Balçova Thermal Hotel can host a wedding dinner, a seminar or a dealer meeting for up to 1,000 guests, in the Kardelen Hall or the Papatya Garden, with two more halls and three more gardens for smaller groups. The hotel stands on the thermal springs of Balçova, in İzmir, and adds a thermal spa and cure center to its rooms.
Seminars and company events
The hotel lists business meals, seminars and dealer meetings among the events it organizes, alongside private celebrations. For a large sales meeting or annual convention, the Kardelen Hall takes up to 1,000 people. The Çakabey Hall takes up to 250, which suits a training day or a regional meeting, and the F.T.R. Exercise Hall takes 50 for a small workshop or an active session. In the warm months, the gardens give a second venue for the dinner or the cocktail that follows the sessions. Participants can stay on site, use the thermal pools and the fitness center between meetings, or book treatments at the cure center.
Weddings and receptions
Wedding dinners and nikah dinners, the civil ceremony meal, are part of the hotel's offer, along with special-day celebrations. Four gardens serve for open-air receptions: the Papatya Garden for up to 1,000 guests, the Vali Hüseyin Öğütcen Garden for up to 450, the Palmiye Garden for up to 220 and the A'la Carte Garden for up to 200. Indoors, the Kardelen Hall gives the same 1,000-guest capacity when the weather calls for a covered venue.
Rooms and capacities
Kardelen Hall: up to 1,000 guests. Çakabey Hall: up to 250. F.T.R. Exercise Hall: up to 50. Papatya Garden: up to 1,000. Vali Hüseyin Öğütcen Garden: up to 450. Palmiye Garden: up to 220. A'la Carte Garden: up to 200. The site gives one figure per space and no layout-by-layout breakdown.
Accommodation
The hotel offers standard rooms, suites and accessible rooms, with a safe, internet, LCD television and satellite channels. Standard rooms in the main building are being renovated, and guests currently stay in the Garden Rooms. Free private parking, a 24-hour reception, luggage storage and laundry are provided. The spa has a hamam, a sauna and a thermal water pool, and the fitness center is open all day. Children under 12 are not allowed in the thermal pools.
Catering
The hotel runs three outlets of its own. Bahçe Restaurant, in the garden, serves Mediterranean and Aegean cooking. Alaçatı Cafe and Bar serves drinks, cocktails and light food, with a summer and a winter venue. Meryemana Restaurant serves breakfast and dinner, indoors and outdoors, with Turkish and international dishes.
History and setting
Legend links the springs to the Trojan War: Agamemnon is said to have sent his wounded soldiers here, and the site was long called the Baths of Agamemnon. The baths fell into ruin in the Eastern Roman period and were restored after the Ottomans took İzmir in 1415. In the 1980s the provincial administration rebuilt the baths and pools, opened the hotel and then the treatment center under the name Balçova Termal Tesisleri. The hotel holds a Sustainable Tourism certificate, and it points guests to the Balçova tennis club and therapy forest.
Getting there
The hotel's address is Vali Hüseyin Öğütcen Caddesi No:16/1, 35330 Balçova, İzmir.
