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18.06.2006 : 13:39:19
Hello
Could anybody tell me if Lykia World have their own website, so that I am able to book a room directly with them?
Would appreciate any help.
Thank you.
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18.06.2006 : 23:45:20
you can reach lykia world from this website http:// www
lykiagroupcom
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03.07.2007 : 15:23:32
Myself and my husband visited Lykia world during the Oct half term break, we were with our twins aged 5 and 6 month old baby. On the way over to Turkey one of the twins and the baby got chicken pox and we spent the first night in hospial, very bad luck!! We found the staff helpful and polite. Despite the mini bar being full of antibioics etc we could not fault the resort which was clean and the views are absolutely out of this world. We found the buffet restaurants to be of a high standard and we tried all the speciality restaurants - we particularly loved the chinese and the turkish ones. Although only one of our children used the kids club it seemed to be well run with many activities. We are returning on the 30th of July for a two week visit and are very much looking forward to it. There is something for everyone at Lykia! If you are thinking of visiting and you want a great family holiday i would definately give it a go.
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07.07.2007 : 09:12:27
Came back from Lykia World after two fantastic weeks with my wife and 14 year old son and we all agreed it was the best holiday we've ever had.
It was our first visit to Turkey having heard lots of good things about it, I'd have to confess that we wouldn't have been happy if we'd stayed in some of the hotels where we dropped people off on the way, but when we got there and took a look around we thought "Wow!"
The place is fantastic, 2500 guests and 750 staff spread uot ove 38000 square metres with three main restaurants and five theme restaurants and 19 pools and a private beach!
It was full to capacity but didn't feel too busy. It has plenty for everyone to do and if you book your trips via the hotel you get well looked after.
The staff were magnificent, nothing was too much trouble, and the variety of food and drink on offer was just incredible. My son is diabetic and was taken ill on one of the days with sickness, the doctor was prompt and brought with him a translator who sorted everything out for us. Within 36 hours he was back to normal and a week later the translator saw me in the hotel and asked after my son by name.
We ate in the Marina Restaurant most nights and if I have any complaint at all it would be that there are a lot of wasps around if you eat before around 7.30pm but I can't really gripe too much about that because we simply got a table and a bottle of wine and drank some of that watching a beautiful sunset before starting to eat!
Many of the people we met had been before which says a lot about the place, those that hadn't been before would definately go again. Lots said to me that they never go back to the same place twice, but having been to Lykia World, why would you want to go anywhere else.
We had a thoroughly good time and went in August and had a cloudless two weeks. We would love to go again.
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25.07.2007 : 09:16:59
Great Hotel it is, but rather too great - it is colossal. The "World" part is not a misnomer - the place is vast combining two hotels on one site. Their almost innumerable facilities are dispersed over the extensive grounds and given the picturesque and mountainous nature of the coast line everything seems to be uphill. We had just come out of a heatwave at home where the mercury hovered a little below Fdeg 110 every day but we still found these minor trecks (with push chair) irksome.
Of the facilities we found none over-subscribed, the dreadful feline territorial marking with private beach towels is not an issue in this place. Plenty of everything. My children went to archery and got proper bows to fire at proper straw targets with twenty arrows every time. In Tunisia last year they got one arrow apiece and a bit of used photocopy paper pinned on a stick
The rooms in the Village are lovely and very quiet. Possibly the only place I have been in years, be they never so lux, with enough coat hangers. Extremely nice bathrooms - with shower only, but a real shower, not a dribble. Being Turkey scrupulously clean. We were delighted that they supplied only the premium Turkish toilette tissue "Extra Krep".
Food was excellent 'though a bit institutionalised. The Turks know a thing or two about salads but I did not find the real high points that I have encountered elsewhere. It was efficient and attractive but I never felt like I don't want to miss this. When I went into the woe-begotten town to wait for my children paragliding and had a bottle of wine and a lamb pide and a couple of salads in a highly commercial cafe my palate suddenly perked up. I think it was Dell-boy's Donner. What the hotel does manage is the best chips I have tasted outside a fifty kilometer radius of Grande Place and all the deep fried stuff the children go for is impeccable. The situation of the Marina Restaurant is absolutely superb - but, of course, everybody gravitates down there at night and 'less you go early or late you won't find a table. It's the only thing that is a bit pressurised for space in this hotel.
We made an inspection of the "Residence" part of the hotel and were less than impressed. Plenty of expensive marble and large, void, ill-proportioned spaces but generally the characterless nature of a Southern Italian hotel that never quite picked up the clientele they aimed for.
In the week that we stayed there the animation team's entertainment for the children was dire. My Malta children especially like this part of their holiday because beach and swimming are their norm during the three month summer break. There was a Russian conjurer wearing an unfeasibly long and moth-eaten tail coat who would have been booed off-stage by a paying public. Had he been a little worse it might have been reminiscent of Tommy Cooper. I read from other reviews that they are generally very good and I am quite prepared to believe that as even in the thoroughly awful hotel we stayed at last year in Tunisia they were excellent. Think we must have hit rather unlucky.
Service quality was good plus, we were assigned a rather special status for reasons that escape me, but a designated rep' was assigned to take care of our particular needs (minimal). The poor guy had to travel in 50km every day in an inappropriately hot uniform to simply loiter about in case we might need to know an exchange rate or forget where the pool with five water slides was. Slightly embarassing but he's paid for it. Had we dismissed him his tasks would undoubtedly have been more onerous.
The hotel rates are full-board - beware - minibar is charged exhorbitantly and drinks in the bar are not cheap at all. If you like a drink before dinner, or two, bring a bottle from the no-longer-duty-free to consume on your balcony. The extras they can run-up are extravagant.
Indubitably the high point of this holiday, in all senses, was the paragliding. There are much better rates in Oludeniz than in the hotel. When the weather is right they take you up to about 11,000 feet and you spend about twenty five minutes coming down over the spectacular coast and mountains. Then they try to sell you a video for some stupid price - but actually it is quite negotiable since the video is already filmed. It is more scary going up there on their truck than making the aerial descent. Don't be confused if everybody working in Turkish business claims to be the owner, the real owner is dropping in twice a day from his tastefully furnished villa to collect the procedes and readilly allows his employees their illusions which may impress a few Russian girls?
My family left me in Oludeniz to wait with baby; had a nice simple meal and went for a walk. Boom town caters almost exclusively for Brits, resplendent with their woad adornments. Intrusive notices everywhere advertising 'Full English' One that particularly caught me eye read:
Fed up of Cheese?
Miss you're crispy bacon,
H----z baken beans,
Waslrose (sic) sausages
etc. etc.
And beneath - 2nd BEST IN TOWN.
Like the hotel and will go back
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