Izma
Incredible resort!!
From the moment you arrive you will enjoy every aspect of this place.
Rooms are well equipped, options for breakfast, lunch and dinner are many, and plenty of locations to enjoy your food and drink (outdoor and indoor). You also have the specialty restaurants available, such as Italian, Chinese, Sea food… (booking required at the hotel as they are not open every day in low season)
Food is great!!
The staff is excellent!!! Friendly, alert, engaging, just awesome!
The resort is located 20min walk from Icmeler beach, and probably the same to Marmaris town, or you can use the orange mini bus to either of those towns (50 lira per trip at the time of the review), or you can hire a bike from the hotel.
Although there is plenty to do at the resort that you might choose not to go anywhere else, unless you do a tour, but they usually pick you up from the hotel and drop you off.
There are also in the evenings, live music and dances.
And things to do at the resort, like darts, archery, table tennis, tennis, football, gym, sauna, even have a professional relaxing massage (better to do it at the beginning to enjoy sun bathing even more)
Perfect place to visit alone, as a couple or as a family…
Ant Hardy
We gave been to Turkey many times on family holidays but the week we spent at Labranda Mares was the best. The hotel is about a 90 minute transfer from Dalaman airport which is the only negative but the hotel laid on a very nice car and driver that was waiting for us at the airport. The rooms are great. We had a bungalow with the kids room connected. Plenty of places to sunbathe and several inside restaurants all serving amazing food but the jewel in the crown here is the Spa. The massages and different treatments are amazing and the prices even better. Hassan the manager explained all the treatments and advised us of what would be best for our issues. I had a 90 minute 'Medical Massage' by Maggie and she relieved years worth of pain I had from a traffic accident and trapped nerve in my neck. It was worth coming here just for the Massage. Staff are amazing and and great entertainment.
Anna Plotkina
We stayed in a family room in Bungalow. It was perfect for the family of 4 - 2 separate bedrooms (1 with double bed, 1 with 2 single beds - great for the kids) and a spacious shared room + a balcony - with the view to the sea through pine trees! Waking up with that view was awesome! The room was pretty fresh, we were told that those rooms were renovated fairly recently. We also liked the location of the hotel. It is surrounded by beautiful pine trees and has lovely sea and mountain views from the rooms and from the main restaurant. It is located between Marmaris and Icmeler, there is a lovely promenade connecting these cities, it's about 40 minutes walk from the hotel to Icmeler and about 1 hour walk from the hotel to Marmaris Old Town (which is beautiful - definitely worth a visit!). The quickest way to get to Marmaris Old Town is taxi (200 TL). We also hired a car and explored the beautiful area. I liked that the hotel is not too big, everything is fairly close, you don't need to walk for half an hour to every meal as it is the case in some hotels in Turkey, but it has all you need. There hotel's beach is not sandy, it's basically a stone platform, it was great for swimming (quick access to deep water!), but is probably not ideal with the little kids. The food and the entertainment was fine, but we mainly chose the hotel because of it's location, proximity to the sea and very good family rooms.
The evening programme started late and finished too late. The loud music played till 24 every evening. It was pretty loud in our room (even with closed windows!) and we couldn't go to sleep until it was over.(at 24!) And at 7:30 calm but relatively loud music started playing in the bar on the beach which woke us up (our bungalow was in the first row of bungalows - the closest to the beach). So we couldn't get enough sleep / rest between evening's and morning's music! We stayed in the end of October, the water in the pools was pretty cold, the pools are not heated, but the water in the sea was still pretty warm, so we spend all the time by the sea because we like it more than the pools anyway.
Overall great hotel, I would definitely come again and recommend it to my friends. Very good value for money.
amy
Absolutely amazing place would definitely stay here again. Staff are so lovely I was very sick when we came to visit and a lovely waiter brought me tea and fruits to ease my cold. You will feel like everyone’s top priority when visiting. Rooms are great and views are beautiful. The only thing I would comment on is that it is a very large resort and could do with more things to do in the day. However, entertainment is always great and food is delicious. Very clean too. Amazing altogether
Kim Sumner
We stayed 7 nights in Oct 2023. Initially we were upgraded to a hotel room which did not suit us. This was quickly rectified. The food is good, especially the salads. Drinks OK. Very clean and tidy and fabulous for swimming. No sandy beach which suited us. Quiet and entertainment good and not too much not too late. The service was superb. I had an accident on our last day and the hotel nurse was fantastic, getting me to the hospital and back in time for the airport bus. Apart from the injury, it was a great holiday. Thank You.