Kule Hotel

The Situation; We're travelling as a family group of 5, which means that in most places, we'll need two rooms to fulfil our needs. The stay at Kule Hotel was a 2 Person Seaview Room and a 4 Person Family Room booking. The Good; A great location right out the front of the ferry port with a wide range of restaurants in close proximity. Great service from the staff and management. An excellent breakfast to be had in the rooftop restaurant. I well recommend a sea view suite or corner suite to make the most of the location, which is right in the heart of it all. The Not So Good; The Valets changing the settings, seating arrangement, dash/ info/ radio settings for the short drive in our hire vehicle was really annoying; Every time we retrieved the car, we had to spend 5 minutes re-adjusting everything back to how it was for our next drive. The noise from the nightclubs next door was a bit annoying, but stopped at midnight both nights we were there. Not the hotels fault, just something to be aware of when staying here. Certainly not a deal breaker. The Verdict; Yes, I would stay here again and would go for a Seaview Room as it's worth the extra spend.

Nice and small hotel with great view from the terrace, the breakfast is good too. Though there might not be a parking space available in front of the hotel building, the hotel provides valet service, so you don't have to worry about finding a parking space yourself. There are many restaurants cafés and bars around, so the food and leisure is not a problem. I suggest to taste the local peynirli helva with ice cream topping.

Super nice terrace for breakfast, big size of the room and the style was great, but best of all, LOCATION! You got a view of the ferries and chaos of the roundabout, and the sunset too. Staff is very nice and professional, definite positives. Sound proofing to the street is very good. Negatives: A/C can't be set on low enough fan speed, so it's too strong during the night. The sound from other rooms, adjacent bathrooms and the corridor is very disturbing.

The room is really nice and we could bring our dog but had to pay extra (150 TL). There was only one problem with the rooftop terrace. We brought the dog, everything was fine and when we got the food they said dogs aren't allowed. If they told us from the beginning we would have been ok with it. After a short discussion they just left us alone. Anyways, the location is nice.

Not too sure how the hotel got its 4.2 rating. Perhaps it was once better run by a different management. Also for the record we have stayed in similar range of hotels in Konya and other smaller cities in Turkey and the experiences there was way better than this. Service: POOR - front desk staff seemed very busy and were not helpful at all. What they were pre occupied with we do not know as hotel seemed quite empty. Inconsistent information was told time and again. Parking : POOR was informed upon check in and in room brochure that guests could inform valet 10-15 min prior to have their car sent over. Upon checkout we asked for the service. Front desk didn't even make eye contact and just said they are busy right now so if we wanted them to do it it would take 25min. We ended up dragging our luggages through the streets and the parking garage ourselves. Room condition : POOR - toilet was not clean and the pillow case had a whole in it. -no AC option even though it was 26 degrees outside and location of hotel was at an extremely busy and noisy junction. We were given another room which was a downgrade at no refund of our paid upgrade to a backroom that smelt like a kitchen and heard loud music till 1 am Value for money : POOR

Breakfast at the terrace with a sea/harbour view was amazing. Very clean hotel, comfortable modern rooms. Big rooms compared to similar hotels but needs better sound isolation as you hear evert action in the next room and evert conversation in the street although you stay in the 4th floor (sea view rooms have also street view). Thanks to very friendly and helpful staff.