Orka Lotus Beach

Super nettes Personal, Hygiene top, Lage und Strand sehr schön ausgestattet, sehr schön auch für Kleinkinder

We had a wonderful stay at this hotel. It was extremely clean and well maintained. The food was delicious, with a great variety and high quality at every meal. All the staff were friendly, welcoming, and genuinely attentive to guests.

We would especially like to thank Faysal, who went above and beyond for us. He did more than expected, helped us with everything we needed, and made us feel truly at home. His professionalism, kindness, and warm attitude made our stay even more enjoyable.

We would definitely choose this hotel again and highly recommend it to others. Thank you for everything.

Food is very tasteful. A lot of choice. Rooms with (side)seaview are wonderful. Staff is helpful. When you ask for another room when your door is not working properly, and you waited 2x an hour for technical service, you will get it.

Nice hotel but definitely not 5 star.
À la carte restaurants not available to book all week leaving us with only one choice (Chinese) on the last night. You only get one à la carte per week and the rest is charged extra.
The hotel advertise wheelchair friendly but there is no access to the beach for a wheelchair user. There is no sun lounge availability by the pool or on the beach after 8am. We ended up sitting on the restaurant chairs all day.
Cabanas are advertised on hotel photos but they are not part of the standard offering. This is very misleading. Specially when you travelling with reduced mobility person.
The guest relations team leader was very unprofessional and obnoxious. They have made a mistake with booking our cabana (mislead on the price) and were not helpful in any way to resolve the problem. We were told that the booking price might have changed because there was national holiday.
It seems there are different prices for different nationalities. The guest relations team did not try and resolve the situation just left us with children and disabled husband ( who can’t access the beach ) to sit in our room.
For 5 star hotel you would expect the staff would at least try and resolve difficult and upsetting situation instead of making you feel uncomfortable.
Little things but it ruins your holidays.
Water park has 8 inflatable rings available so if you unlucky you could be waiting for an hour before you can slide.
No irons available, laundry service available charged £3 per item.

Me and my family stayed here for 4 nights in May 2026. We travelled with our 6 month old.

Jacuzzi Room.

We opted for the Jacuzzi Room with the 4 poster bed, it was lovely, modern, clean and reasonably well maintained. We were in room 8103, the tap on our Jacuzzi wasnt working propperly, the switch kept popping up which sends the water through the showerhead. It wasnt a big issue just means it takes longer to fill the jacuzzi. The only thing about the Jacuzzi room is that you are in a seperate building at the back of the hotel grounds with no sea view. Theres quite a few steps up to the building (approx 30) and no lift so its not ideal if you have a pram like we did but again not a major problem unless your mobillity is limited.

Air-con

Being Scottish this is a major priority for us so we can escape the heat to more familliar temps and ensure a comfortable nights sleep.

Really frustratingly, the hotel has applied a cemtralised lock to the aircon restricting it to a minimum of 20 degrees - its 18 degrees in most other hotels (which i still think is too high). I can only assume they've done this as a cost saving measure which means if you're like us and enjoy a cool room to sleep in, you need to get inventive and trick the sensor so that it constantly pushes out cool air, you can find out how to do this using any AI bot. Plus youll have to forgo a room key to leave it in the slot. 2 degrees doesnt sounfd like much but you'll 100% feel it and notice the difference. It would be great if the hotel reduced this to 18 degrees in line with most other hotels.

Food

Quick note: Theres a 2 hour period of the day where theres no resteraunt or snack bars serving food between 5pm and 7pm this caught us out both on the day we arrived and the day we left so plan around this. In an ideal scenario the hotel will recieve this feedback and make changes such that theres no gap.

I Have attached their information including meal timings.

The food was good, no major complaints always a fair few options at each meal time breakfast is great for kids wity pancakes, pan au chocolat, cereals and so on.

We tried the Turkish alacarte resteraunt which was lovely with some of if not the best views I've seen in a resteraunt.

Service.

This is where its a bit hit and miss. In general the staff are lovely, warm, welcoming and helpful. As an example our son must have kicked off his socks in the Turkish resteraunt and the waiter went out of his way the day after to come and find us to return the socks, I thought this going well above expectation and really appreciated his kindness.

