Five-star Kundu, Antalya, Antalya
Mardan Palace
A palace hotel at Kundu, modelled on Istanbul's Dolmabahçe, with 546 rooms and suites, a private beach and a pool built to be the largest on the Mediterranean.
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- Rooms
- 546 rooms and suites
- Opened
- May 2009
- Grounds
- 180,000 square metres at Kundu
- From the airport
- About 20 minutes from AYT, our estimate
The hotel
Ottoman Istanbul, rebuilt on the beach.
Mardan Palace opened in May 2009 with a party for some six hundred guests, Mariah Carey and Tom Jones among the performers. Telman Ismailov built it, for a reported 1.4 billion dollars, on 180,000 square metres at Kundu. The architect Hasan Sökmen drew on Istanbul: the main building follows the Dolmabahçe Palace, and 9,000 tonnes of sand came from Egypt for the beach.
The pool was billed at the opening as the largest on the Mediterranean, crossed by gondolas. After its founder's bankruptcy, Halkbank took the hotel in 2015 and later leased it to Titanic Hotels. In 2026 Swandor Hotels & Resorts took over the running of it, keeping the name, and planned a wider renovation for the winter of 2026 to 2027.
- The pool Billed at the opening as the largest on the Mediterranean, with bridges and gondolas across it.
- Ballrooms About 5,448 square metres of event space, with the Dolmabahçe, Beylerbeyi and Ottoman ballrooms and a Grand Foyer of 880 square metres.
- Aquamarine The signature seafood restaurant, served palace style.
Rooms & suites
From Classic Rooms to the King Suite.
Twelve room types across the Main Building, the duplex suites and the lake houses. The hotel gives no sizes.
- Rooms Classic Room In the Main Building, with a balcony.
- With a jacuzzi Deluxe Room & Jacuzzi A room with a jacuzzi of its own.
- Two floors Pool Duplex Suite A suite on two levels by the pool. Grand and Royal Duplex Suites follow, then the Presidential and King Suites.
Dining
Seafood, steak and a buffet named for the Bosphorus.
Restaurants as listed by the hotel. Shown for information.
- Aquamarine Seafood Seafood The signature restaurant
- Beef Restaurant Steak and grill Open-fire grilling and show cooking
- Bosphorus Main Restaurant Buffet Open from morning to evening
Good to know
Before you go.
- Board Palace All Inclusive, the hotel's own all-inclusive plan.
- Renovation The new operator plans wider works for the winter of 2026 to 2027. Ask what will be open before booking a winter stay.
Getting there
Flying to Antalya.
Antalya Airport is the nearest, roughly twenty minutes by car by our estimate, as Kundu lies on the coast just east of it. Private jets use the general aviation and VIP terminals at the same airport.
- Istanbul 1 h 00
- Munich 3 h 00
- Moscow 3 h 10
- Dubai 3 h 50
- London 4 h 15
Questions
What guests ask first.
- When did Mardan Palace open?
- In May 2009. It was built by Telman Ismailov for a reported 1.4 billion dollars, with the main building modelled on the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul.
- Who runs Mardan Palace today?
- Swandor Hotels & Resorts took over its management in 2026, keeping the Mardan Palace name.
- How far is Mardan Palace from Antalya airport?
- Roughly twenty minutes by car, by our estimate.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Antalya?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Antalya, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Antalya
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Maxx Royal Belek Golf Resort Suites, lagoon suites and villas, 512 rooms in all, beside a golf course signed by Colin Montgomerie; Forbes Recommended.
- Maxx Royal Kemer Resort Between pine forest and the sea, with suites and villas, an omakase counter and a steak house; Forbes Recommended.
- Regnum Carya Opened in 2014 between two golf courses, the floodlit eighteen holes of Carya and the twenty-seven of the National, with a Crown Villa of 3,500 square metres.
- Lara Barut Collection Behind a private sandy beach of 275 metres with its own pier, 468 rooms and nine à la carte restaurants.
- Akra A city hotel on the waterfront with a private beach, penthouse suites on the top floors and Asmani for fine dining.
- Gloria Serenity Resort Run on an ultra all-inclusive basis, with rooms on a lagoon and villas from garden and pool villas up to a Presidential Villa.
- Calista Luxury Resort Spread over 120,000 square metres, it was the first hotel in Turkey to win the international Green Star award.
- Cornelia Diamond Golf Resort & Spa With a golf club of its own, the Crassula Spa and a beach 250 metres long from which a pier runs out to sea.
- Ela Excellence Resort Belek The Villa Sultan Palace here covers 794 square metres and sleeps ten adults and two children, and there is a heated semi-Olympic pool.
- Susesi Luxury Resort Opened in September 2007 on 90,000 square metres by the sea, with 554 rooms.
Staying at Mardan Palace?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Antalya, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.