Rixos Premium

We went to the Rixos Premium last year and had a wonderful time. We have been to Turkey several times (6) and this was by far the best holiday ever! The hotel breathes luxury and quietness in so many aspects (unlike some of the 'loud' resorts with poolside entertainment). The private pier is sublime! With a lot of comfortable sunbeds. The food was excellent. Check out the pictures!

Really great hotel with luxurious spa, longest beach from all hotels on whole coast (800m?), great (about 400m long) pool, nice fitness, super, nice gondolas for transport and fun in hotel area,great, great dancing waters, very proffesional night shows made by shaolins, russian balet etc, very very nice and big aquapark troy, real dolphinarium, lot of restaurants (best for sure italian, french and russian.. really delicious with good atmosphere). Two real soccer fields! Lot of top brands stores inside hotel... Huge interior of hotel.. I was in more than hundred of other hotels, there are hotels with something better, but I never see hotel with so complex portfolio of highly above standard all services.. One point what really needs to be improved - Russians (guests) are not expecting good service (usual in all top hotels around world) from people staff in hotel and it is visible on them. Staff in restaurants and bars is desorganised, slow (of course there are exeptions), but they WANT to serve you well - this is important - they DO NOT KNOW HOW - this is pure management mistake..... One more point was little bit dissapointment for me that watersports on our beach were twice more expensive than in all other Water sport stands (also 10m from our stand was other one for half prices but if you are from Rixos they do not want to serve you..!!)... Other thing is - there were around 80% people from post Soviet Union countries (big part of them is group of supermodels :-) (smile but they really looked like this )) - and as I heard there are nations which prefer to stay due to this fact in other hotels ( it was not my case - to be honest they were during whole stay very good party and I had just one bad experience - and it was not with post Soviet Union people but with arrogant Serbiens...).. I will recommend this hotel to everybody. Nice holidays!!!!

We have just returned from a 9 days holiday spent to Rixos Premium Belek. We spent all those days in the resort and we did not have time to get bored. The hotel has much to offer: from nice swimming pools to 1 km length beach and spa, from bars to restaurants, from dancing waters to night shows with fireworks, from Troy Aqua Park to Dolphinarium, from the shopping French Street to the lake with its boats. The hotel is luxurious, elegant, very clean and polished every day in every little corner. The room was big and nice decorated, but we did not like the missing door at the bathroom. We changed 3 rooms hopping to get a bathroom with a door, but the only one which had one was one for handicapped people. There are 8 a la carte restaurants and it is advisable to get a reservation from the beginning of your holiday to be sure you get a table. We were enchanted especially by Fishbone Restaurant and Gornitsa Restaurant ( a Russian restaurant). The reservation system works also for Dolphinarium. In order to enter the show you also have to pay 25 Euros per person. The resort is huge; that’s an advantage because you have many opportunities to spend your time in a pleasant way, but also a disadvantage thinking of the big distances you have to walk from your room to the restaurant or to the beach (especially when you have children with you ). As a last remark, the hotel is full of Russians and all the employees speak Russian, but many of them did not understand English - a thing that bothered us. Anyway, we think we took the right decision choosing Rixos for our holiday...

