Club Aramar

I read all the reviews and was a bit apprehensive about going to the Armar but once we got there we were pleasantly surprised. Rooms were fresh and clean and bathroom consisted of a bright marble sink and clean bath tub and shower. Our view was to the back of the hotel and a bit disappointing but this along with the food were the only downfalls.
Meals were buffet style with a wide selection of salads but were limited in terms of fussy eaters. There was however some type of snack available at the poolside (pizza).
The slides at the pool provided great entertainment for children and the kids pool was great but designed for very young children (only about a foot + 1/2 deep).
The poolside bar & restaurant that weren't in the all inclusive package were great and provided an excellent all day English breakfast (with proper meat) and were reasonably priced.
The staff at the Armar were exceptional! So friendly and polite and always had a smile especially for kids.
The Turkish bath on offer was great and I would definitely recommend it!
All-in-all I would definitely recommend the Armar.
As for Marmaris as a resort it was pleasant and definitely worth a visit. But if you’re a beach lover you will be disappointed, Marmaris beach is man made and is mainly pebble sand so the pool was definitely a better option.
The shopping was great and there are many bargains to be found but make sure to haggle with the locals as they do tend to hike up the prices.
Restaurants were great value for money and the food was faultless in most of the restaurants we ate in and the staff were always welcoming, however on the street they were always hassling you as you walked passed to eat in their restaurant.
Overall we had a great time in Marmaris and would recommend it!

What can I say - read the reviews below as all the negative reviews are a true representative of this appalling hotel. 4 Stars - what a joke I would struggle to give it 2 Stars. Please do not go!
We got a late deal off teletext on the Friday and flew on the Sunday. Pics on the website looked good and the reviews I had looked through didn't read too badly.
We arrived on the Sunday evening, complained on the Monday morning, and were moved to another fantastic 5 Star hotel (Grand Pasa Hotel) by 4pm on the Monday. So thankfully we did not have to stay in this awful hotel.
There was no welcoming atmosphere, the reception looked dated and worn, furnishings were brown/stained, and the fitness centre was an absolute joke, so too was the beauty treatments and Turkish bath of offer.
The food was the worst I have ever tasted in my life, as for variety well there was none at breakfast/lunch or dinner! The water out the cooler was luke warm and tea and coffee was terrible.
The rooms were ok but the carpets were stained, the bathrooms were adequate and clean, the fridge didn't work which was important for us as we had to keep babies bottles cold. Also no kettle in room to make babies bottles. We asked for a cot and this metal contraption appeared in our room with a wafer thin mattress that I did not want my baby to sleep on!
The only thing that was ok was the swimming pools, my kids loved the pools and they were ok, however the stairs leading to the flumes and slide want to be taken down and redone as they were very rickety and felt unsafe.
Please take my advice please do not book into this hotel even if you got it cheap!

Hotel was in a poor state of repair and not all facilities available.
The food was poorly presented, minimal variety and of a very low quality but thankfully there were local alternatives.
Bar options were very limited and the bar would close at 12.00 midnight.
Staff were friendly and helpful but hotel was a disappointing factor to the holiday although Marmaris itself was very enjoyable.

