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Rested together with his wife at the hotel from 12.06 to 23.06. 15 in room 830 on the 3rd floor (12 N, NV), tour operator Pegas tourustik. Before the trip, I read reviews about Karbel hotel and many other hotels in Oludeniz. Unfortunately, much of the information in them turned out to be unreliable.
Below, all prices are given in lira, because its lira rate is constantly jumping and in June 2015 it was 1 dollar = 2.625 lira (in the village of Hirosenu the rate is higher).
Air travel. On Friday, a UIA Boeing-767 charter (280 seats, but it is very crowded) flies from Kyiv to Dalaman, and on Tuesday - a Boeing-737 (193 seats). Therefore, there are always flights on Friday, but not on Tuesday.
Hotel. There are 3 Karbel hotels in Oludeniz: Karbel beach, Karbelsun, Karbel. The last 2 are located at the end of the main pedestrian street of the village on its different sides. In the village, only 2 employees of the Sky sports travel agency and the hotel guide Mordali speak Russian (he is only on call).
Rooms. The hotel does have semi-basement rooms - in particular, number 801. The hotel was refurbished in 2014.
except for the 3rd floor of building 9C (this floor is closed). That is, all rooms are clean, and with air conditioning that does not turn on when the window or balcony door is open. The windows have anti-mosquito nets. All rooms have an ottoman, a table, a bedside table with a telephone, a small empty refrigerator and a 14-inch TV (Russian channels: Channel 1 and RTR Planet) and a large set of hangers in the closet. Numbering of rooms in the buildings in order without taking into account the floor. The buildings are located very crowded - between the balconies of neighboring buildings 3-4 meters (see photo).
Enclosure window orientation:
South - buildings 1.3, 7.9.
East - buildings 4.5, 6.
West - buildings 2.9A, 9B, 9C (windows to the entrance doors of building 9B).
Building 8 has rooms oriented to the north (3 rooms), west, south and east. It has 3 types of numbers:
- standard with a small balcony and one room (13 sq. m) + bathroom and corridor;
- improved with an enlarged balcony and a room (806.807, 817.818, 828.829);
- even more improved with a sofa and a separate bedroom - 809.820, 831.
These rooms have not one, but two windows.
Hotel rooms 913-918 and 411-412 (3rd floor) have a partial sea view.
There are tiles everywhere in the room, single-chamber double-glazed windows, mesh on the windows, a very small balcony (it is difficult for two to fit there) and poor sound insulation. The furniture is from the 1990s, but the bed is soft and in #830 the air conditioner did not blow on the bed. That is, our room was inferior, and even with spiders from a pine tree growing under the windows (bitten). But there is also a positive - there were no mosquitoes in Oludeniz at all.
For 1 lira a day, the cleaning lady twisted figurines from a “blanket” and did not cause trouble with her untimely appearance. Of the toiletries - only soap and toilet paper. Moreover, the soap was not replenished regularly - take your own. Safe at the reception - 30 liras per week, we did not take it.
Of the free entertainment - billiards and table football. We did not swim in the hotel pool. The hotel was 80-90% full.
There was no bus from the hotel to the beach in the Blue Lagoon, either paid or free in June 2015.
Nutrition. For 12 days, 3 times for breakfast there were pancakes and fried eggs, the rest of the time only boiled eggs were hot. But breakfast (2 types of yogurt, 3-4 varieties of sausage (one of them is edible), cheese, cheese, etc. ) was enough for us. The breakfast cups were very small so many older English people came with their larger cups. Chemical juice had to be poured into plastic cups - I didn’t like it. Freshly squeezed fresh costs 6 lire. And for breakfast and dinner there was always a watermelon.
For dinner, the situation is better - every day a new type of soup, 2 types of meat or chicken dishes and 5-6 hot side dishes. And a bunch of snacks and vegetables + desserts. You won't leave hungry for dinner. 12.06 at dinner the only time in 12 days there was fish, and on 14.06 (Sunday) there was a barbecue table in the open area. Sunday 21.
06 it was not repeated - apparently, the hotel sold out the places and it no longer makes sense to attract customers.
Every day (except Monday) from 22-00 English-language evening entertainment show. Sometimes not even very boring. At 23-00 the music stops.
Mosque. Well, this is just a curse of Oludeniz, especially considering that there are no residential buildings in it (there are only restaurants and hotels), and therefore it is not clear why it is there at all. Shouts or in 15 min. or 45 min. every 5-6 hours. At night, the mosque in the hotel is clearly audible, especially in rooms with windows to the north and west. The closest hotels to the mosque are: Marsano, Morina, Mozaik, and a little further the popular Dorian. You won't be able to sleep well in them.
