This hotel has to be the best I have ever been too!! Last year was the third time I had been back, and I am hoping to go back again this year.

Every year the staff we have met have always been very friendly, and you cannot fault the apartments, especially if you get one with a view of the mountains and pool area!

I would recommend this hotel to anyone, who is thinking of visiting Turkey/Icmeler!

The hotel and the staff were very friendly and couldn't do enough for us.

Rooms were very nice

The pool was very cold but the water slides were the highlight of our childrens holiday. The splash off competition were brilliant mostly enjoyed by the dads I think. Nick our Entertainment team (on his own) was fantastic.

Only downside were the wasps but they soon got fed up and moved away from you if you sat still and didn't flap.

I went to Julian Forest when I was 13, I am now 15 but when I went I had the time of my life, I made loads of friends and ohhhh its so great. The entertainment was great during the day and at night. I won the big splash compition obviously.
Mum and Dad and Craig all had a great time. Weather was good and the pool was extremely clean and I would be in it for hours on end and i would come out more wrinkly than my great gran... you have to visit julian forest!!

The hotel food was great but I wasnt well on the last day from food poisoning but I dont think it would have been from the hotel.

First impressions on arrival. A nice hotel set in its own grounds which included security and cctv, from a safety point of view an excellent start.

Once in the foyer my youngest child (aged 6) was in desperate need of the toilet. I stood in a packed foyer area minding the cases and my eldest (aged 8) while my wife attempted to ask the staff where the toilets were. She was grunted at and pointed in the direction of outside near the pool. Looking outside we couldnt easily find the toilets, we asked what we thought was a rep (wearing reps uniform) he said "its near the bar" excellent. After 10 minutes my wife was able to get my youngest to the toilet. (not so good first impression).

Once booked in which took nearly half an hour, we were shown to our apartment. It simply had the WOW factor. Walking through the door, to the right was a spacious kitchenette with pine units, Microwave oven, fridge and freezer, a two ring cooker, toaster simply everything you need really, in the middle was a pine table that extended out from a pine unit and cupboards, beyond this was a single bed which looked out onto one of two balconies. To the left was one of two bathrooms which comprised of a sunken bath (very rare for Turkey), a over bath shower, sink and of course toilet with build in bidet.

Next to the bathroom came the first of two bedrooms, two single beds seprated by a bedside unit with wall lamps, plenty of storage space and window that overlooked the pool. On the right was the second bedroom, this consisted of a double bed, two bedside units and window that overlooked balcony number two, and an on-suite, same utilities as bathroom one.

The view from the balcony was breath taking, although very narrow it overlooked the pool, bar, with a gorgeous back drop of icmeler's famous mountains, simply beautiful. Our second balcony more or less had the same view, this we found more spacious with table and two chairs.

As far as good points for the hotel this was it. The hotel enjoys a mini market, barbers, jewellers, extensive bar serving excellent range of drinks although we found the wrist band abit annoying and difficult to track what we had credit and what we spent, so we didnt spend much time there.

This was our 5th time back to Icmeler in succession, we love the place its as simple as that. The hotel however did not live up to the impressions we first enjoyed when walking into the apartment.

We had done our homework prior to coming to Julian Forest, so we knew about the wasps, although it must be said i thought people were been a little harsh, that was until I witnessed them for myself, a real problem if you want to eat there. The poolside is lined with sunloungers almost military style there is no room for anything else, and lots of children, which wasnt a problem at all. The problem was the teenagers, underage drinking, smoking and quite annoyingly alot of swearing, and more swearing. Parents seem to be quite happy to allow their teenagers to roam around, drinking, smoking and did I mention the excessive shouting of swear words at each other ? oh I think I did, sorry.

This was not just by the pool area, it was everywhere you went with in the hotel, I was cashing some travellers cheques when a group of teenages came bursting into the reception area swearing at each other in some kind of humourous laughter, as I had my 6 year old son with me at the time I took exception to this and told them to curb their language.

The night entertainment was loud, I mean very loud. It reminded me of Butlins, but hey you are on holiday so not a problem. That was until week two. The same records played over and over and over again became laughable, you could predict every track and in which order it came, well done for trying guys.

The staff are friendly and very helpful once you get their attention. The hotel was exceptionally clean and very well presented, but to be fair the unsung heroes of the Julian Forest was the cleaners, Well done to all of you.

We never paid for the bbq nights, although reasonably priced we felt between the mucky mouthed teenagers and the wasps, we chose to eat out in icmeler.

My first impression was that the pool was HUGE and the rooms were also big and very clean. The next morning was when I could see clearly what the hotel was like as we arrived at 5:30 am.

There was a little shop with essentials like sun cream, bread, water, ice creams, milk, butter and many more. The boy in the shop Mehmet was very friendly and sweet.

