Mirage Park
We stayed at Mirage Park for 2 weeks at the end of August, 2 adults and 2 sixteen year old girls. We were a bit worried because of negative reviews but to be honest the hotel, staff, entertainment, food etc was fantastic. we were given the wrong room when we arrived but they changed us over the next day which was a fab room looking over the whole hotel grounds. Two of us did get a sickness bug for 24 hours. The pools were lovely, our girls loved the slides, you didn't have to get up too early to get a sunbed, the snack bar was great at lunchtime, also the German beer garden served great chicken. The animation team were brilliant, there was always something to join in with, one day they had a total wipeout type inflatable another day they did the Olympics! They played music all day by one pool and if I had to have any negative it would be that the music contained swearing.
The Buffet restaurant was quite often a bit of a nightmare in the evenings, far too big a hotel for one main restaurant, so too many people trying to get their food at same time, manic. Food was very good loads to choose from, waiters and chefs really nice and helpful apart from extremely rude arrogant waiter called Serkat who reservered tables for big tip payers mainly Russians he wasn't very pleasant, however nearly all others very nice especially the ice cream man who looked after the fruit in the evening. Russians very greedy but just ignore them.
All in all a fantastic location, you didn't need to leave the hotel, the beach was just lovely, never been in sea so warm, loads of us sunbeds, great little beach bar (wonderful little bar tender every afternoon).
Great animation team, fab food during day, they even had the really nice chap who was the chef cooking BBQ fresh fish on the end of the pier twice when we were there. There was a cinema a couple of nights in the gardens, you could just lie on a sunbed and watch, even in english! We were there when it was the Turkish national day and also a few days later it was Ramadan, it was amazing, red and white flags everywhere, the chef cooked a gigantic baked Alaska and walked around the restaurant with it and a traditional band playing. The nightclub was great fun, went to a foam party which was an experience.
We asked our teenage daughters what they most liked about the holiday and they said they loved the pools, the slides, the activities that they had on, especially the bouncy castles, sumo wrestlers, team games in the pool!! They also loved the foam party, watersports and diving off the pier.
A'la Carte restaurants, the best one was the Turkish then Italian, the Latino one was a bit strange still had good food though, brilliant service in all of them.
Rambo the watersports leader was great fun, & would always do you a good deal, the rides were awesome. Banana Boats were great fun and paragliding amazing!! The slides in the pool were really fun, never much of a queue and open for ages so you can keep going up and down.
Helen, the Rep for Direct holidays was very helpful & knowledgable
The village is worth a visit all the shops sell genuine fakes! Good fun haggling
Excursion to Kemer for Turkish bath was brilliant - please go, but be wary as some people said they tried to cure all their ailments for a one off payment!
Would certainly recommend this hotel.
- Mirage Park Hotel
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