On Holiday and hate it!

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Was just after some moral support am on holiday with my daughter in a shit all inclusive in turkey horrible place and horrible hotel. We are here until Monday 😭honestly been in tears and just want to come home. Any words of wisdom to keep us going. They want £650 for an earlier flight home that I just can’t afford.

The bulk of Turkish taxis do not have an identity such as ‘ABC Taxis’, so reporting would not be easy. I guess it would also be a “he said, she said” situation in the end.

I think the groped poster felt it best to not be abandoned in the middle of nowhere. Her post was quite detailed on that.

A horrible situation I agree, but on balance, keeping safe was sensible imho. Who knows who could have come along next? It’s definitely not like a UK holiday town at all.

Exactly this. A waiter suggested I should marry him as I was single, all I wanted was the friggin menu. Never again.

I went back to Turkey last October as a single parent with a teenage DD. We travelled a bit to Pamukkale, then stayed in a beautiful hill village to visit Ephesus before ending up in a lovely family run complex in Dalyan. We had no trouble at all and this included getting trains and public coaches/buses. In fact every one was respectful, friendly and helpful. I am sorry OP is having such an awful time but this is not my experience of Turkey at all. I went when DD was about 5, and we were all inclusive then for part of the trip before we travelled on to Istanbul- again fine but really did my research before booking hotels as at 4 (and cheaper 5 ) they really vary and it was about getting the best deal we could.

Egypt however was awful- but I was newly widowed so not emotionally robust. Tourism had been decimated and even at a 5* resort in Luxor, hotel staff were pestering to book boat trips with their family and also asking for my email. None overstepped the mark but I just was not up to it. The only place I was spared was in a simple, family run guest house in Giza- they even helped find me a guide to get around the pyramids unscathed, waited on the platform with us for the night train to luxor and were just amazing people.