Liman hotel location could not be better. The owner could not be more friendly and the hotel is very pretty and well maintained…and yet, we were not 100% convinced.
We were given a room with a back view over a roof. We found the 200 euro we paid too much for such a small room. When we were shown the upstairs restaurant with magical Sea views over the marina while the owner boasted about their real woodfired pizza oven we decided to have dinner there. We should not have: the pizza chef is clearly less proud of his oven than the owner and produces loveless, tasteless unremarkable disks that only look like pizzas. We tried a slice each and left. (The owner only charged us for half the price of the pizzas when he saw we had barely touched them). Went back for breakfast as the spot is magical. Funny enough we could - again - not sit where we wanted even tough the place was empty. While breakfast was included we had not choice, only the Turkish big breakfast was free, any other options were paying. One wonders why?Tea included, coffee, juice, not? Yoghurt not, cereal, fruits, not? The bread: everywhere in Turkey we enjoyed nice breads: here is a real pizza oven and they don’t use it? This boutique hotel has all the makings of a top experience, but they - and certainly the pizza chef - got lazy and complacent by their obvious success. We are probably more demanding than most.
