Side Alegria Hotel & Spa - All Inclusive-Adult Only

A really unpleasant stay. We arrived to a very badly made bed with no sheets or duvet. Took an hour to sort out with reception, they eventually sent two single duvets for a double bed. The duvets were handed to me at my room door and I had to put the duvets in the covers and make the bed myself at 12:30am. Food is repetitive, boring, and was usually cold. Sunday night, Monday lunch, and Monday dinner was a choice of meatballs, pasta, or grilled fish. All three were basically cold, so were chips and the cooked breads. For thee days running eggs were cooked and left to go cold. Sausages, grilled tomato, and scrambled egg were all the same and very cold on each day. There is a huge choice if you want salad, but anything cooked is incredibly poor. Poor choice, and cold. The hotel is sold as being adult only, it is not, and for 3 or our 5 night stay lots of children were also there and were running around the bar area until it closed at 11:00pm. I assumed it was a school trip but when I asked I was told that wasn't the case, and was just families staying. The bar staff are abrupt if not rude. Several times I was at the bar on my own but staff only came out when another guest or two arrived and on several occasions served German guests first. This could mean waiting for 10 to 15 minutes to be served (even though I was first at the bar) as it was always the German guests that took priority even if they arrived at the bar after English or American guests. The hotel staff speak good German but not very good English. Even when I spoke to them in Turkish they regularly replied in German- even though I am English. There is satellite TV in the rooms. but note that all but a few channels broadcast in German. a few in Turkish, and BBC World News in the only one in English. The hotel is clean, mostly. And it does have quite good Wifi. and a reasonably comfortable bed in our room at least.

Came here for last bit of winter sun on arrival staff in reception unable to speak English was told to sit and wait for room. Once in room which have to say is clean and Aircon worked we un packed only to find they hadn't returned passports so had to go get them we also had to pay €10 for another key as you only get 1. Now let's talk about the food if you like eating slops you will feel at home here the waiting staff are polite at the restaurant but at the bar the english get ignored they don't clear your table the serve others at hotel but miss us even though we are best tippers. Now activities you have to pay for everything their is no volleyball as shown the entertainment staff very friendly. Beach is very close and you can get food and drink their which is nice and plenty of sun loungers for everyone. If you are German Russian Polish you get treated well if you are English they have no time for you I would not recommend to anyone. Put it this way in the UK this hotel would be 2☆

The hotel is nice, located next to the sea and super markets. Room was okay, service fast and good. Food was absolutely fabulous, the selection of cakes was amazing - strawberries, chocolate, peanut cakes, just name it :) If you go there, I truly recommend to go to spa and have massage and ask a Bali woman Desi, she has magic hands ;)

Just returned from Hotel Side Alegria & Spa and would rate this hotel 2 out 5. Positives: -Near Antique Side centre (small buses running every 10 mins outside the hotel for 1 euro ) -Plenty of shopping opportunities just outside the hotel (mainly fake clothing), -Good daily room cleaning by friendly cleaner Negatives: Unfriendly staff at reception and towel change - Restaurant: Small with long queues Often difficult to find a table at dinner time Food average, good choice of salads and cakes but main dishes same daily - Beach: Walk to beach from hotel is short (approx. 5 minutes) with no pavement but always busy with buses, parked cars, lots of street cats and garbage Very small beach area with sun loungers too close to each other (90% smokers) and by 10am, it is difficult to find a free sun bed In the morning the sea is calm and clean but during the day gets dirty with big waves due to boats and water sport directly next to swimming area This hotel is good for those who enjoy street shopping, noise, busy surrounding and like to smoke and drink. If you prefer quieter surrounding where you can chill and escape from noise, I definitely do not recommend this place!

Beds very comfy hotel staff very helpful entertainment staff aging and work so hard. Not sure what the bad reviews are about. Food plenty to choose from. Not a lot of English there bit still enjoyable

Although we had a paid and confirmed reservation hotel did not let us check in. We think such facilities are breaking reputation of Turkey's tourism. While we are at the lobby, there were a lot of guest are complaining about rooms and service. But no body can find an authorized person.

A very hot and lovely holiday for me and my partner. The only issue we had was the Wi-Fi kept dropping in and out which was annoying when trying to call home to family. The entertainers Diyago and Nino were very welcoming and helpful and made our stay so much better. GREAT GUYS will definitely be back to see them both if they’re still there but for anyone else wishing to travel to Turkey this Hotel definitely make the effort to get to know them both. Thank you to both of you.

First of all this is an adult only hotel . It is also 49 % German and 49 % Russian occupied and the 2 % is brits ,French etc. I read some scathing reviews about this place but honestly me and my family enjoyed it and were british. The staff know very little so just point at what you want ....no problem. Alegria has its own location on the beach with a snack bar ( pasta ,burgers,chicken ,veg,fruit, beer,water.....and so on ) our room was air conditioned . This hotel is 50 mins from antalya Airport and 2 miles to side old town . I was pleasantly surprised by this place. You get a free towel for sunbathing on and if you want a new towel it costs 1 euro . To be honest you probably won't need to change it much ..if at all. A taxi to a from airport and hotel is around 40 euros unless you arrange a transfer

It was one my worst experience ever, I have been several times to Antalya and Alanya with friends and family. But this time I went with my family to side instead, we have chosen this hotel just because It was fair price and it was a five star hotel near the beach. What a disappoin**ent, We have been deceived for what the hotel has to offer. I mean the food had no variety at all, the service and the management of the hotel was one of the worst part of the trip. It says that, it’s a hotel for adults only but trust me a lot of the guests are under age. The show and the animation team was horrible, they were silly and annoying and don’t have anything to offer. The room service and hygiene is the worst, I mean I don’t even know how the heck did this hotel get 5 stars. The only good thing about this hotel was, that it was 200 meters away from the beach and had good shopping bazaars around. But for me, I would never ever come back to this hotel anymore. I mean four stars hotel in alanya are better than this hotel.