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Calis Beach Forum => Hotels, Private Rentals in Calis - Questions and Information => Topic started by: Scunner on August 05, 2016, 20:53:13 PM

Title: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Scunner on August 05, 2016, 20:53:13 PM: Not only have they flattened half of Calis and laid it to lawn with trees, the hotel is now so big that the Mutlu Hotel could almost fit in their kids pool

https://www.tatilsepeti.com/Otel_Orient_Life_Hotel.aspx

There could be disappointment ahead
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Highlander on August 05, 2016, 21:01:39 PM: When will it be operational ?
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Scunner on August 05, 2016, 21:04:15 PM: It has been for decades
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Anne on August 05, 2016, 21:42:57 PM: It looked derelict when we passed it in May. The roadside entrances was filthy with weeds everywhere and it looked completely desolate.
How old is that link Keith?
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: LeeGlo on August 05, 2016, 21:45:47 PM: I take it this is an artists "impression" of the finished article - ah well another "off-plan" disappointment coming up.
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Scunner on August 05, 2016, 22:10:00 PM: It was finished years ago - it's the scale of it - look at the seafront hotels. The Mutlu would fit into one room. Then the green area on the left - it covers up many bar street establishments.

I wish I hadn't bothered tbh :D
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: IanK on August 06, 2016, 09:40:37 AM: Ha ha,

it's not even facing the right way is it - obviously they gave that job to trainee Photoshop'er on his first day at work.

Ian
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Steve A on August 06, 2016, 10:49:00 AM: You may be a bit disappointed if you turn up expecting a huge hotel set in rolling lawns in an isolated location
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Toky on August 06, 2016, 20:32:02 PM: We walked in through it a couple of years ago and it was awful. :o
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Scunner on August 06, 2016, 20:45:23 PM: Quote from: IanK on August 06, 2016, 09:40:37 AM
Ha ha,

it's not even facing the right way is it

That's right - the rows and rows of rooms that are shown facing the sea actually face up towards the aquapark :D
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Bluwise on August 06, 2016, 22:14:56 PM: Jeez, that place looks minty.
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Scunner on August 06, 2016, 22:23:04 PM: No more sundowners at the Kerim for you Bluwise, it's been turfed over :D
Title: Re: Amazing What They Have Done With The Orient Hotel (previously Hotel Aries)
Post by: Menthol on August 06, 2016, 23:15:42 PM: First time my eldest son saw the Orient he said,

'How utterly p*ssed off would you be if your transfer coach dropped you off here for your first Calis holiday? It's like you stepped back in time to 1974. What sort of designer thinks a giant ogre's hand holding a ball of Playdoh is conducive to a great holiday experience?'

I remember it every time I drive past and laugh.