Limak Arcadia Sport Resort Hotel

I generally perfer to find as many positives as possible when reviewing a holiday, but unfortunately I can’t think of many with this one. This is one of the worst hotels I have stayed in in a very long time. I may be a bit of a holiday snob, we always go 5 star these days, my backpacking days are over, but this was much more like a 3 star I’d have booked when I was on an 18-30 year old holiday back in the 80s. So let me highlight, this is NOT a 5 start hotel, I think someone was drunk when they gave it that grading. None of the usual 5 star perks were there. No one serving coffee at breakfast, it was a self-serve coffee machine. No one offering drinks poolside. No safe in the room unless you paid extra. The first hotel I have ever visited with sports in the name, but had no sports bar haha! All pools were used at different times for various, games, entertainment, inflatables – no getting away from the hustle and bustle I’m afraid. We booked for 5 adults, myself, my husband, 2 sons and a girlfriend in 3 rooms. I ALWAYS check room layout when booking a holiday and often end up up-grading as I prefer to have 2 beds rather than a double, as most doubles can be quite small and sometimes sink in the middle! This is an absolute must when I make a booking. I paid for an upgrade on this holiday and also sent a request. Our rooms when we arrived, were not what I had paid extra for, which was listed as sleeping 1-4 people! Goodness knows where the 3rd and 4th person would have slept, genuinely I have no clue. They were tiny, and I mean teeny tiny. The bed was a small double, the room was filthy and smelt of damp – which ok, I kind of get if it had been quite rainy recently, so I’ll leave that one, but it really was dirty and very dated. I refused to sleep in that room, so we were offered another room that wasn’t a whole lot better, but at least had two single beds, instead of a small double. However, there was this weird glass wall through to the shower, so if you were in the bathroom with the light on, this shone into the bedroom, there was no curtain or anything to block it so I had to improvise and place some blankets over the shower rail. The ‘view’ from the balcony overlooked a large shed/outbuilding that I think was a cat shelter. Great if you like cats I suppose, which by the way there are lots of here, and I mean loads – cats everywhere. The staff were really good and were helpful with my manic meltdown about the rooms. Eventually we got moved to a family room with my son and his girlfriend (their initial room was awful too). The family room was not ideal from a privacy point of view, but more room and ‘proper’ sized beds and it was clean. My other son stayed in his room, as it was fine for him on his own. One good point was there were plenty of sunbeds, although a lot seemed to be saved, which sadly is so common these days. I stupidly assumed booking in school term-time would mean a few less children, but there were loads there! It clearly is a very family-oriented hotel, which my kids would have loved 20 years ago, so a big bonus if you have young kids. But as mine are grown up now, we found the entertainment and things to do a bit lacking. It had the usual Michael Jackson night and a great acrobatics type act which is exactly the same as the one we saw at a different hotel in Turkey last year, still good though. We didn’t bother with any other entertainment after that. Drinks – very, very basic. I’m not a big drinker, but I like a glass of wine or a gin and ginger ale or orange when on holiday. There was no ginger ale at all, and the orange juice was a weird concentrate, not the fresh orange juice I would expect, it wasn’t that nice and sometimes a little sour. All the cocktails tasted like they had something sour in them, they were awful. Food, ok I suppose, nothing to shout about. The buffet restaurant was like many others, a fair amount of variety, you could usually find something edible and it was hot. We went to 2 of the a la carte restaurants which you have to pay extra for, but at least I could but a decent glass of wine.

Everything is petfect, especially Sevcan. Best bar mixer of the week!

We absolutely loved our stay. Hotel and grounds were lovely. Food was excellent. Staff were all friendly. Air con in room wasn't great. Really easy to walk into Belek and close for visiting Land of Legends. Would definitely return.

We loved our stay here, the resort is beautiful, well organized. We were especially impressed by the animation team, Talha from Darts, Jamal from Zumba, the dancing crew, Michael Jackson show was the best. Kids activities are great and slides are exactly what a small kid needs. Highly recommend.

Just want to say thank u for our amazing holiday the entertainment team where brilliant the bar staff were all amazing facilities were lovely and clean the food was really good 👍🏻 thank u turkey 🇹🇷 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