L Ambiance Resort Hotel

L'Ambiance is a loverly place to stay if you are 70 -100 years old ! The accomidation is basic but it's only to sleep in, the facilities are fairly non -existent, 1 bar ,little entertainment except the cross dressed belly dancer(got to be a bloke!). The food was very repeatative with the same menu most days. My wife didn't eat meat for the week we stayed. Being all-inclusive you would expect that the hotel could cope with the needs of the quests.Clearly it could not. Other Brits said on at least 3 occasions during their 2 week stay they ran out of whiskey.They ran out of vodka on my penulimate night. The staff tried their best but even they were demorilised and looking for other jobs. Don't bother with the 'a la carte' its not worth the wait ,more 'a la plate' if you go get as far away from the barbeque as possible or you will be smoked too. Forget the prize draw.For 10 euros you can have a ticket to win gold and silver jewellery. Every body seemed to win. The catch is you have to go to a specific store in Bodmin to collect your prize.Get the drift! what ever it's foble's all we wanted was a bed , sun . booze and a laugh and I can't complain wegot them.

The Lambiance was not our first or second choice resort. Unfortunately, everything else was sold out, except for the Lambiance, and for good reason. I should have paid more attention to Trip Advisor's recommendations.The resort is rated as a 4 star resort, but, I would not rate it more than 2.5 stars. For most of iut stay (4 days), there was no hot water - luke warm at best. The rooms were of a 2 star hotel. There was little choice in food for breakfast and dinner. For dinner, my family of 5 would usually go for a walk and have a snack on the way. The swimming pool was nice and well taken care of. I learned to book trips muck longer in advance. For the amount of money that we paid, I would have expected a much better resort.

We were on a tight budget and was trying to spend as little as possible, so searched the internet and found this hotel, it said it was 5* all inclusive for 520 quid, bargain we thought! We read the reviews and new not to expect anything amazing for such a bargain price! To be honest i was suprised i really thought it was going to be absolutely awful, but infact we had a good holiday, the weather in the first week of october its was an average of 28c-30c all week, when we arrived it was 5am, they gave us some sandwiches as breakfast wasnt open, we got given a twin room we asked and they moved us to a double, the rooms were clean little old but liveable, we were only there to sleep and change! The bathroom though was disgusting that was the only thing that i really hated it was GRIM. The free booze was watered down, but in that heat we drank fizzy or soft drinks all day, the food was varied turkeys dishes, but cause we saved on the price of the holiday we had more spends, and ate out most nights. Gumbet is a short walk down a hill, once you done it once it was easy to do again, and bodrum was not far either. The trip to pamakule was a nightmare most of the day was spent in the bus, it was to far for a day trip. the pool was lovely and clean and nice especially when your roasting. I wouldnt choose to go there again, but if i was desperate and only had minium to spend on a hol, then i would! Our holiday was made good as we met a lovely couple who we spent most of our evenings with. they had entertainment on 2 nights of the 7 we were there. The guys behind the bar were friendly.

When we arrived at the hotel we were a little disappointed. We were not sure what to do with ourselves and there was no entertainment so we spent the evening in the reception as the weather was rainy and stormy. The rooms were basic but 'doable'. The shower did not have 'hot' water as we know it but if you were quick you came out feeling clean and 'refreshed'! The restaurant service was excellent and the waiters were darlings! Very courteous and helpful. The food was a bit repetative but there was always something to choose from and we didn't go hungry. The deserts were great. The entertainment was only on two nights of our stay and this included Turkish Night which involved Turkish dancers, breakdancers and a belly dancer. This show was excellent. The other entertainment night involved bingo and a 'snake man'! Ok if you like snakes and Prince (the singer). He looked remarkably like him! The reception staff were always very polite and helpful. They spoke good english. The bar staff were also very courteous and helpful and we spent many a night talking with them and struggling to understand each other! Very funny. The trips we booked were fantastic. We had a full day all inclusive boat trip, a turkish bath, a trip to Turgutreis market and a good night out in Gumbet eg. entertainment and karaoke bar. We went into Bodrum one day and had a lovely Turkish lunch eg. kebabs. We spent a couple of days relaxing by the pool and that was very pleasant. Overall our visit to this resort was very good. We had a thoroughly enjoyable stay. My husband and I had travelled with our teenage daughter and her friend and we were all made very welcome. We will certainly be going back.

