Maçakizi
Style Decks on the beach
Setting Beside the bougainvillea
Maçakizi’s pale, powder-white rooms aim to calm: outside, beautiful people chatter by the bar and stretch out on the decks, drawn here by the shimmering Aegean, top-notch restaurant and gorgeous, stone-studded gardens.
Need to know
- Rooms 81, including 16 suites.
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Rates
Double rooms from $318.40 (€254), excluding tax at 8 per cent.
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€254), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates usually include buffet breakfast.
- Facilities Spa with treatment rooms, boutique selling cushions, kaftans and other knick-knacks; gardens, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, Aqua di Parma bath products, minibar.
- Poolside There’s a small pool to one side of the breakfast terrace, surrounded by blossoms and shrubs.
- Check-out 12 noon, but flexible subject to availability (there’s no extra charge). Earliest check-in, 2pm.
- Children This is not the most toddler-suited hotel: lots of stone steps, and decks on the water. That said, extra beds for six-year olds and above are €50 a night (plus tax). Hotel staff will babysit for €25 an hour, or €20 an hour for three or more hours. More...
- Hotel closed From 14 November until 21 April.
- Also Smokers can puff away on the decks and outdoor lounges. Pets aren’t welcome, but animal-lovers can console themselves by seeking out the resident porcupines and kittens in the hotel’s hillside gardens.
Food and drink at Maçakizi
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Hotel restaurant
Great food is at the heart of this hotel – though rooms close in winter, the restaurant stays open all year, and is seen as a culinary heavyweight. (The owner, a restaurateur by trade, has worked with the same chef for 25 years.) Elegant but comfy white chairs are set out on the decking, overlooking the Aegean; at night, glamorous diners and ankle-high lanterns light up the space. The seafood-celebrating menu includes octopus with black risotto, and grilled grouper with red pepper coulis.
- Dress code Boat-club billionaire – or your best imitation.
- Top table The higher the deck, the better the views. If you’re lingering over cocktails at the bar, take a perch along the sunken deck, overlooking the fire-pit and the under-lit water.
- Last orders Deliciously relaxed: you can breakfast until 11am, ‘lunch’ until 5pm, and dine until midnight.
- Room service Have salads, sandwiches and other snacks brought to your room between 8am and 11pm.
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Hotel bar
Set on the lowest level of decking, and covered by white-sail awnings, the drinking area is a fluid extension of the restaurant. Sip champagne, or tots of sweet almond liqueur.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Maçakizi Kesire Mevkii, Narcicegi sok. Golturkbuku, 48400, Mugla, 48400
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Our favourite rooms
We like Villa Suite (room 971) for its sculpted wooden furniture, white-and-black textured canvases, fat white sofa, and deck that spans the width of the room. Sprays of fresh flowers add shots of pink to the cool-coloured interior, and the views outside are dazzling. The Villa Suites are closest to the beach, so you’ll get a head start in the race to the tanning decks. For the utmost privacy, request an Upper Deck Room – these are set high on the hillside, away from the buzz.
Packing tips
Your very best beachwear, and designer shades to match. Remember wedges or deck shoes, to reduce the risk of sprains on the stone steps or by the beach.
Also
Who said tents were for camping? Have a treatment in one of the hotel’s outdoor spa tents, or heat up in the glass-fronted hammam. You can also unwind with a Pilates class overlooking the bay. A hairdressing and beauty salon is in the works, too. Lovers seeking romance and seclusion should come outside of high season (July and August), when the hotel turns into a magnet for the monied of Istanbul, and the Euro yacht set.
