Khazer Almajali
There is no such thing as a perfect score but there is rounding up to one. I had a lovely 5 night vacation here with the family and it really stood out. There is something for everyone and when your kids are happy and fulfilled, you tend to find joy in your vacation. The clean and spacious rooms are a great start, the super fun theme park and great weather make this an amazing family destination, but the service is what truly sets it apart. I have rarely been to an establishment of this size in which every single person serving did it with such a wide smile. Everyone is there to help and everyone is nice about it. Thank you to all the people who created the experience because you made it special to me and my family.
Aaron Phelan
What an amazing place. I’ve never known somewhere where the staff are so willing to help with a smile on their face.
It’s absolutely spotless clean everywhere. Literally an army of staff keeping the place really clean including toilets.
Food was top draw with wide selection.
The main thing is that everything is geared around kids and making them feel special.
Particular thank you to lady called KEVSER who made me my flat white coffee every morning. Service is as fantastic so thank you to all staff who made our holiday special. What lovely people.
Highly recommend for a special family holiday.
David (David Herzog)
Most ridiculous Vacation ever. Really expensive and nothing is open. Cleaning stuff doesn’t clean. My wife birthday was going on and they didn’t even care to make the bed although we had ballon’s etc in the room. Plus they forgot to give us toilet paper and so on…
Furthermore, We are here with and almost 5-year old child and every waterride in the park for her age is closed. Seems like they don’t have enough staff. Even for the smallest ride there is a line for the kids and someone has to control every single ride.
There is on tower with 10 rides and only two are open. Lazy river for small children is not open at all. Not worth it.
Besides that everything is more expansive than Disneyland. There are better option than a vacation in this park/hotel.
Fayez Al-Assaf
Dear Chef CAGRI,
I would like to sincerely thank you for your outstanding service and kind assistance during our visit to your restaurant. Your attention to detail and the care you put into preparing our meal made our experience truly special and memorable.
We greatly appreciate your professionalism and culinary talent. Wishing you continued success and all the best in your career.
Warm regards,
Richard Gawith
We went from 9th April for a week, as it was significantly cheaper than later weeks. We took 2 kids, aged 9 & 7.
We were very impressed from the word go. The hotel is so well set up for families. The rooms were great & styled in such a fun way. The cleanliness of the rooms & the hotel in general was just excellent. Our only complaint was that the aircon for the whole hotel was turned off for 5 out of the 7 days we stayed. Many guests asked about this to be simply told “it is off. It will be on when it’s on”. Some nights were particularly warm & uncomfortable.
There was much more included in the all-inclusive deal that we expected – arcade games, juice bar, all-night pub, & the buffet ,as well as unlimited entry to both parks. Included in the parks are soft drinks, water, & standard ice cream. The kids club in the hotel was great, & our daughter did the pottery making class which was all free.
We were amazed by the buffet. So much choice & variety, with local food as well as things you might consider more European like pizza & chips. Lots of healthy options too with endless salads & fruit, & chicken & fish straight off the grill.
The theme park was great fun, with the standout rides for us being the “big white one”, the “big blue one”, & the “squirty boats”. I can’t remember their proper names but if you go, you’ll understand. We were a little disappointed to find that with it being early in the season some of the rides weren’t open yet, but all the main ones were. Being early in the season though, meant the queues were short & we rarely had to queue more than a couple of minutes for any ride.
The water park is fabulous too, but again, some rides or areas were not open. Neither was the only place to eat on the all-inclusive deal, called Mungo, a large restaurant in the waterpark side. This meant we had to either plan to come out of the parks at lunch time, then go back in, or bring food in with us. The latter option turned out to be a problem, with a very unhelpful security guard searching our bags & confiscating any food she found.
Since we weren’t allowed to bring food into the parks, we occasionally chose to buy snacks. You pay in the parks with wrist bands, which you load up at cash points. The minimum you could load on was 2500 Lira, which on our trip was about £50, which bought us 2 slushy drinks, 1 large bag of Doritos, & 2 tubes of ‘local’ Pringles. The Slushy was 750 Lira, which is £15! Those 5 items are worth about £20 in the UK, making it 2.5x more expensive than we felt it should be. The prices of most items at the snack shops are not clearly displayed, or not displayed at all.
Back on the water park, & being early in the season, the water was cold. With the wind, & occasional cloud, many people were shivering. Even the heated pools in the top section of the water park were pretty cool. We had come prepared & brought wetsuit tops & shorts, just thin 1.5mm ones. They enabled us to enjoy the pools & the slides, which we did, immensely.
Also included is a free bus transfer (which you need to book a day in advance) to the Rixos Premium Hotel in Belek, which has a large outdoor heated pool, & a beach. We spent 2 afternoons there, soaking up the sun, & ordering drinks from our sunbeds to have them delivered by waiters on roller skates. Surreal, but really cool. We were also impressed that Rixos laid on a buffet lunch for everyone coming from Kingdom, so you didn’t need to worry about missing lunch at the hotel.
This is my 2nd review, as a member of staff collared me in the park & asked me to write a review there & then on our first day. I shouldn’t have, but I’m useless at saying no to those kind of things. I can’t say I particularly liked being press-ganged into writing a short, glowingly positive, very one-sided review. This is my more detailed, more honest version.
Overall, we were hugely impressed, just a few bits we feel they could improve on. We’ve had a great holiday, & we’d recommend it for families. We may well be back