Everest Hotel

Before rating this hotel, I must state that accommodation and food poisoning aside, this was easily the best holiday I have ever had.
Turkey is a wonderful place to be and the people are amazingly friendly and helpful. If you are looking for a nice place to eat, I would recommend "The Sun Trap" restaurant at the bottom of the town. An absolute must is a safari, especially if you go with "Explora", they're slightly more expensive than some of the other local companies but it is well worth it, a special word of thanks to the manager Ahmed and our gorgeous guide Yusuf, and of course his fantastic crew, our 12 hour day-trip was not only informative but jam-packed with fun and suitable for all ages. Thanks guys!! As Arnie says, "I will be back"!!!!!!
The Everest is a family run business in Ovacik, the rooms are basic but aesthetically pleasing. Rooms are cleaned daily, towels and linen are changed every two days. The pool is a fresh-water pool which is refilled daily. Self-catering is definitely the way to go, but do not rely on anything more than a kettle and a table-top electric ring, & I mean just one ring!! Meals are available all day but are quite expensive. What ever you do, do not touch the eggs, tap water or the tea/ coffee. Beverages are made with their tap water and will give you the runs. The apple tea is delicious and will convert even the staunchest of coffee drinkers. I know all of this because I ended up hospitalised in Fethiye on my last day with severe food poisoning due to having eating an omelette the night before. In fact, my entire family spent the week after our holiday recovering from the effects of having eaten our last few meals of the trip at the Everest!
The staff are friendly as well as flexible and always helpful, the manager appears to be genuinely friendly until you complain or challenge him about something. They advertise a courtesy room for the last day of your trip at a cost of £6 but what they don't tell you is that it is not the room that you have spent your holiday in, but in fact a very tiny, stuffy 2 bed room right over the bar/kitchen, not very helpful if you are travelling as a family of 4 like we were, the kids just could not stick the heat or the sickly sweet smell of the kitchen.
As I have previously said, this was easily the best holiday I have ever had, and I have travelled all around Europe, needless to say, we will be going back to Turkey but not to the Everest Apart-hotel.