Первая поездка в Турцию First trip to Turkey

Let me start by saying that the flight from Astana was delayed by almost 10 hours due to the fault of the Turkish air carrier. Technical malfunction, as explained by representatives of the airline. There was a lot of turbulence, both during takeoff and landing. Looking ahead, I’ll say that the return flight was without adventure, without delay, without shaking, as they say, there was a “soft landing”. The meeting party is "Trek-travel". For the most part, we have no complaints. True, their tours are much more expensive than those of street agencies. The hotel itself is not bad, they settled in block E, number 202. The windows look at the dining room, so it was impossible to go out onto the balcony, of course it was inconvenient to walk all the time with the curtains closed. The staff is friendly, unobtrusive. There were cases of ignoring the man at the reception, his name is Tamer. But we didn't focus too much on it. The most important thing for us was the SEA! And we were not disappointed. We went from 6 am to 11 am, sometimes we swam in the evening. The first days the foot was well skinned on the stones, then they got the hang of it. The hotel staff made a path from small stones, putting them in a bag. There were excursions, a hammam and a panoramic view to Antalya from Trek-travel, a yacht tour, Demre-Mira-Kekovo, Pamukkale from the Hi-tour street agency Kotor. located at the intersection streets, where it turns towards the Marine Hotel. A guy named Ruslan works there, he turned out to be our countryman. Advised the above excursions with a guide Rustam, who has been working in the tourism industry for 12 years, and has a license as an international tourism guide. And indeed we were not disappointed. He knows history well, with humor and excellent diction (which is not unimportant). One example: we left Pamukkale an hour late due to the fault of overslept tourists, but the guide planned the tour in such an organized way, we visited Pamukkale at about 4 o'clock and arrived at the hotel at about 8 pm, had time for dinner. Some tourists, who went from hotel guides 2 times more expensive in price, arrived at 22h. very tired. Impressions from the first trip to Turkey are positive. The people are hardworking, friendly, they treat their country, nature, traditions with great care. . There were isolated boors who sharply reacted to our words "For this price I can buy this thing at home", they were indignant, they even "wrote with boiling water. " 99% of Turks are friendly and helpful. Have a nice holiday everyone!