Let's start with the positives. Turkey is a wonderful place - very under-rated. It has had a couple of dreadful seasons due to a lack of visitors and many businesses have gone bankrupt as a result - PLEASE GO - it's an amazing place with diverse culture, people and attractions for everyone.
The Club Armar Hotel is in a great location - not too far to the beach (although Marmaris beach isn't great) and centre if you want to walk (15 - 20 minutes) or the buses are great value and even more reliable than our transport system!!
DO NOT stay fully inclusive at this hotel if you want great food and service. The food was dreadful and we only had breakfast!! The tea tasted like it had been stewed for days and the choice was minimal.
It was even worse for people who had to eat there all the time - luckily we could escape for lunch and dinner and have some real Turkish cuisine.
Also there are no tea and coffee making facilities in your rooms (take your travel kettles) and no irons (pack the travel irons too).
We stayed bed and breakfast and really should have stayed as a room only basis - the reviews are pretty accurate about the state of them. Our carpet was ripped - but then we were hardly in the room at all.
Our main issue was the noise. The hotel is like a giant amphitheatre - you can hear everything. The walls are paper thin and while we stayed children had discovered a great game called, "Running up and down the stairs of the hotel."
Clearly they were entitled to a holiday and a bit of fun, however at 1am when you have a 6:30 transfer to Ephesus the same morning - it gets slightly less amusing. This happened every day, and we did refrain from hiring a brass band at 7 am to return the favour!!
But seriously, if you want to get out and about, you won't get any sleep here at all and the trips all have relatively early starts.
Our only respite was on the Ephesus/Pamukkale tour where we did the 2 day deal instead of paying for 2 separate trips. It worked out as £2 more expensive - but it was so worth it.
We stayed in an AMAZING hotel in the mountains, had all our meals included (and of far superior quality), an incredible tour guide who knew everything about her country. She made the trip for us. Her name was Guler Aslan (Smiling Lion in English) and she worked for Yesil Dalayan Travel in April. If you get her on your excursions, you are in for a treat.
We would really recommend doing the two day package, not the separate trips, especially if you have children (we travelled 650km in 2 days); imagine doing this in one day and then repeating it again the following day.
Also be warned, very little is up and running in Turkey in April. It's a great time of year for seeing Ephesus and Pammukkule (Per-mick-cule-lay) as the weather is cool enough to walk around these places and there are minimal crowds, but if you're after sun, England was hotter than Turkey during our week away. Wait till later in the season.
Overall, we'd definitely go back. There were huge problems with Hotels4U (luckily we didn't experience most of them), but we were supposed to stay at the Grand Faros Hotel, but it was closed when we arrived (it doesn't open until May) and you'd think your tour company might know this before they booked you in!!
But Turkey and its people are fabulous. Marmaris offered lots to do and see. We just won't be using this hotel again, or this tour company.

Myself and my wife really enjoyed our time in MARMARIS.. We stayed for two weeks and loved it. Looking forward to go back this year. Resort is fab and got loads to offer ...
We have booked few extra things with www.marmarisrentals.co.uk to save some money on the way home, worked out just fine! Saves a lot of money and hassle.

After reading the review about this hotel, decided to risk our chances as we got a fairly reasonable deal off the internet.
Arrived at the hotel and am sorry to say that most of the reviews are right. There is no way this hotel is 4* it would struggle to meet 2*.
We booked a family room sleeping up to 6, there were 4 of us but we wanted the extra space.
When shown to our room however, there were 4 single beds jammed into the room with no room to walk either side or in between. The walls of the rooms were filthy and carpets coming up from the floor.
The pool area is horrific, 3 people fell within two days of us being there.
The staff are rude and ignorant. We were assigned a rep who was completely hopeless and when we complained (along with many others) she told us we could move hotels for a fee of £800.
The area of the hotel is quite good not too far from Marmaris centre.
We stayed All Inclusive and having travelled before we knew it was cheap enough to buy food anyways but anyone travelling expecting to eat at the hotel. Don’t bother! The food is the same every day and is always salad or pasta.
We love travelling to Turkey but certainly won’t be staying at Armar. Stayed 3 years ago at Club Excelsior which was completely a different story. Fantastic hotel, lovely staff good location.

What a joke 4*? I wouldn't even give it a rating the staff were arrogant and rude with the exception of two. The room's carpets were old and battered electricity sockets were unsafe to say the least.
Food was unbelievably poor everyday it was the same grey meat in a different sauce. In the end I was so fed up I just couldn’t wait for my coach to arrive. Be warned if your young blonde and female you will have the Turks all over you like limpets for your duration.
All in all it was the worst holiday of my life. I would have much rather spent a week in work!

Warning - avoid this hotel at all costs! If I could have rated it as 0, then I would have.
The hotel is advertised as a 4* but leaves much to be desired with shabby, filthy carpets which are frayed and a Health and Safety risk. The whole hotel could use a face-lift.
The food is bland, unappetizing, often cold and many of our party of 15 suffered diarrhea as a result. The drinks are so watered down that when we ordered a straight vodka and gin from the bar we could not tell which drink was which as they both just tasted of water.
One member of our party accidentally walked into a window surrounding the indoor pool, the glass cracked and he was extremely lucky not to have sustained an injury as a result. There were no safety stickers on the doors and windows surrounding the indoor pool to show the doors were closed. Surely safety glass should be essential in a pool area with children running around on wet floors? This hotel is an accident waiting to happen.
If you don't want the holiday from Hell - don't visit this hotel!

