Paloma Oceana Resort

“Serkan is the best!!!!”

We’ve been coming here for 10 years and the highlight is always eating at Serkan’s restaurant. These days it’s called “Quentines”, but where ever he’s working we always eaten there. He really knows how to remember and look after repeat guests, and has always made us feel like old friends!! The… more

We’ve been coming here for 10 years and the highlight is always eating at Serkan’s restaurant. These days it’s called “Quentines”, but where ever he’s working we always eaten there. He really knows how to remember and look after repeat guests, and has always made us feel like old friends!! The hotel is as great as ever, and we will be back again next year, and looking out for Serkan as always! Great service also from the hotel front desk, led by Rahime Karagun.

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“Wedding Paloma Oceana October 24”

Well where do I start other than Wow!!we have just returned from a 2 week stay at the Paloma Oceana which is where we were married with us was our close family and friends who all could not rate this resort highly enough. From the waiters to the kitchen staff to the cleaners they were all so friend… more

Well where do I start other than Wow!!we have just returned from a 2 week stay at the Paloma Oceana which is where we were married with us was our close family and friends who all could not rate this resort highly enough. From the waiters to the kitchen staff to the cleaners they were all so friendly and couldn’t do enough. The resort was clean gardens were always being tended too while we were there the beach was spotless and the food was lovely so many different dishes and something for everyone.Now our wedding from us arriving nothing was too much for The general manager and Begimai who to me is an amazing person and absolute star her and her team went above and beyond to give me my special day and it was more than my expectations,I lost my mum so planning and having the wedding without her was really hard and Begimai took all that on board and gave me my dream wedding from the setting to the venue was absolutely stunning and breathtaking and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to get married in Turkey you really are in safe hands and it’s such a beautiful resort thank you to everyone especially Begimai you really have no idea how much it all meant xx

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“Decent Hotel”

Just returned from a week's holiday at the Oceana.Therea positives and negatives to this hotel but fortunately the positives outweigh the negatives. Firstly the hotel is quite German orientated but this didn't bother us in the slightest and most of the staff at least make an attempt to speak Englis… more

Just returned from a week's holiday at the Oceana.Therea positives and negatives to this hotel but fortunately the positives outweigh the negatives. Firstly the hotel is quite German orientated but this didn't bother us in the slightest and most of the staff at least make an attempt to speak English.Most of the staff are friendly and engaged well with us,and the daily cleaner of or room was excellent in keeping the place spicy and span. Some of the hotel is a bit tired in places and could do with a bit of a spruce up but the gardens are extensive and well kept as are the pool areas. The food in the whole is good with freshly cooked dishes at both lunch and dinner and we never struggled to find something to eat, although I did have an upset stomach one of the days.This could however be from a fellow guest as I did notice some people were unbelievably using the loo before entering the restaurant without washing their hands...Yuk!!!! The a la carts were decent and made a nice change from the buffet. The drinks were however VERY disappointing and barely scraped by for the claim of "international brands" and we're definitely not ultra all inclusive.A very poor selection and some not available at all even though they were advertised ie jack Daniels.Bailys was advised on the menu but in fact it was some watery copy.Only one beer available which was poor with no bottled beer available.All other ultra all inclusive hotels I have stayed in have had much better drinks packages. Another thing that slightly lets the hotel down is the amount of smokers stinking the outdoor seating areas out.The outside areas are lovely but three times we had to move because the stench of selfish people billowing clouds of stinking smoke was unbelievable. All in all we felt the hotel was five star in places but four in others and was definitely not "ultra" all inclusive compared to others we have stayed at in the area. Having said that the price point reflects this and we would definitely return as the positives greatly outweigh the negatives.

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“Wonderful hotel and great holiday”

My holiday review - long sorry! Arrived at Birmingham airport which I thought would be chaotic, but was surprisingly very calm and everything seemed to be working perfectly. Through security in about 6 minutes which was fab! Really made a big change not having to take out liquids and electronics. … more

My holiday review - long sorry! Arrived at Birmingham airport which I thought would be chaotic, but was surprisingly very calm and everything seemed to be working perfectly. Through security in about 6 minutes which was fab! Really made a big change not having to take out liquids and electronics. In the departure lounge with over two hours to go so settled for a nice breakfast and relax. Plane departed only 20 minutes late and arrived at Antalya without much of a hiccup, apart from my son pulling his tooth out on take off! Thankfully the tooth fairy came to turkey! On arrival at Antalya, the airport was quite chaotic and bags took over an hour to come, however, collected them and made our way to our taxi which I highly recommend @yamanalanya. 35 euros for a lovely cool private transfer. This is where things went wrong as 55 minutes into our 60 minute taxi, our ten year old realised he’d left his Nintendo switch and phone at Antalya airport! It must have dropped out his bag. On arrival at hotel, reception and check in great and the Tui rep Joanne was fantastic at helping us liaise with the airport and in particular Ali A (from Tui) who were both amazing, the switch and phone were handed in and ready for us to collect on our return journey. Room - Room was amazing. Biggest room we’ve ever had. Really spacious and. Right with everything we’d want. We had a family room overlooking the pool in the main building on level 3. Perfect. Pools - we chose the one nearest the beach due to closeness of everything. We learnt on day two though not to pitch up in front of the speakers! Very loud. The other pool was lovely too, but lost the sun quite early on. Bars - nice range of drinks. Piano bar was my favourite. So relaxing. Food - buffet was expansive, but not to my taste which isn’t a fault of the hotel, just my personal preference. Tried all the al a cartes. Found Avare disappointing, but Quentine was incredible and Wabi Sabi good also. The flatbread stall was good by the water park, but a shame the Aqua snack bar was closed. Quentine was lovely to sit for lunch as it’s right by the beach. Water park - on site park was good and kept the boys entertained (ours are 10 and 13). We also got the shuttle at 10am to the big Paloma Water park. This was good for a couple of hours. Drinks were available here all inclusive (soft only). Tipping - never felt you were pressured to leave a tip, but when you did, it was greatly appreciated. Shopping - went into Side twice and the town was amazing. We took the bus the first time, can’t remember how much it was, maybe a euro each person and took about 20 minutes to get to Side. A short strolls past some beautiful ruins where archaeological we’re working on took you into the lovely bustling streets of Side. Haggling was encouraged and if you paid in cash as opposed to card, you were more likely to get a better deal. I would say most of the shops preferred Euro. We are at the @Royal Castle and the food and service was amazing. The second time we had a free pick up from the @Twins restaurant. Again, brilliant food and service (free pick up from the hotel) and watching the sunset was amazing. In addition, outside the hotel are two shopping centres and dozens upon dozens of shops to browse through. Sunbeds - I Went down most mornings to read and watch the sunrise at 7am and still plenty of beds available by 9am and indeed throughout the day, I appreciate though my holiday was going into the winter season and so this could be different during the peak weeks. Entertainment - didn’t see many, but the ones I saw seemed quite good and the Michael Jackson one was brilliant. Clientele - not a fault of the hotel, but I found a lot of the visitors to be rude, unnecessarily so. Would I come back - no, but not through fault of the hotel, I just never go back to the same hotel. Would definitely come back to turkey again though. All in all, wonderful family holiday and sad to be leaving. Until time Turkey 🇹🇷

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