Otel Necmi

Black Sea Coast


This character-filled budget choice feels like your eccentric uncle's house, with pot plants, minor antiques and big old chairs in reception. The 20 rooms are neither gleaming nor large, and the shared bathrooms are like closets, but owner Mehmet is charming, helpful and speaks a little English.

It's on the clothes bazaar alley, just off Kazımpaşa Caddesi: walk two blocks north from the northeast corner of Cumhuriyet Meydanı then diagonally left up the lane facing the 1909 building that's now Ziraat Bankası.


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1. Gazi Museum

0.15 MILES

This turn-of-the-20th-century house is celebrated for hosting Atatürk for a week in the late 1920s. It lovingly preserves the great man's picnic hamper,…

2. Samsun Panorama

0.18 MILES

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3. Archaeology & Ethnography Museum

0.24 MILES

At the time of research, Samsun's foremost museum was closed pending long-term reconstruction and extension. Its most striking attraction is a huge Romano…

4. Tütün İskele

0.36 MILES

In May 1919, when Turkey was under the essential control of post WWI allied powers, Atatürk was dispatched by steamer to Samsun to quell a minor uprising…

5. Samsun Kent Müsesi

0.54 MILES

In a pair of historical wooden houses, this extensive museum appealingly lays out Samsun's commerce, history and culture with an audio guide and booklet…

6. Amisos Tepesi

1.92 MILES

For extensive views down between conifers onto a sweep of coastline, take the five-minute cable-car ride from Batıpark to this hilltop with its twin…

7. Batıpark

2.22 MILES

A popular family strolling spot north of central Samsun, this seaside park is most notable for the cable-car ride to Amisos Tepesi and for the so-called …

8. Bandırma Vapuru

2.23 MILES

The ferry that brought Atatürk to Samsun in 1919 is now moored in 'National Struggle Park', converted into a museum full of waxwork figures.