Costa Viva Hotel in Bodrum

The hotel had clean and tidy rooms, a beautiful pool, pretty good breakfast service, overall kind staff and was located at a strategic location exactly within the center of Bodrum, all these advantages offered at a relatively good price. The things that I disliked were the following:

1. Very old bathroom that needs immediate upgrade. Ceiling was ripped off while there was an intense bad smell within the shower area.

2. Messed-up hallway due to renovations of the time, that should had been done while the hotel was closed.

3. Intense drilling from workers outside. While I was trying to rest in my room and enjoy relaxation, workers (directly) outside of my door’s room were non-stop drilling holes even at 12:00 noon were people usually wanna take a quick nap while being on holidays. That was very annoying and not acceptable. On top of that, they were talking loudly a lot too.

4. I’m going to mark that Number 4 wasn’t hotels mistake nor they can do anything about it since it
isn’t their business, but it has to be noted that there’s a Mosque nearby that makes a lot of loud noice through speakers, something that someone should take in mind in case he desires quiet moments. Hearing it at 5 o’clock in the morning, well it wasn’t the the best thing for someone sleeping.

5. There’s no view at all, you couldn’t see anything outside the small available window apart from concrete. That was a little disappointing.

Generally (apart from North Korea) I find it sort of unsusal to see political figures displayed in hotels, as if the touristic hotel is a governmental building or something. Of course not saying that I had any issues with it nor I’m accusing-blaming anyone since it isn’t a bad thing and it isn’t affecting someone’s holidays, only mentioning that I found it a little unusual, I mean you while traveling in the US you wouldn’t see portraits of George Washington in the walls of the hotel. Again I repeat I’m totally fine with it, no problem for this, (personally I even like this politician), only mentioning it because it seemed kinda unsusal and I wanted to make a full review of the place.

The overall experience and service of the hotel was okay, I’d probably suggest it to a visitor that wants to have relative cheap vacations in Bordrum and at the same time desires to be close in the center. I’d inform him about the warnings mentioned above, but still it’s not a bad place, and I’d say that it could be available for your options too. Probably I’d visit it too again. With the corrections that I advised, (apart from the morning prayer calls that it’s not hotel’s business) the hotel could be for sure even greater. Not that bad experience overall. I liked my stay.

P.S I’ve seen a lot of people commenting negatively the breakfast while complaining of bug issues in the room. Personally speaking at least, breakfast was very good like I said before and we had zero issues with any bugs.

First of all, the constant presence of cats around during breakfast, sleeping on the tables where we ate, and the constantly stained forks, spoons, and knives was very unpleasant. Even the smell of eggs on the morning I wanted to leave was very bad. Also, the hotel was constantly noisy because it's in the city center. The bidet in the room wasn't working, and there were only two Turkish TV channels available.