LABRANDA Excelsior Side

Nice hotel wth tasty food

Waiting for a table In the dining room, whilst the waiter reserved tables for people who tipped him. The table was empty for an hour. Also no English speaking staff all or guests all Germans.

Serving with an all-inclusive concept Labranda Excelsior Hotel is very beautiful hotel with clean and comfortable rooms (room N.202). Most of rooms are quiet and peaceful with garden view. Turkish and international cuisines at the restaurants are really fantastic. Staff of hotel so friendly and helpful.

Nice hotel in overall. Good prices. We went for our honeymoon but they didn’t do anything special even though it said in the website I bought. Then we went another hotel. I wouldn’t go for honeymoon but for holiday it’s a nice hotel. Good food, nice pool, nice bar. 10 min walking to the beach or they have shuttles. They have small gym if you care.

The hotel is listed as four star, but I would give it three stars. No WiFi in the rooms, only the lobby area. The music by the pool is extremely loud all day - mostly techo, and since most of the hotel guests were retired, totally unsuitable. There is live entertainment in the evening, but again extremely loud, so if one wants to sleep before midnight, too bad! Service in the main restaurant is slow. Several times we had to ask for cutlery and napkins when the previous diners had left, resetting the table was not automatic. Also the table cloth was soiled. There is no breakfast served outdoors, which is a pity as the gardens and pool area are well maintained and it would be nice to take advantage of the cooler mornings. The beach is around a 10 minute walk from the hotel. The hotel beach area is clean and quiet. The gentleman who takes care of the beach area does an excellent job. Lunch is also served at the beach. The food is tasty and plentiful.

Great holiday with 3 Mums & 3 Teenage boys. Hotel is superb with lots of activities. Everyone of the staff with no exception are amazing. Ibo the animation guy excellent always including everyone of the guests. The receptionists were very helpful . We were the only English guests but treated with respect. The lady in pool restaurant all of the bar staff were brilliant. No queues at the bar & they all knew our drinks orders before ordering. Likewise the main restaurant were so helpful as we had a lady on a scooter they even helped her taking food back to our table. Rooms are clean and well furnished. The bar & restaurant staff at the beach were excellent also. The cleaners, the resort cleaners again were fantastic. Food and drink were plentiful and always something to eat....... The photographers were great and non invasive. AMAZING HOTEL I can’t believe that there aren’t more English guests here but that didn’t bother us at all. THANK YOU FOR A GREAT HOLIDAY

Absolutely excellent property. The best hotel I’ve ever been privileged enough to stay at. The building is speaking for itself, they did a great job on the architectural aspect. Overall great hotel for couples. (+) Staff * Very friendly, determined and hardworking staff. (+) Food * They offer a theme for every day. It includes the dinner and the animation show. For example, if it’s a Mexican night then you will get to see a variety of mexican food in the dinner and they will present a show about Mexico after the dinner. On every wednesday there is an À la carte restaurant option for dinner with a limited option. (+) Pub & Bar * Between 10:00 and 24:00 you can use any bar you want for free. They offer a big varirty of drinks alcoholic & nonalcoholic. They have one inside of the facility, right next to the pool and at the beach. Beach bar doesn’t offer alcoholic drinks though. (+) Location * It is located among the trees but 6.5 kilometers away from the antique city of Side. (+) Transportation * There is a minibus line between the Manavgat main bus stop and the hotel (10 minutes for 4, 5 lira) * There is also another line that connects the ancient city of Side to the hotel (10, 15 minutes for 4, 5 lira) (+ / -) Beach * Beach was quite big and there were not that many people in the middle of the August. It is made of sand but as soon as you enter the sea you realize that the sand are gone now you are stepping on a rock. * From the back door of the hotel by 5 or 6 mins of walking you can get to the hotel’s private beach or you can just take a shuttle bus that takes in every 1:30 hours from the hotel. (+) Room * The room was big enough for a couple but the bathroom was quite old school. They only offer bath tube and not a normal shower cabinet. They offer hair shampoo, conditioner, shampoo, soap and hair cap. If you are lucky enough your balcony view might be all green and blue. (+) Entertainment * They have a table tennis table with a ripped of unusable rackets and ball. * Twice a day there are dart, shooting and a ball match in the pool tournaments. * Every night after the dinner firstly songs and games are being played for the children in the stage after that the animation team is taking control of the show offering different countries’ dances and songs. (-) Check-In * Even tho we were at the reception at 12 in the morning, due to lack of staff working at the reception they placed us in our room at around 3pm.

The staff are extremely polite, always happy to greet and help you with anything. Our rooms were cleaned every day. The hotel's beach is not that far away, a 5 minute walk. The pool water was clean and very pleasant to swim in. 10/10