Beach.
City beach Belchekiz
Walk 10 minutes from the hotel. It is about 70 m wide, but 20 m near the water are medium stones. When entering and leaving the water, you can easily injure your legs on separate stones 20-40 cm in size (which happened to us), so it’s better to swim in aquashoes on this beach. The entrance is free.
On this beach in the morning because of the keys (those who write that there are no keys in Oludeniz openly lie) it is very cold (17-19 degrees), and dirty in the afternoon due to discharges from 20 pleasure boats standing in its western part. Near these boats all the time it smells like sewage. On this beach all the time the waves are sometimes big and the water warms up to 22-23 degrees. only at 16:00.
Kidrak beach
45 min. walk along the highway from Oludeniz towards Antalya. It is very bad that it is fenced with barbed wire, along which you have to walk about 700 m to the entrance, and then return about 350 m to the beach itself. Entrance fee - 6 lira. The beach is deserted - 20-30 people, there are paid umbrellas with sun loungers, a restaurant and a shop. The bad thing is that there are a lot of large and medium-sized stones in the sea with sharp, unpolished edges - you can easily cut your legs. You can't swim on this beach without aquashoes.
Beach spit between the sea and the Blue Lagoon
It takes 25 minutes to walk from the hotel to the end of the spit.
Nice beach in terms of entering and exiting clean and clear water. . But there are a lot of people on it. Entrance - 6 lire, sunbed - 8 lire, umbrella - 8 lire. That is, a visit to the beach for two per day costs 36 lire (almost $ 14) - expensive. Therefore, we bought an umbrella for 23 lira and sunbathed on beach mats brought from home.
It's funny, but the main influx of people to this beach occurs at 11-12 o'clock, when we left it. Cold springs beat on this beach, so the water behind the buoys can be warmer than at the entrance to the water. There are also alternating bands of cold and warm water.
Beaches Sughar beach, Sea hourse (this is a car camping), Paradise beach.
They have free entrance. They are located in the eastern shallow part of the Blue Lagoon. Therefore, at low tide, an unpleasant silted bottom is exposed there, and in order to swim, you have to go for a very long time. Very uncomfortable beaches.
Patara beach.
We visited it during a tour.
Its comparison with Goa (they write that this wide beach is Turkish Goa) is absolutely incorrect - cold dirty water and unpleasant sticky sand most of all resemble bad Odessa beaches. The entrance is paid (5 lire), because you get to it through the museum of the city of Patara. Umbrella - 5 lire, sunbed - 5 lire.
Kaputas beach.
We visited it during a tour. Nice small beach with a good entrance to the sea. However, leaving it you have to climb 185 steps - unpleasant. The entrance is free.
Tours.
This year, the Pegas tour operator has significantly reduced the prices for excursions, but they are still noticeably higher than in the well-known travel agency Oludeniz "Sky sports" from the Russian-speaking Misha. You will not pass by this travel agency, because there is the only advertising inscription in the village about excursions in Russian (behind the travel agency is the entrance to the basement AZDA store).
We took 2 excursions from Misha.
1. Patara, Patara beach, Kalkan, Kas, Kaputas beach ($40 / person) (guide Misha's wife Lina is a very mediocre guide).
Those who write that this is a good interesting excursion have never been on good excursions. It seems that we are watching a lot of objects, but there is nothing to see there (well, except for 2 marinas with ordinary Turkish boats). Pleased with a good lunch with free water in the restaurant "At Adam" with beautiful views. There is simply nothing to see in Kas or Kalkan.
2. Tlos - Yakopark - Syklikent ($30/person) (the guide of Bakhty Shen is a very good guide). The city of Tlos is much more interesting than the city of Patara. And in Jakopark you can not only play with fish at the bar, but also eat baked and very tasty trout (drinks for an additional price). Lunch, except for trout (optional: chicken, barbecue), buffet of about 10 dishes.
In the Saklikent canyon, you can not only walk waist-deep in icy water and then go to the end of the canyon, but also swim in inflatable circles with a paddle (for some reason, this is called rafting) and let healing fish massage your feet.
You need to take a towel, swimming trunks and aquashoes. A very pleasant and relaxing tour.
As a bonus for buying these 2 excursions, Misha provided us with a boat ride at sunset for free ($15 according to his price list).
Pleasant memories (beautiful views from there) left a trip to Babadag from where paragliders fly (Misha has 20 lire / person round trip). There is a complete mess going on there - a bunch of people on a small take-off patch, paragliders take off and immediately fall, part of their wing is overwhelmed, during takeoff they collide with each other and immediately fall. Tourists after takeoff (paraglider tandem) burp from pitching. The price of a flight in Sky sports (duration from 15 minutes to 1 hour) is $100 for Russian speakers.
