I don't spend much time around the pool but do prefer it quiet when I do. As other people spend more time there than I do, I usually assume that they like a bit of music. Fortunately, in Bitez the beach is only a step or two away and you can always find somewhere quiet to relax.

Hi,

Not so much the fact that there is music playing as it is the volume which it is played at! The majority of folks I speak to are of the same mind as me yet it still goes on. I often wonder if the hotel/apartment staff are genuinely trying to please us the tourist by playing the music at a volume which they think we like or just showing off the power of their sound system. This is an even bigger pain when it is not restricted to during the day, however some pool bars insist on playing the damn thing until the last guest staggers up to their room! I like to hear music on holiday, I love turkish music on holiday, but please please just turn the volume down a bit!LOL!

Alistair

Am I the only person who hates noisy music around a pool?

Strawberry7

Your not, we have stayed at the Pink Palace in Hisaronu a couple of times and despite the reports found it a great place to stay for a laid back holiday.

Last year however Memhet the owner had hired an animation team I think a better description would be irritation team.

After a week of putting up with high volume R&B, and general rudeness, that included waking you up to join in their puerile games. I went to see Memhet, and let him now this was our last visit; he admitted he had made a mistake as he had received a lot of similar complaints about loud music ect,he said he would not be employing them next year.

I don't now if he kept his word for this year, as myself and our friends have gone elsewhere, that's a total of 6 adults and 4 kids they have lost as customers

On the 18th we are going to Olu Deniz, again the hotel gets mixed reviews, mainly the food is criticised. the one constant complaint is the lack of entertainment "Bliss"

GM 06

got to say i love music around the pool,i look forward to laying on my sunbed taping my hands and feet to the rhythm whilst soaking up the suns rays,

Me too . love to listen to music around the pool but then I love that sort of noisy atmosphere and watching everyone having fun especially in turkey. I dont want to join in but I love to watch If i cant hear the music I choose sunbeds nearer to the bar where you usually can .

I don't mind music played around the pool. It's the volume I don't like. If you just want to relax and spend a lazy day by the pool, I don't think its necassary to have music played at 100 decibels. If you want that, use your mp3 player and headsets. All you need is background music.

Darren

Personally i like music around the pool, but agree with Dazbo5 that it should only really be as background music, silence is awful

This my pet hate. Loud music around pools and in restaurants. Why, do they do it all the time. If music is too loud I now move on to somewhere else to spend my money. I found on our recent visit to Icmeler that the beach was better for this reason. We also left a couple of restaurants before ordering food. I pack earplugs now but it still gets through.
Marg

I don't mind music but not if it's loud. That includes by the pool, in restaurants and in bars. We go on holiday to relax, not be deafened and unable to talk to each other without shouting!

I personally don't mind the music around the pool but as others have said it's the volume that is sometimes annoying.

Even more annoying is the repetition of the same songs.

I agree you can always tell which songs the barman likes

I love music around the pool but agree it can get irritating played loudly over and over.
We usually stay in small hotels or apartments so i take dvd's with me,and ask them to play them, every ones usually made up as its usually laid back stuff, infact everytime i came into the bar the manager asked me what i would like to hear now, so give it a try.

I don't like the music very loud unless it's a dance bar at night and I'm there to dance. Chilling by the pool or eating a nice meal needs relaxing and quiet music.

I don't like to risk my own (expensive) CDs so I make my own compilations and usually leave them there at the end of the holiday.

The DJ at the Brothers Dance Bar in Side played loads of my tracks for me.

hi does anyone know a song that was played around the pool,i presume is popular and not English.My neice is dying to find out what the song is,all we no in one part of the song they go

agga , agga ,agga , aaah........

sorry cant remember any more,stayed in the resort Lara,but i know normally catchy tunes travel around.............please help her find here song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sallington

I must say I love the music they play round the pool, theres nothing better than listening to holiday type music while lying round soaking up the suna and thinking about the night ahead, aaaahhhhhhhh bliss!!!

Got to admit i love Turkish music played round the pool but low volume Kept telling dj to turn music down on our last holiday. I like to relax not have pumping music whatever nationality is singing.

I agree the music is always too loud and even if you ask for it to be turned down, they often sneak it up again.
I'm sure that the waiters think we like it that loud.
We have found the solution, though. We rent a private villa now and escape all the noise and fuss. It's so much nicer sitting around your own private pool, relaxing away from all the bother.
We rented Villa Guller just outside Marmaris last year and I can't stop singing the praise of this type of holiday. We'd always gone with package tours and thought villas would be too expensive - how wrong we were. We stayed with all our family plus various boy/girl friends of my kids. Peace and quiet, friendly locals quality reasonably priced rural restaurants, lots of sight seeing - fantastic.

I don't like music around the pool, it would be ok if they played for a hour a couple of times a day but all day its a relief to escape it.

Anybody who don't like music around the pool we stayed at the gran vista in majorca this year and it was bliss no music. The only disturbance was the afternoon kids club what lasted an hour and it wasn't annoying. Nice nice pools surrounded by grassed area's plent of shade from the tree's and the most sunbeds I have ever seen at a hotel. Going round the pool at 2 pm no trouble getting a sunbed. There are so many nobody gets up at the crack of dawn to reserve them.

Its mainly german but a good 4* hotel at the upper class with good food with drink the same price as the bars outside and on some ocassions cheaper. A lovely roof top cocktail bar with great views of the resort of ca'n picafort. If you want something livelier there is plenty of bars in the resort minutes away. No noise at night and a tv which has bbc1, bbc2 and itv. Keeps the kids entertained before going down to dinner.

Its turkey for me next year and I hoping there isn't too much around the hemera pool.

I have just noticed this post and I would advise anyone who is bothered by the loud music at the poolside to go and ask the person responsible to turn it down or off.I did this in June at the Club Turban as the base was dreadful and it was house music.The hotel had a lot of young families and couples and afternoons are for relaxing. I got fed up of the racket so went and asked him to turn it down because it was our holiday,not theirs.They obliged!I have just returned from the Holiday village in Sharm and one day on the beach the waiter at the beach bar decided to play rap music at a loud volume,well thats what he thought but when I heard the totally obscene lyrics(Eminem)I marched over and told him to turn it off as it was disgusting.I told him we had come to the Red Sea for peace and quiet and not to listen to HIS choice of music.He made out he didnt understand the lyrics but after I returned to my sunbed a man with his son came over and told me other people had complained and he just turned it off until the next day.I complained to reception and they asked me to write a statement for the manager.So if anyone doesnt like the music either tell them to turn it off or give them one of your CDs to play!.