Ela Excellence Resort Belek

Great hotel, clean, with lots to do for all the family. Great staff, good choice of food. A lot of pools, good entertainment day and night.. loved the patisserie for afternoon cake and ice cream. The only negative for us was that the sea was too choppy for our 5 year old. Fab beach though.

The hotel is beautiful with plenty of pool space and greenery to relax or have fun. Plenty of things to do to keep busy if you like such as fitness classes outside, water polo and poolside entartainment. Kids club is excellent with fun activities in Q city and the soft play are in it is realy good. You can stay in it with your kid as well if you arent comfortable leaving your kid alone in foreign countries, like myself, so could take a half hour each with the mrs while the other half disapeers to relax with a cocktail or 2. Entartainment in the ampitheatre has some excellent shows that the kids and adults enjoyed. We stayed in the lakehouses which felt like a slice of paradise away from the main pools. Realy stunning and picturesque. The pier on the beach is excellent to get a bit of breeze while topping the tan up and has a good bar on it. They also have a party at night on it once a week which was excellent. Only 5 euros into belek centre by taxi. My only fault is the food. The reviews of the food on other posts was a reason I chose the place. It was pretty poor. The kids menu in the buffet is boiled buckwheat, boiled veg, boiled chicken sausage or the cheapest processed chicken schnitzel that is just basicaly chicken flavoured maze. The adults was constantly a bolognesse station every single night, a lot of fish dishes, fried lamb meatballs, turkish pizza ( minced lamb topping), boiled or fried veal, lamb kebabs which was really chewy fat, sushi bar, spaghetti steak which is just cut up strips of beef fried and no sauce or garlic butter, ukranian soup and grilled chicken with a really thick fatty skin or boiled chicken. The odd night there was something nice like the shredded duck or a station that had a noodlea and beef in a sauce. There is a lot of salad options however but no cold gammon etc. We ended up eating out on belek quit a bit to be honest to feel satisfied that we werent just eating to curb the hunger but to enjoy what we were eating. I am by no means a fussy eater and my wife and kid (3 years) are, but even I struggled. It is very evident the hotel caters food towards eastern europeans and russians. They could have had themed nights such as indian, chineese, italian, mexican to make the food appeal to everyone. At the buffet there was no burgers, fajitas, chicken nuggets, pizza, ribs, fish or chicken goujons, currys, different pasta options, chillie, baked beans, rissoto, baked potato. The list could go on.

We stayed at the Ela quality resort in a premiere suite .Fabulous suite.All the Staff were extremely attentive in the hotel including bars and restaurants .Fully inclusive very good value for money.Lots of facilities enjoyed cinema