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

stayed here in August 2oo5. what an auful place. reception was full of fly`s the settee`s are old and scruffy. I lost a teeshirt and when asking at reception Do you speak English i was told very abruptly no GERMAN. I read other reviews from other members and aggree that this hotel is for the germans. I also was very ill during my stay the food wasent nice .pizza every day. not reccomended.

Where do we start, I guess it starts with the flights that got us there at 6 am in the morning to arrive to german speaking Turks. We walked into our room to find it being a 2 star max room with rock hard beds one rock hard pillow each. The airconditioning was like a hot fan the fridge was more of a heating device and the tap did not even manage a drop of water at this time of the day. We made it down for lunch on the first day and found a resonable selection of foods which was great for the first day pitty it did not vary after that. The pool was fantastic and the waterslides were nice but as you would have already read that all the entertainment and sports were for Germans. You pretty much were ignored if you spok,e english. The dinners were average and the food stayed the same nearly everyday, Salads nice and the deserts were very much a let down. The all inclusive alchole was appaling with the beer tasting like it was watered down and the red wine was chilled and tasted very very cheap. Sun beds were provided but if you wanted a cushin it was at an additional cost of 1 euro. The songs by the so called entertainment were all German and laughable most of the time. The hotel beach was not very nice and cramped, the water was a off colour and not very inviting. The Tv's in the rooms had 32 channels and all were german except for CNN world news and BBC world news which rarely had any sound. Overall I would not recomend this hotel to anyone german or not. Side the Town is nice but please dont stay at the corolla.....
My partner and I also had servere stomach cramps for the last few days which ment straying far from the toilet was an issue.
STAY AWAY....................... VERY FAR AWAY
ps the staff were very rude when they did understand us.

having read other reports we were not sure about the hotel.we arrived at 3 in the morning tired,thirsty and hungry there was nothing to eat and had to pay for a bottle of water. The room was clean but basic and every thing nearly worked, the fridge didnt and the air con only worked now and then.some of the staff were pleasant but most wernt and some were even very rude and most didnt speak any english but every one of them spoke german. All of the entertainment was in german as were all of the signs and most of the music.The grounds and pool area were realy nice and tidy if not a bit cramped. At breakfast there was no toaster at all no fried eggs but plain omelettes thrown into a steel container if you like them like that.If you like butter with your bread we had to get it at breakfast and stash it in our fridge(that didnt work) because you dont get any for any other meals.We didnt have a midday meal in the restaurant so i cant comment.Evening meals were o.k. the salads were great!!!
It was about 500 yards to the beach where the hotel has its own beach bar where food can be got.Here we met the worst member of staff who insisted for some reason putting the food out in open containers sometimes before 12 o clock and fighting people off until 12.30,but it didnt matter because the flies had eaten half of it by then. the beach was o.k. but we felt a bit like battery hens under the shade nets all together, we prefered the beach to the east of Side next to the ruins which was a short bus ride away for 2 euros each.Car hire is expensive in Turkey so we hired a taxi for the day for 50 euros, most taxi drivers do set trips to different places but try and find one that speaks some english because it was really interesting seeing the real Turkey.Side was a really nice place and close by and we would go back but not to the Corolla .