Arriving at this hotel early on a Saturday morning it was easy to believe that there was indeed an "ambiance" about the place. The blocks of rooms were very nicely laid out in gardens abundant with various flowering flora. Then we entered our room. The only way to describe it was dirty and dilapidated. The main light on the ceiling hung by only two thin wires and was in grave danger of falling off altogether. The shower was covered in black mould, the bedspread was dirty and the decor had seen better days. The mini bar was empty of even a bottle of water - not what you expect from what was offered as a "five star all-inclusive holiday". The next day we ventured out hoping that things would look better after a few hours sleep- how disappointed we were. The hotel is overrun with cats - the restaurant included! The bottom of the swimming pool was littered with empty cigarette packets and "other" debris and the wooden "decking” is in very bad need of replacement - there are rusty screws and nails sticking out, pieces of wood missing and other bits jutting out just waiting to trip the unwary sunbather. The restaurant chairs were covered in muddy paw prints from the cats, the plates and cutlery are filthy and there is a general air about the place, the staff included, of dejection, decay and general slovenliness. The food served each night was both repetitive and unimaginative - chicken every night except one! - and was often a reconstitution of the previous evenings meal just renamed! There are not two a la carte restaurants as claimed. In fact there is not even one. If you book - and pay extra for - an a la carte menu then they simply put a reserved notice on one of the tables in the normal restaurant. One evening they actually reserved all of the tables in the restaurant for this purpose and, if you did not have a reservation, you had to sit outside in a marquee type construction with the smokers - of which we are not - and where, after a day of rain, the floors where in deep puddle. All very well except for the fact that only about two tables in the restaurant were actually occupied as a la carte!. We did not eat that night as we were too upset at being treated like this. Again, not what you would expect from a five star all-inclusive holiday!. At no point during our stay did the water temperature go above "tepid" in the rooms and to fill the hand basin we had to use the shower head stretched across the room as the water was so slow to run out of the taps. Complaining to the staff at the hotel proved to be a complete waste of time as they did nothing about any of the above. They could not move us as there were no other rooms available. From day two of our holiday all we wanted to do was come home and we will never visit Bodrum again. We have had several holidays in Turkey previously and have had wonderful times but this time it was so appalling that we would NEVER recommend any one to stay there and felt that we had to warn people of how bad it actually is. I have visited the hotels website and can honestly say that I do not recognise the place from either it's description or most of the photos as being the place where we actually stayed. I can only think that the information and photos are from when the hotel was first opened some years ago. In our opinion this hotel would struggle to obtain 2 stars and is not, nor ever will be, worthy of a 4 or 5 star rating.

rite........... we arrived in bodrum and the taxi man after taking us all round the resort droped us off. the drive was a scary experence as they dont keep to the lanes or even the right side of the road!!! so, we arrived and unpacked. on first inpressions it was very nice and rooms were big enougth. only two problems the shower water was only warm around 4pm evey day and the toliet was leaking slightly. for breakfast there were eggs, eggs and well more eggs!!! or cerel. dinner there were left overs from the night before or there was a burger bar which did chips turkish pizza and burgers!! (very nice) for tea there were all kinda wierd and wounderfull things to try. and there was a baraque eveynight. the pool was stunning and the bar was always full of drinks. the salon was great my boyfriend has a turkish shave and i had my nails done! also, at the hotel there were two nice young men that asked us to go on a photo shoot so we did they took us down to the beach and took around 300 photos and then we choose ten to keep for around 80ylt. we, also found the greatest place on the earth kenny's bar brilliant fun love all the guys there helped us out so much.food was brilliant and you can even get english food if you miss home! we had a turkish bath and massage wow brill!!! oh and on the down side i ended up in hosptial for 4 days because of something i had eaten so be careful and dont even have ice in your drinks. overall brill holiday we going back next june!

