Grand Levent Hotel 4 *: photos and reviews of tourists

Turkish Bodrum is not as well mastered by Russian tourists as Antalya, Tekirova, Marmaris. Meanwhile, there are wonderful conditions for a good rest. The Bodrum peninsula, lying in the east of the country and washed by the Aegean Sea, is an unofficial resort of the Turkish elite. Here you can find how wonderful secluded coves, quiet, calm, surrounded by olive and orange groves, and enchanting bright and fun entertainment centers. The city of Bodrum is one of the central on the peninsula. It is located in the Gyokov Gulf, just opposite the island of Kos (Greece). In the city there are hotels of all categories, from unpretentious with one or two stars of boarding houses to luxury four and five-star complexes. Let's look at one of the best.

Location

Hotel Grand Levent Hotel 4 stars is located on the Bodrum peninsula in a quiet and very picturesque village of Ortakent, which in Turkish can be translated as a "central city". It is so indeed. Ortakent is located approximately in the center of the peninsula, on the shore of the beautiful bay of Bitez, which is in the Aegean Sea. From the city of Bodrum it is in a western direction. Between the conventional boundaries of Ortakent and Bodrum about 8 km. Hotel Grand Levent Hotel 4 * is located at the end of the village, closer to the village of Yahshi (Yahsi). Therefore, between the hotel and Bodrum about 12 km. In a few minutes of leisurely walk from the hotel stretches a chic promenade of Yala (Yali) with dozens of cafes and restaurants and the best beach in Turkey. The Ortakent area is famous for its evergreen groves, a wide network of shops and many sights that have been inherited from the peoples who inhabited it thousands of years ago.

How to get there

The closest hotel to the Grand Levent Hotel 4 * international airport is located 49 km. It is called Milas-Bodrum. From here you can reach the hotel by transfer, by taxi or by comfortable modern and inexpensive buses of the company Havash. By the way, you can take a walk in many Turkish cities (Antalya, Izmir, Samsun and others). The disadvantage of buses is that they only go to the bus station in the village of Ortakent. From there to the hotel will have to take a taxi. In summer, charter flights from Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan are made at the airport of Bodrum . If you fail to take a ticket for the plane arriving at this airport, 190 km from the hotel there is a second one, where airbuses from Russia also fly. This is the airport in Dalaman. Get from there to the hotel can be on all the same buses of the company Hawash, or by taxi.

Territory

The Grand Levent Hotel 4 * occupies an area of only 0.5 hectares (5000 square meters). It is not very much to arrange here multiple sports grounds and tennis courts, but enough to harmoniously accommodate 8 hotel buildings, children's and adult pools, a bar, a children's playground, an amphitheater and a free parking lot. Many buildings are built in the Greek style, which is dominated by slender white columns. The whole territory of the hotel is surrounded by greenery and flowering flowers all year round, chic flowerbeds everywhere, there are shady alleys and spacious lawns, but everything is arranged very compactly. All buildings nearby, walk far from your building, for example, to a restaurant for breakfast or to relax by the pool is not necessary. The territory is protected. There are no complaints from tourists about any incidents and misunderstandings.

Infrastructure

Grand Levent Hotel 4 * (Bodrum) is always happy with its guests. The reception is open 24 hours a day. In a spacious and very beautifully decorated for the ancient castle hall you can relax in one of the comfortable chairs. At the reception you can hand over valuables for safekeeping, call a doctor, taxi, book an excursion, hand over things, leave your luggage in the storage room, use fax. The hotel Grand Levent 4 * provides guests with access to the hotel's hairdresser, shops (located in the building in the building), a gym, a fitness center (in the basement), a sauna and a Turkish bath.

Rooms

Hotel Grand Levent 4 * (Turkey, Bodrum) came into operation exactly 20 years ago, in 1995. And although in 2006 the reconstruction was carried out here, the number fund is not modern. However, all rooms are clean, tidy and 100% functional. The hotel is a complex of 8 two-storey cottages, which accommodate 87 rooms. Room categories - standard (up to 20 squares) and family suites (up to 40 squares). Standard rooms are designed for 2 people plus, if required, a cot on request. Family rooms are suitable for 4 people. There are 13 in the hotel. The view from the windows can be on the sea and on the hotel grounds. The interior of the rooms is simple, but beautiful. The colors are warm, having a cozy and serene mood. The walls are decorated with paintings, on the windows are thick curtains. One of the advantages of each room is excellent sound insulation.

Equipment here is: sets of solid furniture, perfectly matching the general color scheme, safe, refrigerator, TV (satellite channels), telephone, air conditioning, hygiene room with washbasin, toilet, shower and a very large mirror. Such design of bathrooms have both luxury rooms and standard rooms. The hotel's staff is very conscientious, doing their job perfectly. The same applies to cleaning rooms. It is produced every day and very qualitative. Towels are also changed every day, beds - every three days, but if necessary, they can change even daily.

Food

In its infrastructure has two restaurants and five bars Grand Levent Hotel 4 *. Reviews of tourists about food in the hotel are only enthusiastic. You can arrange a tour either with breakfast or half board, which means breakfast and dinner. Breakfast in the hotel is a self-service system, that is, a buffet. According to their menu, they are more like continental, rather than Turkish. Holidaymakers are offered flakes, milk, sliced cheeses, sausages, olives, egg dishes, butter, jam, coffee, tea, juice, fruit. Dinners at the hotel are very popular with all holidaymakers. There are several types of meat, fish, lots of salads, vegetables, side dishes, a lot of Turkish pastries, cakes, cakes and other sweets. There are no free drinks for dinner, but you can bring them with you. No one makes any comments for this.

