We have just arrived back from teh Hotel Monachus Park, and I would generally have to agree with previous reviews about the hotel, that it is exceptionally clean, and all of the hotels amenties including the excellent animation team go along way to make your stay enjoyable. So on thewhole we had an ejoyable stay, but would like to bring a few things to your attention before you travel that may or may not effect your decision to book this hotel:
1. Yes the clientel are mostly German, but like previous reviews we did not have any issues with any of them, but you do generally feel the odd one's out about the place.
2. The food is very good and cooked to a high standard with pleny of choice, and with most all inclusive hotels you do get bored occassionally with the same type of meal. Alhough they did have a couple of gala evenings during our 14night stay with large meat roasts etc, I feel a 5 star hotel should have this choice more often instead of the main meat choice being fried Kofta's (meat patties)
3. The restaurant and the hotel on a whole has a phobia to giving out bottled water. The waiters are obviously trained only to give 1 large bottle too share per table, you may be able to sneak some mor, but it becomes a rediculous activity, but remember it is 38 degrees in the day, and a cool 25 degrees at night and the ability to have a good swig of safe drinkingn water at any time you chose should be a no brainer, instead you have to pay over the top at the on site shop or use water dispensers located by the pool or in the restaurant, which could be any type of water, again not what you expect of a so called 5 star hotel. Also, most hotels that I have stopped at that call themselves All inclusive have some sort of snacks available to you 24:7 in between main meal hours eg a sandwich, chips or an ice cream etc instead this hotel offered a slice of cake or a piece of fruit hidden away at another part of the hotel and ice creamwa handed out like a soup kitchen between 4:00 and 4:30 which is of no use when you children are asking for an ice cream at 11:00 in the morning (they are on holiday you know)
4. On the subject of drinks, if you do like a drink on your holidays (which most of us do to be honest) it would be nice to get a half decent drink, especially as you have paid for it upfront. The draught beer served up was the worst beer I have ever been served in a hotel abroad it was flat and basically undrinkable. The local spriits that they serve gin, vodka, and brandy once mixed with cola, tonic or lemonade rendered your drink flat (I am no chemistry expert, but something wasn't right). We came back only being tipsy twice at our own expense by visiting a local bar and paying for the drinks ourselves at all the new Turkish prices in readiness of entering the euro, which we were very surprised about, as an Efes would cost you £2.50 - £3.00 and a longdrink £4.00 - £5.00 and a cocktail upto £8.00. One night after a busy day at the hospital (which I will come to later) I thought I would treat our party to a much wlcomed decent drink, so I asked for teh Cocktail menu, which you have to pay extra for. I ordered 4 cocktails at a total cost of 20 euro (nearly 20 pounds) and they were little more that a fruit juice. At this point I tried to voice my concern to the managemnt, but unfortunateley all of your efforts fall on deaf ears, and I even refused to pay, but the customer is not always right at this hotel, and had to pay up on departure.
5. All of our party had some sort of virus or bug during our stay, including both of the small children in our party, requiring 3 visits to the local hospital, which ocbviously comes at a heafty price, albeit refundable through the insurance. Now I think it was mainly due to teh high temperatures and over use of teh air conditioning in the rooms, but is very worrying when you have small children in a foreign country, butwe were not teh only party who had sick children as a party we metup with the girl had acute infection of which my wife and eldest son had similiar, but not as severe.

Again I would agree with most of the reviews surrounding the hotel on the website, but felt very strongly on the above observations/experiences and thought I would share them with you.

My final parting statement would be it is a 4 or 5 star hotel in the making, but some of the services surrounding food and drink let it down somewhat, there is a row of shops and a couple of bars in close visinity, but apart from that you need to head into Side 10 minutes in a cab or dolmus for any other change of scenary.

There are plenty of other hotels to choose from in the world I would definatley not feel the need to return.

myself my husband and son of 16 years stayed at the monachus park for a week .we had a great time but felt that 7 days were long enought due to where the hotel is situated. food and cleaniness were fantasic and belive me l am very fussy but this was the best and you will never go hungry. there were down sides which were that they cater more for the germans and russians and dont really pay the english any attention which was getting my back up because where ever you went in the hotel thay automaticly talk to you in one of the above languges which l think is unfair and the ents team were the worst for it. also there is a pool area for over 16years of age but the germans and russia had other ideas and would bring young children to the area so what can one say. we tried all the sports and some trips. DO NOT BOOK ANY QUAD SAFARI WITH YOYO TRAVEL which is on the main strip of shops over the road from the hotel .my husband and son booked the quads and rafting which was a great disapointment ,one quad broke down and thay were not road worthy ,when we challenged yoyo travel about this they were not bothed ,so please be careful we travel all over the world and never as my husband come across any thing like these quads. if l was asked would l go back to this hotel l would have to say no for the reason where it is situated ,everything else is great.nearly forgot you get one key to the room which also controls the A/C so thats not good.

Stayed at the Monachus from 18th -31st August This hotel is fantastic food is superb lots of choice, always somthing for everyone.no matter how fussy. A La Carte fish resturant is a must.(only if you Know how to fillet a fish) if not the waiters are happy to help.The cleanliness of this hotel is amazing they must clean 24 hours a day ,floors are scrubbed, sun beds cleaned, windows washed, pool flilters changed at least twice a day.Rooms cleaned daily and fresh towels every two days.
The animation team were brilliant, the shows were fantastic these shows were the best i have ever seen on holiday ( Buffy Tugce anna emre antonio and the rest of the team you were all fab) Entertaiment during the day was fantastic fun, pool games, wall climbing, water polo, morning gym, water arobics, darts, table tennis, belly dancing the list goes on and on , but it is your choice to take part or not the team are not pushy. We met some wonderful people at this hotel everyone is so friendly.
I have always said I would never go to the same place twice. but I would retun to the Monachus its Fantastic

Travelled with family end of August, had the best summer holiday ever. The place was immaculate, waiters, cleaners, bar staff etc didn't stop/they worked non stop. The animation were the best ever, they kept my kids entertained throughout the week. They worked so well as a team, It's hard to pinpoint one in particular, but Buffy (fantastic dancer and entertainer), Emre (fantastic dancer and entertainer), Iboo (Hilarious man), Nerdal ( Very talented/Chief) and Ahha (fantastic belly dancer). Thanks to them, I didnt have to entertain my kids all week, I didn't once get a moan of (im bored). I just can't express my thanks to all of the animation team. We will hopefully be booking to go back next year, but we will wait to find out if it will be the same animation team before doing so. The whole holiday experience was unforgettable. There is plenty to do there, plenty of food, never a que, always somewhere to sit, plenty of sunbeds, for minute walk to the beach, where again there was a beach cafe with plenty of choice, you would never get hungry on this holiday. The whole holiday experience was unforgettable. x