Salinas Hotel Bodrum

The advantages of the hotel - its location and not crowded beach which belongs to the hotel (300 m of walk through seashore)
Other things highly not recommended - hotel needs renovation, room is too small, no hot water we went to ask for it almost every day. Coffe machine was broken, no one made cleaning in our room for the whole week etc.
But when on vacation, think positive, that's why 3 stars for this 3 star hotel :)

Unlike its name, Salinas Beach Hotel is not a beach hotel, but it is very close to Gümbet beach. The hotel consists of several two-story detached outbuildings the main service building and additional guest rooms. Imagine a Mediterranean style with blue, sand tones and white on the walls inside and outside, raw wood in the furniture, light summery materials in the textiles; but here at the entrance you are met with a dark and gloomy heavy color scale and there is an unsightly mess in the decor. From the hotel staff, especially at the reception, Ms. Ilknur was friendly and friendly in a flurry of service. It was a pity to hear that the courteous bellboy, who helped us with our luggage at the entrance to the hotel, showed us around to the Salinas sunbed area, which is 600 meters from the main service building and just in front of a market on the beach, was fired the next day. In addition, we had to carry all the luggage ourselves when we left the hotel. As I mentioned earlier, the hotel does not have a beachfront due to its location. After walking for about 5 minutes, you can reach the sun beds, which are insufficient because they are very limited in number due to the rude people who occupy the space all day long with their towels. It is also worth noting that the floor of the area where the sun beds are located is concrete. The beach is blue-flagged, the sea is quite clear, you can swim with the fish, but the water is relatively cool. If you are going to enter in front of a contracted grocery store, the floor of the sea is not cleared of rocks and it suddenly deepens, which can be a danger. It is also not a pleasant situation if you have to greet all the stinking garbage containers in the summer heat until you land on the beach. We sent our request to the hotel together with the online form to arrange our room with a sea or pool view if possible during the reservation we made months ago, but it was a disappointment that it was not taken into account. Like most rooms, our view was zero, of course, the concrete wall opposite you immediately narrows your interior when you go out to the balcony, but the hotel also has no promise to offer a view to everyone. The fact that your room is a family suite may be the right choice in terms of spaciousness. We have not been able to make much use of the internet due to the limited wifi signal or service capacity. I would like to add that there is no private parking space for your car. The room was cleaned only once or twice during our seven-day stay. The bathroom is narrow, but functional, but housekeeping should replenish the cleaning consumables more often. The pool was clean-looking, but it was small and crowded. And the children's pool was really meager. We didn't care, we used the sea because it was of good quality and we had hygiene reservations. Although we think that there is something delicious and appealing to everyone's taste when it comes to food, the main dishes remained slightly below average in the repetitive menu planning. Although the hotel has an all inclusive concept, no veal was given during our seven-day stay. Fish was served only once. The dishes are prepared with poultry meat, but the ones cooked with turkey have always tasted unpleasant, we couldn't eat it. It was certainly not acceptable to offer only watermelons and some melons even in the summer season, when there is plenty of fruit. We couldn't even reach the melon most of the time because maybe the guests were worried that there would be no fruit left, they were attacking whatever was served on the counter as soon as the restaurant opened. Sometimes we didn't even find a table to sit at for a while. And the desserts were almost identical to each other. Drinks and cocktails were very weak. The bar part needs urgent revision in the context of both quality and quantity. Although families don't really prefer it, but for those who go to night clubs and bars to have fun, location of the hotel provides convenience.