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Taskonaklar
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A family-run cave and stone hotel of 25 rooms in Uchisar, the highest village in Cappadocia, with dawn balloon views over Pigeon Valley and Anatolian cooking.
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Award Winner 2014
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Need To Know
- 25 cave and stone rooms and suites, each individually designed; all have marble bathrooms, and the Royal Suites add private terraces with heated outdoor jacuzzis.
- In Uçhisar, the highest village in Cappadocia, above Pigeon Valley; about 35 minutes from Nevşehir (Kapadokya) airport and an hour from Kayseri.
- A restaurant and cocktail bar, spa, library, and experiences from cave dinners to balloon rides arranged by the team.
- The whole hotel can be taken over for a retreat or a group, with an artist-residency programme, A.R.C., running on site.
- Our Favourite Rooms: a Royal Suite for the terrace jacuzzi and valley view; the smaller cave rooms are atmospheric but darker and short on outdoor space.
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The architecture. Rooms carved into the rock or built from hand-cut Sarıtaş stone, each one different, filled with reclaimed antiques and old fireplaces.
- The balloons. Wake around dawn and the sky over Pigeon Valley fills with hot-air balloons, watched from your terrace or the hotel's own.
- The family touch. Started in 2003 by Monique, who restored the first house and still lives next door, it is run as a family home rather than a chain.
- The turndown. Each evening the staff fill the room with candles and light the wood stove, the stone walls glowing in the warm light.
- The art. A.R.C., the hotel's artist-in-residence programme, turns the stone rooms into a living gallery and gives the place a creative streak.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Address: Taskonaklar, Hotel Cappadocia, Gedik Sok. No: 8 Uçhisar Nevsehir/Turkey.
Travel Info
askonaklar is about a 35-minute drive from Nevşehir (Kapadokya) airport and an hour from Kayseri, with transfers arranged on request. It sits in the village of Uçhisar, a short walk from the castle and on the 6km Pigeon Valley path to Göreme.
Nearby Places
Nevsehir Airport
29200m
Last Updated: 2026-06-30
Expert Review
Origins
Taskonaklar began, as the best small hotels often do, as a private house rather than a business plan. In 2003 Monique, mother of the present owners, came to Cappadocia as a tourist, fell for the hilltop village of Uçhisar, and bought a weathered old house with a single vineyard to restore as a home. It grew, room by hand-carved stone, into something too good to keep to the family, and opened to guests as a cave-and-stone hotel. Monique still lives in the green-shuttered house next door, and the restaurant, Moniq, is named for her.
The setting is the heart of it. Uçhisar is the highest village in Cappadocia, crowned by its castle and looking over Pigeon Valley toward distant Mount Erciyes, and the hotel was pieced together over years, under the region's strict heritage rules, from old houses and rooms cut into the soft volcanic rock. Built with hand-cut Sarıtaş stone and furnished with reclaimed antiques, its 25 rooms are each different, some subterranean, some above ground with terraces and balloon views. The result is grown-up rather than gimmicky: a family-run hotel that treats Cappadocia's cave-dwelling heritage as something to live in, not just look at.
Top Secret
Evenings here are for slow games of backgammon under the lantern-lit trees in the garden, cocktail in hand and the valley darkening below, an unhurried ritual the staff are happy to set up and play along with.
The Review
Cappadocia is one of the strangest and most beautiful landscapes on earth, a valley country of wind-carved rock, fairy chimneys and cliff-cut dwellings, and the way to meet it is to sleep inside the rock itself. Taskonaklar, in the high village of Uçhisar, is among the more characterful places to do exactly that: a 25-room cave-and-stone hotel built up over two decades from old houses and rock-cut rooms, and still run as a family home at heart.
The rooms are the experience. No two are alike, carved into the rock or built from hand-cut Sarıtaş stone, dressed with antiques and old fireplaces, all with marble bathrooms; the Royal Suites add private terraces with heated outdoor jacuzzis and the best of the valley views. It is worth choosing carefully, the suites are where the terraces, light and views are, while the smaller cave rooms, atmospheric as they are, can be dark and short on outdoor space. The signature is the evening turndown: the staff fill the room with candles and light the wood stove, and the stone glows.
What lifts it above a pretty room is the way it is run. This is a family operation, begun by the owners' mother in 2003 and still personal in its service, and the team organise Cappadocia properly, from cave dinners and pottery workshops to the dawn balloon ride, which they handle to the last detail: porters, translators, warm jackets and a gourmet picnic, a concierge waiting at four in the morning. The kitchen matters too: Moniq, the hotel's restaurant and cocktail bar, draws on Anatolian, Greek, Armenian and Ottoman traditions and has been recognised in the Michelin Guide, and an artist-residency programme, A.R.C., gives the place a creative edge unusual in a hotel this size.
It is not the most central base for Göreme's nightlife, and the smallest rooms need choosing around, but those are quibbles. For a stay that puts you inside Cappadocia's rock, run with genuine family care and a real sense of place, with the balloons rising past your terrace at dawn, Taskonaklar is among the most characterful cave hotels in the region.
