We have just returned from a 2 week holiday at the Grand Ucel, this is our second visit to Ovacik, the first time we stayed in the YEL (more like HELL)!! and we spent most of our time here and decided to stay at the hotel this year> what a good decision this was.
The hotel rooms are massive, we stayed in a gold family room which is 2 ajoining rooms one with a double bed and the other with 2 singles, loads of wardrobe space and small bedside tables with cupboards, 2 bathrooms with showers which was excellent for us with a family of 4 with 2 kids aged 11 and 13, they had their own space and so did we which was great. Our room overlooked the waterpark which only opens at 10am so we had a lie in every day, the pool to the hotel was just down the pathway from our room too, a couple of days we went round the waterpark to sunbathe and the rest we stayed round the hotel pool and the kids just went to the waterpark on their own, this is an ideal place to stay as you have the choice of the hotel pool or the waterpark or both! we never found a problem getting sunbeds whatever time we got to the poolside so there was no rushing to get up and be like a german!
The staff at both the waterpark and the hotel we couldnt fault so friendly and always smilling. They would go out of the way to help whenever they could.
The airconditioning is excellent too in the rooms and easy to work. The rooms have a fridge and tea/coffee making facilities and a hairdryer in the bathroom which for a change was good too.
The food for breakfast was a general continental breakfast, breads meats salads cereal(loads of dif types) condiments jams/honey/yoghurts, juices and water tea and coffee enough to fill you up for lunch. The water park has a great cafe with plenty of choice pizza burger sandwiches anything really and they would make you somat not on the menu if they could. Drinks beer or soft drinks available too (loads of choice) and they would take it wherever you wanted it if you didnt want to eat at the tables. Really the staff there were fab!
The pools were crystal clear day after day.
We promise we are not the owners of the hotel, it was just that good and deserves this review hence we have just booked again for next year.

We could'nt really complain although our first impression was that the staff were a bit off hand and the signs all over the place gave it a prison camp feel...once we found our feet we enjoyed our stay ...we did a five day stay and the access to the waterpark was fabulous. The waterpark was great fun and our children had a superb time on the slides..three of the six slides however, are not meant for children under age ten, (but there is no enforcement of this!) and we let our nine year old on some of them you might need to consider this if you have children under ten years who are not confident. The children do need to be relatively competent swimmers unless you wish to go on the slides with them. The water park had no queues to speak of..especially if younstay at the hotel and can dip in and out. The hotel room was fine..silver family suite although the shower was a very teeny quadrant cubicle. Rooms were clean, relatively basic and tasteful enough. We were on the ground floor with a waterpark view. Nice. We did all inclusive and probably wouldn't again, although rooms good value, as we are not big drinkers and kids only 5 and 8, local alcohol if you like the occasional cocktail is a bit restrictive and the water park food is generally not included. The breakfasts were fine, great choice but the remainder of the food whilst very healthy was pretty much Turkish, salads and stews (only) not even even kofte or kebabs or such, limited European type food choices and so after three or so days we started to tire of the food on offer especially as there is a huge range of local restaurants on offer on the doorstep. The hotel is clean, the pool space lovely and no problem with sun beds etc., some nice comfy sofas to relax on although the facilities in general appear a bit tired. We would consider returning if the deal was right as we all had a fab and relaxing time.

Can t comment on hotel didn t stay there but visited waterpark with my family, 3 rides in and the water on walking surfaces ( which is marble) is 1" deep and very very slippery, my son (10) slips he s walking by the way and cracks his head open on a concrete block we had to rush him to hospital in a taxi where he had 7 stitches which ruined his and our holiday. don t go theres only about 5 or 6 rides anyway only a couple are manned and 1 was asleep at one slide. Unlike spain where you have to wait for 1 person to complete the ride this doesn t happen its free for all!! Please don t risk your kids its only a matter of time for a total disaster to happen!!!

I stayed here the beginning of August with my two children 13 & 11 and we all had a fab time. The hotel is clean and friendly and the staff helpful and efficient in dealing with any requests.
On one of the days the overflow in our toilet kept running and I mentioned it to reception on my way out who sent someone straight up and it was fixed and fine on our return.
The room was cleaned and towels were changed every day and bedding twice a week. We had a massive bath tub as well as a shower and our room (twin) had plenty of space even with the 3rd bed. Note the mattresses are like rocks tho! firm is an understatement but you do get used to it :)

There was always plenty of space around the pool and loungers free at any time of day.
The waterpark was great, quite slippy on the tiled areas but no problem as long as you are cautious. There were rarely any queues for the slides and at the busiest probably 6 people in front of us.

Air con is adjusted by remote control to whatever setting suits you best and costs £3 day. Safety deposit boxes are £2 a day and in the reception area not the rooms. The hotel offers free wifi which is brill, we couldn't get it in our room as we were away from the hotel itself but around the pool area etc was no problem and at night it was like laptop heaven with all the kids on them lol.

The only minor downside for us was the lack of entertainment as apart from the Turkish night which we missed there was just music playing and the table tennis and pool table to keep the kids entertained hence why my youngest had me in bed at half 10!! lol