The hotel is in a great location. From its gate to the embankment it is literally two or three steps. It has a great variety of restaurants and taverns, where every tourist can choose food (for lunch) according to his taste and wallet. The most popular restaurant - Cakir Motel, and one of the most closely located to the hotel and also quite good - Omerin Yeri Balik Restoran.

Within the hotel walls

Grand Levent Hotel 4 stars has on its territory a wonderful and fairly spacious pool. Sun beds, deckchairs and umbrellas are always available, and there is a place with a canopy, where it is convenient to relax even in the heat at noon. Near the pool for children. Animation in the hotel there is neither an adult nor a child. Staff on their own initiative can play with children (all here very fond of children and are nice to them), while parents, for example, have supper. Disco or a nightclub in the Grand Levent hotel, too, no. Everything that vacationers can count on is a quiet, pleasant and very unobtrusive music that sounds almost all day.

For sports fans, the hotel has a gym, but the simulators in it are not the latest models. There are also billiard and tennis tables, backgammon, table football. Near the hotel there is an excellent running track along the waterfront, so those who can not live without sports activities will be satisfied. Wi-Fi is free in the entire hotel.

Leisure outside the hotel walls

The village of Ortakent, in which the Grand Levent Hotel is located 4 stars, has a reputation for a quiet cozy place where there are no night entertainments. Day and evening entertainment here are represented by walks along the embankment, by the sea, by walks through the village, where many historical buildings have been preserved. Everyone who wants more active entertainment, you need to go to Bodrum. Here, the tourist life is boiling and bubbling. Famous for all the coast shops, restaurants, discos, nightclubs, hotels Bodrum (Turkey). Reviews of tourists enthusiastically report a remarkable, the only disco in Europe with a transparent floor "Catamaran". The liner goes into the sea and returns only in the morning. There is a disco in the city under the stars "Halicarnassus", which come from all over the coast. Shopping Bodrum resting hotel "Grand Levent" is also very pleasant. In the shopping centers of the city (Midtown, Waikiki) prices are very low, and everywhere you can bargain. Lovers of antiquity will be interested to go on an excursion to the Castle-Fortress of St. Peter, the ruins of the Mausoleum, Ephesus, Evromon and other historic cities of the peninsula.

Sea

The Grand Hotel Levent is located 50 meters from the city beach, where it leases about 100 meters of territory. The Aegean coast (Turkey) is famous for its cleanliness and beauty, and the beach in Ortakent is even awarded the Blue Flag. The hotel's beach is clean, sandy (which is especially good for parents with young children). Sunset in the sea is smooth, but stones can fall under your feet. The problem is easily solved by buying a special rubber shoes. The water temperature can surprise with its coolness even in the middle of summer, but this is a characteristic feature of the entire Aegean Sea. But the water is unusually clean and very salty. Density is such that with unaccustomed it seems as if the sea pushes your body to the surface. For hotel guests on the beach, there is a bar. Rest here passes quietly, without noisy water rides. The only thing that may not like it - the music that sounds from the bars on the waterfront.

Weather conditions, or When is the best time to relax in the "Grand Levent Hotel"

This hotel operates seasonally, that is, from May to October. The Aegean coast (Turkey) is characterized by a mild climate. In winter it is not cold in summer, there is no exhausting heat in summer. Only in July and August the thermometer can slightly exceed the mark of +30. In May and October here around +25 in the afternoon and approximately + 17-18 at night. The temperature of the water at the beach on the beach warms up only by July, but the heat keeps in September. In May, the water is cool enough (+ 19-20), in June, not all can bathe in the sea, because even by the end of the month the water will be about +21 degrees. By August the sea warms up to +25, after which it begins to gradually cool down. By October, the water temperature reaches only +17 degrees, so those who come to rest at the hotel at the end of the season are unlikely to be able to plunge into the cleanest, but this is not a warm blue sea.

Additional Information

Hotel Grand Levent Hotel 4 * is remarkable for its wonderful service. Despite the fact that only a few employees understand English and absolutely no one speaks Russian, there are no problems with mutual understanding among tourists. The hotel staff is extremely friendly and hospitable. Check in the rooms here begins after 14-00, eviction preferably before noon. If the lodgers call at the hotel late (after 20-00), they are sure to have dinner. Children under 6 years old are accommodated in Grand Levent for free. If the child or adult is accommodated in an extra bed (folding bed), the payment per night is 15 euros. With animals of any breed in the hotel can not live. The price for the room depends on the month of stay in the hotel, as well as from the tour operator who sells the tour there.

Reviews

A lot of people were satisfied with their stay at the Grand Levent Hotel 4 *. The marked pluses:

- Great atmosphere in the hotel;

- wonderful staff and service;

- Delicious food;

- cleanliness in the rooms and on the territory;

- The proximity of the beach;

- convenience in relation to stops of transport;

- nice swimming pool.

There are some disadvantages:

- mosquitoes in the rooms;

- lack of animation;

- far from entertainment centers;

- there is no Russian-speaking staff.

Conclusion: this hotel is suitable for all who like to relax quietly, without noisy fun and festivities until the morning. Especially good here are couples with young children.