This resort is in a good location. It is a five minute walk from the bar strip in gumbet and a 5 min bus ride into Bodrum itself. The staff are mainly polite and helpful, especially the bar manager, Joseph and the room attendant we had. If you are polite to them, they are polite to you. Other reviews say that Gumbet is like Blackpool Pleasure beach but great weather and a great beach. This is true. If you're out for a classy night out - it's not for you. The resort pool is fab. It looks beautiful in the night. The whole resort is set next to a historical site which is really interesting and a great photo opportunity. During our stay, there was a professional photographer offering to take couples/families to the beach free of charge with an excellent rate on any photo's you're interested in. We saw the Turkish night and it was brilliant fun. There were mainly couples and groups of visitors. There was only one family during our stay. The food is a bit boring. This was our first all inclusive holiday and we've decided we wouldn't go all inc again as it was so cheap to eat out and you can have what you want, when you want. I have to say that they were serving snacks throughout the day so you would never go hungry.(all incl. drinks served up until 1am) The rooms are very basic but again, it's what you pay for. On our first night, the room attendant put flowers on the bed which was a lovely suprise. We had read all the reviews before our departure and just went with an open mind. We both had a great holiday and agreed that if we visited Turkey again, we would stay for 2 weeks as it took us a week to get used to the diet. The tips I'd have to give include: Take a plug in mosquito repellant for your room & spray repellant for the evening, Take an iron - the hotel charges for laundry service and doesn't provide an iron. take immodium plus & constipation relief as you will most probably suffer in one way or the other whilst there!! Take British 10 pound notes to spend at the market. You will get a better deal. good places to go: liquid bar, kenny's bar, red dragon, the golden spoon, Go on the 5 bay boat trip, Book a turkish bath through the hotel/a hotel. get a taxi from/to the airport. Its £30 each way - cheaper than a transfer. Hope you have a fab time if you've booked a room here!

This Hotel can only be described as a 2 star hideaway. It was probably a nice place when Thompsons were using it. The rooms and the resort is run down and there is no attention to detail for running repairs IE the sunbeds are damaged ,the wheels fall off . There are some really dubious stains on the covers. The food was acceptable although repetative. My main concerns were the shop prices 4x as much as outside. There was a problem with language and as such quite a few misunderstandings. The final straw was that on the day of departure the all inclusive stops at 12 and if you wish to eat it will cost you £18.00 per head no exceptions. All in all a low class budget resort which will over the next few years fall by the wayside

We stayed here from 22nd July until 5th August after chaging ourselves from the Regal. During the first week we felt we were the only English couple here. Plenty of Belgium, Dutch and Germans. It took a week before the bar staff gave a smile and started to acknowledge we were there as it was taking an eternity to get drinks. The first day we arrived we ordered a beer, what we got was a warm shandy tasting drink from a plastic bottle. It was disgusting. So gin for the rest of the week. The food was same over and over so out of the 2weeks there we moght of satyed for dinner about 3 times, the rest of the time was a Dolmus trip to Gumbet and or Bodrum. The air con was blowing warmish air and the broken fridge was also adding warm air to the room. At one pint we got dressed and took a stroll to McDonalds (24hour) to cool down with a Mcflurry and brilliant A/C. It was onlt during our seconf week we met a couple from Manchester and that was great to have someone to chat to at the bar. Thanks Darren and Margret. Oh, and sunbathing, forget it, unless you get up very early so you will be much better going to the beach at Gumbet and having a free bed there. Would I go her again. NO.

Well, where do i begin... On arrival, at 4am, they decided to tell us our room was over booked and we had to stay at the hotel next door - Boutique and Spa Bodrium (Fantastic). We then transfered to our room at 2pm the next day, and if you are expecting a 5 star as stated, then you will be extremly disapointed to say the least. The surrounds of the hotel are really nice, but a constant smell of sewerage drifting past at intervals was worrying!!! The rooms are very small, and not of a 5 star standard. They are full of black fly and mosquitos - and we have at least 17 bites to prove it, just like everyone else in the hotel. The food, well, if you like boiled chicken and rice, and then more boiled chicken and rice, and for a change, boiled chicken and rice then you will have a fab time, but we didnt rate the food at all. We lived off 3 minute or 5 minute eggs in a morning!!! and salad and bread for our tea - There was a snack bar that did burgers and chips at lunch time, but every day becomes a joke. The drinks are poor also, if you like non alcholic drinks then you will be fine, as this is what they seemed to be. We sat at the bar from 7pm until 1am and drank vodka, beer and wine and were still sober when we went to bed - We went into Bodrum and Gumbet a couple of nights, and felt drunk on a couple of bottles it was that bad. The staff are friendly, and will do anything for you - But dont leave your towels on your bed for one second, not even to get a drink cause they will be gone by the time you get back, and this is only if you manage to get a bed in the first place - Getting up at 7am on holiday to get a sunbed round the pool is not my idea of a rest!!! Dont expect daily maid service, but the reception are quick at fetching toilet rolls and fresh towels to your room if you phone them. A couple of times the cleaner knocked on our door at 630pm to clean our room - which we told him not to bother, as at this time we are getting ready to go out for our evening meal at the hotel, so a maid cleaning the room while you are getting ready is the last thing you need. You do need to be down for your meals the moment the restaurant opens or you will have alot of trouble finding a table to sit to eat. Overall, definatly nowhere near a 5star, a ok 3 star and thats been generous. Weather was possibly the only good thing about it to be honest.