Lara Otel

Very nice 👌

As others have said the hotel is basic. The walls are thin and they are building next door so there is noise on and off all day but it’s bearable. The thing I want to warn others about is the clear minibar scam. They have a mixture of drinks and snacks in your room when you arrive. There is a menu but it doesn’t seem to match what is in the room. They check it each day and bill you for missing items. The problem is, unless you physically check the items with a staff member on arrival. You have no proof what was in the room to start with. On checkout someone scurried up to the room whilst I waited to see if I’d used the minibar on my last night. I hadn’t used any of it for the whole time. Yet the phone went and I was told I’d drank all the waters and 2 lots of spirits. I assured them I hadn’t as I don’t drink spirits and plain water isn’t my thing either. The receptionist got rather aggressive and said I had to pay almost 900 lira (£18) which isn’t earth shattering and if I’d used it I’d happily have paid,but I didn’t. I felt I had no choice but to pay as I needed to leave my suitcase there and was worried they’d do something to it. I spoke to several people afterwards and some had similar stories. Most just walked out and didn’t pay so it seems they try it to see who will pay! As a woman alone it was out of my comfort zone. I will never stay there again on principle now and will be booking another hotel for my return later in the year.

I understand this is a budget hotel, but that doesn’t warrant the rudeness and uncleanliness! As soon as I walked into the hotel I was, I wouldn’t even say greeted more like grunted at by a rude receptionist, walked into my room and was hit with the strongest smell of smoke and body odour it made me heave! I tried to make the best of a bad situation opened the doors sprayed around some perfume and deodorant and tried to overlook it, there is an ashtray left on the dressing table which implies that they allow smoking in the rooms which you’re of course not made aware of upon booking. As a female solo traveller I was quite nervous and generally not one to complain anyway so felt uncomfortable in doing so. There is a building site next door with constant noise all day long, and you can hear word for word what the people in the room next door were saying. So first night going to bed, bed is full of hairs obviously left by previous guests so bedding clearly not changed, this is when I did decide to go to reception and say something. They said they couldn’t do anything about it until tomorrow. My lovely neighbours were obviously having a great time with a little room party until around 3am. Again I thought overlook it there just having a nice time ect but the same happened the following night so after 2 nights no sleep, I went to reception and asked about changing rooms and they just stared at me and shrugged. The most interaction I got from any of the staff was being shouted at when I walked in with a bottle of water I’d brought from outside of the hotel. So after two days no sleep, still the same dirty bedding, and not wanting to be overly confrontational because I was on my own, I decided to check out and go elsewhere.