Six Senses Kaplankaya – Turkey
A few days here is like pressing the reset button, thanks to the resort’s exceptionally beautiful and secluded setting, the luxurious offering, and the inimitable Six Senses wellness offering. Totally isolated, Kaplankaya is set in a vast acreage of rugged terrain, dotted with olive groves, cypress trees and oleander, cascading down to three private and pristine beaches.
The design brief here, like at all Six Senses properties, was to combine modernity, luxury and the natural surroundings, and a few days here really feels like getting away from it all. With first class service, mouthwatering restaurants, bolt holes for couples and space for families, Kaplankaya is a truly wonderful place to relax.
At A Glance
Luxury Family Hotel
Why We Love It:
For its exceptional Spa offering, secluded location and its three private beaches.Style:
Contemporary Mediterranean luxe.Location:
On the Aegean coast, on the Bodrum Peninsula – an hour’s drive from the airport, or by boat from the harbour, or 10 minutes by helicopter.Rooms:
207 sophisticated and contemporary rooms, suites and residences, with balconies and terraces – many with plunge pools.Swimming:
Several large pools, an indoor therapy pool, a rooftop Spa infinity pool, and three private beaches.Children:
An idyllic retreat for families – it has its own buckets and spades.Accessibility:
There are two rooms adapted for guests with limited mobility.Price:
Available on requestrooms
Slickly designed with clean lines, and plushly decorated in cool creamy tones, the focus is on the sparkling Aegean outside. Especially from the private terraces and balconies. (Some look out over the gardens). The beds are divinely comfortable, the marble bathrooms with their luxury soaking tubs are huge, and everything is controlled with the touch of a screen. Some of the rooms can accommodate an extra child, whilst the standalone Ridge Villas offer total privacy – the two bedroom villas perfect for families. Many have their own pool, as do the three, four and five bedroom residences.
food
Feast on Aegean, Mediterranean and pan-Asian flavours, with all produce either grown in the resort’s own gardens, or sourced locally from artisan producers and fishermen. Each of the stunning restaurants offers a relaxed atmosphere, from Sage & Sea with its plentiful breakfasts and authentic Turkish fare in the evenings, to Meze by the Sea, with its delicious sharing plates. There are beach bars and restaurants, serving grilled meats and light lunches, and a glamorous choice of bars for cocktails and sundowners.
activities
This being Six Senses, the Spa is out of this world – and one of the largest in Europe. There are treatments and therapies for almost anything – anti-aging to sleep issues; ancient ayurvedic, Balinese and Thai massages, expert hammam scrubs (naturally), and an extragant choice of Himalayan salt rooms, sensory showers and crystal steam rooms, ice rooms, a Watsu pool and more.
Water sports enthusiasts have plenty to keep themselves occupied, with sailing, windsurfing, wakeboarding, waterskiing and the more gentle paddle boarding and kayaking. The waters are ideal for snorkeling, whilst PADI instructors are on hand to take you to some of the coast’s finest dive spots. There are also regular boat trips to some of the closer Greek islands and Bodrum. Whilst there’s plenty to keep you within the boundaries of the resort, venture outside and explore the many archaeological ruins of the region, from Ephesus to Halicarnassus. Or take a mountain or e-bike and explore the local landscape.
family
Where should we start? The resort has left nothing out. With a kids’ club taking children from as young as two, and a creche for children from 6 months, parents get to have a few hours of restful down time. The club’s activities include tennis clinics, water sports, cooking classes and time spent in the Earth Lab. There’s also a dedicated children’s pool.
sustainability
Six Senses is committed to sustainability, seeing themselves as custodians of the land on which their resorts are built, and continuously developing new initiatives to benefit the local ecosystem. It’s very own sustainability centre – Earth Lab – hosts regular workshops for guests. Kaplankaya blends into its surroundings with green roofs and biophilic walls.
Much of the produce is grown in the gardens here, or sourced locally; organic waste is composted; wastewater is reused for irrigation and there’s a robust recycling system in place.
Location
Six Senses Kaplankaya
On the Aegean coast, on the Bodrum Peninsula – an hour’s drive from the airport, or by boat from the harbour, or 10 minutes by helicopter.
