The Raga Side Hotel

"Just home from a wonderful stay at this adult only hotel. The staff were excellent—friendly, welcoming, and always happy to help. The hotel was very clean and well maintained, which made our stay even more enjoyable. The food and drinks were also very good, with plenty to choose from and the app works great for ordering both. Shout out to both food stations (Asian and Pasta) they cook your food to order and with ingredients you choose. Overall, a fantastic experience and we would happily stay here again. Highly recommended!"

"Another Lovely Stay at the Raga Hotel ❤️🇹🇷 We’ve just returned from another lovely stay at the Raga Hotel, and once again the staff have been a huge part of what makes this hotel special. We did have a little blip at the start of our holiday when we were put in the annexe. We tried it, but unfortunately it wasn’t what we had booked and we didn’t really like it. However, the hotel listened to us and rectified this for us, moving us to where we had originally booked. We really appreciated how they dealt with this and sorted it out for us. A special mention has to go to Fırat Ramadaz, Berkan (Junior), Sertan and his wingman at the food station, who have looked after us for the past three years. They always greet us with the biggest smiles, keep our drinks topped up and cook lovely fresh food for us. It’s so nice to see the same friendly faces every year. Also a big thank you to Tuba, and the lovely lady at the pide station — I’m sorry I don’t know her name! She was always so friendly and made us delicious pide. ❤️ The staff really do make this hotel special. They work so hard, are always smiling and genuinely make you feel welcome. Thank you to everyone at the Raga Hotel for another great holiday. We’ll definitely be back! ❤️🇹🇷"

"This was our 1st visit to this Hotel, we usually go to the bigger AI hotels but opted for this with it being Adults only and smaller so less people Upon arrival we were shown to our room with our luggage, everything explained about the room, the App etc We went down to the 24hr bar to have the obligatory 1st drink and try out the app and ordered food, all good so far Our 1st morning we went down to locate our sunloungers for the day then went for breakfast Had a relaxing day by the pool, ordering drinks via the app and being waited on, pure relaxation, if you want to get involved in the games you go down to the Anexxe hotel and pool near the beach We arrived in time for the Gala Night to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the opening of Raga, what a fab night it was from start to finish The food at this hotel is really good, the buffet selection in the main restaurant is good, plenty of choice but also you can order from the app, they have sample dishes on show so you can make your choice and it is cooked to order and no restrictions on what you order, you can also eat down at the beach bar which has a good selection of food, in the evening it is the same but also includes cooking stations outside serving either pasta or noodles all cooked in front of you with your choice of ingredients also a BBQ where you choose what you want and they cook it. 2 Al a carte restaurants are vailable too but I can't comment as we didn't try them Drinks are available 24hr, the Lobby Bar is open till 11pm then the bar downstairs is the 24hr bar, bar down at beach bar is open till 11pm too and also that is where the evening entertainment is, this is just a 2 minute stroll down towards the beachfront, which is a nice stroll past a few shops, lovely atmosphere Rooms are lovely, cleaned and clean towels every day, fridge replenished every day Shower gel provided in the shower, hand-wash, plus small bottles of shampoo, conditioner and shower gel, hairdryer Entertainment was good, some shows better than others but all in all was good You can walk into Side old town along the beachfront, turn left at the bottom of the street, you pass bars, restaurants and shops and it's a nice 30 minute stroll to the old town, on an evening the atmosphere is buzzing The Staff at Raga are so friendly and always smiling and chatting, can't fault them in any way The sunlounger situation isn't monitored properly even though there are signs up, people are reserving sunloungers before 7am which is fine but when they don't turn up till after 1pm it's a bit annoying but suppose you get that wherever you go My only negative point is the sunloungers around the main pool are a bit tired, they also have sunloungers on the grass area but they don't have parasols ( not sure why) which in the mid day heat can be a bit overwhelming All in all we had a fab holiday, would we return? Already booked to go back"