Sami Beach Hotel

AVOID AT ALL COSTS! We checked in shortly after midnight, arriving to a bunch of people arguing with the hotel staff about the state of their rooms and threatening to leave if their rooms weren’t changed. When we were finally seen, me and my mother filled in the paperwork then were left for 20 minutes whilst the staff went off into the office. We were shown to our room, located in the annex building. The annex is across and up the street from the Sami Beach Hotel and is actually closer to the neighbouring Parkim Ayaz Hotel (which is definitely much more worth your money). Our room was shoddy, scruffy, awfully basic, the TV didn’t work, paint was peeling off the walls, electrical wires exposed, chunks missing out of the wall, the so-called “sea view” was behind a bunch of rooves. The annex is dark, the spiral staircase has huge gaps which make it unsafe, the lock on our door was RUSTING away - we had to put our suitcase behind the door for added security. We asked for a room change FOUR TIMES as reception: the first time we were promised one, the second we were told to come back at lunch, the third we were told they couldn’t do it, the fourth we got told that the “hotel was full” and got shown another shabby annex room. There is no safe, there is no wi-fi other than in the lobby, there wasn’t even cups or teaspoons to make hot drinks in the room. I had to boil the kettle in the BATHROOM because of the awkward placement of the plugs. The noise from the nearby clubs and bars goes on until 3am. The fridge smells. The shower goes from lukewarm to boiling with no in-between and the water pressure isn’t great. The food is alright but you’d probably cook better meals yourself at home. Very much a poor quality continental European menu, not much for Brits - not even a cooked breakfast. Of the breakfast on offer, one dish was Fruit Loops mixed with Chocolate Cornflakes… make of that what you will. We couldn’t even have toast because the toaster was broken. The entertainment is only good if you’re into dancing - different dance genres every night. The bar is okay. The staff can both be quite rude and friendly - we had to speak to the receptionist through GOOGLE TRANSLATE as he couldn’t speak well enough English. There was actually a German man having a go at him for using Google Translate and speaking Turkish to staff. The website images are completely misleading, this is an appalling hotel and there are many others in the area which are much better value than the Sami. Never returning. We actually hate it that much that we actually moved hotels. Avoid Sami at all costs.

Pro: -polite staff - the food is ok and tasty, not extraordinary Cons: - be careful when you book the rooms at the hotel: if you book in the annex, keep in mind that they are opposite the hotel and it's a bit of a walk to get there. There are only rooms in the annexes, for meals, beach, bar you have to go to the main hotel. - the rooms in the annexes look quite bad, old furniture, doors that don't close well, missing pieces of tiles, the tiles and tiles are patched everywhere, made of several colors, in some places greasy in the bathroom. - the area is very crowded, with many shops and clubs; the music is very loud until around 2-3 in the morning, then you hear drunk people screaming/fighting on the street, the music from the cars. Bad jams do not help in isolating this permanent noise. -wi-fi very bad: you have to connect it almost every time you enter, it disconnects as soon as you block the phone, everyone has a personal password (passport number and room number, which the people at the reception don't really know how to tell you say because I don't know which room you are in); wi-fi is only in the main hotel, not in the annex - the cleanliness of the rooms leaves much to be desired - very bad smell in the hotel hallways - the staff does not know English