The Times, United Kingdom, May 2018

Cool Turkey: 20 great hotelsThe best budget option in pricey Alacati, the Tas is a lovely 130-year-old mansion with eight pretty rooms. Breakfasts are a high point, with cheese, honey and homemade jam, and the pool, surrounded by lawn, is a lovely place to spend the afternoon. There’s no restaurant, but there are plenty of options near by.

Cosmopolitan, U.K. by Karen Meachen, August 2014

Tas Otel (is) the very first boutique hotel to open in Alacati in 2001. It’s a delightful 120-year-old Greek mansion that’s been lavished with love and attention and beautifully renovated. The owner, Zeynep Ozis, is famous throughout the town for helping to preserve many of the old stone buildings and positioning Alacati on the ‘must-visit’ destination map. It’s easy to see why - her impeccable taste flows through the hotel.I stayed in one of the largest rooms located in its own stone cottage at the end of the garden providing immediate access to the pool. It was instant relaxation. Whether it’s sunbathing in the garden, eating the Turkish banquet of a breakfast on the courtyard terrace or sipping the homemade lemonade (one word – amazing), all your stresses will disappear.

Twenty destinations for 2014: Alaçatı, Turkey

The town of Alaçatı is now challenging Bodrum for the title of Turkey’s most stylish Aegean resort…..When the architect Zeynep Öziș restored a handsome stone townhouse and opened it as the eight-room Tas Otel (tasotel.com, double rooms from £80) in 2001, there were few other places to stay in the area, and none nearly as persuasive as Öziș’s country-chic design hotel…..

Quaint but not twee. Cute but not cramped. Friendly but not over-friendly.

Quaint but not twee. Cute but not cramped. Friendly but not over-friendly. Tas Otel could just be the perfect guesthouse……. Tas Otel has spawned countless imitators, but none quite as effortlessly charming. In fact, it takes hard work to make everyhting just so. The 120-year-old mansion needed total renovation…….. Now the whitewashed building looks more like a French chateau, climbing with bougainvillea.

The Times, UK, 23 February 2019

Beloved of holidaying Turks from Izmir and Istanbul, Alacati is one of the Aegean coast’s smartest little town and the Tas is a great place to stay.

Alaçatı'da Yaşamak

Yürüyüş sonrası elime konakladığım Taş Otel’in kurucusu Zeynep Öziş’in hazırladığı “Alaçatı’da Yaşamak” kitabını alarak bahçeye geçiyorum.Bu gustosu yüksek otelin kasabanın yeniden şekillenmesinde ayrı bir yeri ver.2001 yılında açılan Taş Otel, Alaçatı’nın ilk butik oteli.İzmirli başarılı bir iş insanı olan Zeynep Öziş, her şeyi geride bırakıp yazları yaşadığı Alaçatı’ya yerleşmeye karar vermiş.Kendisi gibi bu köyde yaşamayı seçenlerle birlikte aynı yıl Alaçatı Koruma Derneği’ni kurmuş.Öziş’in kitabın ön sözünde yazdığı gibi “Beş altı yıl içinde taş evlerin küçük otellere, dükkanların kafe ve restoranlara dönüştüğü, zeytin ve lavanta kokan bir kasaba” olup çıkmış Alaçatı.Bu satırların yazılıp yayınlanmasının üstünden 12 yıl geçmiş ve Alaçatı yine aynı anlayışı, aynı mimariyi büyük ölçüde korumuş. Eskiyi örnek alarak yapılan taş evleri, Türkiye’nin hemen hiçbir yerinde olamayan mimari dil birliğiyle hâlâ çok özel.Ancak şu da bir gerçek ki artık Alaçatı, “sakin yaşamak, temiz havayı solumak, tarihle içi içe olmak” hayallerinin ötesine geçerek kalabalıkla gürültüyle boğuşan, eğlenceyle dinginliğin dengesinin kurulamadığı bir yere dönüşmüş...