Kaktus Boutique Hotel Side

We travel to Antalya every year and this year we thought we’d try a week in side followed by a week in Kaleici. We booked 8 nights in the kaktus boutique hotel after a lot of research and we were excited about our stay. We are not those travellers that want to stay in resorts or in big fancy hotels. We much prefer the small family run hotels and guest houses. Unfortunately we made a mistake booking the Kaktus. We arrived to the hotel at around 3am after a slight 40 min delay into Antalya airport, but we’d informed the hotel when booking of our approx arrival time and we had a confirmation response, So after arriving we realised the hotel was completely closed up, no one around at all except a couple of rats running along the side of the breakfast area wall. Eventually after waiting 30 mins we stopped a passing guy who called the hotel and thankfully the owner turned up a minute later. Very friendly guy as is his wife who we met a bit later. So we are shown to our room upstairs and as we enter we see the bed not made and the room is dirty, off goes the guy after saying he make up the bed. So 10 minutes later, in walks the wife snd possibly the sister to make up the room at 4am. They ask us to sit on the balcony which we do and can see neither the undersheet or the pillow cases are changed. Then as we’re looking off the balcony we notice next doors balcony door is open, look over and there is actually someone sleeping on the floor. So mows it’s 4.30.am, we’re shattered and just want some sleep. Problem is the curtain was pretty much hanging off the rail and there is nothing but a net curtain over the balcony door and I’m aware someone is sleeping 5 foot away. Don’t get any sleep as the sun starts to rise at 5.20am and we’ve nothing to cover the door, Literally got up and looked at each other in despair. I could not spend another 7 days here so we headed downstairs and saw the friendly owner who asked if we wanted breakfast, think he knew what was coming, I tried to explain but with language barrier the response we got was yes, small room, Anyways, spoke to the wife and I’m not going to moan but she agreed to us paying 60€ for the single night of 4 hours and she will cancel the booking. Other things to mention is there was one plug socket in the entire room, the shower is literally a hand held shower head over the toilet, the owners room is across the hallway from our room so it feels more like their house that we’re staying in and the door was so thin you could literally hear everything. Thankfully we found another hotel 10 mins away but with the cost of the single night plus booking a hotel at such short notice, we were left approx 180€ out of pocket. Positives, the Kaktus is right on the waterfront and only a 5 minute walk to the beach club on the quiet beach we went to every day. The family really are lovely and I wish them all the luck. They just need to spend some money on the rooms and they’d be sold out solid, all s

This hotel shows pet friendly but the owner’s attitude to our small dog was really not nice. She has a dog too but she wanted me to carry my dog to the room and told me to make sure my dog does not climb to the beds. The room she gave us was ugly, dirty, dark. When I told her the room is nothing like in the pictures she told me she only has two rooms for dog owners. Obviously the two rooms are the ugliest rooms of this hotel. She was also rude to me when I asked for face towels and shampoo. I donot recommend her service and the hotel at all.

The original room turned out not to have a view so we asked for a change which meant adding a small bed, as all 3 of the seaview rooms just had double beds. NP And then, when the heating unit control stopped working, we moved to another room. This room was originally set up for twin beds BUT only had a double. Too bad for us. But we had a view and a clean bathroom so not so bad but twin beds would have been better. Mehmet was especially helpful and both Hulya and Duygu were great hostesses! Breakfast out front was good and it was great to be in the warm sun (January). Would like to return in the summer.

We had found this hotel quite attractive from the photos and comments. Indeed it is about 10 meters away from the beach; convenient for children. While we were driving to this hotel (5 hours drive) we received an email saying they cancelled our booking; not even a phone call.. When we are abroad we disconnect data and all on our phones and connect from time to time. Therefore we found out they cancelled our booking right when we arrived there! Amazing.. They claimed that they currently had a family in our rooms that were positive to covid.. We never saw any of the staff or the customers wearing masks. We never saw any government agency confining the hotel either. They instead suggested a hotel 50 meters behind, without any view and a depressing terrasse. Rooms were extremly basic, no decoration at all. This was quite an experience. Kaktus hotel offered us breakfasts and one dinner, but then on the day we left and were settling the invoice (we paid the other hotel TO this kaktus hotel.. strange) the manager suddenly didn't agree with the hotel price and tried to increase the price. We actually think that they cancelled our booking because we booked in february for july. Turkey has 80% inflation per year so it makes "sense" to try to cancel and accept new bookings at a better exchange rate. Way too many problems with this hotel. Better book ANY other hotel. we do not recommend at all this hotel.

Nice people, good service

It claims to have parking but cars are actually banned from the area. There's no parking. Hotel good but basic and overpriced.

Lovely, friendly family run this hotel. Wonderful view of the sea. Amazing breakfast.