Hotel Pelin

My first time to Turkey, on arrival at the Pelin hotel I was little worried due to the flashing sign. (looks quite tacky) but great hotel. Not far from the beach. the road you need to cross is fine, there is a pedestrian crossing 10yrds up the road. Hotel. Clean, little expensive for beer 3.5TL for 30cl bottle effes. 1.5l water 1.5TL (0.70 outside) Beware when leaving as we were checking out at 02:30 on the tues (also arrived 3am on Tues) but apparently we needed to checkout at 12pm Mon. Paid 60 TL (£25) to keep the room. (this was not optional as no one told us, just added to the bill). sign in reception says 150TL per double room per night so not too bad to keep the room for 60TL if need be. No problems with the drink/food card you receive, ie no drinks added that were not mine etc. If you want to spend the day at the pool make sure your towels are out before 8am. This is when the pool opens but many of the sunbeds have gone. (some before 7am). On occasion towels left overnight on the best ones. When on the beach I suggest not paying for sun beds, move them and just use the umbrella which is 3.5TL for the day. If you have lunch or a drink in any of the restaurants you can borrow mattress for the sunbeds, just use these on beach this will save you 7TL per couple per day. Most travel brochures state mini fridge in room, this is rubbish you have to pay 50TL per week for this. You are not allowed to bring any food or drink but that did not stop anyone. see people with crates of fosters by the pool. GREAT HOLIDAY, GREAT LOCATION. See you next year.

The Pelin Hotel is lovely and clean, the rooms although quite small are spotless, the cleaning staff are in everyday changing towels and beds and are lovely people. The swimming pool is very large and lots of sunbeds and umberellas, the only downside is if you cant swim there is no shallow end and is quite deep. The pool bar area is spotless and serves lunch which was nice .The hotel runs a card system where you purchase everything much like a credit card then you have to go to reception and pay which we did every couple of days, this worked fine for us with two teenagers, they didnt have to come looking for money all the time, they just ordered what they needed on the card. The staff are all lovely from reception to waiters to bar staff, we found them all pleasant. The breakfast is typical turkish, eggs, nice crusty bread and butter, tea coffee, cheese tomatoes etc. The road outside which you have to cross to get to the beach and bars etc was a pain, it can be so busy at times but other than that the hotel is lovely.

The Pelin is a lovely hotel, the rooms are very clean, and linen changed daily. Stayed B&B the breakfast was lovely, good choice available. Drinks at the bar a bit on the dear side. There was a sign in the room saying no kettles or irons!! Bit cheeky I thought. The downside was the reception staff were very unhelpful. I asked to keep the room on and was told the hotel was full. I asked for a courtesy room and was told I could take a shower by the pool. which in all my years of going to Turkey is not acceptable. I had to take a cold shower by the pool which was not at all private, and change in cabin which the door would not shut on. After leaving a letter for the hotel manager, got no response. Calis is a great place, best places to eat are Dawn Beach, owned by Echo. Sunset Restaurant, and for the best entertainment the meeting point. All the other restaurants are equally as good.

i stayed at this hotel at the end of the season where naturally many of its facilities were in winddown mode. no problems with the stafff or the room, thenhotel is advertised as being either on the beach or near the beach, depending to which website yoy visit, whereas in fact it is some 200/300 meters from the beach.

JUST returned from a brilliant holiday at thePelin Hotal .staff there were fantastic from reception staff to the waiters in the restaurant, food was very good , rooms quite nice my only complaint was the inconsiderate people who insisted on smoking in the restaurant whilst you were eating your meals . I feel that a seperate area should be allocated to these smokers ..You have to visit the Sat Beach Club whilst you are there it is beautifull always a nice breeze you dont have to pay for your sunbeds as long as you buy a drink the restaurant is lovely an good value for money. you must visit georges bar and restaurant very friendly staff and food is good to.