We went to Fethiye on our own. There is nothing to see there - the amphitheater is being reconstructed, the museum is very weak, in the harbor there are the same standard pleasure boats, however, one sunken.
Prices in the Migros supermarket are higher than in Oludeniz.
This year, the dolmush route Oludeniz - the village of Kaya was opened. However, we didn't go there.
Village.
It is purely tourist and operates only during the season. It is strange to read that there is nowhere to walk in it in the evening - there is a promenade about 350 m and there is a central street - about 800 m if you walk to the Manas Park hotel past the mosque. Play - I don't want to. There are a lot of cafes and restaurants along the main street, but the prices…
More than 90% of holidaymakers are English, mostly elderly. There are a number of women with small children. The presence of a small number of Chinese tourists is striking. There are practically no young people. There is no nightlife either. Russian speakers - no more than 5%. There are a lot of noisy companies of Turkish vacationers. For 4 trips to different places in Turkey, we have never seen anything like this.
Prices in stores and restaurants are awful. Those who write that you can have a hearty lunch together with beer for 20-30 dollars.
apparently never been to Oludeniz (see photo). Just a booze disaster. Even in expensive duty-free Dalaman airport prices are 2-2.5 times lower than in Oludeniz and Fethiye.
We noticed that the prices in the Karbel supermarket for many products are lower than in the advertised AZDA located literally by the beach. Some prices:
Water 5 l - 2-2.5 lire.
Sun umbrella - 23 lire
Rakia 0.35l - 30-40 lire.
Dry wine 0.75 l - 10-30 lire.
Marmara beer 1 l – 8.5 lire
Beer Tuborg 0.5 l - 5 lire
Beer Effes 0.5 l - 4.6 lire.
General impression.
The village is unreasonably expensive in terms of service and natural conditions (on the main city beach of Belchekiz, the water is either cold or dirty). This, apparently, is due to the fact that this is the Mecca of paragliders. In addition to the Blue Lagoon spit, there is no normal beach in the village, and the spit is small. There is nothing to do there without knowledge of English. Rest in Oludeniz is focused on English pensioners, young people are frankly bored there.
The Blue Lagoon is very beautiful in the photo, but in reality it is not so.
29.06. fifteen.
Alexander.
Below, all prices are given in lira, because its lira rate is constantly jumping and in June 2015 it was 1 dollar = 2.625 lira (in the village of Hirosenu the rate is higher).
Air travel. On Friday, a UIA Boeing-767 charter (280 seats, but it is very crowded) flies from Kyiv to Dalaman, and on Tuesday - a Boeing-737 (193 seats). Therefore, there are always flights on Friday, but not on Tuesday.
Hotel. There are 3 Karbel hotels in Oludeniz: Karbel beach, Karbelsun, Karbel. The last 2 are located at the end of the main pedestrian street of the village on its different sides. In the village, only 2 employees of the Sky sports travel agency and the hotel guide Mordali speak Russian (he is only on call).
Rooms. The hotel does have semi-basement rooms - in particular, number 801. The hotel was refurbished in 2014.
except for the 3rd floor of building 9C (this floor is closed). That is, all rooms are clean, and with air conditioning that does not turn on when the window or balcony door is open. The windows have anti-mosquito nets. All rooms have an ottoman, a table, a bedside table with a telephone, a small empty refrigerator and a 14-inch TV (Russian channels: Channel 1 and RTR Planet) and a large set of hangers in the closet. Numbering of rooms in the buildings in order without taking into account the floor. The buildings are located very crowded - between the balconies of neighboring buildings 3-4 meters (see photo).
Enclosure window orientation:
South - buildings 1.3, 7.9.
East - buildings 4.5, 6.
West - buildings 2.9A, 9B, 9C (windows to the entrance doors of building 9B).
Building 8 has rooms oriented to the north (3 rooms), west, south and east. It has 3 types of numbers:
- standard with a small balcony and one room (13 sq. m) + bathroom and corridor;
- improved with an enlarged balcony and a room (806.807, 817.818, 828.829);
- even more improved with a sofa and a separate bedroom - 809.820, 831.
These rooms have not one, but two windows.
Hotel rooms 913-918 and 411-412 (3rd floor) have a partial sea view.
