Allen Horne
Came home 20 Sept after 10 wonderful days at Marti. I am surprised at some of the reviews I found it to be set in a beautiful position by the sea. There was plenty of choice in food if you are willing to try new things… why only want typical English food when you are in Turkey. Our room was clean and tidy with good air conditioning the cleaner was warm and friendly and the view from the balcony spectacular. The pool area, gardens and private beach were well maintained and ideal to relax and soak up the sun. Reception staff were helpful, bar staff efficient and friendly. To be fair the entertainment wasn’t to my taste but other holiday makers enjoyed it.
I would highly recommend
Grażyna Zmelty
I spent a week in Marti la Perla in October. The nearby sea and beach are great. The hotel itself looks good, however the cleaning needs to be improved. The staff is ... not involved at all, especially the young man working in the pub in the garden - he was unpleasant and arrogant. Talking about the pub... the drinks that were served were totally tasteless.
Brendan Vickers
Great location, lovely pool area . Rooms good size but not clean . Housekeeping disgraceful. Manager and guest services are not interested. Food was appalling. Drinks ok , coffee very good . Floors are scruffy right throughout the hotel . The bathroom is very dirty . Hotel management needs to be replaced with staff that are interested. Staff are rude .
Pauline Graham
What a shame !
I've been to Turkey six times and this hotel is definitely at the bottom in terms of rating.
Food . It's OK, not great.
The salad and cheeses, etc, visually look great. However, the main foods are normally overcooked or dry. I never once got offered a drink by any waiters in the dining area, nor did any of our friends (group of 8) which is so strange because every other hotel does.
Breakfast is the same stuff everyday however I do like the way the food is covered by metal rollers due to flies. That's nice to see.
Bar & drinks. Exspect standard watered down alcohol. I drank 13 cocktails one after the other and was soba as a judge, I'm not Superman or a heavy drinker either but that was more of an experiment to prove to myself the alcohol is either fake or watered down. It makes me think what the companies are putting the barrells/bottles in the absence of alcohol.
The pool bar. The waits are too long and some of the staff are very inexperienced. They have a guy with a moustache who's a great barman, he should train the other barman. There's a kid who looks around 16 who's out of his depth completely.
The beach. It's only a 20m walk from the hotel, this is the hotels best attribute along with its location.
The pool. It's very nice, water is lovely with plenty of sun lounges.
Entertainment. The daytime entertainment is great they've nailed that. However, the evening entertainment is virtually none existent. A 30-minute dance act at 21:30, that's it. Come on, we are adults looking to be entertained on holiday. The entertainment guy with the big hair is absolutely miserable somebody needs to give him a cuddle.
The staff. In general not great, I don't feel like they care enough or aren't trained. Some of them are lovely however the vast majority seem robotic and to young and have a it's just a job mentality. For some reason they don't seem to like the British, I noticed this at the bar area where the locals always seem to get served first. The management needs to sit down and have a weekly meeting with all heads of department to discuss this issue and the patterns from the reviews and they don't seem to be communicating and are blaming each other for their failings.
Rooms. Very basic but I'm hardly in there so I'm not really bothered, but our friends weren't very happy. The cleaners cleaned our rooms once which isn't great, I had to change the towels myself. The cleaner also left our room open the one day they did clean thankfully nothing was taken. I did report this to guest relations however you've guessed it nothing changed.
Guest relations. They come around the pool normally of an evening to ask for feedback but then action absolutely nothing. For example we asked for bananas for breakfast (they had them on day one) the lady said ok ill tell the catering staff. 7 days later still no bananas. Totally understand before you reply to this review (guest relations) that you can't cater for everyone however sometimes making a small effort means a lot. Just add bananas to your fruit list, it can't be that hard.
Reception. It's very strange, you have what looks like ikea tables put together with some laptops on them. It kind of takes that feel away from a semi grand entrance. When you check out, the area where you leave your bags is a joke, theres no room or anything just in the reception area. When your checking out, hotels normally have a room to store your suit cases.
Overall I would give this hotel a miss and look elsewhere.
The 5 star reviews posted on here are 100% fake, I'm absolutely not a hotel snub, but this hotel needs help.
Jamie Heaton
A hudge let down. We came here as a group of 8 (four couples). I never booked it.
The hotel is clean enough but the food is horrendous.
The entrainment staff during the day are great but the same staff do the evening entertainment which is boring and not put together professionally. Management please hire in professional people for evening entertainment as it's boring.
The bar doesn't have enough staff working to serve multiple guests, as making cocktails takes a long time. Management, if you're reading this employee, more staff at the pool bar during busy times as the wait time for a drink is ridiculous.
The food is the worst part, I've been to six hotels in Turkey, and this is the worst for food. It's the same junk every day with no thought into presentation or anything. Not being able to bring other food into the burger bar is retarded as my wife doesn't eat burgers. Equally not being able to eat the burger outside of the burger area is also retarded. Management, please review this rule its truely pointless.
The rooms are fine, very dated and basic but that doesn't bother me however it had no ironing facility and the fridge turns off when you leave the room so it's pointless really as your almost never in your room.
The entrainment staff are great, but the pool barmen are miserable, and asking them for a cocktail somehow upsets them which is weird.
When you arrive at the reception, they ask if you have any dietary requirements or intolerances, which is pointless because they absolutely don't change, cater, or even care. Seems like a tick in the box question with no follow through when you arrive.
The major upside is the location, on the beach.
I will 100% not be returning to this hotel which is a shame.
***Update as of 24th August ****
They hired some semi-professional dancers for an entire 30 minutes at 21:30. Now just background music for the rest of the night 😂
Management go to the Aqua hotel next door and look at their evening entertainment.