Well, where do I begin?! if that was a "slice of turkey" count me out, I have heard so many good and even excellent reports about turkey and thought as a last minute "bargain" the club Armar sounded wonderful and after a bit of a stressful year decided it was just what my partner and two babies needed to put us on for the winter. Never in my wildest dreams would our all inclusive 4* break be such a let down! We have all vowed not to return and certainly not eat chicken again for a long time.
We were offered chicken morning noon and night with very little variation on a daily basis, the alcohol was, in my mind, so weak I would question we were even given real alcohol, the room was shabby, the staff tried to make it enjoyable and would join in with friendly banter but the entertainment was practically non-existent and started at 10pm, too late for our little ones and out of boredom we were in bed at about that time!
The second day when we had found our feet we realised you had to be up at 4am to get your towel on the sun beds and decided to venture to Marmaris beach or should I say ashtray because that was exactly what would describe the sight we met, the beach was so dirty that I would let my little ones anywhere near it so be warned, please, please think very long and hard about a "holiday" to club Armar, next time I will be getting a real review from Holiday Watchdog and not just listening to the utter lies that the travel company wanted me to hear, to spend hard earned cash in a fleapit, if you have just booked, god help you!

Please read all comments/views for this hotel before you book! I arrived back this morning 5/9/06.
On arrival to the hotel, we were extremely tired as our flight was delayed over 3 hours and our rooms were not ready! We were asked to go and have breakfast when all we wanted to do was sleep for a couple of hours due to the night flight. It makes me wonder what would they have done if our flight was on time?
Eventually my husband, 3 year old and I were taken to our room, my friend’s room was still not ready and she had to come with us. The room was shabby with torn curtains, crinkled carpets which was a health & safety risk not just in the rooms but hallways too, and the linen looked grubby.
A bloody plaster was left in one of the wardrobes which obviously hadn't even been cleaned out. An hour later my friend was given her room! We asked to change rooms later that day, they said we could change tomorrow (it never happened). The Hotel pictures looked quite nice but once you are there, it is a different picture. Everywhere we seemed to go, somebody was complaining! This is certainly not a 4 star hotel.
There is a picture on the Club Armar website of a children's pool with what looks like a tall mushroom waterfall type statue, it doesn't even exist! The main pool at the back of the hotel is a fair size with an extremely small section for children. The indoor pool is nice if you want somewhere quiet but the bar there isn't open. The waterslides are advertised as part of the hotel but you can't take any food or drink from the hotel in to this area, you can only eat and drink food purchased from the bar/restaurant which you have to pay for.
They call this an All Inclusive, it is not. I spoke to the Rep who said in Turkey they have different All Inclusive bands, Gold, Silver and Bronze, this is Bronze. Food was appalling, no choice and wait for it, Chicken every night! We ended up eating out most breakfast and evening meals, didn't bother eating at lunchtime.
Music which was being played by the waterslides on occasions were inappropriate for children with a Yogi Bear song with explicit words and the "Fat B*****d" song. Children were then repeating some of the words and obviously getting told off for saying them, which really wasn't their fault.
The towels and linen were not changed all week. We asked to keep the room on until 10pm as we were not being collected to return to the airport until 11.30pm. They told us to check on the morning we were leaving so nothing was concrete. They asked for 45 lira and I commented they already owed us 6 hours anyway. The rep sorted this out for us and many other couples and families so we could keep our rooms.
Thankfully my friend and I didn't have to pay any extra for the room. On the positive side, yes there are a couple believe it or not! The staff were friendly and polite and the jewellery shop in the resort was great, I got a fantastic ring made to my budget!
Please consider before booking, the Rep did have quite a pile of complaints so hopefully the hotel might make changes that obviously are required.