Monachus Family Resort Sorgun
Monachus Family Resort Sorgun is a 5-star Ultra All-Inclusive family resort set in pine forest on the Turkish Riviera, in Titreyengöl near the ancient town of Side in Turkey’s Antalya province. Families come for its dedicated children’s restaurant, a baby club and a kids’ club, around five pools with a crazy river and a lazy river and a private beach a short walk from the rooms.
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Is it worth it?
Who Monachus suits, what’s folded into the Ultra All-Inclusive price and the facts to skim first.
Monachus is a comprehensive, value-tier Ultra All-Inclusive rather than a newly built, design-led resort. It sits at a lower price than the newer luxury resorts around Belek, and the trade for that is a longer airport transfer and a large, older-style site spread through 100,000 m² of pine forest. What you get for it is a dedicated children’s restaurant, a baby club for the youngest ages, around five pools including a crazy river and a lazy river and a wooded setting with real shade that’s unusual on this stretch of coast. Cleanliness and staff draw consistent praise. If you want value and a proper kids’ dining space and you’re happy to confirm a few details directly before booking, it fits well; families who want a short transfer, flat step-free ground or a newly built resort may be better suited by the Lara or Belek resorts on the same coast.
Best for
You want a comprehensive Ultra All-Inclusive with a dedicated children’s restaurant and a baby club, at a lower price than Belek’s luxury resorts, and you’re happy to trade a longer transfer and an older resort for value and a wooded setting.
Maybe not for
You want a short airport transfer, flat step-free ground throughout for a pushchair or a newly built, design-led resort.
Best ages
Babies and toddlers, with a baby club for the youngest children and their own restaurant, and school-age children up to around twelve in the kids’ club. No separate teen programme is confirmed.
What stands out
Mona Kids, the children’s own restaurant; the crazy river and lazy river among around five pools; twelve all-inclusive bars; and 100,000 m² of pine forest for shade.
What to check
The exact ages and hours of the baby club and kids’ club, how manageable the stairs around the site will be with your pushchair and whether any à la carte dining beyond the Turkish and Italian restaurants is still running, since the official site describes dining that ranges to barbecue and seafood without naming a current venue for it.
Where is it?
In Titreyengöl near Side, on the Turkish Riviera in southern Turkey.
Quick facts for families
What the resort is like
Where it sits, how the site is laid out and what that means for getting around with young children.
The resort spreads across a 100,000 m² plot the owners describe as pine forest, a wooded, garden setting rather than a dense concrete strip, which is unusual on this part of the coast and gives real shade through the day. It sits on the beachfront at Titreyengöl, a purpose-built resort area within Sorgun in the Manavgat district, about 4 miles (6 km) from the ancient town of Side. For the wider area and its days out, see our Turkish Riviera guide.
It’s a large, spread-out resort. The rooms sit in a Main Building and a separate lower-rise Bungalow wing set among the gardens, so expect a walk to reach the pools and the beach from your block. One point to weigh with a pushchair: an independent reviewer described stairs through the grounds and a lack of ramps, calling it hard going for a buggy (the UK word for a pram or pushchair). The resort does have a dedicated accessible room type with wide doorways and grab bars, so the picture isn’t one-sided, but if flat, step-free routes throughout matter to you, it’s worth checking before you book.
One thing to get right at the booking stage: don’t confuse this resort with Monachus Hotel & Spa, a separate, smaller sister hotel in the Evrenseki area of Side a few miles away. The two share a brand and a booking site, but this page is about the family resort in Sorgun. The adults-only pool that shows up in some listings belongs to that other hotel, not this one.
Every restaurant and bar
The buffet, the children’s restaurant, the two à la carte rooms, the snack outlets and all twelve bars.
Everything runs on an Ultra All-Inclusive basis. The main buffet covers breakfast, a late breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a limited night buffet and an overnight snack service, so there’s food available around the clock. Two à la carte restaurants, Turkish and Italian, are each free once per stay with a compulsory reservation, and further à la carte visits are chargeable. The official description says the à la carte dining ranges from Turkish and Italian to barbecue and seafood. Children have their own buffet at the main restaurant and children’s menus at the à la carte restaurants.
Seven Senses is the main buffet restaurant. Breakfast runs 07:00 to 10:00, a late breakfast to 11:00, lunch 12:30 to 14:30 and dinner 18:30 to 21:00, with a limited night buffet from 23:00 and an overnight mini buffet through to the morning. There are six theme nights across the week, a children’s buffet and gluten-free, allergy, vegetarian and vegan options on request.
Mona Kids Restaurant is a dedicated children’s restaurant, not just a corner of the buffet. It has its own breakfast, lunch and dinner (08:00 to 10:00, 12:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 20:30), indoor and outdoor family seating and a TV area. Families travelling with babies mention using it every day of their stay.
