Group of friends arrive at Turkey hotel at 1am and told to 'go away'

A group of friends said they were left 'traumatised' after they arrived at their hotel in Turkey at 1am and were told to 'go away' by a security guard.

Aaron Hatton, 20, Danielle Halsall, 20, and another friend, flew from Manchester Airport on Friday, October 6, after booking a package holiday with loveholidays, the Liverpool Echo reports. But Aaron said when they arrived, the gates to the all-inclusive hotel were locked.

He said the group were left with 'nowhere to go' after a security worker at the hotel told them the 'hotel was not open to the public'. The friends, who paid £1.5k for the week-long holiday, were left confused as they could see people on the balconies.

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Aaron said: "We just wanted to go somewhere hot for a nice little holiday and booked something with loveholidays. We got to the airport [in Turkey] and everything was fine, and we booked a private transfer and went to the checkpoint where they picked us up.

"We were dropped off at about 1am at this hotel we had booked and it was locked at the gates. We went round to the other side and we could see people on the balconies so we asked them how to get in - they said to go around to the front.

"There was a security guard looking at us and we were trying to get through but they kept saying go away, find somewhere else and that the hotel wasn't open to the public. We showed them our phone with the booking and the name of the hotel but they kept shaking their head."

Aaron and Danielle, both from St Helens in Merseyside, and their other friend had no choice but