Beach Club Doganay

Ana-Maria Săcară

From the beginning, very far from the airport (2 hours by car) and far from being a 5 star hotel... We stayed in the old building, so everything is quite worn out or outdated. The elevators seem newer but look cheap and tacky and are really small. More important aspects would be the really thin walls and balcony door. We could hear all our neighbours and the loud music from outside until falling asleep. After the party is done or earlier in the morning, you can hear the traffic from the nearby highway through the closed balcony door. The staff try to be nice but are quite dismissive, also they hardly speak English. The food was ok, better than other places in Turkey we've been. The beach is very close to the hotel, there's a neat passage under the highway that gets you directly there. The shore is rocky and the sand is rough, so better wear water shoes. We couldn't enjoy the beach much because there were always high waves. Overall, not worth the money and we wouldn't recommend this stay.

Kacey B2001

Me and my partner visited for 6 days. We arrived late and were greeted with a warm welcome a staff member helped us to our room and then told us there is a late supper on which we are welcome to go to. The pools were all amazing and some fun games around the pool with the animation team such as water polo and water gym. All the staff were super friendly even tho there was a slight language barrier as we are English and they were mainly German or Turkish. The beach has a lovely set up with a cute swing to take great sunset photos on. Multiple bars to get drinks from and one that is even open till 2am. The evening entertainment was brilliant. They had different acts on each night. The hotel is fairly dated but looks nice for how old it is LOVE the lobby and the rooms are good size and the house keeper comes round every day to stock up and replenish the fridge. The shops on site were great and we have definitely gone away with our moneys worth. Good information In main lobby of things you can do outside the hotel. The only issue we had was the food. We are not really picky eaters but some of the food was not great. Allot of the meat was very fatty and not nice. There needs to be more signs telling you what is what on the all you can eat buffet as if you had an allergy to something especially on the salad bar it has no signs to say what it is. The food did seem to get better as our week went on but I do think the food needs a big improvement as most of the time it was either cold or bland. All round great hotel worth the money and would definitely come back again.

Marius Motiekaitis

I would rate the hotel no more than four stars. It has quite a small area outside, also there is nowhere to go outside for a walk. The food is not great, I missed vegeterian options, every time the same food. The good side of it that it has quite big beach with a bridge with leaders to get to or from the water. One more concerning things is security, it uses magnetic cards as a room key so it gets erased once it reaches an iPhone for example and needed to ask the reception to set the key and the problem was that the reception didn’t ask for any details about who you are, just programmed the key and that's it; so in that case you can have your key programmed to unlock any room.

Anton

We were on vacation in Doganay and honestly I will never come back. Small rooms,need to be fixed and refreshed. The food is poor,I wanted to eat one fat and juicy doner,(we are in turkey) but never see him at dinner. Only 1 place for meat and when it comes dinner time all the guests rush for the meat and you need to wait for 10-15 min under the burning sun. The beach like every beach in Turkey is rocks and concrete.. Animators are good.

Wiecher Van Der Laan

The hotel and the rooms are clean and come with good beds and excellent showers. İt’s all a bit dated though. Since one spends most of the time outside that didn’t disturb me much. It’s and all-inclusive hotel with ample restautants and bars. The overall quality of the food was good, as was the variety. The beer was good, the wine undrinkable. What I really disliked were guests who apparently thought that the drinks and food provided by the hotel was the last food on earth. Food was piled so high on their plates that there was eternal snow on top of it. The concept of sharing and behaving normally seemed to be lost on them. I also did not like the absent-minded zombies with watery eyes at eleven in the morning trudging continuously from beachbed to bar and back holding as many beer glasses as they could at every beer run. But hey, that’s me!