Ema Houses: family rooms and a pool near Antalya Airport

Ema Houses is a hotel on Çağdaş Sokak in Antalya, about 2.3 km from Antalya Airport (AYT) in a straight line. The trade-off of that position is distance from the main sights: Antalya Mosque is about 7.4 km away, the ruins at Perge about 8 km, and Antalya Museum about 9.5 km, all in a straight line.

For anyone whose priority is a short transfer between flight and bed, the location works in the hotel's favour. For a trip built around the mosque, the museum or Perge, the same figures mean longer journeys each way, and the hotel's own facilities, rather than its surroundings, will carry the stay.

The hotel has 18 room types in all. At the bottom end, the Economy Room, Pool View is 13 m² with one double bed and sleeps up to 3; the Economy Room, City View and the Budget Double Room are 14 m², the latter with one double and two twin beds. These are compact rooms, workable for a couple or a couple with a small child, but tight at three.

The middle of the range runs from 15 m² to 22 m² and covers most of the choices. The Double Room (18 m², one double and two twin beds, garden view) and the two balcony rooms, the Double Room with Balcony and the Deluxe Double Room with Balcony (both 19 m², one double bed, garden view), each sleep up to 3. The Deluxe Room, Pool View (22 m², one double and one twin bed) and the Deluxe Triple Room (22 m², one twin and one double bed, garden view) give more floor space for a third person. Views split between the pool and the garden, with city-view options in the Economy and Exclusive categories.

The outlier is the Deluxe Family Room: 56 m², two twin beds and three double beds, a garden view, and it sleeps up to 7.

The hotel's own facilities point clearly at families with children. There is an outdoor pool, an indoor play area, family rooms, a restaurant, a bar and room service, and parking is free. An indoor play area in particular is not a common facility, and it gives children somewhere to go regardless of weather or the season, since the outdoor pool is seasonal.

The hotel also has meeting and banquet rooms, which a traveller combining a family trip with work or an event can use.

Two of the practical rules matter for family planning: children are allowed, and pets are not. A traveller arriving with a dog or cat will need a different hotel.

Check-in is from 14:00 and check-out until 12:00. Parking at the hotel is free, which matters for anyone renting a car at the airport for the drive in. Children are allowed at the hotel; pets are not allowed in any circumstance the facts cover.

This hotel suits a family with children, especially one flying into Antalya Airport and wanting a short transfer, an outdoor pool in season, an indoor play area for the rest of the time, and the option of a 56 m² family room that sleeps up to 7. It also suits a small group happy to spread across several of the 18 room types, and a driver, given the free parking.

It does not suit a traveller whose days will centre on Antalya Mosque, Antalya Museum or Perge without accepting journeys of roughly 7.4 to 9.5 km each way, in a straight line. Couples wanting space rather than a bed for the night are better served by the 22 m² rooms than the 13 to 14 m² economy and budget options.