Booked with Travelrepublic - £280 for flight/hotelm then XL went bust and this hotel had been booked through Medlife. Contacted the guy I'd booked my hotel transfer with and he (transfers4u) rebooked the Pelin for me for £50/week (I received £30 back from MedlifeHotels). Hotel is clean, wouldn't recommend the restaurant particularly. It's a bit of a walk from the main strip but nothing arduous. Rooms are clean and comfortable. Safe deposit extra but a/c included. Staff were fine, though bored. Weather was very poor. Poolbar is great though limited in food available (may have been time of year). Calis Bay is very quiet compared to Icmeler or Marmaris, Fethiye was also quiet this time of year but a nice town to walk through and sit at the street cafes. Boat to Fethiye is good fun. Some good restaurants around. I did my PADI Open Water while there, the open water diving wasn't great, visibility poor and not much to see anyway, but the cave dives are supposed to be pretty special. Dive school was Diver's Delight - very good. Great bunch of people and good equipment. So ... Pelin - recommended - good value Calis - nothing to do. nothing. nada.

We have just returned from a ten day holiday at Hotel Pelin, which we would recommend. Everyone seemed to be having a good time and the atmosphere was cheerful and friendly. All the staff made us very welcome, and they shared a good sense of humour. Our stay was end of season and extremely good value for half board. Food was plentiful, fresh and offered a variety of traditional Turkish food plus more plain food for those with more conventional tastes. The buffet was very nicely presented. The pool was spotless and there were plenty of sunbeds - without towels on them! Rooms were fine and clean, with good showers. The location is very good if you like a bit of space around you. Calis beach was just across a road which separated Hotel Calis from the other hotels. Good for those with mobility problems as the area is flat, but there are beautiful views of the mountains all around. There is a long promonade on Calis Beach and the water is clean. Calis Beach offers the advantages of a small resort, but it was only 1.5 New Turkish lira (75 pence) for a short dolmus ride into Fethiye which is a larger town. The dolmuses cruise by about every five minutes and seem to pick you up wherever you stand along their route. The area also offers easy access to other places, for example OluDeniz and the Blue Lagoon are only about 45 minutes away and £5.00 return for an interesting day out. Ample cruises and tourist trips were around. A couple of words of warning : count your change and check your bills as a few times we were just a bit short changed or overcharged but we didn't go back to those places. We found the place a great 'holiday' type of holiday with a good mix of English speaking people and other nationalities.

I am a 45 female, travelling alone and stayed at this hotel for a week in July, it cost £316 H/B, including transfers, booked with sunshine.co.uk and would do again. Hotel was about 5 minute walk to Calis beach front where most of the restaurants are, absolutely fantastic to just sit eating your meal watching the beautiful sunsets, especially in The Terace. The hotel was immaculately clean, I had a double room to myself! It had a small balcony inc chairs and table, tv, small but very clean bathroom. You will need to take your own travel kettle if your like me and need a coffee first thing! Air con was that good I had to turn temp UP! And it was free. Maids are lovely and in typical Turkish style, arrange your towels on beds in butterfly shapes with flower petals, sweet! Breakfast was Turkish style, there wasn't a great deal of choice for evening meal, but I enjoyed it all the same. Waiters are very friendly (as are all staff here), without going over the top and go all out to make your stay an enjoyable one. I ordered a bottle of wine one night with my meal, only had 1 glass, they put my room No on it. The next night I went for tea, it was ready for me in an ice bucket with rose petals on the table, they saved this table for me all week! In summer months, you have your evening meal on the rooftop, very nice! Pool area is apacious, but a real sun trap in hotter months, no breeze at all.Some days I used pool and loungers at hotel opp beach, they don't mind, this as long as you buy a few drinks etc from there, you then get a lovely breeze! Beach is not brilliant, very shingly and not the cleanest of beaches, but I prefer the pool anyway.If you want to walk along the sea, do take a pair of those cheapy croc shoe things, as the tiny stones really hurt your feet and you sink into them! It's good to take the boat taxi over to Fethiye and watch the sunset, it's stunning. I went over one night and had my meal over there, cost of boat taxi, I think is 5TL ret. If you would like the best pedicure yuo have had, go to Hotel Gunes on beachfront, only cost 12TL, about £6, I paid £30 in UK the week before and was nowhere near as good! I would definateley reccommend this hotel! Oh, and forgot to mention the singing frogs! On way back to hotel at night, if you follow the canal road (adjacent to beachfront), there are really high reeds, there are 1000'sof frogs in here, they are so loud, it's really funny, I couldn't believe the noise they made, as if they really were singing! This was my 4th time in Calis, i'm sure you will return, it's such a laid back resort, I LOVE IT!!!

