We stayed here as part of a Gallipoli tour and it ideally located for the ferry across to the peninsula. It is a basic hotel, and fine for the four nights that we were there for. The rooms were clean if not a little well-used but acceptable for purpose.

As we were travelling with a group, the meals were provided in one of the restaurants (which ranged from canteen to okayish) and it was difficult to find out which one was being used that night. The food in the restaurant was remarkably constant - it was the same every night and the leftovers were also there in the morning for breakfast. One day the hotel made us a packed lunch as we were going to be up in the mountains, and it was the same food but in rolls!

There were many dockside cafes and restaurants available...

We spent four nights here as part of an escorted tour of the Gallipoli Battlefields and it was an ideal base, positioned as it is on the sea front of Canakkale, adjacent to the ferries which we used twice a day.

It is a classic provincial tourist hotel geared mainly to coach tour groups staying for a single night on their way to and from Istanbul or the Bulgarian/Greek borders to the South of Turkey.
The rooms are decent with TV and air conditioned but no safe or tea making facilities and the beds are modern and comfortable and they have basic clean bathrooms but with no frills such as shampoo, bath foam and the soap is by liquid dispenser. Plumbing is interesting with the occasional missing shower head and possible discoloured , but generally hot water. All need regrouting.
We had a front balcony room which we were warned could be noisy because of the restaurants and bars on the front and the early ferries but with the air conditioning on and windows closed we slept well. Only time in Turkey we never heard the early morning call to prayer.
The big bonus was to sit, on the return from our trips, and enjoy the view over the Dardanelles narrows in the late afternoon with a glass in hand.

Food is buffet style and we ate in all three areas - ground floor restaurant, second floor breakfast room and sixth floor function room.
Breakfast was nothing special with a selection of Turkish salads, bread, boiled eggs and coffee.
Buffet dinners were plentiful with again a large starter selection and a choice of two warm dishes, normally chicken or lamb. Dessert every day was a honey water sponge except on our last day when it was excellent Turkish ice cream.
The food was substantial, well prepared but uninspiring but considering most people stay for only one night, it was to be expected.
Wine was €35 a bottle with beer at €4.50
Chef was enthusiastic and helpful but most of the serving staff only spoke Turkish.

The two lifts are very slow so walk if there are big groups. Our party returned after a long day to find housekeeping had not done any of our rooms-rectified quickly with the excuse
”some groups save money by not asking for a daily service”!!
We ensured that we all put “make up our room” hangers on our door handles every day thereafter.

For a night cap the hotel is situated in a row of many restaurants, cafes and bars serving decent beer, wine and raki and if you are on b&b you are spoiled for choice with well priced and interesting restaurants.

Conclusion- clean, a great position, friendly helpful staff and probably the best of the sea front hotels. It is not the Ritz but they do try hard and it is a good base for Gallipoli.

Anafartalar Hotel is a mid-range hotel, located right by the waterfront at Canakkale. Rooms were average; comfortable enough, with a small balcony you could sit on to watch the sunset or the ferries go in and out of the adjacent dock. Was a bit noisy because of the location close to the ferries, but nothing a set of earplugs couldn't deal with. The buffet dinner in the restaurant was excellent. Breakfast was a bit hard to find (first floor); indoors so no choice but to put up with smokers, although we did find a seat by an opening window. Basic Turkish breakfast - nothing flash, especially when compared with the dinner spread. The hotel is very convenient if you're going back and forth on the ferry to Gallipolli. It's also right at the waterfront so you can spend some time wandering along the very nice boulevard, drinking coffee, seeing the Brad Pitt movie's Trojan horse etc.