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A 19-room cave hotel in the quiet village of Ortahisar, restored from old rock-cut houses, with terraces over Ortahisar Castle and a colourful contemporary-Turkish design.
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Need To Know
- 19 cave rooms and suites, each individually designed, from Standard rooms to two-bedroom Superior Family Suites; bathrooms are travertine with walk-in, hammam-style showers rather than tubs.
- On the upper slopes of Ortahisar village, between Nevşehir and Ürgüp, with terrace views of the castle and the valley.
- A restaurant with castle views, an honesty bar, a library and bicycles; balloon rides and tours arranged by the team.
- Some lower cave rooms are reached by flights of steps, and a few rooms have private terraces or balconies.
- Our Favourite Rooms: a Superior Suite for the space, travertine hammam bathroom and the best of the castle views.
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The setting. Terraces on the upper slopes of Ortahisar look straight across the valley to the floodlit rock castle, the village's great chimney citadel.
- The design. Rooms cut into the rock, each different, in a colourful contemporary-Turkish style by designer Halide Didem, with travertine bathrooms.
- The village. Ortahisar is a quiet, working Cappadocian town, a calmer base than Göreme, with the surreal valleys a short walk away.
- The honesty bar. Drinks run on trust in a self-serve room, part of a homely, friend-not-guest way of hosting that guests single out.
- The heritage. The hotel was pieced together from old rock-cut houses, once an Orthodox Greek dwelling, keeping the caves' original structure.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Hezen Cave Hotel
€122.00 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Tahir Bey Sok. 87, Ortahisar, Nev?ehir, Turkey
Travel Info
Nevşehir (Kapadokya) airport is about a 40-minute drive and Kayseri around an hour, both with pre-booked shuttles. Hezen sits in Ortahisar, roughly 3km from Göreme and 4km from Ürgüp; some lower rooms involve steps.
Nearby Places
Kayseri Airport
80km
Nevsehir Kapadokya Airport
43km
Last Updated: 2026-06-30
Expert Review
Origins
Hezen occupies one of the oldest kinds of dwelling in Cappadocia: a house cut into the soft volcanic rock. The building was originally an Orthodox Greek rock house in Ortahisar, and the hotel, which opened in 2011 and grew over the following years, was pieced together from several of these old rock-carved homes, keeping the caves' original structure and re-dressing the interiors in a brighter, contemporary style.
Ortahisar itself shapes the experience. A working village between Nevşehir and Ürgüp, it is crowned by the Ortahisar Castle, a vast chimney rock hollowed out since Hittite times and the second-tallest citadel in the region, and its valleys hide rock-cut churches, monasteries and the cool stores still used to keep local produce. It is quieter and more lived-in than the busier centres nearby. The hotel is owned by a family of Turkish-French origin who also run a rug and antique-textile shop and museum in Ürgüp, and that collector's eye shows in the interiors, designed by the Turkish designer Halide Didem: colourful furnishings and ceramics set against the pale natural stone, comfort layered into the caves rather than imposed on them.
Top Secret
Drinks here run on trust: an honesty bar in a self-serve room, where you pour your own and settle up later, part of a hosting style that treats you as a friend in the house rather than a guest at a desk.
The Review
Cappadocia asks to be slept in, not just looked at, and the way to do it is inside the rock. Hezen, in the quiet village of Ortahisar, is among the more characterful places to try: a 19-room cave hotel restored from old rock-cut houses, with an eclectic, colourful design that sets it apart from the region's more uniform cave stays.
The rooms are the appeal. Carved into the soft stone and no two alike, they pair natural cave walls with white wooden floors, brightly coloured furniture and ceramics, and travertine bathrooms with walk-in hammam-style showers; some have a private terrace or balcony. The whole place is small, which buys a genuinely personal service, beginning with the tea and plate of food pressed on you at arrival. Two practical notes: the bathrooms are showers, not tubs, and some lower rooms are reached by flights of steps cut into the hillside.
The setting lifts it. Hezen sits on the upper slopes of Ortahisar, and its terraces look across a narrow valley to the village's great rock castle, a hollowed chimney citadel that is floodlit after dark, the lights of houses and hotels scattered across the slope opposite. Ortahisar is a real working village, calmer and less touristy than Göreme or Ürgüp, yet the surreal valleys, fairy chimneys and the Göreme open-air museum are all a short walk or drive away.
It is run with warmth and a collector's eye, by a family who keep a rug-and-textile museum nearby, and small touches like the honesty bar give it the feel of a home rather than a hotel. For travellers who want the cave experience with character and calm, in a village rather than the thick of the crowds, with the balloons rising over the valleys at dawn, Hezen is among the most appealing places to stay in Cappadocia.
