A short drive southwest of Marmaris, set on a verdant hillside of the Bozburun Peninsula overlooking beautiful Hisarönü bay (), the Martı Hemithea Hotel is the perfect romantic Mediterranean hideaway.
The hotel's rooms look out across the Martı Marina & Yacht Club, where dozens of sleek yachts are moored. Both the hotel and the marina are part of a small gated complex that includes a restaurant and bar, shops, laundry, and other yachters' services.
The Hemithea's luxurious guest rooms feature spacious bedrooms; wide-screen digital satellite TVs with programs in English, French, German, Turkish, Arabic and other languages, plus dozens of music channels; individual climate control; large whirlpool bathtubs; separate showers; personal safes; minibar, and coffee- and tea-making equipment and supplies. Each room has a semi-private terrace with easy chairs and views over the marina, Hisarönü bay, and the mountains beyond.
It's quiet here! Except for the the flap of a sail, the ping of a line against a mast, the daily activity of yachts coming and going, a greeting of friend to friend, there's only the sound of the wind. It's a long way from the bustle and business of Marmaris throngs and traffic.
The Martı Hemithea Hotel is southwest of Hisarönü village just north of the village of Orhaniye.
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Martı Hemithea Hotel
Orhaniye, Marmaris, Muğla Turkey
—by Tom Brosnahan