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Hotel: Tan Hotel*** Placed just two minutes walking to Sultanahmed and Ayasofya and near tram stop.
Excellent breaksfast in the upper terrace. Rooms of very good size and well equiped. Highly recomended. |
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Cafe: Galata Konak Cafe. Wonderful place to take a great break. Breathtaking view of the Bosphorous although is a little difficult to find. |
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Restaurant: Güney Restaurant. Just bellow Galata Tower, is a good place to take dinner. |
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Restaurant: Havuzlu Restaurant. Just inside the Grand Bazaar, is a perfect place to relax from your shopping and take lunch. There is not alcohol. |
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Restaurant: Hamdi Restaurant. A good restaurant near Spices Bazaar and Galata Bridge. Although promises good views our table not offers nothing special to see. |
| At Bursa - |
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Hotel: Artic*** Just in front Ulu Mosque which suppose that you will hear all callings to pray. A little old-fashioned. |
| At Assos - |
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Hotel: Yildiz Saray** A little rustic hotel just in Assos port. It has a beautiful place for breakfast in the docks port.
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| At Izmir - |
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Hotel: Konak Saray Agora*** A new hotel that the manager offered us instead de Konak Saray that we have reserved. A very ugly location, but good rooms and comodities. |
| At Pamukkale - |
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Hotel: Melrose Residence** A cosy house with striking rooms, swimming pool and a very kind staff. The garden is a perfect place to take dinner. Highly recomended. |
| At Selçuk - |
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Hotel: Bella*** An hotel museum. The rooms decoration is wonderful altough the tripple room is a little small. The breakfast and dinner in the upper terrace excellent.
The staff is very pleasant and offers to transfer you to Efes ruins free of charge. Highly recomnded. |
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Restaurant: Amazon. Good dishes with fresh local ingredients. The special "Amazon" is superb. |
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Hotel: Su*** Charming hotel. It is an oasis in the middle of Bodrum, 5 minutes walk to the port, but very quiet. All rooms are
located around the pool, with terrace or balcony. The hotel is very well decorated, with very much personality. The breakfast in the garden,
also excellent. The hospitaly of the staff very kind. Highly recomended. |
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Hotel: Villa Rhapsody*** A little villa in the abandoned and peaceful village of Kaya Koy. The dutch/turkish family that runs this villa are wonderful hosts.
They recomended us a restaurant for dinner, and even arranged the transfer to it. The breakfast near the pool was superb. Highly recomended. |
| At Kas - |
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Hotel: Kayahan*** Good rooms with views over the village and the sea. The breakfast in the upper terrace was good with excellent views.
The staff was very kind and helpful, one of the waiters teachs us to play backgammon. The little swimming pool offers us a great relief against the hot temperatures of Kas.
Highly recomended due his low price. |
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Restaurant: Mercan. A beautiful restaurant located at the marina of Kas, specialiced in sword fish. |
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Restaurant: Sultan Garden. A beautiful restaurant situated overlooking the harborur of Kas, it has also the cistern and other things to see inside. |
| At Antalya - |
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Hotel: Aspen*** Very good located in Kaleici (the old town of Antalya). It has good rooms and the tripple is very good sized.
The pool is little but very cozy. The breakfast superb. |
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Hotel: Rumi*** Very pleasant and clean hotel just in front of the Mevlava Museum. Very good breakfast and dinner in the upper terrace
with superb views over the monuments of the city. The air conditioned does not work very well. |
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Hotel: Kelebec*** Superb cave-hotel overlooking the Goreme village. The rooms are unique, cozy and confortable. The evenings were
very specials in the little swimming pool, lounge area and terrace with the village under our feet, enjoing the sunset. The same hotel offers you
the ballon-air trip that is excellent. |
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Restaurant: Alaturca. Very modern and very famous restaurant. The food was good and the price was good too. Ther service is in a good terrace. |
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Restaurant: Safran. Located in a terrace with beautiful views, offers the 'pottery' dishes that are prepared and served in a clay pot which you can 'break' open. |
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