Sofra serves Turkish food and the Italian restaurant serves Italian, both 19:00 to 21:30 with drinks included. Each is free once per stay and a reservation is compulsory, and a children’s menu is available at both.
Three more outlets cover snacks and lighter meals through the day.
| Outlet | When | What’s on |
|---|---|---|
| Seastar Snack Restaurant | Lunch 12:00–15:30; waffles and fruit 16:00–17:45 | Lunch and afternoon snacks by the beach |
| Patisserie Corner | 10:30–18:00 and 21:30–23:00 | Sweet and savoury pastries, sandwiches and fruit |
| Passage Snack | 13:30–18:30 | A snack buffet, a daily dish, waffles and ice cream |
The drinks are all included, across twelve individually named bars and drinks venues. Two of them, the Lobby Bar and the Green Bar, keep going around the clock.
| Bar | Hours | What’s on |
|---|---|---|
| Lobby Bar | 24 hours | Local and some imported drinks, cocktails, hot drinks and Turkish coffee |
| Green Bar | 24 hours | Alcoholic and soft drinks |
| Terrace Bar | 20:30–23:30 | Cocktails |
| Seastar Snack Bar | 10:00–18:00 | Beer, wine and soft drinks, self-service |
| Ocean Beach Bar | 18:00–23:00 | Alcoholic and soft drinks |
| Cave Bar | 10:00–17:00 | Alcoholic and soft drinks |
| Slide Pool Bar | 10:00–18:00 | Alcoholic and soft drinks |
| Amfi Bar | 20:30–22:30 | Beer, wine and soft drinks, self-service |
| Cafe Türk | 10:00–23:30 | A range of coffee and tea |
| Ocean Disco Bar | 23:00–01:00 | Alcoholic and soft drinks |
| Coffee Corner | 09:00–17:00 | A range of coffee and tea |
| Blue Bar | 10:00–23:30 | Alcoholic and soft drinks, plus ice cream 11:00–18:00 |
Rooms and suites
Every room type with its official size, the pools and the crazy river and the private beach.
There are 356 rooms across the Main Building and the Bungalow wing, in seven named categories plus a dedicated accessible room. The table below is the full line-up with the official sizes; the guidance after it is which suit a family with a baby or toddler.
| Room | Size | Bedrooms | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Building Standard Room | 32 m² | 1 | Sea, pool or garden view, with a balcony or terrace and an extra-bed option |
| Bungalow Standard Room | 32 m² | 1 | Garden or sea-view balcony, single or double beds plus a sofa |
| Bungalow Family Room | 50 m² | 2 | Two separate bedrooms, garden view, balcony or terrace |
| Family Room | 43 m² | 2 | Two separate bedrooms, garden view, balcony, a double or twin beds, extra beds available |
| Family Duplex Room | 45 m² | 2 | Two floors with a bedroom on each, garden view |
| Suite | 90 m² | 1 | A separate living area and a large garden-facing balcony |
| Grand Suite | 127 m² | 3 | Three bedrooms and a large living room, garden view; the resort’s largest room |
For a baby or toddler who naps during the day, the rooms with a separate bedroom are the ones to focus on: the Bungalow Family Room at 50 m², the Family Duplex at 45 m² with a bedroom on each floor and the Family Room at 43 m² all give a door to close on a sleeping child. The 32 m² Standard Rooms work for a family of three but are tight once a travel cot and the rest of the baby kit are in. The Grand Suite at 127 m², with three bedrooms, suits a larger group or two families together. The Bungalow wing sits in the lower garden section, which is likely to mean less reliance on lifts than the Main Building.
Every room has central air conditioning, a direct phone line, a flatscreen satellite TV, Wi-Fi, a hairdryer, a minibar, a digital safe, a tea and coffee set and slippers. The accessible room adds wide doorways, wheelchair-friendly living areas, lowered sinks and mirrors and grab bars in the shower and toilet.
Pools and water features
The resort counts around five pools, though it doesn’t publish an exact figure. They are a Main Pool and an Activity Pool, each with its own shallow children’s and baby section, a Crazy River (a faster-moving channel the resort pitches at older children and adults), a Lazy River (a slow float) and a standalone children’s pool. Most of the water slides are at the Activity Pool, around five of them. All the pools here are family or children’s pools; there’s no adults-only or quiet pool at this resort. In the cooler shoulder months, check whether the pools are heated before you book if a warm pool matters to you.
Reviews on the water park vary by visit. Some families call the slides and the crazy river great fun; others found only a few slides running, with restricted hours, a long walk up to the top of the slides and a lazy river that barely moved and was very shallow. It’s worth treating the water park as a bonus rather than the main reason to book.
