Tropicana Beach

Just returned from a stay at the Tropicana, stayed here before quite a few years ago. I love the relaxed vibe about it and the very spacious apartments, though a chest of drawers would be a massive help in the bedroom. Excellent staff and facilities. My only negative, would be the Siesta next door using the hotel, beach and pool. They should have booked the Tropicana in the first place? There's a guy on the beach opposite the hotel, who looks after the sunbeds, but doesn't really monitor it well enough, people in the Jasmin and siesta were using the beds, sometimes he told them no and pointed to their beach area or just ignored them and carried on chatting to his friends or just sat and smoked. It was easy if it was the Jasmin, as they wore blue wristbands, as it was an all inclusive, perhaps the Tropicana and Siesta should have their own coloured wrist bands, just to make it easier? Being by the pool was almost an all inclusive vibe, you definitely got better service there, food and drinks being brought to your beds, but the beds are very close together and big groups of people hung out together laughing, smoking ,which if you want to chill would be impossible, equally the siesta were told they could use the pool, so limited your use of that area. The supermarket had very limited choice, drinks at the bar were expensive and the food ok. We chose to go out every night for food, as there's lots of choice in the main town or along the coastal path. The walk into Gumbet town by road, was very dark in places and the pavement uneven, didn't feel very safe, equally the coastal path was dirty and dark in places too, it just looked tired and lots of litter around. I would recommend a visit to Bitez, very chilled out place, fab places to eat and spotless, no sellers hassling you, equally preferred Bodrum by night, great places to eat and you have the castle and harbour. I would of course come back and appreciate when you choose this time of year to come away, with it being the end of season, you can just tell workers at hotels/restaurants/shops can't wait to finish, so maybe the service isn't as attentive, as at the start and thru the summer months. Cleaners and bar staff at Tropicana always cheerful tho.

Holidayed end of August 2024, myself and 2, 8 year olds. Were greeted around 10pm at night by a really nice bloke, friendly set everything up, arranged AC for the week at £5 a day, and had our bags taken to the room, upstairs and along a really nice archway corridor with plants growing all over so started the holiday off well. Rooms are nice, clean, basic, beds are comfy, good shower, had a hairdryer, small tv, kitchen area, fridge, nice balcony which in room 319 we were away from the main pool area, but even at night it wasn’t too noisy. Cooker was just a 2 ring hob, but we didn’t plan in staying in and cooking anyway, so no issue. For the money spent, as it was a last minute looking to pick something up cheap, I was happy with what we had. We spent a lot of time in and around the hotel, and I have nothing but praise for the cleanliness, staff were all great, and I mean that, they helped, made sure you were looked after, played pool with my son, and worked tirelessly to look after us. The pool is great, never had an issue getting a sun bed, and yes towels were out after 9 when the pool opens, but no issue at all with numbers, only thing it’s not set up for very young children. There is a very small pool around the size of a hot tub for small children, but the main pool is 1.6m all over, which lucky my kids can now swim, and they loved it, but if you can’t swim, there is no shallow end. We ate in the hotel most mornings, a little pricier than going out to a café, full breakfast 400 lire, approx. £10 with a coffee, but the convenience and quality was good, kids would have pancakes etc for around £3, egg on toast £2.50. Beer I found to be quite similar to being out 160 lire, and happy hour at 10 – 11 was 110 lire. Hotel is approx. 10 meters from the beach. We didn’t really use the beach much as most say the sand is rough, and because of this the water isn’t that blue, but the hotel is in a quiet part of the town, so all in all location, hotel were fantastic. I think the only negative is, if you could pick up the hotel and place it somewhere else you would. I’ve been to Turkey a lot, but first time I’ve tried Gumbet. And I was disappointed by Gumbet. To get to the closest part of town, you walk along the beach path (never found it worrying at all as it’s always busy, friendly, and that was a concern before going was it too far away walking back would be a risk with 2 kids at night) but it looks like a lot of areas have been left to ruin. Bottles left on the beach, small canals that stop short of the beach, but if it floods they are full of stagnant water, rubbish and that will all end in the sea. Parks that just look left, and other areas of water the same as the small canals left just with rubbish. You can then walk along the promenade, but its nothing more than a dusty track through trees. Or walking into town to the righ before going along the beach front, you go through a street that looks like the back of businesses, all rubbish out, wild cats