Akşehir Özpark Hotel — Hotel in Akşehir

Firstly, let me say that the Reception staff here are excellent, warm and welcoming and helpful. They are at pains to offer a good service and it was much appreciated.||||The rooms are of a good standard - some minor ware and tear, but generally very clean and tidy, though it was evident that it had been smoked in, both by the smell and a couple of burns on the carpet. There doesn't seem to be any non-smoking policy in bedrooms in Turkish hotels, which is a shame Even though we had a road side room, the noise was not intrusive and sleep quality was very good. Lovely shower room and plenty of hot water.||||Now for the bigger issue as far as I am concerned - the 'restaurant'. This is actually rather a grandiose term, for what is actually more like a canteen. There were two members of staff supervising the dinner 'service', neither of which were particularly welcoming. The choices on the buffet were limited and certainly nothing special. Happily, the breakfast was a better experience. The young lady in charge in the morning was welcoming and a better advert for the hotel. There was a very good choice of breakfast fare, with breads, pastries, cheeses, eggs, cold meats olives, yogurt etc.||||For the info of non-muslim visitors, the spa and swimming pool have a strict policy on no mixed use and time slots are allocated for their use by men and women at various times. The Reception will inform you of these. Also, the 'bar' only offers coffees and teas, so don't expect to sit and relax with a glass of wine or a beer.||||Others staying in the hotel, seemed to be mainly Turkish business people, plus a group that I suspect were attending a course somewhere near by.||||Overall, I would not object to staying here again and if you are looking for a hotel in Aksehir, you could probably do much worse...

This is a very high quality building. The staff are very helpful though they do almost no English. We appreciated that one staffer walked us about 3 blocks to a restaurant they recommended which proved to be excellent. It could easily have won five stars if only two problems were overcome. Though we request smoke-free rooms, this room definitely had a pretty strong smell of cigarette smoke. We get the impression that foreign tourists may very seldom visit here, so perhaps it's impossible in the local culture to keep a number of rooms smoke free. (Our friends traveling with us happened to get a smoke-free room). Also, even though it was quite cold outside, the room was unusually hot. Even when we got up in the middle of the night to turn on the air conditioning (which should not be needed when it's cold outside) it never got cool enough to sleep comfortably. Finally, we just opened the window to cool off the room. But then some big dogs were fighting just outside making a lot of noise that kept us from getting to sleep. My friend and I tried the sauna at night but found it cooled off and needing a lot of time to heat up. We suppose it's really a great sauna and pool when you get there at the right time. A hotel with a lot of potential, but that needs to deal with a...

Özpark Hotel is pretty nice. The lobby is big, the rooms are reasonably well sized, and the breakfast selection is good. When I was there, the cooling didn't work, which was a bit annoying, but I just opened the window, even if that means listening to those annoying Muslim prayers they always broadcast throughout the whole city. The Wi-Fi doesn't work, but that should come as no surprise. The water pressure in the shower is TERRIBLE. I suggest tilting it as much as you can so that the water collects and pours out the a bit harder on the end. It barely pours water out at all, you can...