Ideal Panorama

Ideal panorama is the worst all inclusive hotel I’ve ever stayed at. The room we had looked nothing like it was advertised, it was tiny. Food was awful especially if you’re a vegetarian/vegan, my friend lived on rice, chips, waffles and salad as that’s all there was for her to eat in the hotel. She not a vegetarian by choice it’s because the protein in meat makes her physically sick. The labels on the food isn’t clear either, my friend had what was labelled plain rice, luckily before she started eating it I noticed there was shredded chicken mixed into it, I’m allergic to chilli so have to be very careful. We ended up spending most of our spending money in restaurants. The evening food was mainly food left over from the night before. I had beef curry one night which was actually left over liver from the night before and not beef just put in a curry sauce! If you have any food allergies or intolerances I wouldn’t recommend this hotel as there are signs around saying they don’t cater for this and eat at your own risk! On a plus side the fresh bread and desserts were good. Pool was tiny as it was let alone water polo being played! The description says 2 pools, we only found out that the other pool was in the building opposite. The pool area wasn’t cleaned, I know it’s common sense to clean up after yourself but unfortunately some guests don’t have this. Due to sticky cups around the bees are attracted and in the space of half hour 2 people were stung. Reception staff weren’t helpful at all, WiFi only works in reception and the restaurant, the lobby area is very tired looking. I know this isn’t a massive thing but when you need to contact family at home it’s important. Drinks served in cardboard cups what are we children?! I understand health and safety round the pool but what’s wrong with plastic ones? And also very watered down. Most of the drinks are do it yourself ones from a machine. With the cold drinks if you get 2 by the time you finish one the cardboard cup on the second had started leaking. The locks on the inside of the room where pointless as didn’t attach to anything. You need to lock the door inside with the key at night, but you have to be quick or all the lights turn off. The TVs automatically switch off at 1am so if you can’t sleep you can’t even watch that. It says there are English channels but it’s either the news or has a Turkish voice over. Shower wasn’t cleaned in a week, only made one bed each day and not the other. In a mini bar on an all inclusive I’ve always had water, soft drinks, snacks, alcohol etc, this one was 2 bottles of water and 2 cartons of juice in a warm fridge and wasn’t refilled daily! You had to keep the empty water bottles and refill them from the machines. No kettle or hot drink facilities in the room so take your own kettle, or walk up and down at least 4 sets of stairs with hot drinks burning your hands as there aren’t any trays either. So many steps to the rooms, we were in room 177 and took us nearly 4 mins to walk up the steps and were quite fit. If you stay in the other part of the hotel you need to walk up a very steep slope and more steps to get food and use the pool in the main part of the hotel. There is a small shop to purchase things from and reasonably priced. Cookies and hot drinks were the worse ever the “cookies” were so dry it was like eating sand and the tea/coffee was all a do it yourself push button job, with no milk for tea. Meant to be a 4 star hotel! It was more like a 2!!! We later found out it was the hotel that gave themselves a 4 star rating which was like me giving myself a 5 star Michelin rating for beans on toast. The beach for the ideal panorama is tiny and you might aswell share a sunbed with someone as they are that close together. For 2 people sharing the room is very small with only 8 hangers and 2 draws for all your clothes so we lived out of our suitcases for a week. They are very tired looking rooms that need a lot of tlc. Marmaris itself is amazing for shopping and nightlife. Don’t forget to barter on the shops to get the best price. Alex who works in ideal shoes is lovely and will help you out with great deals. I would recommend the apple bar (Charlie is so funny and will help you change money up for the best price and help with cheaper excursions), the pop in steakhouse and bar and no name bar. Aswell as the Viking bar on on the beach, the food their was amazing, service fantastic and free sunbeds when you get food and drink there. The sand is still imported If you are a female with large boobs the local men won’t leave you alone so be prepared also helps to get good deals in the shops lol. If you go to bar street always ask for the price of drinks up front, DONT pay by card always cash as some people have had things added to their bills, don’t wear gold out as it’s busy and pick pockets target drunk people. We did 3 excursions they were the boat trip with a foam party and a Turkish harman bath, it was a lovely day and we loved the fact you stopped and had a swim in the sea, a lot of people on the boat so hard to move around, the “cocktail” was hard to tell what it actually was. When it came to lunch we were served chicken, pasta and salad, we asked what the vegetarian option was to which all they did was take the chicken off the plate!! The other one was the jeep safari. The water fight you have is a laugh but you have to borrow the water pistols for 20 lira and most are broken. It’s more like a sight seeing day in an open jeep (some where just about road worthy), our driver tried to sell me weed! No drinks provided you have to taken them with you or buy them when you stop for lunch. Which again isn’t great. The waterfall you visit is beautiful, flip flops aren’t suitable. The Turkish bath was lovely but very dark and dingy and the massage was more like a tickle and not much was explained. During both the jeep and boat trips we were told it was all inclusive but had to pay for chips, ice cream and other drinks. I would go back to marmaris and recommend it to people just NEVER stay at the ideal panorama unless you want to be very disappointed, with a small dirty pool, tiny room and so many stairs you never want to see another set again! As it’s so cheap to eat etc out there it would be fest to either go self catering or half board.

Ideal Panorama is not a hotel for the people who are having trouble walking or climbing stairs, because believe me there are an awful lot of stairs to climb, but I think apart from the mountain climbing and the stairs it is a very nice hotel

The hotel is awful, staff are really rude. Have to climb 882919 stairs to get to rooms that are full of ants and aggressive cats full of fleas surround the hotel. Wouldn’t stay again if I was paid to checked out early and stayed elsewhere