Grand Viking Hotel

On arrival at the hotel the first thing that hits you is the cleanliness. The hotel is extremely clean, very well upkept and maintained to a high standard. There is a transfer minbus provided free from the hotel to the beach and centre at nearly every hour! Well thats the good bit over with !! FOOD - good if u like salad for EVERY MEAL ! Salad for breakfast, Salad for lunch, Salad for dinner ! Oh at breakfast u did get boiled eggs, toast, disgusting sausage, burnt cereals or yogurt too. Lunch, usually salad and hot pasta with 1 other hot plate item, and hot veg .... Dinner - Again SALAD, with 3 hot plate items and veg........ SOUPS ?? -- tasteless unless u dosed with half a pot of pepper. 1 Saving grace here - Turkish night, Chicken Kebab, Chips, pancakes, fresh fruit stations and finally the most delicious BAKED ALASKA. ENTERTAINMENT - anything you would expect abroad - 3rd rate entertainers trying their best ....... although there is one decent member of staff who would try to entertain guests in the pool with ball games etc like water polo, water basketball etc. PARASOLS - Dont get one !! extremeley dangerous - although there were always sunloungers available by the pool, the parasols were not very well secured. During the afternoons, the wind could get quite breezy - and its only breezy not a hurricane. At this time of day you would see parasols flying thru the air and one missed my girlfriend by a matter of two inches, the metal spike rooting itself in the plastic of her sunlounger. BEACH - Easily accessible by the minibus. Jump on outside the hotel and 5 mins later you were there. Although the prices on the beach were extortionate! £8 for a vodka and coke. £50 for 4 pizza and drinks. CENTRE - centre has all sorts of interesting attractions - the best for the english being BURGER KING ! Shops are NOT CHEAP. They tell you its cheaper than asda then try to charge you £50 for two jokey tshirts - NOT CHEAP ! HERO TOURS/HASEL TOURS - we booked with these nice people in the centre of Kemer. Turkish bath and Boat trip for 4 people £70 all in. Extremely cheap. (Considering our hotel wanted £20 each for just a bath) Turkish bath - collected at the correct time, taken round the bath and spent a pleasurable 2 hours there - missus had a face mask too at £5 extra and says its well worth it. Boat trip, collected a little late, but set off at 10am and arrived back to dock at 5pm. 3 stops and swimming available at all stops, lunch included, again drinks quite expensive though so take water. ICE CREAMS - Ice creams in hotel worked out at around £2.50 for a cornetto - not the cheapest. COCKTAILS - Cocktails worked out around £5 each, but were not very nice, Pina Colada curdled before our eyes !!! YUK Pounds sterling does not seem to be the currency required here anymore. I would recommend if you go here to takes EUROS, the hotels prices are all in EUROS, the shops in KEMER want EUROS, even the Bazaar at Goynuk prefer EUROS..... although have a few lira handy and prepare for a good old fashioned barter. Overall it was a good holiday - but only because we had decided it was going to be good, not down to anything this hotel really offered on top. LOTS OF GERMANS AND RUSSIANS IN THIS HOTEL AND THEY DO LIKE TO PUSH TO THE FRONT OF THE QUEUE WHEN WAITING FOR THE BUS OR DINNER - DONT FEEL RUDE JUST PUSH BACK !!!!

Hotel nice and clean,Staff all pretty good too.Shame the food was so poor.Continental breakfast with salard,Lunch salard with slop,Dinner salard with slop but the GERMANS,DUTCH,and RUSSIANS,seamed to like it.If you are from the UK its a good hotel but you will EAT OUT every night which is not cheep now.

