Re: Samira Hotel and Apartments 2013

[michelle from newcastle]

Michelle, all building work in Kalkan has to be finished before to season starts at the beginning of May so don't be worried about building noise.

ohh  thats fab news thanks x

[Sandancer]

I posted this a few days ago and I have now remembered that the restaurant is the Kosk. We had some very good meals there. 

Last year they were offering a half board option for £15 pp per nt which included breakfast and dinner at the restaurant just down the hill which is owned by them. Can't remember the name even though we did do the HB option, you have to do a minimum of 3 nights. If you have anymore specific questions I will be happy to help if I can. 

[Charlie]

And Kosk has also had a big refurb over the winter and looks fabulous.  Look forward to eating there this year.

[Sandancer]

Well, we thought Kosk was pretty smart last year. Can't wait to try it again.

[Charlie]

Sandancer not sure if the restaurant itself is having much work done, as you say it is already a very pretty restaurant, but the whole outside of the building, the little shops underneath and the steps that take you down to the next level have all been redone.  Looks very smart.  Will try and find out what is going in the lower level. 

[Sandancer]

Whilst visiting a friends house regularly over the past few weeks I have seen the digging out and building of the new pool.Its right on the far side of their plot,next to Truffle Apartments.The apartments that are in front of the new pool that are having a refurb too - new windows etc.

Any chance of a progress report?  We arrive 1st week in May and it would be nice to know if it will be finished by then. I also wonder if guests of both hotels will be able to use both pools and bars?  That is supposing the Dream hotel will have a bar?

[michelle from newcastle]

Hi, yes an update on the samira would be good.  Is the kalkan dreams new ? or part of the samira & been done up? just wondering as my 1st visit. im sooooooooooooooo excited xx 

[bazza1970]

My sources tell me that the new pool (where the lovely gardens used to be where they used to keep chickens etc) is very big and almost built. Apparently, the Samira Hotel and Apartments has now been split and the third building at the rear is under new ownership and the pool belongs to that. All you'll really have to contend with is Moomin shouting "Lunchtime!" From 12 till 2 and the new entertainments manager making lots of noise as he commandeers the pool and those trying to have a relaxing sunbathe around it throughout the day. Other than that, the Samira should broadly be the same. Not sure if Volkan is working there this year. Jack was sacked early last season and went to work in Aubergine.

[Sandancer]

Thanks for the update Bazza.  Volkan told us he was getting married and was not sure if he'd be back this season.  I know from Mustafa that Ergun will be running the new hotel so interesting to see who will be the front of house manager this year.  Was Jack a barman, I can't place him?  I am hoping the entertainments manager will not start working until June so we will have a more peaceful time in May LOL.

[michelle from newcastle]

Thanks.  Not sure what I think about the entertainment manager either. We r there until the 9th of June so let's hope he comes after that ha ha x 

[Sandancer]

Anyone know if the building work is finished on the new hotel, Kalkan Dream?

[Cuddles]

Try www.kalkandreamhotel.com if you really want to see the web site.

[Sandancer]

Thanks, I hope those photos were taken some time ago because the swimming pool area is like a building site. I wonder when they are opening.

[bazza1970]

Apparently, it is like a building site and although most major building work has been undertaken, the first few months of summer will involve tiling, paving etc. I just hope they don't use angle grinders all day.

[lilly]

Hi. I'm sure the Kalkan Dream Hotel will be ready for the new season. The Turkish workmen work so hard. I have seen as many as 27 men working on one Villa just to be ready for the finish date that was promised.
I looked at the Hotel website and I think it will be a great and central place to stay. (As is the Samira Hotel.) The views from the  new pool area are fabulous. L

[Sandancer]

Illy, I hope you are right. The two hotels are so close that it would be inevitable that guests of the Samira would be affected by building noise, dust etc.  It is less than 2 weeks before we arrive.

[Cuddles]

Well, according to the KTLN report on the last Belidye meeting, all noisy building work was supposed to stop by 15 April.

[Christina]

Hi all,

I have been at my place at Truffle for the past three weeks and watched the whole Dream Hotel/Samira building saga next door unfold. For the first week, it was angle-grinders at dawn, the second week workmen were winding up and doing jobs for me in their spare time. Then this week, I was invited by the owner Ergun to have a drink on the Dream Hotel breakfast terrace and survey the wonders of the Dream pool/jacuzzi (see pic attached). It is indeed a sight to behold. I'm told it is the third biggest pool in Kalkan, holds 320,000 litres of water, and takes two weeks to fill. The views from the pool are breathtaking. The work was more or less complete when I left a few days ago, and the first guests are expected at the end of April.

I stayed at the Samira last October, and enjoyed looking out over the grassed area beneath our balcony where chickens and ducks roamed freely. I'm not quite sure what the view from the Samira will be like now that the high wall and the Dream Pool has been built on the land where the chickens once roamed. But I'm sure those of you who have booked either hotel will have a great holiday regardless.

[amber]

Building work should have stopped in Kalkan now and the builders get 2 weeks grace to tidy up! There have been announcements reminding people of this and I am also sure that one hotel (Dream/Samira) will not let its guests be troubled by noise coming from the other!!

[Christina]

Then once the season starts, let's hope that guests aren't subjected to the miseries of a misguided 'animation' team, promoting forced jolity with 'Hi-di-hi' type announcements and jingles booming through a tannoy, loud music blaring round the pool day and night, and daft pool games resulting in banshee-like screeches and unnecessary splashing. Most of us just want to be left in peace to read a book.

I remember about 12 years ago staying at the dreaded Club Xanthos in Kalamar Bay. At the end of the week, guests were going home practically in tears - ashen-faced with stress and tiredness. Every comment in the Visitors Book expressed hatred at the incessant racket day and night at the hotel. We just got the hell out of the place .... And unwittingly discovered Kalkan.