Rixos is a huuuge hotel, luxurious in the style of opulant Dubai hotels. It is marketed as 7 star. All inclusive but is very flexible. You can eat at the main restaurant, which is nice, or book in one of the 8 or 9 a la carte restaurants. Many drinks are free including many imported drinks, except expensive whiskeys, cognac and champagne. Room service between 2-7am is free as well. Rooms are roomy but carpeted which I don't like. The bathroom does not have a door, toilet area a glass door that does not close properly which may be a problem for some, I personally did not like it. The room does not have an extra shower cubicle which I think it should have as jumping into the bath tub for a shower may be very difficult for older guests. Huge shopping area with luxury brands, nice bars, a great lake in the middle of the land and hotel, wonderful gardens. Beach and Pool area is nice too but I found the pool area small. The spa is very very nice. Let me see, there is a sauna, a russian sauna, a snow room, plunge pool, rain room, relaxations rooms and a wonderful Hamam. I felt like the sultan's wife in the cooling area in a curtained booth surrounded by candles and drinking Turkish Coffee. Treatments are extra like massage, kese, etc. The hotel also owns the aqua park adjacent to it where hotel guests go for free, there is even a dolphin show there. And it goes on and on, the hotel has eveything. There is a seperate area with luxury villas, there is another area with low built rooms with shopping arcade around. All kinds of sports, the list goes on and on, I only stayed 4 days so I probably missed many. This hotel is a great luxury hotel and I had nice 4 days but it is not exactly my style. The pool areas were crowded but because the place is huge I could find secluded parts on the beach and jetties. It feels more like a winter hotel with heavy furnishings. The a la carte restaurants are booked well in advace so they are usually full. Lots of rich Russians around spending money on champagne. I really liked the Spa but everything was big and opoulant and had a Las Vegas feel to it. This hotels would be good in Winter as well, there are around 10 golf courses now in Belek, another 10 will be open shortly. If you are into more hip hotels, in this same trip I also stayed in Adam & Eve hotel in Belek so check out my review on that one as well.

Absolutely one of the BEST hotels I have been to in my entire life. Excellent service and very competent staff with excellent language skills. Delicious food, wonderful turkish, italian and japanese cuisine and extremely friendly environment. The surrounding is untouched and stunnigly beatiful... I wish you a nice journey to Belek-Turkey...you will enjoy every minute of it.

My trip to Turkey was fantastic until we got to Antalya's so call 7 star hotel Rixos Premium Belek. I must say the overall layout of the hotel is beautiful with it's superb interior. But the people who works there hardly speaks english and the service standard is extremly poor. It took me 1 and a half hour and 8 phone calls to wait for the room services people to bring me a pot of hot water for me to make my baby's milk because the hotel do not provide water cattle in the room. My advice to any other traveller who wants to go to this hotel do not go in april because all the facilities are not fully operational. The Italian and Turkish restraunt is excellent for dinner but the japanese restraunt is not really japanese so dont bother going there. We love having our dinners at the italian n turkish restraunt as those are the only places in the hotel that have very good waiters and chefs, not to mention excellent services. I was also disappointed with the hotel's business center because they cant print fax messages or print anything from the computer. To any one who wishes to have a good holiday please think twice before you book yourself for a vacation at Rixos.

Absolutely wonderful resort to stay for vacation, we loved every minute! Where should I start: luxorious, clean, friendly staff, huge (!!) variety of food and drinks in all the restaurants, lots of things to do, nice area etc. This was our first "ultra all inclusive" vacation and we loved it. The quality of food was excellent, different a la carte restaurants and a huge buffet restaurant to serve you each evening. If you are still hungry (which I highly doubt!), there is a night buffet at 24 - 02 each nights again with dozens of different types of food, and free room service from 2 am to 7 am each night. One really does not need to leave the resort at all, they even have a huge shopping area inside the hotel with at least 20 different brand stores. We were there the first week of April, which is the end of winter season, This meant that all things were not yet open and running based on the summer schedule. The outdoor pool was still empty, many restaurants and bars were still closed and the big aqua park was also closed. We heard that from May 1 to the mid-October everything is fully open. I would recommend going then, especially if you have children. The SpA (biggest in Turkey) was excellent, best SpA we have ever visited. We enjoyes three different massages (for those you have to pay separately), and the Bali massages were from heaven, amazingly good! The gym is big and light with huge windows, right at the SpA entrance so many people were training, like us as well. It was so amazingly wonderful to drink and eat whenever you want and whatever you want wihtout having to pay for it. And not just the basic beverages but a large variety of drinks and liqours are inclusive, Only well-known imported brands are not inclusive but can be bought. The guests were mainly from Turkey, Russia and Israel. Many of the staff said that they had never before seen any Finnish people in their entire life (!) so not so many Scandinavians in this hotel. We had not spent any vacation before with Russian, Israeli and Turkish people, but we found it different and exciting, not annoying. The only downside for me was the ability to smoke practically everywhere, which almost all the guests seem to do. I don't like to smell cigarettes everywhere you aer. There are non-smoking dining rooms and non-smoking areas in the restaurants but still it was a bit annoying. We will definitely go back to Rixos Premium, and will go during the Summer Season to be able to enjoy full programme and services. Our hearts were left there - thank you to all of the staff!

