The House Hotel Cappadocia Converts Ancient Cave Dwellings into Luxury Boutique Hotel

  • October 18, 2016
The House Hotel Cappadocia Converts Ancient Cave Dwellings into Luxury Boutique Hotel
The 29 room hotel takes a modern approach on Arcadian design by combining original features including frescos, fireplaces and fermentation vats with contemporary furnishings.

The House Hotel Cappadocia is situated in the town square's periphery, amongst cobblestone streets lined with locally owned teashops and coffeehouses that lead to the Ortahisar Kalesi, a jagged honeycombed rock structure filled with hollow caves and tunnels. Cappadocia's treasured volcanic rock chimneys that surround the town can be viewed from a hot air balloon tour arranged by the hotel.

The 29 rooms embrace the building's heritage with a design that pairs original fresco lined cave walls with Byzantine-inspired furnishing and accents. Each room is uniquely designed by Şekibe Aslan to seamlessly integrate modern luxuries like Turkish marble and heated flooring into the natural stone settings.

The Hotel offers an underground Spa with a Turkish Hamam, sauna, steam room, treatment rooms for massages and facials and candle lit alcoves for yoga and transcendental meditation. The Spa combines traditional Turkish therapeutic practices with modern amenities including the House Hotel Collection's signature Lokum Istanbul “Hamam Rituals” bath products.

The House Hotel Cappadocia's Fresko Lokanta restaurant modernizes the above ground section of the historic building that overlooks Cappadocia. The restaurant takes a gourmet approach to local cuisine, serving contemporary Turkish dishes in a dining space characterized by frescos and stone arches.

Visit website: https://www.thehousehotel.com/the-house-hotel-cappadocia.aspx

Photo credit: Julie Balsiger