Cleopatra Golden Beach

We stayed as a couple in a lovely room with a huge adjoining bathroom with a jacuzzi in as well as the shower feature. The hotel is a typical Turkish hotel, with an authentic feel to it, it feels comfortable and has some beautiful features to it. The reception is always staffed and is very cool to relax in, adjoining the front reception building is a lovely courtyard with games facility, football table and chess was available- there are other games and books in the reception area. Past the courtyard you walk into the front of the adjoining building which house the pool and pool chairs, the area is within the hotel with the roof drawn back so it is very safe for families - surrounding the pool is a small but fully functional bar area with seats and tables and to the left is the dining area- there’s lots of seating and tasty traditional Turkish food each mealtime, usually including chicken/meat or fish with accompanying vegetables and potato dishes, along with several variety of salads and other foods such as cheese, pickles and olives etc, lunch and dinner also have a soup and it was a tasty variety each day and greatly enjoyed, the deserts are again Turkish cake or baclava and some gateau as well as fresh fruit with water melon/ orange/apple and banana offered whilst we were there. As is common in hotels in Turkey, breakfast is a variety of offerings there is always cereal, an egg dish be it an omelette or fried eggs as well as hard boiled eggs, flavoured sausage sometimes in a tomato based sauce, with salad, cheese and other accompaniments, lots of fresh bread and reading other reviews, yes they did serve vegetables at breakfast which for people in the U.K. isn’t common but, you only have to eat what you choose to put on your plate and I did see plenty of people having vegetables at breakfast. There’s always lovely coffee available and cold drinks that you serve yourself too and the bar is open at lunchtime onwards for fizzy and alcoholic drinks - which include branded soft drinks and local gin/whisky/vodka and raki- the house wine is red and is very pleasant. The room we had was fabulous, lots of space and storage with a lovely bathroom and balcony. The hotel is spotlessly clean and welcoming, the staff especially the dining staff were very attentive and pleasant. The maid/ cleaner was really nice and did an excellent, thorough clean - the bedding was changed frequently and towels every day. Sunbeds/parasols and the safe are optional extras and they are 4€ each per day, but the beach is so close and clean that you can simply sit and chill on the sand. You can travel around quite cheaply and find your travel information within walking distance, local taxis are reasonably priced and within walking distance there are supermarkets, shops and bars - the shops nearby are as good as any of the shops in Alanya with regards to holiday clothes/shoes purchases and the quality is excellent. Nearby is a local pharmacy so you can stock up on the trending hair and skin products, the resident pharmacist was extremely helpful and the products are all of a similar price to the other pharmacies in the city. There’s always work going on in Turkey, the streets are quite busy but calm down in the evening and we enjoyed several lovely evening cooling off quietly on our balcony. The weather as expected was extremely hot and it takes a while for your body to adjust and the sand on the beach was almost scalding my bare feet so you’d definitely need beach shoes, closer to the sea it’s cooler and refreshing but be aware you still get sunburnt!!.