There are tiles everywhere in the room, single-chamber double-glazed windows, mesh on the windows, a very small balcony (it is difficult for two to fit there) and poor sound insulation. The furniture is from the 1990s, but the bed is soft and in #830 the air conditioner did not blow on the bed. That is, our room was inferior, and even with spiders from a pine tree growing under the windows (bitten). But there is also a positive - there were no mosquitoes in Oludeniz at all.
For 1 lira a day, the cleaning lady twisted figurines from a “blanket” and did not cause trouble with her untimely appearance. Of the toiletries - only soap and toilet paper. Moreover, the soap was not replenished regularly - take your own. Safe at the reception - 30 liras per week, we did not take it.
Of the free entertainment - billiards and table football. We did not swim in the hotel pool. The hotel was 80-90% full.
There was no bus from the hotel to the beach in the Blue Lagoon, either paid or free in June 2015.
Nutrition. For 12 days, 3 times for breakfast there were pancakes and fried eggs, the rest of the time only boiled eggs were hot. But breakfast (2 types of yogurt, 3-4 varieties of sausage (one of them is edible), cheese, cheese, etc. ) was enough for us. The breakfast cups were very small so many older English people came with their larger cups. Chemical juice had to be poured into plastic cups - I didn’t like it. Freshly squeezed fresh costs 6 lire. And for breakfast and dinner there was always a watermelon.
For dinner, the situation is better - every day a new type of soup, 2 types of meat or chicken dishes and 5-6 hot side dishes. And a bunch of snacks and vegetables + desserts. You won't leave hungry for dinner. 12.06 at dinner the only time in 12 days there was fish, and on 14.06 (Sunday) there was a barbecue table in the open area. Sunday 21.
06 it was not repeated - apparently, the hotel sold out the places and it no longer makes sense to attract customers.
Every day (except Monday) from 22-00 English-language evening entertainment show. Sometimes not even very boring. At 23-00 the music stops.
Mosque. Well, this is just a curse of Oludeniz, especially considering that there are no residential buildings in it (there are only restaurants and hotels), and therefore it is not clear why it is there at all. Shouts or in 15 min. or 45 min. every 5-6 hours. At night, the mosque in the hotel is clearly audible, especially in rooms with windows to the north and west. The closest hotels to the mosque are: Marsano, Morina, Mozaik, and a little further the popular Dorian. You won't be able to sleep well in them.
Beach.
City beach Belchekiz
Walk 10 minutes from the hotel. It is about 70 m wide, but 20 m near the water are medium stones. When entering and leaving the water, you can easily injure your legs on separate stones 20-40 cm in size (which happened to us), so it’s better to swim in aquashoes on this beach. The entrance is free.
On this beach in the morning because of the keys (those who write that there are no keys in Oludeniz openly lie) it is very cold (17-19 degrees), and dirty in the afternoon due to discharges from 20 pleasure boats standing in its western part. Near these boats all the time it smells like sewage. On this beach all the time the waves are sometimes big and the water warms up to 22-23 degrees. only at 16:00.
Kidrak beach
45 min. walk along the highway from Oludeniz towards Antalya. It is very bad that it is fenced with barbed wire, along which you have to walk about 700 m to the entrance, and then return about 350 m to the beach itself. Entrance fee - 6 lira. The beach is deserted - 20-30 people, there are paid umbrellas with sun loungers, a restaurant and a shop. The bad thing is that there are a lot of large and medium-sized stones in the sea with sharp, unpolished edges - you can easily cut your legs. You can't swim on this beach without aquashoes.
Beach spit between the sea and the Blue Lagoon
It takes 25 minutes to walk from the hotel to the end of the spit.
Nice beach in terms of entering and exiting clean and clear water. . But there are a lot of people on it. Entrance - 6 lire, sunbed - 8 lire, umbrella - 8 lire. That is, a visit to the beach for two per day costs 36 lire (almost $ 14) - expensive. Therefore, we bought an umbrella for 23 lira and sunbathed on beach mats brought from home.
It's funny, but the main influx of people to this beach occurs at 11-12 o'clock, when we left it. Cold springs beat on this beach, so the water behind the buoys can be warmer than at the entrance to the water. There are also alternating bands of cold and warm water.
Beaches Sughar beach, Sea hourse (this is a car camping), Paradise beach.
They have free entrance. They are located in the eastern shallow part of the Blue Lagoon. Therefore, at low tide, an unpleasant silted bottom is exposed there, and in order to swim, you have to go for a very long time. Very uncomfortable beaches.
Patara beach.
We visited it during a tour.
Its comparison with Goa (they write that this wide beach is Turkish Goa) is absolutely incorrect - cold dirty water and unpleasant sticky sand most of all resemble bad Odessa beaches. The entrance is paid (5 lire), because you get to it through the museum of the city of Patara. Umbrella - 5 lire, sunbed - 5 lire.
