If you are planning to visit Antalya, the best online hotel reservation website for Antalya is Booking.com. The reason is simple. They have high level business relations with the most established Antalya hotels and provide you the best rates possible in the very competitive Antalya hotel market. Another best feature I can recommend about Booking.com is that you don’t have to pay for reservation. Making reservation for an Antalya hotel is 100% free.

Booking.com has a great lowest price guarantee. Did you find the same hotel room chepater elsewhere with the same booking conditions after you completed reservation with booking.com? No problem. The company will compensate the difference if you apply to them.

There are over 65 of best Antalya hotels in their fee-free reservation program. You can search according to hotel ratings or themes. Just name it. Antalya beach hotels, romantic hotels, luxury Antalya hotels, SPA or budget. Do not forget to read the real customer reviews on the Antalya hotel booking website.

Limak Lara is one of the highest ranked hotels in Antalya by travelers. According to TripAdvisor, Limak Lara hotel has managed to grab 168 Excellent, 67 Very Good, 11 Average and only 9 Poor or terrible ratings.

An example detailed review is below which I have only shortened important points:

Where could you stay in England for a week 5 stars, all inclusive hotel with a mini bar in room , shampoo, shower gel, plasma screen ,safe, beach towels, use of a sauna, steam room, indoor pool, unlimited food/ drinks, high quality animation at this price? We stayed at this hotel 16th March – 23rd March. We payed around £700 for a week… Plus consider social & emotional side. Sincere hospitality and care from personnel and people.

I cannot complain about anything at all.

The Hotel itself is very clean, designed with high sense of quality, lots of places to drink and cool, eastern feeling with relaxing music. Food was first-class, If you cannot find anything to eat here, you need to see a psychologist, everything is ready in the Zen buffet, even a chocolate fountain at breakfast and a guy squeezing fresh juices from different fruits including orange, carrots, apples etc.

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Antalya Mardan Hotel, the pure gold of Turkish heavenly coasts welcomes you, if you want to feel yourself as a contemporary Turkish Sultan for a few days. Mardan Palace Hotel, the most expensive hotel in Europe opened its doors a month ago in Antalya Lara hotels region and shocked the world not only with its ultra high prices (£36 a glass of champagne, £6 for a coke) but also with its overall luxury level. The Azerbaijan billionaire oligarch Telman Ismailov easily buried at least a billion for this hotel making not only himself as famous as Abramovich but also free advertisement for Turkish tourism.

Here are a few remarkable facts about this ultra-star Antalya hotel.

• The hotel was inspired by Dolmabahce Palace, Galata Bridge and Maiden’s Tower of Istanbul
• The Ottoman style rooms decorated with classy objects from fashion idols like Hermes, Gucci.
• 2,500 tons of gold, 500,000 crystals and 23,000 sqms of Italian marble was used in both interior and exterior decoration.
• Swimming pool is one of the largest pools of the world. There is also a river like pool where gondolas can carry you in 30 minutes from one end to the other.
• 4 large aquariums to reflect different seas
• The private beach silky sands are brought from Egypt, 9,000 tons
• There are over 10 restaurants featuring all types of Turkish and world cuisine and 14 bars and clubs.

If you have a chance to afford some days staying in this hotel, do not miss the life time experience.

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Aspendos is an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya Serik region, mostly famous for its antique Roman Empire theater which holds the title of best preserved ancient amphitheater in Turkey. It was built in 2 AD and dedicated to Emperor Markus Aurelius. One of the most spectacular ancient views you can see as a traveller waits for you.

Throughout the history, Aspendos was always a popular city and had seen many invasions. At Seljuk times, it was used as a caravansary. There are also various Roman structures nearby including basilica, agora, nymphaeum and a long 15 kms long Roman aqueduct.

Because of its excellent acoustic properties, Aspendos ballet and opera festival is held each year attracting thousands of local and international music and art lovers. It has a seating capacity of 17,000 people.

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One of the most deluxe ultra all inclusive 5 star hotels of Lara Region in Antalya. If you want an elegant summer holiday, Club Hotel Sera will give more than you imagined. A private clean beach near the hotel with all water and regular sports activities, some of them are free of charge including tennis, Ping-Pong, basketball, fitness center, darts, aerobics. Sauna and Turkish bath is available also for free. There are four regular open buffet restaurants. Besides, the hotel has lots of specialty gourmet restaurants free of charge which need only reservation and a small tip amount (2 euros for person). These include Oliva Mediterranean, Safran Turkish, Mongolian restaurants. You can enjoy Asian restaurant, Bistro Royal as well. Lots of bars, pool bar and a disco which is open until 03.00. There is one outdoor main pool, 2 activity pools with water slides and one indoor pool as well. Live music and animations continue 7 days of the week. The hotel is large featuring over 540 rooms including 3 deluxe, 3 superior and 1 Ottoman palace suite. All food and drinks including import ones (Generally they are high quality spirits like Baileys, Malibu, Archers, Bacardi etc. are free. Your room minibar is also refreshed everyday with water, mineral water and fruit juices. You pay only for deluxe import drinks and fresh real fruit juices. Overall, it is a high quality luxurious hotel in Antalya where you can fully entertain and leave with very nice memories.

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Known also simply as Antalya Museum, it is one of the largest museums of Turkey. Actually, the foundation is owed to Italians ironically who occupied Antalya and south region of Turkey by the result of First World War. It is told that some Italian archeologists were carrying the valuable archeological items which was found around to Italian consulate. At that time, a teacher named Suleyman Fikri Bey seeing the danger, managed to assign himself as voluntary officer of antiquities by government decision and established a small museum at 1919 and have begun to collect items as well. Today, the museum is large and operates on 13 exhibition halls including ancient natural history hall (fossils, bones), prehistory hall, proto and classic period halls (Neolithic, Calcolithic, Early Bronze Age, Hellenistic age objects), the hall of Emperors which presents the golden age of Roman Empire with beautiful sculptures, the hall of burials tombs, the hall of mosaics and icons which includes Byzantine period, coins hall, Turkish-Islamic hall, ethnography section and a special children hall which presents toys, moneyboxes of ancient times.

More than additional 30,000 items are in the depots of the museum and can not be presented because of space problem.

You can visit the museum on Konyaalti region on center daily except Monday. Here is a view from an hall and a youtube video

Antalya Museum at Wikipedia