Turkey?

[benandoli]

We are going to Turkey for two weeks in 2 weeks time. Seemed a really good idea when we booked it but I am starting to get nervous! Tell me the good things. We are going with friends who have two boys 5 and 8 and we have ds1 8, ds2 5 and dd1 2o mths. Thanks

Which part of Turkey are you going to?

icemeler

Lovely food; great, friendly family orientated people; stunning scenery - will be very hot though so lots of suncream, hats needed. We took Magicool when we travelled with a baby some years ago - it helped cool him down, particularly during transfers.

Turkey is a beautiful country with friendly people, gorgeous food and very, very child friendly.

Icmeler is a lovely reosrt, very family oriented, you will find evrywhere caters for children and you will be well looked after.

I spent 3 years living in Turkey when my dd was a baby and we still go back every year for a holiday as we haven't found anywhere better.

I'm sure you will love it there and have a wonderful holiday. Stop worrying and start looking forward to it!

Don't worry, Icmeler will be just like Blackpool with sun.

I have not been to Icmeler but I have never heard people decribe it as Blackpool with sun. Although I have heard Marmaris decribed as that many times!

I think most Turkish resorts are much of a muchness. A lot seem to have lost their charm over the years and seem to cater to the lowest common denominator of the sort of British people who are only interested in smoking and drinking themselves silly, karaoke, eating nothing but British food and watching football on large screen TVs.

It's such a shame because Turkey is a lovely country with so much rich culture, lovely food and friendly, welcoming people. It's almost as though a lot of the people who work in the resorts have themselves become tainted by association with the sort of British numpties who all too frequently seem to holiday there. You'll find that many of these numpties live there all year round now too! The resorts seem to have become totally geared to their needs and it has ruined them without a doubt.

I'm sure the "real" Turkey can stil be found if you venture a little further afield but I'm afraid to say that, after years of holidaying there, it certainly isn't to be found in resorts like Marmaris and Icmeler.

Turkey isn't as much for me as it was 18 years ago when I first went there.

As far as I'm concerned, Turkey is definitely not the well kept secret it once was.

Well I agree it has certainly changed a lot in the last 18 years and in a lot of cases not for the better. Saying that though there are still lots of lovely little resorts that aren't full of "British numpties" and even in the main resorts there are plenty of decent places to go out of an evening to avoid the British pubs and karaoke bars.

There are so many cheap holidays now though to the bigger resorts that will obviously attract a certain kind of holiday maker and the emergence of these dreadful budget rate AI hotels is making things worse. Obviously the people working there will cater for the people who want Britain abroad too as that is how they will make there money.

The real Turkey can definitely be found not too far form the big tourist resorts, I have been to some lovely places, which are nothing like Marmaris and wherever you go you will still find lovely food and friendly welcoming people.

I also think that anyone who has never been before and who didn't know what it was like 18 years ago will still have a great time. Anyway for all we know the OP may love karaoke bars and English breakfasts

I suppose you could be right Nefret. There's no accounting for taste as they say!