The only time service was lacking is at the main resteraunt during meal times, one night we sat at the lower balcony overlooking the sea and the waiter respobsible for that area walked past our table 3 times and didnt bother to take our drinks order despite there being no drinks on the table. When I got back from getting our own drinks at the bar he made a comment along the lines of "come on this is my job", well he wasnt very attentive at his job. I appreciate we could have asked him directly when he was passing but in Scottish culture this could be percieved as a bit rude given he could have been busy with another order. In contrast when we stayed at the Prime Beach hotel the year prior you were barely sat in your seat before a waiter was taking your drink order and they were always back with your drinks within 2 minutes and would make sure your glass never ran empty, thats the gold standard when it comes to service.

Location

The hotel is situated on the beachfront roughly 1.5k from Icemeller (15 min walk) and Marmaris (30 - 45min walk depending on how far into Marmaris youre going. You can get to either via the beachfront promenade or by using tue local Dolum busses which run every 5-10 mins or so and are paid in Turkish lira. Its far enough away from both to be relatively tranquil at night while being close enough to be practical. Its about 2 - 2.5 hours drive from Dalaman airport so I'd reccomend private transfers. The company we used charged £110 for the return trip and it was a lovely LWB Merc Sprinter converted to a luxuary minibus. Money well spent in my opinion as due to the hotels location, you'd likely be stopping at several hotels en route from the airport taking your drive from the airport to over 3.5 hours.

Hotel Layout

The layout is quite strange there are multiple buildings in the complex and each have multiple floors, the main building has 6 floors ranging from -3 to +3 with the reception being in the middle and resteraunts and pools spread across multiple floors so it takes a day or 2 to get your bearings.

LIfts / Elevators

This is an issue if you have young kids with a pram and a real pain in the ass if you have multiple prams, the lifts are tiny only fitting mabe 4 or 5 people in (without any prams) add a pram and youre down to 3 adults max. Every day we would have to wait at the lift shafts for multiple turns. Theyre always busy and theres just not enough space in them. Its a real problem if youre in the middle floors at trying to get up or down as often the lift will arrive going up but its full so you cant get on with or without a pram and when it arrives back on the way down its full again with people going past your floor. So I would absolutely not reccomend this hotel if you're bringing a pram.

The £215 Private Rentable Cabanas

There are 6 of these though only one has a jacuzzi. They sell it as you have your own wauter but in truth its the same waiter servicing all 6 of the cabanas so you can only order additional drinks or food as and when the waiter chooses to come in and check on you which is maybe every 45 mins.

We asked to see the menu before bookimg but they refused to show us it saying wed see it when we arrived which I thought was a bit weird so we took pictures of it and have added it to the review.

The food in the cabana is good, but its just the exact same items from the snack bar, theres no premium meats or snacks the only thing thats a premium is the bottle of cheap champagne. Given the cost to rent the cabana I feel this isnt worth it, yeah its lovely and you have guaranteed sun lounger space and shade but I just dont think its worth 215 quid for a single day from 9.30 am - 6pm.

If the price was a more reasonable 150 and they installed QR codes to speed up tue orderinmg process it would be fair and would have my reccomendation but due to it being £215 I just cant reccomend it. There are other ones available up and down the beach so I'd reccomend looking about, for example Icon offer a simmilar service though I dont know the price and if youre at Prime Beach you can get a cabana for free if you get up early enough, yes youll have 10m walk to the water and a 50m walk to the snack bar but you'll save £200+

Spa

The spa is lovely we opted for a Turkish bath and massage, the prices are very negotiable through Sonny. This one I'd highly reccomend.

Music at the main pool bar.

The music was perfectly to our taste at the main bar we heard Fred Again, Mau P and loads of other house / dance artists whicy gave the hotel a youthful and upbeat vibe, though there are other styles playing in the various other bars.

Summary

We were happy with our stay with our only minor gripes being the lifts, the cost of the cabana and the (at times) sub standard service in terms of getting served a drink in the main resteraunt. We would book again providing we arent taking a pram and the other feedback points are adressed.

