Dobedan Exclusive Hotel & Spa ''Ex Brand Alva Donna Exclusive Hotel & Spa''

Our stay at Dobedan was truly exceptional. The high level of organization and the exceptional care provided by the Kids Club staff made our vacation truly memorable. Our child absolutely adored the Kids Club and the dedicated staff members, David, Vika, Katya, and Masha. They were incredibly kind and attentive, ensuring our child was always engaged and happy. This allowed us to relax and enjoy our time by the beach or pool without any worries. The services at Dobedan were top-notch. The food, drinks, and entertainment options were fantastic. Having visited Turkey before, we can confidently recommend Dobedan to anyone seeking a fantastic vacation experience. One small suggestion we have is to consider improving the Kids Club's infrastructure to better withstand light rain. A minor renovation could help keep the space dry and comfortable, even during unexpected weather conditions.

I will start by saying that this was a great experience for us (family of 2 + 2 kids below 10 years of age), as the hotel covers anybody's needs. We were welcomed in a somewhat separate area, connected by a bridge to the main building and pool areas. This separate building is more luxurious at first glance, more quiet and has separate restaurant (for breakfast and dinner, if you want to avoid the more crowded main restaurant), separate pool, patisserie and a big bar. The resort had many bars (even a sports bar where we watched Euro 24 games), has many pools, great beach area and waterslides for kids and for adults. You can't get bored, thirsty, or hungry, as you have everything everywhere (starbucks, snacks, ice cream, cocktails, etc.). The food is varied and delicious and the drinks give you a wide choice (many imported quality drinks). You have a lot of daily activities like water polo, archery, volleyball, football) and evening shows are great. If there is one negative thing that I would mention, is that this is the most pro-Russian hotel I have ever seen. I have been in more than 10 hotels in Turkey, I know that russians are in big numbers there, but Dobedan was created solely for russians - russian reception, russian activity crew, russian bartenders and waiters...you could barely find a Turkish staff. Their service is great, so I have nothing bad to say. You just have to accept that you won't be doing too much English talking around the resort - during our 8 days stay, we only encountered 3 Romanian families and one Arab family - the rest, russian speakers. Anyway, overall, amazing time, great hotel, would recommend anyone to try it.

Is a beautiful five stars hotel it have a lots of activities spectacles clubs bars and shops. The pools are very good because the temperature of the water and the outside temperature are the same. At the sea they have turtles and they are not very friendly. I recomand it and is very good.

First of all I would like to start with the positives which are the hotel is beautiful it’s very clean and beds are very comfortable, cleaners work very hard and they are constantly working hard to make the hotel look lovely. The negatives for us as a family were: 50% of staff were rude and also felt like they avoided us and served others before us when going for lunch and you were lucky to even get a smile from some staff. We tried to speak some Turkish as to be polite and staff really appreciated this but we found some rude it would of been nice to see the English flag but I think every other country but ours was up, I was even stood at the pool bar where 3 others came along and got served before me and it wasn’t even busy! We were one of maybe 2 English family’s, I know you can’t help who is on the hotel but even entertainment and pool games weren’t repeated in English this is our 6th time to Turkey and this is a first for us. Food hall was dangerous as other visitors were pushing shoving or rude again a first for us and we have been to many all inclusive hotels. Food options weren’t very varied a lot of casseroles and not very warm. Shops inside hotel including hairdressers were double the price of the shops outside the hotel. Entertainment was on really late as to previous hotels we’ve been to and only usually 30mins it took us a while to find out where kids entertainment was as in previously all done on the same stage. I think it would be helpful if staff had a badge on with the flags of what languages they spoke as I was concerned as children were climbing up the water slides when not on (obviously down to parents but I wanted to make them aware). If you forget to take your phone to lunch your done for too no menus just QR codes to scan I know it’s probably easier when there is so many languages but would be nice to look at a menu especially in the À la carte restaurant we just had to scan and didn’t even know how to order ect. Pool games were fun but our 11 year old was disappointed he wasn’t allowed on the inflatable, Overall we had mare negatives this is why we scored low, but if a few changes could be made I’m sure it would be a 5star