Bleu Nuit Hotel

Well firstly if your Turkish this is just the hotel for you, however,if you're English or another nationality forget it. 98% of the residents are Turkish so the hotel only caters for music for Turkish people and there is no English music whatsoever.

The entertainment team will only approach you if you're Turkish, othewise you don't get to speak to them and what they do I have no idea, except walk around and around, as for entertainment that was non existent apart from two times in 12 days, when they brought in a dance troupe and a contortionist.

The rooms are nice although small but there is enough room for two single beds and a bit of space on ether side of each bed, so that's not too bad

However, you do get a fridge and there is a safe in the wardrobe, although strangely it's not fixed to the wall, so if you've put your belongings in someone could easily walk in, pick up the safe and walk out the door

When we first came the air conditioning seemed to work fine for four days, getting extremely cold, but we arrived in the middle of the night. However, after the fifth day and during the day the aircon was insufficient to cope with 32° of heat in Gumbet, so consequently it was unable to provide extremely cold air, so you can expect a temperature of about 24° in your room, as it only blew warm air, but then during the night you would think that as the temperature had dropped it would be cooler, but no, it continued to blow warm air.

The engineer came out and replaced a part but still we only had warm air. Went back to reception and he said the engineer said had it was fine and it might be due to the outside temperature. However, the restaurant had two air conditioning units and on 9th of August it was 40° c and they continued to blow cold air. However the room we were number in number 112 continued to blow warm air only.

The shower is lovely and strong and there is a small soap wash device in the shower and by the sink, so that's more than adequate. There is only one wardrobe so if you have a lot of clothes forget it or bring your own. The cleaner and bar staff were excellent.

Now to the food it seems the chef is only capable of cooking chicken because you don't get anything else. You will get chicken breast in some form of sauce together with greasy big chips or greasy big roast potatoes In addition you may get chicken steaks or something similar.

There is a salad bar which is quite plentiful and the sweets they provide are mainly little squares of cake which are all very similar although now and again they do a blamancher, which is quite nice, but they seem to limit how many they put out as you only usually get about five put out, so unless you're early you won't get one.

I did chat via WhatsApp before booking and they told me there was chicken lamb and beef available and also kebabs. However, this was not the case!!

Breakfast consists of boiled eggs, possible potato chips again and some ham and pasta. There is plenty of red melon and some apples together with different types of cereal and milk is available only at breakfast time.

For drinks you can get orange, pineapple and some other drinks together with ice cold water a selection of cappuccino or hot chocolate and Turkish tea which you need to water down

Turning to the alcohol situation EFES is on tap and you can get fanta orange, pepsi cola, and sprite and they also serve vodka, raki, whisky and gin but no cocktails.

The hotel is situated on a bottom road and just across the way is a nice restaurant which does good burgers and other stuff and then if you walk a bit further on to the left you walk down and about 100 yards down is the beach and there's a few shops there.

If you come out of the hotel and turn immediately right and walk up, it's about 5 minutes walk, and then there is another street which has various restaurants bars and clothes and other shops.

As a place to sleep, if your air con works you are in look, would I stay again? Definitely NOT.

The hotel is nothing like the pictures shown on the website or booking pages. The rooms are extremely dated, and not good quality. That being said they were fairly clean and fine to sleep in. The rest of the hotel is quite run down and dirty, I didn’t see anyone clean in the communal areas. The food and drinks were absolutely awful. All food was left out, open and uncovered (flies were everywhere) - having a microwave next to the ‘hot food’ should tell you all you need to know. Even the coffee and juice machines were filthy. The bar had a soft drinks pump machine but even these were watered down. Efes is on tap and that’s fairly good. No cocktails available or any other drinks. The aircon in the room worked well and the location is excellent, other than that this hotel is only good as a base to sleep and wash. Whenever we spoke to locals who asked where we were staying, it seems this hotel is well known in Gumbet for being extremely poor. They have also had numerous name changes over the years. I had read previous reviews before staying here (after I’d booked) so I expected the worse and it wasn’t far off. Please pay attention to the other negative reviews. There is no entertainment apart from music blaring during the day. There is an animation team but they only approached me once, whilst alone, and wanted to take me clubbing? Which I was not interested in. The rooms were cleaned daily, fresh towels were provided which was good (the room next door however did not get the same experience). Overall as a cheap base it’s fine to sleep in, and the location is excellent. Other than that I’d avoid.