The Top 22 Hotels Near Bobo by The Stay
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Architect Mahmut Anlar designed the rooms as cylinders, so the floor-to-ceiling windows curve around olive groves and Cennet Bay rather than framing them in a flat rectangle. This boutique hotel on the secluded northern shore of the Bodrum Peninsula is part of The Stay, a Turkish art-forward group with a sustainability bent. Poured concrete floors, custom furnishings, a spa, a private beach club, and a rotating schedule of concerts and art events complete the picture.
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Perched at the tip of its own mini-peninsula, this boutique hotel is built like a small village into a forested hillside, so the Aegean fills every view and the sprawl of the Bodrum Peninsula stays politely invisible. Modernist-leaning villas sit tucked among preserved trees, with a spa, a private beach, and four restaurants on site. It's open May through October, which for some guests becomes a calendar consideration rather than a footnote.
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Twelve stone bungalows arranged in a circle on a clifftop above the Aegean, each with a private terrace pool aimed straight at the water. This is a boutique beach-club resort that doubles as a party venue with somewhere to sleep it off: sister to the famous Mykonos original, with the same minimalist-bohemian design, international DJs, and a nightly sunset ritual involving dancing under actual stars. Breakfast arrives at your door; by noon you've drifted down for mezze and sparkling wine anyway.
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Each freestanding suite and pavilion at this Aman resort on the Bodrum Peninsula comes with its own private marble pool, which rather sets the tone. Built into a hillside above the Aegean and arranged along quiet footpaths like a clifftop village, it pairs hand-carved stone and Ottoman-inflected architecture with rain showers and espresso machines. The three-story Library Tower is a nice touch for a place that makes leaving feel like a personal failing. Michelin Key holder.
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Suites that open directly onto Gölköy Bay set the tone at this small, family-owned boutique hotel tucked among date palms and bougainvillea. Eighteen rooms keep things unhurried and unpretentious, white walls and parquet floors, with staff who remember returning guests by name. Lunch happens on the sand, dinner turns a little more considered, and the bar works with house-made syrups and whatever the market brought in that week.
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A rocky Aegean cove is the foundation here, with a sprawling overwater terrace of daybeds, bars, and restaurants hovering above it like the world's most considered sun trap. This seasonal resort on the Bodrum peninsula runs on casual glamour, from the enormous spa to the DJ nights to the transport options, which include, without irony, helicopter and private jet. Rooms are cool stone and white linen, each with its own terrace looking out at the yacht-dotted blue.
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Twelve suites organized around the zodiac, each hung with original art the owners collected over decades at auctions and private studios, from Turkish masters to a Botero. This boutique hotel on Torba Bay reads less like a hotel than the vacation home of someone with excellent taste and unlimited air miles. A private jetty, a silent pool, and a Turkish breakfast under a canopy make the art-gallery atmosphere feel surprisingly livable.
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Six parts Aegean panorama, the design formula here goes, and the 76 rooms, suites, and villas seem built to prove it. This contemporary beachfront resort outside Bodrum keeps things in earth tones and blonde wood so the water can do the talking, with private pools and tubs angled toward the view for anyone who needs a little more argument. Watersports, a gym, a beach club, and a restaurant handle the rest. Open May through mid-October.
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Stilted cabanas perched over the Aegean make the case for this contemporary seaside hotel before you've even unpacked. Aged driftwood tones keep the white-on-white look from tipping into blinding, and sea foam green accents do the rest. The spa and the Blu restaurant pull their weight, though the water views are doing most of the heavy lifting. The hotel's own beach is a free shuttle ride away, which feels very civilized once you're there.
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A boutique hotel in Yalikavak that runs only May through October, which somehow makes arriving feel like a small coup. The four reasons in the name are serenity, design, quality, and attitude, a branding exercise that would be easy to roll your eyes at if the place weren't so genuinely low-key about it. Rooms run from pared-down to family-sized to a junior suite, and the whole thing is small enough that it never tips into resort anonymity.
