Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum

酒店景色特別好，服務也貼心

The two bedroom Seaview apartment was a perfect layout for our family with two large bedrooms, one with a king bed and one with two singles and two bathrooms with another extra toilet. There was a living area with simple kitchen and a washing machine which was fantastic to have at the end of our holiday. The only negative was the rain shower pressure was quite low. My girls used the hand held shower hose to wash which had better pressure. The gym was amazing with anything you could possibly want and one of the outdoor pools was heated well which was good for this time of year. We preferred to spend time at the pools rather than at the beach which had a concrete barrier presumably to prevent erosion. It was never a problem to get a poolside cabana or umbrella and chair. There was no extra charge to use the cabana. To get around the resort, you could message for a golf buggy, but we preferred to walk and get some exercise. The breakfast was the best breakfast at any hotel we have ever stayed at. Extensive buffet options and you could also choose a wide selection of options from a menu which was included. Anything you could possibly want was available for breakfast. Breakfast staff were very helpful and friendly. When we have resort holidays we like to have all or most of our meals at the resort as we find this easier when we are just having a relaxing holiday. Unfortunately the prices at the food establishments were prohibitive to eating on site. We couldn’t bring ourselves to pay 48 Euros for a burger or 17 Euros for a bowl of fries. A kebab was 50 Euros. Given we had already toured Turkey earlier in the holiday and had many delicious kebabs for a fraction of the price, we couldn’t bring ourselves to spend that sort of money for dinner. The hotel did provide some great local restaurant recommendations and arranged all the reservations easily and efficiently for us. We understand that you usually have to pay more than expected to eat at a resort, but these prices seemed extreme compared to what we have experienced elsewhere in the world. We definitely enjoyed our stay though and will have fond memories of our time in Bodrum. Do not regret booking here but a few tweaks would make this a five star stay.

A difficult review to write as I really love the MO brand. But this property left me disappointed. The pros: - amazing lobby views, one of the best I have ever seen - gorgeous and spacious room with very thoughtful amenities especially for children - very responsive and helpful booking staff / process - very good gym The cons: - the beach has concrete slabs all long (see photo). This makes it unusable especially for small children. We were told this is seasonal (‘to protect the beach’). An element of mis- selling here vs what is looks like on the website. Had we known, we would have certainly not come here (this is not the case at other Bodrum resorts). Very disappointing to come to a luxury beach resort and see the beach like this. - a lot of construction going on making it noisy even on the beach - built on a steep hill requiring buggies for everything - a lot of cars - lining the entry to the resort , even driving inside the resort - small kids club , 2 rooms all indoors; the nice open deck kids club/play area on the website did not exist (or was not functional) - crazy prices. Stayed at MOs the world over - none is as expensive as this for food/spa Overall we thought it was extremely overpriced for the experience. More that that even, quite disappointed that there was not full transparency over the situation at the beach + construction. As a loyal MO fan I expected better.