Just back from the Pelin Hotel and it was fab! The staff were really friendly, and our room was clean and decent size. The bathroom was small but perfectly formed with a decent shower. Our room over looked the pool, which was lovely, although the balcony was a little bit small - some of the other rooms had bigger balconies, but I'm totally nitpicking...No tea and coffee making facilities, but great air conditioning! Our flight home wasn't til night but we paid 40 lira to keep our room. If we hadn't, there would've been a courtesy room for us, and there was a place to leave our luggage. It's in a really quiet location - we didn't hear any noise at all in the time we were there - apart from when Turkey won the football! The pool was so nice - huge and there was hardly every anyone in it. There were always loads of sunbeds. The breakfasts were nice - lots of meat, cheese, bread and fruit as well as a few hot options. They also do freshly squeezed orange juice. We ate in the pool snack bar a couple of times - food was really tasty, and no more expensive than any of the other snack bars in the area. The only downside to the hotel was crossing the road to get to the beach, but even that wasn't too bad. It was a big road, but not particularly busy. However, we did have to climb over a raised step in the middle which I imagine would be a problem if you had a buggy or pram, but it wasn't an issue for us. I think there was another place to cross further up the road - we were just too lazy to find out ;) Calis Beach itself is a lovely resort, and there are loads of restuarants to choose from. The sunsets are stunning - I'd recommed a meal at Sat Beach Club at the end of the promenade for a meal - go earlyish and watch the sun setting - it's gorgeous! I would thouroughly recommend this hotel.

We stayed at the Pelin from the 14 June 2008 for 1 week. We arrived in the early hours of the morning and were greeted at reception and were promptly shown to our room. The room was very basic but was clean. The mattresses were hard and we only had one pillow each. The air con could have worked better – you needed to be directly underneath it to get any benefit. Breakfast was enjoyable. Fresh bread served with homemade jams of all varieties, fresh fruit, cereals, eggs, cold meats, cheeses, cucumber and olives! On certain days there was freshly made omelettes and pancakes which made a nice change. Very nice coffee too. The staff were all very friendly and welcoming. The hotel pool was very quiet and relaxing. We would get down there about 10am after breakfast and were normally the 1st down there. Not one sun bed reserved! We would only stay for a couple of hours but it was still quiet when we left. The hotel gives you a payment card to use while you stay at the hotel. The pool bar is more expensive than the bars down the promenade but it is still pretty reasonable. There is a restaurant on the top floor which is open of an evening but we never ate there. The Location was good. Just a short stroll to the beach and the promenade where all the bars and restaurants were situated. This walk does involve crossing a dual carriage way, although it is never very busy. The road is unmade in certain parts with a couple of huge steps so could be difficult for people with walking difficulties. I bought myself a pair of flat sandals from the market as I didn’t think I could manage the walk in heels of an evening! The dolmus will pick you up from the main road to get into Fethiye for 1.75 Lira. From Fethiye you can get the dolmus to other resorts such as, Olu deniz and Hisanaru. From Calis you can also get the water taxi for 4 Lira into Fethiye which is very scenic. There are plenty of places to eat in Calis and they are all very reasonably priced. The cheapest efes we found was at 2 Lira which is cheaper than you can buy it in the supermarkets! There are lots of excursions you can do from Calis and there are people along the promenade selling them. We did the jeep safari which was enjoyable. Haggle hard with the men and you can get a very good price.