Doga Apartments

Beautiful, peaceful location. Lots of fruit trees and chickens (and roosters!) We stayed in an apartment and enjoyed the spaciousness. The washer was not working so Ali offered for the housekeeper to do our laundry for us, which was much appreciated. We had one breakfast and Ali’s special bbq one evening, which was fish cooked in the fireplace. It was fantastic and highly recommended. The other nights we ate at Cin Ban, right next door and that was phenomenal! Ali runs the property by himself along with a lovely lady who is both cook and housekeeper. However, we did feel the challenge of this set up. The booking inquiry through the website was unanswered, but WhatsApp was quickly replied to. When we arrived, he did not have our reservation since the WhatsApp chat had apparently been removed from his phone because it was more than 90 days. All worked out but as others have mentioned, he takes cash only. However, we were aware of this at the time of booking, so we were prepared. While not ‘perfect’. We highly enjoyed our stay and much preferred to stay here as a home base, then in one of the very busy/crowded nearby cities.

Stayed here for 10 days and were given a much larger room, in fact it was more like a small apartment with a huge balcony. Very quiet most of the time until a large group of ramblers arrived and got drunk and rowdy. The owner Ali and his daughter were very helpful but Ali was a bit rude to us one day as we accidentally left the aircon on. Instead of asking us to go and turn it off politely he marched off to our room to do it himself. When we returned to our room we couldn’t find the remote but he’d placed it behind the bed in the alcove. Not really the way to treat your guests. Overall this place was lovely and would certainly recommend it, just make sure you turn the aircon off and shut all the windows.

My wife and I have recently returned from a very enjoyable stay with Ali and Doga in one of their traditional apartments. Ali and Doga are marvellous hosts and nothing is too much trouble to make your stay as memorable as possible. The location is perfectly placed for access to all the local sites and further afield. Ali is an excellent host and his bespoke breakfasts are delicious prepared with home grown produce where possible and eggs from his own chickens. We have stayed many times and look forward to our next visit.