The Olive Garden Hotel is a newly built family run hotel located close to one of the most beautiful beaches of the Datca peninsula. If you and your family are looking for a quiet holiday in a spectacular natural environment then the Olive Garden Hotel is perfect for you.
Modern rooms with balconies and sea views, a lovely landscaped garden, charming outdoor restaurant and swimming pool. The hotel offers a wonderful location in which you can sample traditional Turkish cuisine and culture. There are often performances from local musicians and dancers in both traditional and contemporary styles which makes for a wonderful Turkish evening. After a few rakis you will probably find yourself on the dance floor as well!
The stunning coastline is unspoilt and unsurpassed in its beauty. Be one of the first to enjoy this as yet undiscovered gem of the Turkish Coast. Local people are very friendly and the Hotel Owner's fell in love with this place so much they decided to live here and now want to share the experience with everyone else. The stunning pine tree mountains are ideal for trekking, mountain biking and general exploring. The clear blue sea is also perfect for sailing, snorkeling and fishing.
The Olive Garden Hotel has fourteen, air conditioned, en-suite rooms. There are a mixture of single, double, triple and family rooms with balconies and sea views. The hotel was newly built and furnished in 2005.
There is a wonderful assortment of main courses, snacks and mezze available all day as well as soft and alcoholic drinks. Food is freshly prepared with local organic ingredients and a fantastic array of vegetarian and non-vegetarians dishes including fresh fish. Nermin the Owner is also more than happy to cook any special request you may have. The restaurant's delicious food is extremely reasonably priced. Breakfast is included in the room price and consists of seasonal fruits and vegetables, fresh yogurt, home baked bread, cheese, jams, honey and olives.
Lamb stewed with garlic and herbs, seafood, in particular swordfish and red mullet. Dolma, stuffed vine leaves, is a common starter or main course. Vegetarians should sample the tasty imam bayildi - sliced aubergine with a tomato and onion sauce with spices, or meze, a course of starters such as hummous, tzatziki and fried haloumi cheese, served with delicious Turkish bread and olives. Desserts are sweet and sticky, squidgy cakes, or honey and nut pastries. Tea, served without milk, but with sugar, is the most popular drink. The local spirit is raki - a strong aniseed flavoured grape brandy. Turkish coffee is served black, sweet and strong. During your free time there will also be the opportunity to learn how to prepare some classic Turkish recipes yourself.
There is a wonderful swimming pool in the garden where you can cool down any time you like. The views of the mountains behind you and the sea in front are truly breathtaking
The hotel has a charming garden where you can enjoy a game of backgammon, chess or OK, the local game of choice. It also provides guest with a place to sit peacefully with an afternoon tea while breathing in the thyme and pine scented air of one of nature's healthiest locations.
The Hotel staff can help you to hire cars, bikes or a boat. As well as organising trips to other parts of Turkey and the Greek Islands
"We're in the awards season, and following the Baftas, Oscars and Crufts comes my nomination for travel-writing cliche of the year. It's that adjective "undiscovered", usually paired with "gem", "cove" or "corner". How ironic that the more it's trotted out, the harder it becomes to find somewhere off the tourist radar. But last summer I found somewhere that came pretty close: the Datca Peninsula, which stretches south towards the islands of Rhodes and Symi, about 20 miles west of Marmaris on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
Exploring the area was like stepping back 50 years - oops, these cliche are catching - to a time when the scrubby herb-scented Mediterranean coastline dropped to the sea without a dividing fringe of hotels and bars and coast roads. The land is a national reserve, vast tracts of its mountains and pine forests untouched by development."
The Telegraph, Saturday, 18th March, 2006, Joanna Symons. Family Holidays: And a river ran through it.