Montana Pine Resort

I just returned from Montana Pine resort few days ago. My partner and I had a great holiday, but the hotel is disappointing. There are some great things about it such as location, views, space, cleanliness, comfort. But there is no way this hotel can still stand on those 4 stars. Oh my, it’s outdated! It looks like this hotel had its time 15-20 years ago. The restaurant is more like a canteen, rooms are old fashioned. Food is really boring and dry. You get exact same pasta dish, rice mixed with vermicelli, chewy chicken and some selection on meat dishes. On a plus side you get to wide choices of cakes but only if you like cakes. Limited choice of fruit. First 3 days you will be fine because of novelty, then you will get bored and frustrated. We end up having lovely dinners outside the hotel. Live entertainment is probably the same level of embarrassing as in other resorts: bingo nights, dancers with lights and funky live singers. Each to their own. We went once, it gave us a good chuckle. Majority of staff got a weird attitude and patronising comments. Some even appeared quite rude as if being bothered by hotel quests. You may say it’s cultural differences, but working in international hotel where one pays £1000 per week is enough to fix your staffs attitude. Hotel also arranged car rental for us only to be later be cheated by them. On a positive side hotel management sorted the issue out. So that was good. Although we had a great time in Ölüdeniz Location, we won’t be returning to Montana Pine resort again.

Having spent a week at the Montana Pine Resort in the hills above Hisaronu and Oludeniz we can recommend this hotel for a relaxing and good value for money holiday. Covid restrictions were in place at the time of our stay, so guests had to wear a face mask when going to get food or drink. Apart from that slight inconvenience things were fairly normal. Guests had their temperature checked on return if they'd been out of the hotel. ROOM Rooms are in blocks of two floors, the design of which is somewhat alpine in style. Ours was a standard mountain view room on the upper floor as requested before we arrived. At first we thought the standard rooms were those with a small balcony at one end of the hotel grounds, but were pleased to find ours had a decent size, albeit narrow, balcony. We were glad not to have paid extra for a valley view room since the mountain view rooms have the benefit of shade in the afternoon. The bathroom was a good size with a large walk in shower, while the room had a chair, safe, wardrobe hangars, shelves, dressing table with mirror, small flat screen TV, kettle with tea & coffee, and a fridge. The fridge wasn't stocked with soft drinks and beer like you'd get in some AI resorts such as the Caribbean. The only real gripe about the room was the lack of a second bedside table as only one side of the bed had one. GROUNDS Grounds were fairly extensive and well manicured with lots of pine trees. A downside is the noisy cicadas in the trees which often made a racket for much of the day. There were good views from most parts of the hotel, especially at the sunset terrace where you can watch the paragliders flying off the nearby mountain down to Oludeniz. AMENITIES There are three pools, two of which are near the main building. Each pool has its own bar, but they don't all open at the same time. If you're at the upper pool its bar opens later than the one a few steps below by the main pool which has a waterfall. We never had a problem getting sunbeds despite the usual sunbed hoggers you get at every hotel (a group of about 8-10 people had a habit of “reserving” sunbeds then not using them for most of the day). When the hotel is at high occupancy it may be an issue. Besides the pool bars and lobby bar there's also a sunset bar at the top of the resort which is open for about an hour in the evening. Up there is seating to watch the sunset or just enjoy the mountain and sea views at any time of day. Other amenities are mini golf, a small shop, and a taxi station outside the hotel. FOOD & DRINK The main restaurant is buffet style for breakfast, dinner and lunch. Due to Covid it wasn't the usual self-service, you had to tell the staff what you wanted and they would plate it for you. I suspect that both staff and guests will be happy when things are back to normal. An improvement would be to provide sauces for the meat and fish. The food was nicely cooked but could be a bit dry without a sauce. Drink selection on the AI was good and included some spirits and cocktails. The only wine I tried was the red which looked a bit thin but tasted good. Juice portions at breakfast, and the wine at lunch & dinner, were small which necessitated repeated trips to the bar. For lunch we used the snack bar by the main pool where they had burger, pizza, pasta and a few other things. Then in the afternoon ice cream was available between 2:30 and 4, and later there was afternoon tea. Unfortunately we weren't able to try the a la carte restaurant because it was fully booked and only open two nights a week. On friday evenings they do a BBQ style night with tables set up around the main pool and music playing.

We spent a week at the Montana Pine Resort, after having another holiday curtailed due to Covid-19. The hotel is rated as a 4 star plus which was the reason we chose it, and based on the location, tranquility, pools and grounds I would say this is correct However once inside the rooms I would say it’s more a 3 star property, the bedrooms and bathrooms are dated and the beds are quite uncomfortable. The balconies are very small and house the a/c unit, which in our room leaked onto the balcony continually - the staff did try to rectify the issue but all it did was slow the drip down. As we were all inclusive meals and drinks were part of the deal, the choice of food is really limited and poorly thought out as there were meals where nothing seemed to go together. However all of the cakes were always fantastic. The drinks were as to be expected, local spirits and beers. The staff at the hotel are friendly and accommodating (especially the young girl at the Dolphin bar) and this is one of the hotels saving graces. This hotel with a bit of updating could be spectacular, but until then it is definitely more 3 star.