Hotel Devamli

First impressions, the hand rail up the steps into the hotel is loose. My room was not available so they put me in the penthouse (joke) if that room costs a £100 per night it's disgusting. Firstly out of 15 plug sockets only 2 worked. the ones in the kitchen area did not work at all i had to plug kettle into socket near the floor, there are 2 showers one of which didn't work. To make the tv work you had to wiggle the wires. After 2 night i was moved into another room right at the front of the hotel even after asking for a quiet room due to the noise. The noise in the front rooms of the hotel is unbearable as you have 3 bars competing for trade. The social distancing in the hotel was not adhered to in any way shape or form, the cleaning was terrible if yours was the first room to be cleaned you got a faint smell of bleach, if yours was any after that all you got was a gritty floor and it was a joke throughout the hotel that you slept in a bed with sand in it. i was even asked to share a table with a complete stranger. It is the first hotel i have every stopped in which charged £10 a week to use the fridge and yes (the fridge has a lock on the door). Then to top it all off on my last night whilst having my dinner one of the bar staff took his bobble out whilst passing my table and flicked his hair all over my dinner. The bar man saw this and informed the owner and her head waiter but they totally ignored it as thought it was a normal practice. I have to say i would rather sleep on the beach that stop in the hotel again. Read the reviews they are correct the hotel is a joke

We have just returned from yet another pleasant stay at the Devamli. In some ways it was much the same as ever; but Covid-19 had wrought some changes. The hotel is basic, with small rooms and shower cubicles (how much time do you spend in them anyway?), but it is clean and central, with ready access to shops, restaurants, bars and taxis, with dolmuş (minibus) and water taxi services to Marmaris and to Turunç within easy walking distance for most. This is a relatively small, family-run hotel, comprising the hotel itself over the Love Boat restaurant and the Sport Inn bar, with a sun terrace to the rear. For the first time we have known, the Love Boat was not open apart from for serving breakfast to guests, presumably down to Covid-19. My wife had suffered a fall shortly before our pre-booked holiday, which meant she had some difficulty with the stairs at the entrance and couldn’t manage the couple of steep steps to the sun terrace; but the Devamli family were very understanding and helpful, as were all their staff, especially the indominable Serden, and they enabled us to enjoy a very pleasant holiday in hot, dry weather despite the medical setback. On a general note about Içmeler, quite a few hotels, bars and restaurants were closed due to Covid-19, and this resulted in a slightly strange atmosphere. The Turkish Government insists on masks at all times outdoors, with a heavy fine for default; but whilst staff in hotels, bars, restaurants and shops almost invariably wore masks, probably only 10% or so of people in the street wore them, and the vast majority of the wearers were tourists. We saw the police round up some people into a van - probably local serial defaulters. We met many of the usual regulars in the Hotel Devamli and around the resort; but this year there were also a lot of newcomers, most of whom had rebooked after cancellation of holidays in Spain or Portugal. All we spoke to said they just had not realised what Turkey was like, they loved Içmeler, and they would be coming again next year instead of going to the Costas. They were impressed by the friendliness of the Turkish people and the relative cheapness. We have stayed at the Hotel Devamli many times, and we have already booked two more visits next year. The hotel is unpretentious and is perhaps not the best choice for those who just want to lounge around a pool all day, every day, nor for those sad people who spend a lot of time in their rooms. However, if you don’t want to pay for those extras that you won’t be using and you want to spend most of your time exploring the area, taking trips out, taking part in the many water sports or just wandering around a very pleasant resort, and if you’re after somewhere clean and tidy to stay, handy for local services and amenities, Içmeler and the Hotel Devamli may be just the place for you.