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Bodrum Castle sits close enough that you can squint at it from the pool while an Aegean breeze does the heavy lifting. This resort runs three restaurants at once: a shoreside club with live DJs, an upper-floor Italian room pulling from Piedmont and Tuscany, and a Pan-Asian bar above the cove. A Turkish hammam handles the rest. Loft Sea View suites come with marble floors, wide balconies, and one room where glass doors slide open to a plant-filled atrium.
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Eleven rooms spread across a cluster of low-profile modernist houses, adults-only, and quieter than Bodrum has any right to be. Birdcage 33 is a boutique hotel where the design mixes modern furniture with traditional Turkish craft and the pool deck does most of the socializing. The bar and restaurant, Lika, sits beside it with Aegean views. It holds a Michelin Key.
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Over 200 works of art fill the lobby, spa, and pool deck of this MGallery resort on the Bodrum coast, chosen by a local architect as part of a coherent interior vision rather than an afterthought. Rooms are a short walk from Yalıkavak Marina, while the private beach, infinity pool, and a hammam at Mood Spa give you plenty of reasons to stay put. The restaurant has a serious kitchen behind it, with ties to a Michelin Guide-recommended Istanbul address.
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Every room at this Yalikavak resort looks straight out at the Aegean, which is the kind of architectural decision that renders most other decisions irrelevant. Allium is a full-scale luxury resort on the Bodrum Peninsula, with an infinity pool, a pier for sea swimming, and a spa complex. The interiors lean into warm wood and handmade textiles, so the whole thing feels grounded rather than glossy. It holds a Michelin Key.
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Perched just above a private beach on İçmeler Bay, this 34-room adults-only boutique hotel trades the extravagance of the wider Bodrum scene for something quieter and more residential in feel. Every room has a sea view from its balcony or terrace, the pool is surrounded by water on three sides, and the spa runs a Turkish bath. The Michelin Guide has selected it among its hotels.
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Near-monochrome minimalism from lobby to balcony sets the tone at this adults-only boutique hotel sitting across the road from Lambi Beach. The 54 rooms run from generously sized doubles with furnished terraces up to suites with outdoor jacuzzis and plunge pools. An L-shaped pool anchors the daytime scene, the spa handles the rest, and the in-house restaurant covers Greek and pan-Mediterranean dinners. Michelin awarded it one Key.
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An eight-room hotel steps from Kos's port, Albergo Gelsomino cuts an Art Deco silhouette along the seafront that has been catching eyes since before anyone alive can remember. The rooms look out over the Aegean, and the beach club below gives you a reason to stay horizontal all afternoon. Small enough to feel like someone's well-appointed house, relaxed enough that it doesn't feel precious about it. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key.
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The Bay of Güllük sits quietly off the northeast tip of the Bodrum Peninsula, and this 26-suite boutique hotel leans into that calm, with bay views from nearly every angle and a rooftop restaurant above the water. The rooms borrow from a groovy early-Seventies Italian film palette, cinnamon and tangerine swapped out by theme. The lounge bar opens onto a garden by the pool. Bodrum proper is an hour away, which is, depending on the week, either the problem or the point.
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A seafront hotel on Lambi Beach where the room design, the pool, the bar, and the restaurant all point stubbornly toward the water, as if the Aegean might leave if nobody watched it. Floors-to-ceiling windows, bright white interiors, and private terraces do their part. The island is also the birthplace of Hippocrates, which gives you something suitably ancient to do before returning to the lounger. Open April through October.
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A Michelin Selected hotel on Lambi Beach, a short drive from Kos town, that runs adults-only, which explains the particular hush around the pools. Eighty-eight suites means it's not a boutique secret, but the generous terraces, roof decks, and private pools on some units spread people out enough that it rarely feels that way. The Ef-Zin spa and two in-house restaurants give guests a convincing case for never leaving.
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