Having just returned from Turkey I was shocked to read reports on this web site that this hotel was being rated as very good! I must have been dreaming because the hotel I stayed at does not resemble the comments I have just read. The rooms are clean, the shower was warm but does have broken tiles and you would need a step ladder to the toilet (children would not be able to get on and off alone) I am a 5'7" female and my feet could not reach the floor. The staff had very limited English. Music was played at the pool to a volume that would suit an 18-30's hotel rather than a family orientated one. I could not hear the music I was trying to listen to on my ipod even at full volume over the pool side music! This would continue until the early hours of the morning even if there was only a few people at the bar. The usual fiasco takes place in the mornings regarding obtaining a sunbed. So people were actually placing towels on sunbeds in the night after about 1am, before they went to bed. Some sunbeds were still available by morning but you would need to be up and placing towels onto sunbeds by around 7.30am. There is loads of room around the pool, just not enough sunbeds! Where do I start with the food! Oh my god, it is not good, do not believe what you have already read! These people have obviously not been to other hotels in Turkey (I have and have never had such a limited choice). The head chef (sorry executive chef) seemed to be very proud of the food on offer (staff training and a few visits to other hotels in the Antalya area required). The food would consist of a salad bar, more salad bar, and more salad bar! There were 4 trays of hot food which would consist of: two dishes, a chicken stew, squares of reconstituted kebab/meat in gravy , with rice, cous cous or potato as an accompanyment. We used to laugh when the lights were switched on in the restaurant as this usually started a stampeed as once some of the food ran out it was not replenished. Kids food almost non existant. We were all inclusive but ate out most evenings in Kemer. Drinks at the hotel bar are limited, VERY limited. The only spirits available were vodka, bacardi and raki. There is only one bar open, the pool bar, therefore if you were sitting indoors or in the restaurant you had to make your way outside and around the pool on a very sippery tiled floor to get to the bar. A good tip dont play bingo (which they charge you for) as the prize is a boat trip for ONE! We also had trouble with the transfer back to the airport, the hotel said they did not receive a fax from the operator who said they had sent one and have had this problem with the hotel before.(so did not find out what or if we were being picked up until 1 hour before the bus arrived. My rating of this hotel is therefore poor to average only. I would never go back to this hotel and would not recommend it to anyone. I am just thankful I have visited Turkey many times as I would have been put off ever visiting again after my experience at the Grand Viking.

Not really much to say, Hotel was superb. Basic but clean, Showers hot, Rooms individually air conditioned, so could be very cold if needed. Pool superb and very warm. Pool Bar serving local drinks limited, but service was always there. evening entertainment was limited to 3 nights a week. Kemer itself is prediminantly a Russian holiday resourt. if you go in season, expect 500,000 plus Russians and eastern europeans to be there. out of season, the population drops to less than 30,000 !!!. Beach is pebbles, and about 900meters walk. If you want a quiet hotel, that is clean and child friendly with no frills... then, with a 18 month old, we found this to be excellent.

Wasn't sure what to expect about this place after reading some reviews, but as soon as we walked in the door we where made to feel welcome. Our cases where taken to our rooms and when we got there they where very pleasent with a terrific view over the swimming pool. We settled in and then went for our evening meal. The food in the hotel is fresh every meal and was quite good, but you must bear in mind that english type food is not on the menu, it's nearly all turkish with a couple of exceptions so if you are not prepared to try things, don't go. There is nothing for young fussy eating children but we where told that 1/2 an hour before they serve adults meals, they set up some childrens food in the play area for them. This usually consists of things like chicken nuggets chips etc for them to eat. If your a McDonalds fan, there is a cracking Burgerking in the centre close to the sea front and the prices are very reasonable. Other facilities in the hotel are quite good but you do have to pay for the Turkish Bath which cost about £18 for 1 1/2 hours. the only problem we met where with the russians who where very arrogant and rude. If you see a packet of tabs on the table and the knives and forks are crossed, this means that they have reserved it and you have to find somewhere else. We nearly come to blows with one guy, but fortunately for him, the staff sorted everything out for us. If you want a sunbed, don't forget to do the German thing and get your towels on them, though there appeared to be plenty to go round, if not always where you wanted one. The hotel is on the outskirts of the town but quite close to the centre, about 15-20 mins walk but a taxi will cost about £2-50 if you miss the free bus from the hotel.