The beach
The resort has a private beach a short walk away. It’s a mix of sand and pebble, with the pebbles concentrated near the water’s edge, so several families recommend water shoes for going in. Beach-towel changes are free, confirmed on the resort’s own site; a tour-operator hotel database also lists sunbeds, parasols and showers, plus a chargeable beach pavilion, though these aren’t detailed on the resort’s own site. This stretch of coast around Manavgat and Titreyengöl holds Blue Flag beaches, the international mark for water quality and beach management.
Water sports run seasonally through a beach concession and cost extra: windsurfing, surfing, sailing, catamaran, canoe, jet ski, parasailing, banana boat and pedalo among them. If baby-changing facilities down at the beach matter to you, check directly with the resort, as they aren’t detailed anywhere.
Babies and toddlers
The baby and kids’ clubs, the cot and high chairs, baby food and everything else that fills a family day.
There’s a free baby club for the youngest children, roughly up to four; confirm the exact ages and hours when you book if this matters to your choice. The main kids’ club covers primary-school-age children up to around twelve, free and staffed in several languages. Its area has slides, swings, playhouses, a small pool and a mini restaurant, so children can play while parents relax, and there’s a free, multilingual mini disco every evening.
A cot is free but needs requesting and reserving when you book. High chairs are available at the main buffet, and pushchair hire is available on site for a charge if you’d rather not bring your own. Babysitting is available for a charge for an evening out, and there’s an on-site doctor and nurse service, also chargeable.
Baby food is the one thing to plan around. Reports are mixed: some families found specialised baby food and others none, and the options thin out late in the evening. Pack enough of your own weaning supplies to cover an evening feed and the travel days either way.
On resortThings to do
The resort has its own jogging track, three tennis courts, an indoor fitness area, beach volleyball and mini golf, with step, aerobics, zumba and pilates classes through the day. Other sports include archery, football, table tennis, darts and boccia at no charge, with floodlit tennis hire and lessons and billiards chargeable. Evenings bring nightly shows, live music several times a week, karaoke and themed dance nights, alongside a daily animation programme.
The spa has massage rooms, a beauty centre, a Turkish bath, a sauna and a steam room. A Finnish sauna is free; the massages and treatments are chargeable. For everyday needs there’s an on-site Mini Market, handy for topping up nappies and baby supplies without leaving the resort, plus a hairdresser and a laundry and dry-cleaning service, all chargeable, while the in-room digital safe is free. A tour-operator hotel database also lists a souvenir shop, a small shopping row, a boutique and a jeweller, though none of these are named individually on the resort’s own site. There’s also a lobby meeting room for events.
Off the parkThe area and days out
The resort sits about 4 miles (6 km) from ancient Side, a pedestrianised old town with a colonnaded street, the Temple of Apollo and ice cream stops. It’s the closest day out, an easy half-day even with a toddler. A Manavgat river-boat trip, on flat water with a shaded deck and a riverside bazaar, is a realistic outing from this base too.
Further afield, Land of Legends, a large theme and water park at Belek, is about 30 miles (48 km) away, roughly an hour by coach with pickups from the area, a longer trip from here than it would be from Belek itself. Antalya city, with its Kaleiçi old town, the Düden waterfalls and an archaeological museum, is around 44 to 50 miles (70 to 80 km) away and best treated as a full day out. Aspendos, a remarkably preserved Roman amphitheatre, and rafting in the Köprülü canyon (from around age six or seven) are reachable on the same basis as from other resorts along this coast. Our Turkish Riviera guide has the full days-out detail rather than repeating it here.
Loves and gripes
What families rate and what they flag, how it stacks up against the alternatives, the journey in and the weather by month.
What families love, and the gripes
What families love
- Consistent praise for cleanliness and the staff.
- The dedicated children’s restaurant, used daily by families with babies.
- The animation and kids’-club team.
- The green, pine-forest setting and its shade.
- The crazy river and slides when they’re fully running.
- Value against the luxury Belek resorts.
Common gripes
- A large, spread-out site with stairs and limited step-free access.
- An inconsistent water-park experience.
- A mixed sand-and-pebble beach.
- Mixed reports on baby food.
- A minority of rooms and pool surrounds described as due an update.
- A longer airport transfer than the Lara or Belek resorts.
In TUI’s guest survey, 97% of guests recommend the resort, from more than 2,500 reviews. That’s a measure of how many guests would recommend it rather than a star rating.
