Hiya,

We stayed at Club Julian for two weeks in June last year. We had a nice holiday but for the money we paid we could have booked somewhere better.

The place was mobbed!!!! We had quite a difficult three year old with us who was too small for the slides, wasn't into the kiddies disco and was trying to run riot so not a nice easy relaxing holiday for us, as we didn't let him run riot!!! We ended up going every other night down to Club Atrium as Bar Havana has a great kiddies play area.

The hotel itself was clean enough and the rooms were okay, we were in the hotel half board and the food was good, the puddings out of this world!!! Not a great deal to eat if you have fussy children though.

The drinks inside the hotel were very expensive, at £2 a go for a coke from the pool bar, there were three of us and five times a day this works out quite expensive. Although they complain about it, we ended up buying cans of coke etc from the hotel shop and using them by the pool, even at that they were still twice the price of the little shop across the road but it was convenience.

The hotel operates on a wristband so no cash is spent inside the hotel complex at all, I found this very good as it saved me worrying where I'd left my purse lying (I always lose it!) and it meant you didn't have to worry about your purse whilst in the pool, as you could hide your wristband easier.

We didn't go into marmaris every night, we went in a few times, but there were plenty of good bars/restaurants around the Armutalan area that had good entertainment and fantastic staff, such as Mad Boys, The Rainbow and Bar Havana.

Trying to think of what else you would need/want to know. The slides at the hotel Julian are quite busy, but ideal for keeping older kids entertained. Theres a very small kiddies pool for younger children. There's the Airtours childrens clubs which are good although we maybe only used it once. The Airtours entertainment reps at this hotel are great, the usual rubbishy rep type entertainment but a good laugh and they work their backsides off!

We met some friends who had an apartment rather than a hotel room, one couple had one of the older apartments which hadn't yet been done up, they said it was smelly/dirty (I didn't personally see it). Another group of friends had a refurbished two bedroom apartment above the restaurant which was lovely, modern and had an excellent view of the pool and the mosque at the back of the hotel. I was quite jealous of their apartment.

Personally, I wouldn't book a hotel room, I would book an apartment and go self catering, you can always upgrade to half board once you are there for not really any difference in price. If anything it will prob work out cheaper. You'll see lots of people mention this in the reviews.

Anything else you need to know, please just ask!

Catherine