Alanya Lighthouse

Amazing service, and great facilities.

My experience at this hotel was okay! Lovely gardens and exceptional staff! Animation team is fab! I did however have a misunderstanding with a manager. Unfortunately for us, the hotel refuses to babysit kids under 2. I asked them to advise me how to get a reliable babysitter and they refused also. Logically, I went ahead to find babysitters in the area using a trustworthy source of course, but when she came they said they don’t allow this. So we had to pay her and send her away. My problem was how the manager handled the situation. He sat me down and made some condescending comments which I cannot ignore. Saying how he doesn’t understand how as a mum I could be comfortable leaving my child with a stranger “I just met on the internet”, interrogated both me and the babysitter about how we found each other and was judgemental even though this is a common thing that people do worldwide! It reminded me of being reprimanded at school, very strict, frowning and he kept instructing me to “respect the rules”, he really should have spoken to me in a gentle way. Without the babysitter we couldn’t enjoy the trip in the same way that we planned but it we made the most of it. Manager tried hard to resolve things and gave us good service for the rest of the trip. He offered for the babysitter to come back but to charge us an extortionate amount as if she’d be a hotel guest so not worth it. She was going to just sit while baby sleeps so we can enjoy dinner and disco hours but we couldn’t…

The hotel is in a great location if you want to play golf and has plenty of sun beds by the beach and pool so it was never an issue. The restaurant by the beach was good for lunch and the a la carte restaurants were good value.