We are a family of 5 with daughters aged 11, 13 & 14 and as we travel back to Dalaman airport we’re all feeling very sad to leave (there’s even some teenage tears). We have kept returning for 6 years for two reasons
1. The people. When the wider world can feel full of conflict and extremes, the genuine warmth, kindness and trustworthiness of special people who work at the Orka is an uplifting, heartwarming and inspiring tonic. They offer big smiles, friendly “good mornings”, an appetite for fun, strong work ethic and lots of care and good service. There are many sincerely good people, but our family particularly want to highlight Ural who gave us great service in the main breakfast restaurant but was also good fun and deeply kind around the pool in the afternoon. Mustafa in the restaurant for his attention to detail, anticipating little touches our family would appreciate without us even asking. The multi talented Tolga - currently life guard at the beach - for always being a beaming, friendly presence, making sure we’re safe in the water but with such a joyous spirit. And a special shout out to Rachael and Charlie in guest relations who always offer really excellent, responsive, helpful service - as always they really have gone above and beyond to make our stay extra special.
2. The location. Honestly, it’s so very rare to find a little piece of heaven as stunning as Icmeler and the Orka makes the absolute most of its prime position. Even waiting for the lift at the roof top Blue Bar is a dream! Whether you are gazing out at the ocean and mountains at breakfast, exercising along the long seafront boulevard, taking in the beautiful and well maintained gardens and just watching the water ripple on the sand - you seriously cannot tire of the views. This year we had our 21st wedding anniversary at the Italian al a carte restaurant. The view at twilight was so very memorable, family celebration with the mountains turning orange as the sun set before the moon shon on the water on the bay. Really special times.
PLEASE NOTE : Icmeler is so close to the Greek Islands like Kos (I think <50km) and so very far from any troublesome borders. It feels incredibly safe. Please don’t let scare mongering in the media let you miss out on this treat.

We were served by nizgin and was brilliant service, brilliant fun with child and myself and girlfriend, brilliant service overall thanks very recommended thanks

Mizgin was amazed girl ,she works in Orka Lotus Beach restaurant, was amazing dinner have tonight, very good service, we are really happy whit the waitress

Mizgin is a lovely lovely waitress, very attentive and friendly! Would highly recommend being served by her at dinner time

What can i say the location is perfect and you have the choice of goingvout if you want too

Its our 4 th time time at orka and we just adore the place

The atmosphere is what you choose if you want simple relaxing time you have it there several places you can go

Lobby bar relaxing and chilled you can actually hear yourself think

Roon bar is peaceful and perfect for
Relaxing with friends the cktails are beautiful served in nice glasses which i love

Pine restaurant you cant compain about choice there is something for everyone of all nationalities

Pool bar restaurant
It’s amazing if your there early you will see the food all getting checked for quality pool bar like all over the staff cant do enough for you . And once again food oa amazing

Chinese restaurant
It was enjoyable for a hotel Chinese restaurant the choice was fine and sevice was fabulous

Turkish restaurant

Give you so much food and its high quality

Italian
Omg it was beautiful one of my favs i loved every min the beef was amazing

Pools

You can always find a bed we went the adult pool were you seld serve only isue i drink vodka so i had to go the other bar to get that

Only isue i have is wish one pool was walk in for disabled people

Room
Our room was spectacular walk in wardeobe it was amazing

Amanities perfect
Clean and spotless

Staff
All staf from high to low are so helpful cant wait to go bk in September

Accommodating staff. Good food. Clean. The view.

It was a stunning view. The room was huge, great mattress, big TV, huge bathroom, big shower cabin, big closet, so overall room was great. We liked the buffet, it's usually good variety, good quality. They have two restaurants a la carta and that was fine pretty good as well. The water was in the sea pretty clean and we enjoyed the swimming everyday. The sauna and spa is included and it was nice too. Not the best spa ever been but good enough.

They have a great working path along the water which was great for us. The prices at that time in May your excellent so we enjoyed our stay very much. I believe it gets for expensive during the summer and that area is more expensive than and Antalya usually but at this time it was pretty affordable. Overall 10 out of 10.

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Отличное питание и местоположение

Room was nice

Starfsfólkið, róleg og afslöppuð nærvera.
Frábær slökun og góður matur.

Baseny, prywatna plaża, bar, restauracja, obsługa personelu.