We are looking for a fairly cheap 7-10 night holiday in Turkey for DH, DS (teen) and me in early July and having spent hours and hours looking could do with some help please!
Have previously stayed near Fethiye and in Marmaris. We found Marmaris a bit too English but the great appeal is that there are loads of decent AI hotels where you can walk to places. The hotel we stayed in in Fethiye was lovely but miles from anywhere.
So, our criteria are:
- Room with proper 3rd bed for DS (or 2 bed family room) DS is not far off 6ft so needs a proper bed, no sofa beds
- Ideally somewhere you can walk out and get at least a few shops/restaurants
- All Inclusive 5 star hotel ideally with some a la carte restaurants (would consider 4+ star)
- ideally a shortish transfer from an airport less than an hour (flexible on this but would like as short as possible)
- Near somewhere we could do the usual boat trips etc
We would like to leave as soon as possible after 1st July, so 2nd onwards. Budget is approx £3k including flights from a London airport (can be stretched if great hotel found or nearer the 10 day end)
Have been looking at Belek and some hotels meet a fair bit of the criteria but difficult to find anywhere not in the middle of nowhere. Which led us to considering Marmaris again which is cheap and convenient but very busy. Of course every hotel you look at wherever it is then has the odd awful tripadviser review which makes me question it all again, have had about ten 'maybe' hotels so far!
We do a big holiday every couple of years and this is our 'off' year so it the main purpose is to relax, do some activities (def boat trips, maybe scuba, quad biking etc) and chill with a beer in the evening.
Can anyone make any suggestions please? Thank you in advance!