Blog2012 ≫ Turkey 2012 - we stayed at Hotel Turquoise

Being the first part of my holiday roundup

We are just back from holiday (nearly a week now, where has my tan gone?) and it was smashing. We went to Side on the South coast of Turkey, ten days all inclusive at Hotel Turquoise 1. Transfer to the resort was not bad either, it was long (over an hour on a bus) but the driver only got lost once. Then in to our resort and a welcoming glass of champagne (or something like it - everything in Turkey seems to be a copy).

No wristbands for the all inclusiveness here, is that a sign of it being a particularly posh one? I like to think so. We tested it with a glass of wine at the bar right away and it works! Particularly handy to be able to pick up bottles of mineral water whenever you like, no having to cart a slab of them back from the shop every day or anything. Checked in, bags dropped off in room, and out the door to explore! Hmm, not quite, Clare wanted to unpack properly... Come on let's go!

The resort 1 was great. Maybe slightly incongruous that it was a solid preformed massive block of luxury dumped on the coast with dust and nothingness to the rear and on in to "normal" Turkey, but that is the way of beach resorts like this I suppose. You couldn't build something this big in the middle of a village. Our rooms were in blocks nearest to the beach and pool, which were to one side of the resort. Not loud enough to notice any noise, or maybe I just slept well. Lots of different types of rooms available, we had two room family suites, but I think there were rooms and suites and maybe some little villas. There is one private house near to where we were, strange but lovely place to live. The resort was "deeper" than it is wide, so it'd take you longer to walk from the main gate down to the beach front than it would to take you to walk from side to side. I think. Can't really verify this by looking on a map, as it is mostly covered with trees. Some guests were delivered to their rooms by golf buggy. But not us. No we did not attempt to steal a golf buggy.

There's plenty to do at the resort, food is amazing (more later), lots of bars, lots of pools, lots and lots of staff to help you out. Not many English people, it's not in the Thomas Cook brochure for this year so maybe they're not marketing it to English any more? Lots of Swedish, Dutch, German, Russian, all sorts. There was karaoke one night, which I was not tempted but but it turns out I would clearly have aced. There was a Michael Jackson tribute show, am I making it sound tacky? It's not really... anyway the Michael Jackson show was postponed at the last minute as it had rained when they were meant to be setting up for it, so they replaced it with a big old quiz. OH YEAH, we won it! Prize was a bottle of wine, that'll come in handy on an all inclusive holiday then...

Anyway, smashing resort and I recommend it.

  1. Removed old turquoise.com.tr link here.

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