Royal Holiday Palace Turkey, anyone been?
Royal Holiday Palace Turkey, anyone been?
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sjc

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16,462 posts

300 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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As per the title, thinking of booking this,seems to get good reports for a 2 year old hotel, lots for kid etc.Anyone know anything of it?

http://www.royalholidaypalace.com/

Ta

Garym85

99 posts

178 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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Yes, me.

My fiancé and I went last summer and had actually booked the royal wings. We stayed in wings for one week and were offered the choice to move over to holiday palace. They are two entirely separate hotels but both owned by the same hotel group (stone hotels).

We stayed in holiday palace in week two and loved it. When we went to check in they made a mistake and only assigned us a room for one night- after a very brief explanation that we still have another week they apologised profoundly and upgraded us to the duplex suite on the top floor.


The hotel actually only opened in April last year.


Pro's-
Too many to name but it is very grand, massive and the food was quite good. We also loved the party on the pier every week. The pier itself is great. It has a bar on it which royal wings didn't.
Rooms are nice and comfortable.

Cons-
Very few but when we were there I think we were two of maybe 20 people out of hundreds who were from the uk. It was packed and most of the people were Russian and German.
The staff were all very new and not always as friendly as the royal wings. They were very professional and good at what they did but just not as much fun.



The hotel has everything. Well worth visiting but we priced it and decided to go 5star in Jamaica for less.

sjc

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16,462 posts

300 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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Cheers for that, pretty much what I've read on TA etc.May well go ahead and book it as they've hopefully had a bit more staff training through the winter.

Garym85

99 posts

178 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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Yeh I would recommend it. We went as a couple but my fiancé sister,brother in law and two kids were there and our holidays crossed over for one week.

We love just chilling out And lazing by the pool but there is literally hundreds to do for kids. Water park and small'ish theme park. Adults go on it all too.

The great thing is, you can easily leave the resort and wander outside. It's only a 41/2 hour flight and then 30min transfer.

When we went last July it was regularly 46c and one day hit 49c!!

j4ckos mate

3,448 posts

200 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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show off!!


that looks expensive, but very nice, the 5 star hotels in turkey are incredible
weve stayed here a few times
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g1182247...

turkey is great but too hot after about june

sjc

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16,462 posts

300 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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Normally do Turkey every year here www.lykiaworld.com normally at Olu Deniz, but did their Antalya one last year.
Seems pretty much the same only bigger.
Only prob is we can do something like Moon-Palace Mexico for similar money but the wife doesn't want a long flight!

Garym85

99 posts

178 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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Nice...I've also been to moon palace in Mexico.

Out of this world and to be honest, not too much different with the exception that moon palace is almost as big as the town I stay in!! Haha

The other place you stayed looks good.i think you will be hard pushed to dislike royal holiday palace.

Only thing I Really didn't like about Antalya is the airport. It's extortionate, very outdated and not very clean.