities rather than having there usual 1000+ guests, we found ourselves eating out on occasion which is always better anyway... may i recomend the umut pide which is down the road and the nergiz in side!!

On our depature we were given fruit for the flight by the manager and a bottle of wine- nice touch!

A few things to bare in mind when considering the corolla...
1) Although this is an all inclusive hotel be prepared to pay for any drink after 11pm (untill breakfast) Also you have to pay 5euro per hour to play billiards

2)The hotel is just outside of side in an area called kumkoy... its within walking distance to both kumkoy center and side. But if for any reason you would rather not walk there is a dolmus station at the back of the hotel- its about 1euro per person