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12 juli 2023
We travel to Antalya every year and this year we thought we’d try a week in side followed by a week in Kaleici. We booked 8 nights in the kaktus boutique hotel after a lot of research and we were excited about our stay. We are not those travellers that want to stay in resorts or in big fancy hotels. We much prefer the small family run hotels and guest houses. Unfortunately we made a mistake booking the Kaktus. We arrived to the hotel at around 3am after a slight 40 min delay into Antalya airport, but we’d informed the hotel when booking of our approx arrival time and we had a confirmation response, So after arriving we realised the hotel was completely closed up, no one around at all except a couple of rats running along the side of the breakfast area wall. Eventually after waiting 30 mins we stopped a passing guy who called the hotel and thankfully the owner turned up a minute later. Very friendly guy as is his wife who we met a bit later. So we are shown to our room upstairs and as we enter we see the bed not made and the room is dirty, off goes the guy after saying he make up the bed. So 10 minutes later, in walks the wife snd possibly the sister to make up the room at 4am. They ask us to sit on the balcony which we do and can see neither the undersheet or the pillow cases are changed. Then as we’re looking off the balcony we notice next doors balcony door is open, look over and there is actually someone sleeping on the floor. So mows it’s 4.30.am, we’re shattered and just want some sleep. Problem is the curtain was pretty much hanging off the rail and there is nothing but a net curtain over the balcony door and I’m aware someone is sleeping 5 foot away. Don’t get any sleep as the sun starts to rise at 5.20am and we’ve nothing to cover the door, Literally got up and looked at each other in despair. I could not spend another 7 days here so we headed downstairs and saw the friendly owner who asked if we wanted breakfast, think he knew what was coming, I tried to explain but with language barrier the response we got was yes, small room, Anyways, spoke to the wife and I’m not going to moan but she agreed to us paying 60€ for the single night of 4 hours and she will cancel the booking. Other things to mention is there was one plug socket in the entire room, the shower is literally a hand held shower head over the toilet, the owners room is across the hallway from our room so it feels more like their house that we’re staying in and the door was so thin you could literally hear everything. Thankfully we found another hotel 10 mins away but with the cost of the single night plus booking a hotel at such short notice, we were left approx 180€ out of pocket. Positives, the Kaktus is right on the waterfront and only a 5 minute walk to the beach club on the quiet beach we went to every day. The family really are lovely and I wish them all the luck. They just need to spend some money on the rooms and they’d be sold out solid, all s
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