Quite often I stay in the big city hotel. Great location; just by the sea and in the very city center. It looks a bit 1950s, which I like a lot.

The hotel is some years old but they were about to renovate on some places.

But I stayed there before and it was still the same since then.
Probably it is turkish timeframe....

The rooms are quite OK, standard equipment and clean.
But the floor outside was run-down and not attractive.

Teh breakfast was good, everything you need.

TV channels were also limited but turkish music channels you can listen to, at least.

Therefore the location is great, you are directly at the waterfront and can walk to a couple of restaurants and bars at the sea-side. You need to go out there, it is nice.

Stayed here on buisness in June for 3 nights, the hotel overlooks the sea front and has great views, worth upgrading to a sea view room. There are lots of restaurants on the street under the hotel, excellent location ! Will stay here again if I return to Izmir

My wife and I stayed at the Izmir Palas two times in mid-June 2007. The weather was unusually hot, but the air conditioning worked well. We had a room overlooking the harbor one time and on the other side of the hotel overlooking the city the other time. Definitely get a room on the harbor side if possible. The view is excellent, and there is much less noise than on the street side. The hotel is well located for seeing the old part of Izmir. Most of Izmir is new and of no interest to the tourist, but the old part has some interesting things to see and do. This hotel is just about centrally located for seeing those things. There is an outstanding seafood restaurant on the first floor on the harbor side (a little expensive but with quality to match the price). There are other restaurants all along the promenade that runs along the harbor for several kilometers. Not far away are various parks, museums, old sections of town, the wonderful bazaar (the Kemeralti), and lots of restaurants with a great variety of specialties. The bathroom facilities in our room were excellent, the best we had during a month in Turkey. The staff was friendly, and the desk clerks all spoke good English. The internet service was free. The router for our floor was broken, so I had to take my laptop down to the lobby, but once there I had no trouble connecting. The hotel is not cheap but also is not unreasonably expensive, especially given the general quality of the hotel and it excellent location.