The bar and restaraunt area was very big, on one side of the bar was the tables where people could sit and drink or watch the football with 2 pool tables and on the other side of the bar was the 'restaraunt' which was very nice.
The food was delish, we stayed for the bbq and had our last meal there and I miss the food :(

The staff where amazing I've never met friendlier people in my life!!
Haluk(bar man), the camera man, the Chef, the receptionist, Security Gaurd (Fattie) and the hairdresser where amazing and extremely friendly in particular The Captian (Chaglar) and Mehmet made my holiday special. They all deserve to be mentioned and to be praised for all the good work they do!!!!!

The hotel was about a 30 minute walk away from the centre of Icmeler as long as you follow the canal you cant get lost. We walked every night and if you dont want to walk there are taxi's and Dolmusis every 5 minutes for only 5 lira which is quite cheap.

The wasps where annoying and my little sister (12) got stung 5 times although she did flap alot. If you just try to egnore them and DONT flap about they will go away. Also if it gets really bad you can just tell the staff and they will give you a special insence that goes on your table and the wasps go away!!

The entertainment was great and all the kids loved it all thanks to our rep Nick who was also great, very funny and he renamed me TROUBLE :)

You really do have to give them a chance and judge for yourself.

All I have left to say is thanks for everything guys and ill definately be back every year from now on!!!!
xxx

This was our second time to stay in Julian Forest.

We love it, it has a beautiful location and very helpful staff

I'll start with the good points first!!

Apartment was brilliant. Big, air-conditioned, 2 bathrooms, 2 big bedrooms, Sky TV, 2 balconies, extremely clean and tidy. Couldn't ask for more.

Facility itself was fairly new with decent sized pool, small kiddies pool and a separate flume / slide facility which was very popular with the Dads! Bar area good with pool table and a couple of other things. There is also a stage area for 'entertainment'. All in all an excellent first impression.

Staff very friendly. Always smiling and can't do enough for you (once you have got their attention...).

Turkey itself is lovely and so were the people.

Unfortunately there were some bad points.

Sunbeds crammed in. No place for kids to run about and enjoy themselves without either upsetting other people or basically being a pain.

Wrist band payment method is a licence to spend as much money as you can in the shortest amount of time.

Wasps are really a big pain especially having breakfast in the morning. If they wanted my food so much I would have bought them a full English. Many people stung. BBQ night a bit disappointing but the wasps enjoyed themselves. I'm sure I even saw one jigging to the Turkish music they were playing.

The hotel is expensive and so is the shop which should be re-named Harrods. Food very average -nuff said.

Entertainment was supplied by Nick and Lez. Two really nice guys who tried their best. If Bingo, irritating kiddies songs and Butlins is your bag then you are in for a treat. Like I said really nice guys though.

I really think they like to extract as much money as possible from you due to you being at the back of the resort.

If they sorted this out I would highly recommend Julian Forest but on this occasion I can't and will not be returning.

Hi I am Nicola, I stayed at the Julian Forest, between the 19th of August and the 3rd of September, I went as part of my friend's family and their friends went aswell there was me my friend both 17 her parents, her two younger brothers (10/14) and sister (8) aswell as her parents friends and their two sons (13/16).

On arrival I thought we checked in extremeley quickly, are bags were carried to our rooms, which were very clean and tidy.

The pool was cleaned everynight, the bar served us but only with parental approval.

The booze was cheap unless you was drinking spirits, the food wasnt as bad as you would expect.

The staff were very friendly some you could have a laugh with some of them, two bar men in particular (gurkan and haluk) others could get too friendly as you probaly well know Turkish men love English women and its not really just the blondes.

The only complaints I have are the amount of wasps but they did confirm that mosquito netting is going to be put around the hotel to minimize the amount of wasps by 2006.

Also the eldest son of the family that came with us was assalted by a grumpy bar man who was attempting to strangle him, the bar man was sacked immediatley and the manager applogised as much as he could.

Apart from that it was a brilliant holiday - best ever I intend to go back many times I met some lovely people both from Great Britian and Turkey.

The hotel was clean and most of the staff were friendly and helpful. The receptionist needs watching as he was always trying to get us to take extras from him.

The pool and slides were great and regularly checked for cleanliness.

The hotel is a bit far from the centre of Icmeler but there was a cool breeze that helped as the temperatures were between 35 and 40 degC.

We only ate in the restaurant once as we were plagued by wasps.

We booked our own trips through a shop that claimed to have Turkish Tourist Board insurance and they were cheaper than going through the hotel rep.

Entertainment was good, especially for the kids.

Julian Forest apartments were excellent. Good range of equipment in the accommodation, all good quality.

Spotlessly clean and well looked after, both in the apartments and in and around the pool area.

Although it was a little far out from the centre of Icmeler, regular dolbus service available just ouside the front of the apartments, or taxi service.

All staff based in the apartments were very helpful and friendly. Both managers went out of their way to make sure you had an enjoyable stay.

We only went to the Barbecue Night at the apartments, and that was great, choice of food was excellent. Mainly ate out at Stonehouse Restaurant or in Icmeler centre. Couldn't fault the food.

We will definetely be going back to Julian Forest nesxt year!