Key Hotel - Boutique Class

Key Hotel - Boutique Class

In the center of Izmir, a few minutes from Konak Pier Shopping Mall and the stalls of Kemeraltı Market, Key Hotel - Boutique Class fits thirty-one rooms across four floors. Mornings mean coffee at the window with the city already moving below, a scene the hotel was built around. Rooms are individually decorated, with minibars, flat-screen televisions, bathrobes, slippers, rainfall showerheads and soundproofing, and a run of them, from the Superior Queen to the two-bedroom suite, open onto the sea rather than the rooftops of Konak. Family suites and interconnecting rooms exist for groups who don't want two separate bookings, and the two-bedroom sea-view suite sleeps as many as eight adults and five children. What sets it apart is the density of amenities packed into a hotel this size: a sauna, massage room and spa sit next to a doctor on call, a fitness center, a business center with conference hall and meeting rooms, and a library, an unusual line-up for thirty-one rooms. Staff speak English, French and Turkish, and a tour assistance desk is on hand for anyone turning a wander through Kemeraltı into an actual plan. It suits business travelers who need meeting space without leaving the building, families who need connecting rooms, and anyone stretching a work trip with a sauna session or a massage. It doesn't suit anyone chasing a rooftop pool or a beachfront stay, since the sea shows up in a handful of rooms with a view, not as the main event. Extra beds run 30 EUR a night, check-in starts at 2pm, check-out is noon. What lingers is the library, a small room in a small hotel, holding its own against far bigger places. A thirty-one-room boutique hotel in central Izmir with a sauna, spa, doctor on call, business center and library, an unusual density for its size. Book it for meetings, families needing connecting rooms, or a sea-view room over the old town, not for a rooftop pool.