Hotel Grand Cettia

Overall clean hotel, food was good, but it is not a hotel for couples, there are so many toddlers and babies, that you can't hear yourself think half the time. The sunbeds are cramped closely around the pools, and add to this buggies, children's play tents etc, there is very little room to move. Pools are very crowded and rowdy. The use of the room safe is £15 a week Use of TV channels £10 a week We arrived after midnight and nothing was available to us, even though we were all inclusive Kettle in the room was unusable as it had that awful smell when it needs de scaling , they did replace it but the second one was just as bad 😞 no cups of tea in the mornings (nightmare ) 😃 Not for couples, we would not return

So just returned home so going to give me honest review from best to worst-

Pools- honestly they’re great kids loved them loved the slides lifeguards were amazing my little ones didn’t really enjoy the kids pool but seen lots of other little ones enjoying it

Clean- can’t fault the maids it was lovely and clean all the time if we asked for anything extra we was given it too we asked for an extra blanket for the cot & an extra towel as we were only given 3 for a family of 4 originally but after that we were given 4 every time

Rooms- Generally good as I say clean, basic room was big enough we didn’t have a very good view it was the bins and apartments but was still okay. Beds were terrible rock hard I struggled with this my partner didn’t mind so much we ended up asking for quite a few mattress toppers. Cot was in room when we arrived which was great and so was couch bed for older child. I found the couch bed more comfortable than the actual bed tbh😂 oh and another issue I had was the curtains never actually blacked out the light ours never reached the side by the wall so there was always light there & then the other side by the couch always let light in, that might be fine for others but when it’s light at 4/5 I just can’t sleep so that was a big pet peeve for me😂

Air con- was not great tbh, we ended up getting another key to leave it on all the time as ours just wasn’t very cold at all we did ask reception & she just shrugged her shoulders and said someone will look but never made any difference but a few people on the side I was on said the same and other people who were pool side for instance said there’s was fine, so maybe just depends on rooms.

Shuttle bus- to get to the beach we were told it was one shuttle bus 10:30am pick up to go & 4pm to come back, beach was unbelievable don’t get me wrong but full of stones, there’s a beach called golden sands 350 lira in taxi or 15 mins down the road it’s amazing staff are lovely there’s free toys for the kids free canoes and paddle boards I’d highly recommend going there with younger kids!! But tiki beach is still very nice but it’s very far & I’m not sure what you’d do off you missed the bus as when we got on there weren’t many seats & we left at 10:15am because it was full maybe some one else might know more?

Food- restaurant staff were all lovely let’s start off on that, now we’ve been to a lot of all inclusives and this is by far the worst food choices we’ve ever had! Ice cream is only on set times in the day, this was a change for us most all inclusive are all day, but ice cream was nice. Breakfast was probably the worst meal of the day, kids didn’t eat most days by second day they were over pancakes they didn’t like the cereal as it was rock solid, mostly they just had fruit for breakfast which was fine but again not much choice in morning. Dinners we didn’t actually eat any dinners in the restaurant so I can’t speak for inside but outside was the snack bar, had burgers which are soft meat they taste fake, hot dogs were just standard they were what the kids ate most days, chips & nuggets again both fine. Then later on they had all that and pizza too but queues were always big when pizza was on so didn’t really get it much. Then tea time they had a good mix but not really for picky eaters the kids section was never really child friendly either no nuggets, always chips tho, hit & miss at dinner but the outside grill was probably the nicest at that time I think this was probably one of the biggest disappointments for me because I always see people moan about all inclusive food but it’s always pretty much the same but I just think oh it’ll be fine it’s just normal but this actually was a pretty poor choice for all inclusive in my opinion.

Outside the hotel- Lots of restaurants outside the hotel that we ate at, the beach is a 15 min walk and the food at the beach is lovely. Everywhere is £ so just beware of that we took a lot of lira but they often charged us more in lira.

Excursions we done:

Jeep safari: Amazing we loved it would recommend it was amazing kids loved it

Family buggy’s: Again amazing kids loved this too was quite a short day compared to jeep but was still fun

Atlantis water park: Couldn’t pay me to go back with little kids if you have children over 8 it’ll probably be fine but kids below 8 is a no go we ended up leaving early because kids were standing at the bottom of the little slides whilst parents were sat on there sun beds and my 2 year old went down the slide I asked the other kids to move so they did then one of them ran back in front of it thinking it was funny as my son came down and he ended up head butting him and biting his lip and had a big swollen lip pouring with blood, not one of the 3 lifeguards that were standing watching said a thing or checked he was okay so I said something to the child’s mum & dad who came over because he was crying as he got kicked in the head obviously & my blood was boiling at that point so we left soon after I dealt with that because that was just the icing on the cake.

All in all it was a cheap holiday we booked last minute and we got what we paid for would I go back again. No. Would I recommend it. Also no.