Avos Apartments in Marmaris

1 star for TJ the Manager (Mr Nasty) but 4 stars for apartments. There were 16 of us staying at the apartments in seven separate rooms. My main issue is not with the apartments. The apartments are self catering but you are not allowed to take your own snacks (crisps and the like) or drinking water to pool area in 40 degree heat even though the bar does not sell crisps. Everything food wise at the Bar is four times more expensive than the shop which is 10 steps away and even more expensive that the bar over the road which does decent food. I ordered a burger and chips the first day which was a bun, no salad, no tomato nothing just a bun burger and chips which cost over £5. Never eat there again. TJ gives you death stares if you came back from shop with shopping in your bag. To clarify the woman behind the bar and the cleaner are lovely and an absolute pleasure. We stayed in a two bedroom which is on the 5th floor. All of the two bedroo.s are on the 5th floor. There is no usable balconies up there due to the fact that it is roof space and there are two air conditioning units on the floor of the balcony blasting hot air on you on a 1 metre x 4 metre balcony. The other 1 bedroom rooms had decent size balconies. Regarding the air conditioning as we had a two bedroom apartment for two weeks so it cost us approx £270 which is £20 a day for 14 days. We had two air conditioning units one in each bedroom so had to pay double. One point to note is the air conditioning units are very old mainly in the rooms and are under rated and they are only in the bedrooms so that great big living space is unusable as you have to keep the bedroom doors closed just to get the bedrooms cool enough on a night. Forget about using the kitchen, toilet and living space for extended periods during the day....those areas are just too hot. None of the apartments had air conditioning in the living rooms. Our daughter was in a separate room and her air conditioning broke on the Saturday night. Overnight she was sleeping in 30 degrees. The next day Mr Happy complained to us that it was going to cost him £1500 to get an engineer out on the Sunday !!! With the cost of air conditioning the cheek of it. The safe will cost £40. No deposit or refund. Just £40. Self catering facilities: A two ring stand alone hob and a fridge. No oven or anything. That's all you get besides a little cutlery. We had to go and buy a toastie maker. Pool Area: I nearly had heart failure when I saw the size of the pool however with only 16 beds around the pool and 20 rooms we didn't have an issue most of us getting a sunbed strangely enough. This is due to the fact that the pool and sunbeds are all in the shade until around 1pm. The pool is the smallest I've ever seen but we all had great fun in there and believe me you need that pool in the heat. You can use the pool over the road which is free, has a bigger pool and a full kitchen with nice meals. Location: Great location. If you can't get

Time to join the 21st century!
The staff was nice and friendly, but it is time for this property to join the 21st century, and I don't mean by that they don't have Wi-fi in the rooms (which they DON'T...). I mean the furniture and the inside is probably from the time the property was built in the mid-1900s (?). No upgrade whatsoever. kitchen appliances are also old. Felt like a museum for the kids.
2 weak air conditioning units that were not enough to cool the top floor room, so the middle room was suffocating. Hotel was mostly empty but they did not have think about offering 2 rooms in lower levels to alleviate the heat.
Would have been a nice gesture since they know the property. And they have on display at the reception they have been voted top 3 apart-hotel in Turkey ???
It was a waste of money.