Me with my boyfriend stayed in hotel Viking Star Kemer this year 02-13 May. The hotel is really nice and new,with spacious rooms and nice lobby area. Of course it is quite difficult to say that the hotel is 5 star hotel, I would better say 4 plus star hotel,because the hotel area is not so big. We loved that the hotel is located just few steps from city center. Regarding the goods selection-I really loved it,because the choice was great. The hotel is perfect for families,because there are many activities for children as well as for adults. We were really very satisfied with the hotel and its services, would recommend it also to others!

The hotel was new and quite nice. Rooms were spacious, the bathrooms were ok, but for a new hotel there were too many broken tiles and thing in the rooms. The rooms were really clean. The staff was very friendly, although their english is quite poor. The pool was nice, it has a nice bar. The food was not so good because it was pretty much the same every day, just some slight variations. There was a buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner and after three days we realize dthat they have been using the food from the meal before for something new, but it tasted the same. Nevertheless, we cfound something for ourselves. The location was not that great since it's not near the beach or the center . They do have a free shuttle so it's not so bad. Overall experience was good.

I travelled with my fiance in June. We arrived at the hotel to be told that there was no booking, and the fault was with the travel agents. We were not the only guests who were told this. The agents have said that the hotel was double booked, I am more inclined to believe them. We had to stay 4 nights at a different hotel but walk back for meals and drinks! Also the guest relations man was not too helpful. The rest of the staff we found to be lovely. The hotel itself is clean, and the food was good most days, the days it wasn't was more due to personal taste. The snacks between meals are the same everyday - pancake with either potato or a turkish cheese filling, the hotel really needs to improve the selection. The area is very beautiful, but the beach is all shingle. It is also divided into sections for each hotel. Do not believe the reports that the beach is close to the hotel, it is a good half hour walk, and I tend to walk quickly! There is a shuttle service provided by the hotel. Also need to be aware that the area is only just gettting used to English. All prices tend to be in Euro rather than YTL.

it was fantastic serivice, great food nightlife and cleanliness... we stayed july and enjoyed it so much we went back in october... the only problem being that there are a hell of a lot of germans in this part of turkey!!

The hotel Grand Viking is a new hotel that is bright and airy. It is kept spotlessly clean and the staff are polite and helpful, although clearly English is sometimes very limited .The pools are clean and clear and were well used with a water slide for the children. I saw the water being tested whilst I was there and the staff appeared proud of the hotel. Children had a small play area and 1 table tennis table, staff were child friendly. The rooms were pleasant and very clean and had a television but only two channels were in English one being news.Air conditioning was personally controlled and worked well as did the shower . The water was heated by solar panels on the roof so was hotter later on although it was always warm enough for a shower in the morning and there was good water pressure. The hotel has no organised day entertainment, and only 3 nights per week in the evening so would suit those who like quieter holidays or who like to go into town. The fire eater and Turkish nights were good. Kemer can be reached by a regular hotel bus service in the day but a taxi is only £1.75. The food was tasty and fresh but the hot meals were mostly based on chicken in a turkish style with potatos, rice,cous cous, lentils etc Fresh bread,fruit,cheese,salads, herbs cakes etc were always available. There was always plenty.There was a wide range of guests from all over the world including Turkish people themselves,English guests were a small minority. There were no chips, burgers or hotdogs if you want them there is a Burger King in Kemer. Drinks were mainly beer, gin, vodka and Raki and the barman sometimes struggled to understand.There was no whisky at all and also no drunks or bad behaviour and if you want them please go elsewhere and keep a place where English people can still feel like we dont have to apologise for being on holiday. I highly recommend this hotel and was impressed having witnessed a fellow english holiday maker with diabetes fall ill and the excellent standard of medical care he recieved and the support and kindness of the hotel staff who took his wife to and from the hospital and on his recovery made him special omlettes. I also liked the Turkish bath and massage, well worth the experience, you wear costimes/bikinis (20Euros extra cost).Take Euros or Turkish Lira, Kemer has several cash machines mostly giving lira. The beach is pebbly,(no good for sandcastles wear shoes) but the sea was very clean and clear with good watersports. Book trips in Kemer they are good value 3 hrs quad biking with lift to and from hotel £12. The only reason I didnt give 10 out of 10 was too much chicken at meals.