Sinop Antik Mini-hotel

Review made by looking at price/quality equation for a room that costs 7000TL per night.

The hotel is in a pretty nice location and indeed directly st the seaside with a part of a pretty clean beachfront. Which is really nice. They have a warmed pool that can be covered, useful when the weather isn't good.

The restaurant had pretty good foods, albeit a bit expensive. But the staff is really attentive.

For breakfast, they have a pretty extensive buffet, with good foods, not the best, but certainly not the worst I've seen.

Then, for the room, that is where most positives end. It all comes down to basically price/quality. And I feel like this is not worth the 7000TL price point per night (July 2024).
The room is small, and it definitely doesn't comfortably fit a couple with baby. There is a balcony from which you can see the sea nicely, but, no chairs so only usefull to dry your swimwear. For such a price, I would expect a bit more comfort, like an additional desk/table and small couch. Same goes for the bathroom, it's really cramped, toilet and sink are in the way of eachother and the shower drain wasn't correctly made so the whole bathroom floor gets wet when you shower, but that can be fixed with a few extra towels. The shower cabin other than that issue is decent, but for this price, a bit more comfortable showerhead would be expected.

Other than that, the shower does have really good hot water and really good water pressure, so all in all you can have a comfortable shower.
Also, the hotel provided a baby bed with sheets, which was nice, a bit damaged but still usable.

All in all a decent hotel, especially when you don't intent to stay in the room alot, but with babies or children when you sometimes want to relax in the room a bit I wouldn't recommend.

There is a market close by, but other amenities or restaurants are better to go to by car.

Sinop Antik Otel actually does have antiquities in it: there is a very nice collection of amphorae, statuettes and other Hellenistic bits and bobs. The overall decor is also very tasteful. That said, aesthetics take priority over practicality; for example, the rooms have frosted glass doors which look nice but flood your room with light at the break of day. When we pointed this out, the receptionist said all the rooms were like that and we were the first to complain, which reminded me of when I rang up a restaurant and politely informed them that I'd got food poisoning from the meal I ate there to be told that they'd never had any complaints before - in other words, it's your sensitive stomach, not our undercooked chicken. My main gripe, though, was that we were promised a "garden view" room which actually turned out to be more of an alley view. They have constructed an extra building since the hotel was founded, and it's squashed up against a block of holiday homes, so as well as the early morning light, you get the neighbours' breakfast conversation. Since there were no other rooms available, we left the next day. On the positive side, the hotel has a nice sandy private beach in its own little bay. Like all the Sinop beaches you may at first be alarmed by jellyfish, but they don't seem to be aggressive. Breakfast is your standard Turkish open buffet - pretty decent but not spectacular. The restaurant has a good selection of tasty dishes. All in all, Sinop Antik Otel is a nice place to stay if you like antiquities, have a top-quality sleep mask and above all, stay in the main building. Otherwise, there are better places to stay in Sinop.