Young Cave Hotel

Where do I begin? My daughter had won a trip that was 3 weeks before the departure date. One week before she was to leave with a friend, the friend was not able to go, so instead this 72 year old mom who has never traveled internationally headed to Türkiye! From the moment we arrived we were treated like royalty, Everyone went ABOVE and BEYOND to make our 5 nights sooo special! It is a small hotel (like a B&B) with 12 rooms, each totally different. My daughter and I had a perfect room! She had a bed and bathroom and I did as well, as It made getting ready soo much easier. Our stay came with breakfast and dinner daily! Talk about delicious. Breakfast was a traditional Turkish breakfast buffet, with the chef cooking what became a favorite, scrambled eggs with red bell peppers tomatoes and a little cheese. DELICIOUS, along with the traditional buffet. I will make the egg dish for my family a tradition !Dinner was served plated and the menu was different every night. It started with a fresh soup, salad and entree! Of course a Turkish desert made it complete! Sooo good! We had an itinerary of tours as part of the package she won, but the manager,helped sooo much as we planned out where to go and when. He also acted as our driver to several spots. He arranged timing for everything! He and his wife had met us at the airport and helped us pack our MANY suitcases into his car! Typical Americans who overpack! lol! The hotel is soooo unique! It has a courtyard as you enter, where we would sometimes sit. It had a covered area on second floor overlooking the town where we would also sit in the afternoon to have a glass of wine or an early morning latte. The third floor was where the dining area was, with big windows looking onto the town square and the famous cave castle in full view! You can stay with or with our breakfast and dinner is upon request when booking. The hotel/B&B was soo charming, but the real joy was getting to know the 6 employees. Each one was soo helpful and there was nothing they wouldn’t do for us. They were obviously there to please the guests!!!! They did please us, in fact when we left we were about in tears to leave our new “family”. You must remember this was once a cave not a “Four Seasons Hotel”. Each room has a hot tub in the room which we never used, and a shower in the bathrooms, clean but not fancy rooms. We did not have air conditioning. We were there in late June and it was warm in the room during the day however we were out and about so we were never miserable because the evenings were cool. Would love to share pics and videos but sadly when we got back to the states, after 20 hours of traveling, my daughter left her purse in the Uber and the driver after changing her story said she didn’t have it! Soo, she lost her camera,money and personal belongings. Ironically, we had to get back to The States for someone to not be honest😡🥵😡! If you go to @kelir on instagram you will see lots of pics regarding the