Guest User
August 28, 2023
This place is a gem. You can tell this family business is a labor of love and every detail is right and thoughtful. Great vibes which make for a profoundly restful holiday ✨ We stayed there for 3 nights with our 3 year old boy. The location is great (sea front) and the garden looks stunning, with bougainvillea, pomegranate and orange trees, with majestic Olympos mountains as backdrop. Chickens wander freely - for our kid’s joy! The area is calm and untouched, starry nights just beautiful. Bungalows are simple, very clean and comfortable. Ihsan is the coolest dude. Not only is he an amazing chef (we ended up having dinner there every night, there’s a fixed menu and daily specials, all delicious and very affordable) but he also plays great music (70s Turkish music which seems straight out of a Habibi Funk album for dinner, classical music for breakfast), gives the best recommendations (our boat trip to surrounding bays and bike trip to Yanartas were perfect, the massage he booked for us at the guesthouse was memorable) and volunteers for a local organization for the preservation of turtle nesting in Cirali (Cirali is home to Canetta turtles nests). Ihsan, his brother Oczan and the young woman who also worked at Baraka 🧿🐠✋ this summer are the kindest. We wish we had stayed longer as this felt like a real holiday, where time stops and simple things can be enjoyed to the fullest. We travelled along the coast from Antalya to Kas and we felt that, even in the middle of peak season, Cirali remains quiet, authentic and slow.