Kaputas beach.
We visited it during a tour. Nice small beach with a good entrance to the sea. However, leaving it you have to climb 185 steps - unpleasant. The entrance is free.
Tours.
This year, the Pegas tour operator has significantly reduced the prices for excursions, but they are still noticeably higher than in the well-known travel agency Oludeniz "Sky sports" from the Russian-speaking Misha. You will not pass by this travel agency, because there is the only advertising inscription in the village about excursions in Russian (behind the travel agency is the entrance to the basement AZDA store).
We took 2 excursions from Misha.
1. Patara, Patara beach, Kalkan, Kas, Kaputas beach ($40 / person) (guide Misha's wife Lina is a very mediocre guide).
Those who write that this is a good interesting excursion have never been on good excursions. It seems that we are watching a lot of objects, but there is nothing to see there (well, except for 2 marinas with ordinary Turkish boats). Pleased with a good lunch with free water in the restaurant "At Adam" with beautiful views. There is simply nothing to see in Kas or Kalkan.
2. Tlos - Yakopark - Syklikent ($30/person) (the guide of Bakhty Shen is a very good guide). The city of Tlos is much more interesting than the city of Patara. And in Jakopark you can not only play with fish at the bar, but also eat baked and very tasty trout (drinks for an additional price). Lunch, except for trout (optional: chicken, barbecue), buffet of about 10 dishes.
In the Saklikent canyon, you can not only walk waist-deep in icy water and then go to the end of the canyon, but also swim in inflatable circles with a paddle (for some reason, this is called rafting) and let healing fish massage your feet.
You need to take a towel, swimming trunks and aquashoes. A very pleasant and relaxing tour.
As a bonus for buying these 2 excursions, Misha provided us with a boat ride at sunset for free ($15 according to his price list).
Pleasant memories (beautiful views from there) left a trip to Babadag from where paragliders fly (Misha has 20 lire / person round trip). There is a complete mess going on there - a bunch of people on a small take-off patch, paragliders take off and immediately fall, part of their wing is overwhelmed, during takeoff they collide with each other and immediately fall. Tourists after takeoff (paraglider tandem) burp from pitching. The price of a flight in Sky sports (duration from 15 minutes to 1 hour) is $100 for Russian speakers.
We went to Fethiye on our own. There is nothing to see there - the amphitheater is being reconstructed, the museum is very weak, in the harbor there are the same standard pleasure boats, however, one sunken.
Prices in the Migros supermarket are higher than in Oludeniz.
This year, the dolmush route Oludeniz - the village of Kaya was opened. However, we didn't go there.
Village.
It is purely tourist and operates only during the season. It is strange to read that there is nowhere to walk in it in the evening - there is a promenade about 350 m and there is a central street - about 800 m if you walk to the Manas Park hotel past the mosque. Play - I don't want to. There are a lot of cafes and restaurants along the main street, but the prices…
More than 90% of holidaymakers are English, mostly elderly. There are a number of women with small children. The presence of a small number of Chinese tourists is striking. There are practically no young people. There is no nightlife either. Russian speakers - no more than 5%. There are a lot of noisy companies of Turkish vacationers. For 4 trips to different places in Turkey, we have never seen anything like this.
Prices in stores and restaurants are awful. Those who write that you can have a hearty lunch together with beer for 20-30 dollars.
apparently never been to Oludeniz (see photo). Just a booze disaster. Even in expensive duty-free Dalaman airport prices are 2-2.5 times lower than in Oludeniz and Fethiye.
We noticed that the prices in the Karbel supermarket for many products are lower than in the advertised AZDA located literally by the beach. Some prices:
Water 5 l - 2-2.5 lire.
Sun umbrella - 23 lire
Rakia 0.35l - 30-40 lire.
Dry wine 0.75 l - 10-30 lire.
Marmara beer 1 l – 8.5 lire
Beer Tuborg 0.5 l - 5 lire
Beer Effes 0.5 l - 4.6 lire.
General impression.
The village is unreasonably expensive in terms of service and natural conditions (on the main city beach of Belchekiz, the water is either cold or dirty). This, apparently, is due to the fact that this is the Mecca of paragliders. In addition to the Blue Lagoon spit, there is no normal beach in the village, and the spit is small. There is nothing to do there without knowledge of English. Rest in Oludeniz is focused on English pensioners, young people are frankly bored there.
The Blue Lagoon is very beautiful in the photo, but in reality it is not so.
29.06. fifteen.
Alexander.
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