Emre Beach Hotel

Currently staying at this hotel. This is our 3rd year here and it has seriously declined compared to the previous 2 years. It is now overcrowded at meal times with not enough seating. It caters more for the locals now, more than tourists. The pool bar meant to open at 10am but isn't manned until after 12pm. They have cut back on staffing but with more visitors. This is clearly visible l, the staff struggle to keep up. Meal times for dinner has been reduced to 2 hours ( used to be 3 hours). You can no longer get particular drinks before noon. Entertainment is patchy at best, again catering more for locals. The place is very clean and the staff that are still here are really friendly. Usually I would mark this hotel 10 out of 10, but after this year's experience I am struggling to give it a 6 out of 10. This used to be a goto place for the brits, but now prioritise locals.

On our last day of visiting this hotel and have to say quite disappointed with what ive experienced. To begin with the housekeeping do not make your beds they always leave the sheets folded on the spare bed, a minor thing but still irritating you have to sort your bed before getting in it. Next is the food, everyday was the same. Minimal evening entertainment, and foreign music all day round the pool, I would say this hotel does not cater for the English. Also do not pay to keep your room on just been wacked with a £65 bill for 4 hrs extortionate! On the plus side the hotel was clean, ice cream all day also handed out icelollys most days. You can not ever get a sundowner on the pier nor the beach quite frustrating with the towel war. Drinks are lovely and a good choice of cocktails. I will not return and specially not with children

Just returned after a week at Emre beach. Arrived late and checked in was given a sandwich at reception as we had missed dinner - didn’t eat it as we went out but appeared very fresh. Overall experience was good, food is very good, best I’ve had at a standard AI, others have said it was repetitive I guess maybe it was a bit but there were plenty of choices so no need to have the same thing unless you wanted to. The one thing I feel is missing is a snack bar so you have to visit the restaurant for every meal. We don’t have allergies but were asked at reception regarding this and I got the impression you would be well catered for if needed. There are a number of converted campers around the hotel, bar, coffee cart, ice-cream would recommend in investing in another and using as a toasty truck would be very very popular and probably save the hotel a lot of money. Our room was a “promo” room and was on the ground floor with no balcony. Despite being near the pool and the main road we never heard any noise at all. It was myself and my adult daughter and the room had a double and a single bed. Room was a little tired in places but perfectly adequate, bathroom was good and plenty of hangers. One thing I would say is that the room is dark, obvs being ground floor you want to keep curtains shut and the lighting was very dim. Room cleaning was a bit hit and miss, on a couple of occasions towels were taken and not replaced - once we had no towels at all, and on one day the room wasn’t cleaned at all. Bins also not emptied on a couple of days and used glasses weren’t washed at all throughout the week. Not too many problems getting beds at the pool, early in the week plenty of beds still available at 10am although it did get busier as the week went on. One side of the pool is in the shade in the morning the other side in the afternoon so if you want sun all day get beds between the two pools by the stage. At the beach jetty beds go very early and you also need to be down quite early to get a beach bed at all - by around 8am was my experience. Plenty of cocktail choices at the bar, although some of the popular ones are made in a machine and my daughter didn’t like the sex on the beach, when it was too busy I did ask for them to be made by hand and these were fine, so a tip is to find a drink that isn’t machine made and go for that - they muddle a great mojito! This isn’t a hotel for kids there is no kids entertainment or mini disco etc so is geared for the adult market. Music around the pool was good, not too loud and certainly not euro trash boom boom music. Someone else commented that mainly foreign music was played - they did play a fair but of Turkish music (particularly when the entertainment that evening was Turkish night) but in the main it was English music. The bar at the pool was rarely staffed, he just seemed to come and go as he pleased which was a shame as there was a lovely shaded seating area. Evening entertainment was ok on the evenings we were there, the acrobats looked fantastic, they also had Turkish night, a pop party (think foam involved although we were out that evening) and a couple of live singers. Overall it was ok. Guest wise, when we first arrived there was a lot of British people, maybe 50%. Later in the week there were a lot of Turkish people. On our last day a largish group of young Europeans arrived who were very loud - not doing anything wrong but were LOUD. Daytime entertainment consisted of yoga, shuffleboard, water aerobics, darts, pool etc. we used the spa for a Turkish bath and massage (glow package) which was pried at £60pp although we did get this down to £90 for two of us. It was very good. Overall this is a good hotel, it’s in a decent location, not too close to the madness of marmaris itself but bars restaurants and shops very close, also the dolmus is very frequent and cheap, you can pay by card which is cheaper than cash. The promenade at the back of the hotel has some lovely looking restaurants and bars if you fancy a change. I would return but would maybe avoid school holidays as think it could become too busy. Tip - take £ it’s very easy to change to Lira and cheaper than using a cash machine (I was charged 10% at a cash machine) it’s about 60 lira to the £1 at the moment.