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The Gloria estate at sunset with the Taurus mountains behind

Belek · Where to stay

The three
Gloria hotels

One estate, three hotels, forty-five holes, and a check-in policy that turns both of your travel days into playing days.

Hotels3
Rooms1,175
Estate240 ha
Holes45
From AYT38–40 km

The best travel-day policy in Belek

Hotel check-in is 06.00. Hotel check-out is 19.00.

Gloria runs two sets of times. The room is yours from 15.00 to 12.00, the same as anywhere. The hotel is yours from 06.00 to 19.00: thirteen hours on your arrival day and thirteen on your departure day, at no extra charge.

InOut
Hotel: grounds, breakfast, changing, pools06.0019.00
Room15.0012.00

What this is worth to a society

Land at seven, be on the first tee by nine. Fly home at eight in the evening, play in the morning, shower and eat before the coach. A four-night trip stops being three playing days and becomes five.

Nowhere else in Belek that we work with offers anything like it. Regnum opens its facilities at 12.30 and closes them at 15.00 on departure day. Kempinski provides a changing room for the same purpose but sets no fixed hours.

Two conditions

It is subject to availability, and going outside that window costs real money: “early check-in before 06.00 or late check-out after 19.00, 100% of the daily room rate is applied.” That is a full night, not a fee.

For a group we confirm the window with the hotel before deposits; it is part of your quote.

Gloria Golf Club from the air, a green beside one of its lagoons
The Gloria clubhouse bar looking out over the course

Golf, Serenity and Verde

Three hotels, one estate, and a free shuttle between them.

Guests of any of the three may use the facilities of all three, and the shuttle between them is free. Which one you book changes the price and the walk to breakfast, not what you are allowed to use.

Golf ResortSerenityVerde
Opened199720072001
Rooms515367293
Of which suites17420118
Of which villas469721
Bed capacity1,276971732
Site area190,000 m²205,000 m²68,000 m²
To the golf club1.5 km1.5 km1 km
Antalya airport40 km40 km38 km
Belek centre7 km—3.5 km

The group’s total estate is 2,400,000 m². All three are five-star, all three open year round, and all three have a private sand-and-shingle beach and a pier.

The golf is not on your doorstep

One to one and a half kilometres from each hotel to the clubhouse. That is a shuttle, not a walk with a bag. It is a short shuttle and it is free, but if somebody has told you the golf is at the hotel, they were describing Kempinski, not Gloria.

What is on the doorstep at Verde: the Presidential Villa and the Select Villas sit along the golf course boundary.

Gloria Golf Resort seen from the air along the river at golden hour

Golf Resort

1997 · 515

The original and the biggest. If you are moving twenty-four people it is the one with the depth of inventory to take them in one block.

The beach cabanas and pavilions at Gloria Serenity Resort, seen from directly above

Serenity

2007 · 367

Ninety-seven villas, more than the other two combined. The choice if part of the group wants a villa rather than a room.

Gloria Verde Resort from the air with its pier and pools

Verde

2001 · 293

The smallest site and the closest to the golf, at one kilometre. Also the closest to Belek town, at three and a half.

The pier pavilions on the Gloria estate at dusk

Twins

The standard room comes as a double or two singles.

The bed options are “1 french bed (160×200) or 2 single beds (100×200)”. For a society that is the first question answered before it is asked.

A twin-bedded standard room in the main building at Gloria Golf Resort

Standard, twin

24 m²

Sizes

BY ROOM TYPE

In the room: a Schiller capsule coffee machine, a kettle, a pillow menu, and a minibar restocked once a day at no charge. Bath products are Atelier Rebul.

Golf Resort standard24 m²
Verde standard27 m² + 5 m² balcony
Verde junior suite31 m² + 5 m² balcony
Maximum occupancy3 adults, or 2 + 2 children

Read this before you promise anybody anything

The à la carte restaurants cost extra. Almost certainly, for you.

Gloria’s à la carte restaurants are chargeable, with three exceptions, and a society booking standard rooms will not be one of them. This is the opposite of the arrangement at Kempinski down the road, so plan the first evening with it in mind.

Who eats à la carte at no chargeHow often
Guests in Serenity’s King Suite, Deluxe, Serenity, Queen, King, VIP or Presidential VillaOnce a week, any à la carte across all three hotels
Platinum card holdersOnce a week
Stays of 28 nights or moreOnce a week
Everybody elseChargeable
TeppanyakiChargeable for everyone, no exceptions

How the three estates compare on this

Kempinski The Dome: à la carte included, one exception. Regnum: seven à la carte restaurants chargeable. Gloria: chargeable unless you are in a top villa category.

None of the three is wrong. They are three different deals, and the difference is easy to miss. Kempinski · Regnum.

A pool with bridges over it on the Gloria estate
The aquapark at Gloria Golf Resort from the air

On the same estate

The bit of Gloria that no other Belek resort has.

The Gloria Sports Arena is a 105,000 m² sports complex on the estate, running more than fifty disciplines, with a sports-medicine centre that runs a golf-specific programme: posture and spine screening, balance and weight-transfer testing, physiotherapy, and a −110 °C cryotherapy chamber.

The Gloria Sports Arena building with its running track

Sports Arena

105,000 m²

The Gloria pier and beach from the air

Beach and pier

ALL THREE

The full detail, and the forty-five holes it sits beside, are on the Gloria Golf Club course guide.

House rules with a cost attached

Five rules to pass round the coach.

Visitors09.00–23.00, subject to a fee, passport or ID required at the entrance, and not permitted into guest rooms. The hotel may refuse.
SmokingNo tobacco and no e-cigarettes indoors.
Under 18sNot accommodated without a parent.
Wi-FiFree in rooms and public areas. High-speed internet is a surcharge.
PetsNot allowed.

Cards accepted: Visa, Mastercard, American Express. Reception languages: English, Turkish, Russian, German. Free shuttle between all three hotels.

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Planning a society trip around Gloria?

Tell us your dates, group size, how many rounds and how many twins you need. We come back with a written quote, and we confirm the 06.00 arrival and 19.00 departure window with the hotel first, because that is what makes the trip work.

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