Against the alternativesHow it compares
Among the shortlist of Turkish Riviera family resorts, Monachus sits in the value-to-mid tier, below the luxury Belek resorts and the Lara Barut Collection near the airport. Those newer resorts have shorter transfers, named baby programmes with equipment kits and more exhaustively documented websites. What Monachus trades that for is a dedicated children’s restaurant, a wooded rather than concrete setting and a lower price. Families set on a short transfer or wanting every detail confirmed on a slick official site may prefer Lara or Belek; those after value and a proper kids’ dining space, happy to confirm a few specifics directly, may find this the better fit.
Getting thereGetting there and when to go
Antalya airport is the arrival point, about 44 miles (70 km) away and roughly 60 to 75 minutes by road, one of the longer transfers among the Turkish Riviera family resorts. The transfer isn’t laid on automatically: it’s arranged as part of a package or booked as a chargeable private transfer, so sort it ahead of time rather than assuming it’s included. The resort is bookable from the UK through the major operators, TUI, Jet2holidays, easyJet holidays and First Choice among them, on the direct-flight programme from most UK airports.
When to goWeather
The Turkish Riviera coast broadly runs an April-to-November season, though the resort doesn’t state exact opening and closing dates. June and September give the best balance of summer warmth without the peak heat. July and August are seriously hot for small children, when you’ll spend the hottest part of the day at the pools rather than the beach. The shoulder months of April, May, October and November are cooler and quieter, with a still-comfortable sea in May and October. The figures below are long-term averages for this stretch of coast.
| Month | Daytime high | Overnight low | Rain | Wet days | Sea temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.5° | 5.5° | 222 mm | 11 | 19° |
| February | 16.5° | 6.5° | 131 mm | 8 | 17° |
| March | 18.5° | 8° | 94 mm | 6 | 17° |
| April | 22° | 11° | 47 mm | 4 | 18° |
| May | 27° | 16° | 36 mm | 3 | 22° |
| June | 32° | 20° | 7 mm | 1 | 25° |
| July | 35.5° | 23.5° | 2 mm | 0 | 28° |
| August | 35° | 23.5° | 1 mm | 0 | 29° |
| September | 31.5° | 20° | 31 mm | 2 | 29° |
| October | 27.5° | 15.5° | 115 mm | 5 | 26° |
| November | 22° | 10.5° | 107 mm | 6 | 24° |
| December | 17° | 7.5° | 225 mm | 8 | 21° |
Typical monthly averages from weather-station records. Sea temperature is the open-water figure, so a sheltered bay can feel a degree or two warmer. The coast runs a broad April to November season.
Questions
The things families ask most, the official pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.
Is there a baby club, and what ages does it take?
Yes, a free one aimed at the youngest children. The catch is that the exact age band and hours aren’t published in advance, so email the resort or ask your operator to pin them down before you book if a baby or toddler will actually use it.
Is the longer transfer a problem with young children?
It’s around 60 to 75 minutes each way, longer than the Lara or Belek resorts nearer the airport. It’s manageable with a baby but worth planning around nap and feed times, and a private transfer rather than a shared coach usually means fewer stops on the way.
Is the resort manageable with a pushchair?
Partly. It’s a large, wooded site with some steps between areas and few ramps, so a pushchair works but expect to fold and carry it in a few spots. If step-free access is a priority, look at the dedicated accessible room type.
Is the beach sandy?
Mostly sand, but the shoreline itself turns to pebble, which is why water shoes are worth packing for paddling. The beach is a short walk from the rooms rather than on the doorstep.
How many pools are there, and is the water park good?
The resort counts around five, among them the crazy river, the lazy river and a standalone children’s pool. Experiences of the slides swing quite a bit between visits, so go expecting a fun extra rather than a full water park on the scale of the newer Belek resorts.
Does the resort provide baby food?
It varies. Some families found jars and purées on offer and others came up short, and there’s little around late in the evening, so pack enough of your own to cover an evening feed and the journeys either way.
Is there a dedicated children’s restaurant?
Yes. Mona Kids Restaurant serves its own breakfast, lunch and dinner in a room of its own with indoor and outdoor seating. That helps most when a child eats early and you’d rather not build the evening around the main restaurant’s hours.
How does it compare to the Belek resorts nearby?
The Belek and Lara resorts are newer, sit closer to the airport and document more on their websites, down to named baby programmes with equipment kits. Monachus comes in cheaper, with shade from the pine forest and the children’s own restaurant. The choice comes down to whether a short transfer and a fully detailed website matter more to you than price and the kids’ dining space.
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Useful links
- Monachus Family Resort Sorgun: the resort’s own site for rooms, dining and facilities.
- GOV.UK Turkey travel advice: entry rules and safety updates before you travel.
- The Turkish Riviera with little ones: our guide to the wider region, its beaches and when to go.
Last updated 16 July 2026.