Me and my husband stayed at Rixos Hotel Premium for two weeks i august. We can really recommed this hotel. The pool area was so very big that the pool was never crowded no matter how many people were in it, and the water was very warm. It was just lovely to be able to get right into the pool and the water wasn´t cold at all. The sea was also very warm and the beach very large. We thougt that there were more little stones rolling under the feet when going into the water than the other hotels had. There was also seaweeds floating up on the beach. Cornelia for example has a much better and softer sandbeach(but it is much smaller). Maybe Rixos hadn´t had enough time to clean up the sand because the hotel was so new. Maybe it has been done by now. There was always lots of things to do for those who wanted and a big club for children with their own playground and even a special restaurant with the kind of food children usually like. There was also the Troy Aqua park that was really fun but very crowded. The All-Inclusive package really included a lot. We could eat at all restaurants as often as we wanted and there were tables available, and almost everything was included. There were a few things that costed a little extra, but we didn´t even feel a need to try them since there was not enough time to try everything that was free. The food was really good. We liked the Italian, French and Russian restaurants most. Almost all alcohol was free and the house wine. There are so many bars that we haven´t even tried them all. We LOVED the "Patisserie". The pasties were so incredibly lovely that I gained weight after eating loths of them every day. The evening entertainment was very good so we really enjoyed ourselves. Great shows and very good music and dance parties. The hotel is very luxurious and the only thing we missed was a normal door to the bathroom. It was just a glass-door so it was possible to see, hear and smell what was going on in there. If you wonder what to wear I would recommend you to bring quite nice clothes. People mostly did dress nice for dinner which is something we also appreciate. There were also many short skirts and dresses. There were many good shops at the hotel, but we found them very expensive. Most of the guests were russians. One of the friendliest members of the staff worked in guest relations desk and we think his name was Ugur. We had a wonderful stay at this hotel and would recommend it to anyone.

Fantastic hotel, I was part of a party of 16, inc 9 golfers and 7 x 18 year olds, everyone enjoyed the hotel. Plenty to do during the day and in evening. The hotel has one of the best spa's I have ever seen, something all english spa's should take a look at! The outdoor pool is huge, a bit cold, but it was 26 deg outside, so a bit of a temp difference. There is an on site water park - called Troy, which is free to hotel guests and is great fun. A great place to relax and unwind. The waiters are all friendly, helpful and good entertainment. The hotel has hardly any Brits, mainly Dutch, German and plenty of Russians guests. It's one of the few places I would go back to, it's certainly a 5* plus experience.

Just returned from a weeks holiday at Rixos Hotel which was one of the best hotels Ive stayed at, certainly 5*. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful all the time. If you are reading this because your going or thinking of going, you will not be disappointed. The food was plentliful with a choice of 7 different restraurants (although make sure you book early as some of these were fully booked when we tried and the hotel was only half full) The hotel has its own beach which has golden sand and spotlessly clean with clear turqoiuse water where the fish swim in abundance (wish I,d taken snokelling gear) The hotel also has its own little jettys with thick cushioned sun beds. Loads of activities going on which you are not hassled to get invloved with like some holidays. On a negative note (although hard to say anything negative) because it was getting towards end of season, the hotel was only half full which meant there was not much atmoshere especially in the eveings. Also some of the activities were cancelled due to lack of participation I presume. The hotel gustes were mainly European (German) with few English holiday makers, although that was not a problem for us. The fashion police made several arrests!! (if you get my drift). I plan of definately going back next year but will book slightly earlier in the season.