Paparazzi
Beach Club

Paparazzi has anchored Ayayorgi cove since before most of its neighbours existed, and after a rebuild it now trades as OM Paparazzi, though everyone in Cesme still uses the short name. The formula has not moved: a broad wooden deck stepping down to the water, sunbeds instead of sand, a kitchen that takes itself seriously, and music that carries the deck from swimming hours into the small hours, with closing listed at three in the morning through the season.

Every club we assess for the Cesme club directory gets the same interrogation: where does the money go, and what would the free version of this day cost you. Paparazzi is unusually easy to score on the first question, because for 2026 its door terms were published in the local press rather than whispered at the gate, and unusually hard on the second, because in Ayayorgi there is almost no free version to defect to.

Read the tariff the way an accountant would and the weekday deal is the story. Free entry with a 1,950 TL per person limit means every lira you are committed to comes back as something on a plate or in a glass, and since the furniture and towel are thrown in, the club has effectively priced a weekday at the cost of a long lunch. The kitchen holds up its end, this is one of the few decks in the cove where the food is a reason to come rather than a way to burn the limit, with sole, a proper cokertme kebab and a beef fillet with mushrooms among the dishes the house is known for, and mains reported from roughly 990 TL.

The weekend is a different transaction. The 1,450 TL door fee buys admission and nothing else, and it stacks on top of the same spend limit, so a Saturday couple is committed to around 6,800 TL before choosing what to drink. That is the price of scarcity, since the cove holds a handful of decks and no overflow, and the club knows Saturday demand will pay it. Whether you should is the real question, and our answer is only if the Ayayorgi scene itself, the swimming off the boards and the night that follows, is what you came to Cesme for.

Where it falls short is consistency at full tilt. Recent reviews praise the beds and the water but describe service that thins when the deck packs out in peak weeks, and restroom upkeep that does not always match the prices. None of that is unusual for a busy Turkish club in August, but at these numbers you are entitled to expect it handled. If your priority is value with no caveats, the warm shallow water and cheap loungers at Ilica remain the honest budget day in Cesme.

Ayayorgi is not a beach in the towel and sandcastle sense. It is a deep, sheltered horseshoe a few minutes from Cesme town where the shoreline is timber rather than sand, and swimming means a ladder or a jump straight into clear blue water that stays calm when the Aegean wind is working the open coasts. Paparazzi claims the cove’s longest pedigree and its stretch of water carries a blue flag listing, which the club makes much of. The full Ayayorgi guide covers the cove itself and how its handful of clubs divide it up.

The cove sits just northeast of Cesme town, a few minutes by car or taxi from the marina and about an hour and a quarter from Izmir airport. The club runs valet and has parking, which matters here because the lane down to Ayayorgi clogs on summer weekends, and arriving by taxi saves the shuffle entirely. There is no ferry or beach boat option, this is a drive or ride cove.

Booking is by telephone rather than an online system, and on peak weekends the deck genuinely sells through. If you would rather not conduct that call in Turkish, or want the door terms confirmed in writing before committing to a Saturday, drop your date and numbers into the form below and we will put the enquiry to the club, which can then confirm space and the exact tariff for your day. It costs nothing and removes the one unknown in an otherwise unusually transparent club.