Side Royal Palace

The hotel is tired and in need of an upgrade,the staff were friendly but we're more suited to the German contingent. We struggled to find hot food,and even worse food of a good quality. The private beach has a shuttle bus which runs frequently. Overall it was worth the money in March,but definitely not worth £2,000 each in August.

Just returned from holiday, overall we really enjoyed it. The arrival and check in was very easy, we arrived around 1am and were offered some drinks and snacks (we did not take these but the offer was lovely). Rooms are spacious, beds comfy and rooms are well equipped. . We had an issue with the air conditioning and the maintenance man arrived straightaway and fixed it and checked with us the next morning that everything was ok. The balcony was very small, only 2 seats could fit on it and we looked onto another hotel. Food was lovely, we have one very fussy child and he managed to eat well. Staff constantly refilling the platters and the waiting staff were very attentive. One waiter would have our drinks for us without even asking him and he really went over and above to make us feel welcome. Sunbeds are plenty, people started to reserve around 7am but you could always get somewhere. The entertainment staff were great, they worked really hard and were great fun. The hotel was very clean and staff were always clearing up. A few negatives, the cats, these roamed around the hotel, I’m not a cat fan but can cope with them just walking round however most nights they would be in the dining area (probably due to guests feeding them off their plates!) The a la carte restaurants, you can only visit once per stay, wherever we have been previously it is one visit per week, I checked twice with staff and they confirmed it was definetely once per stay. The guests were predominantly German and Russian, they were so rude, often barging into you or when in the dining hall they would massively overfill their plates (if you were waiting behind one of them for food you could guarantee they would take everything on the platter), A Russian man took our parasol whilst we were in the pool, our bag and clothes were on the parasol table and he threw them on our sun bed and just walked off with the parasol!! Staff spoke mostly Turkish and German with a little English, the whole area surrounding the hotel is catered for the Germans. There was a life guard at the pool however we noticed some family’s eating ice lollies or drinking cocktails in the pool and no one seemed to intervene and tell them to stop this as it’s really unhygienic, there would be drinks sat at the side of the pool whilst adults went in to cool down, I feel it needed the life guard or entertainment staff to tell people to get out the pool when eating/drinking (although you would think this would be common sense). Shopping wise, we found the bazaar near the hotel to be very expensive and they would not really budge on price, we went to Antalya to flannels, ozzys and del boys and got some great prices there but I would say that the quality of clothing near the hotel (on the main road walking towards the McDonald’s) was very poor and the prices were ridiculous near the hotel in the market/mall. Side old town is really nice and some great shopping there too. At night time the ruins are lit up which is