On recommendation from friends, we went to the Assos Park hotel and unlike the other reviewer we enjoyed our experience very much!

We left Istanbul by public long distance bus heading down to Ephesus. Assos is somewhere in the middle between Istanbul and Ephesus so it makes for a nice stop over for a night or two (we stayed for 2 nights).

The Assos Park Hotel is a family place so if you have kids, you and they will enjoy it. The hotel manager is a delightful man who drove us himself to the Site of the Assos ruins, when we got hustled later in the day by a so called “tour guide/taxi driver”, the manager called the owner of the tour agency and let him have it for trying to abuse tourist.

The food was fantastic and the staff was very accommodating….the staff does not speak much English so you need to ask for the manager who will jump hoops to make you happy.

We had a very nice room overlooking the pool and a wide view of olive trees all around.


Many of the guests are educated Turkish families who keep coming back again and again…..so if you really want to be in contact with Turkish people (as opposed to being in a Western resort with other tourists) this is the right place.

We just came back from a holiday in ASOS, Turkey, 13 August 2006.

However I do not advise anyone to go and stay in the hotel called Assos Park Hotel, near Kadirga Beach. Apart from the waiters, the staff at the reception is extremely unhelpful.

They have got some rooms at the top floor, which are awfully uncomfortable. To be able to go to the balcony you have to on your fours and crawl! Watch out, they charge the same amount of money for this room, comparing to the normal rooms. Also if you want a quiet holiday keep away from the hotel. There are too many families with noisy children. I must also warn you that there is a live, but noisy music played every evening all throughout the evening meal till midnight. You have no chance of having a peaceful meal. And the same music and songs are repeated every evening.

The food. Same breakfast every morning. The cold food (meze) is the same every evening. Quality is OK. But the food supposed to come warm usually comes warmish. Kitchen and serving staff rushed off their feet. They have been exploited badly. They even sleep by the swimming pool after midnight. Cheap labour!
No customer care! Worst of all, when my husband got ill with sunstroke let alone calling a doctor for us they didn't even have a phone number for a doctor. They just shrugged their shoulder and turned their back.

Try finding a different place if you want to have a HOLIDAY!

Assos Park Hotel is a couple of kilometres from the Assos/Behramkale township and ruins, back along the coast. It is a pleasant four-star hotel, with comfortable rooms, a lovely pool and outdoor dining area, and access to its own "beach", with sun lounges. Not being at all unkind, this is a very Turkish hotel. Very little English was spoken by staff, but the food (Turkish) is superb. Wine is very expensive ($40 Australian for a half bottle of wine). Will suit people who want to experience the places that well-off locals would go to. Could be a bit noisy in the height of summer (it is adjacent to a camping ground), but quiet enough when we were there in early June.