MARCH 2023
THE BEST HOTELS IN TURKEY
From palatial stays in bustling cities to beachside hideouts on the turquoise coast, these are the best hotels in Turkey.
Maçakızı, Bodrum
When Mick and Bianca Jagger came to Bodrum in the 1970s, they stayed at Maçakızı. Back then it was a pension with a simple sort of glamour to it; and though the spirit lives on, the hotel has blossomed into something more accomplished. The setting is low-key but beautiful: 64 rooms, though you wouldn’t know it, unobtrusive casitas with greenery growing up around them, tumbling down the hillside to the sea. Bowers of pink bougainvillea frame views of the coast, gulets moored out in the bay. The mornings are perfect peace, sunrise silvery on the water. Afternoons sway with beats and cocktails, long limbs stretched out on the waterside deck. By evening the indoor-outdoor terraces of the restaurants and bar thrum with a vibrant, all-ages crowd, eating seafood that’s pure joy, drinking too much Whispering Angel and making new friends for life. Sahir Erozan, son of the original owner, counts Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell among his; and it’s his passion for entertaining that gives Maçakızı its enduring party spirit.