Tour Desk Radiant
Going to Kemer, I read reviews about tour desks on the streets and decided for myself that I would buy tours in Ginza Travel. When we went for a walk around Kemer for the first time, not yet knowing where everything was, on the street not far from the place where the nightclubs are located (if we go further towards the yacht pier in Kemer), we saw a Ginza Travel sign. To begin with, we bought a tour from them in Demre-Mira-Kekova, in principle, everything went well, but there were drawbacks: the bus was not equipped with seat belts, and we drove along a serpentine, and remembering how often buses fall in Turkey, we prayed to Nikolai on the road To the miracle worker in order to get alive (and return back) to the place of his arrival. There was also a moment that the guide Natalya, when she was collecting money on a yacht for tickets to the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, sold tickets for $ 10, and when we arrived at the entrance, we specifically looked at the price - 16 lire, i. e. $ 8. And yet I decided to buy a new tour in this bureau again. I went from them to Pamukal, thank God, alone (my husband and child stayed at the hotel), this time I had belts, Natalya was the guide again. On the bus, I didn't pay Natalya to enter Cleopatra's pool - and for good reason! Swimming in it at the box office in Pamukala cost 32 lira ($16), Natalia sold for $18. The bus accommodates about 46 people, children pass for free both there and there, that is, $ 2 per adult - a good income, you must agree! So it’s worth buying lira and not overpaying, especially since it’s not true that the guide himself must buy tickets for everyone. I didn’t swim in the pool anyway, I disdained something, and there was only 3 hours for everything about everything. On the way back after the obligatory "excursion" to the Denizli wine store, our bus broke down, at first we waited 40 minutes while the driver and some locals tried to fix it, we were allowed to sit this time in the wine cellar of the store (it was impossible), then Natalya ordered to get on the bus, and already in it she announced that the driver had repaired it, but did not want to take responsibility, so now we are going to check if everything is in order with the bus. We arrived at the auto repair shop and the "diagnostics" (and in fact it was repair again) took another 1.5 hours. While we were waiting in the auto repair shop, they guessed to buy Pepsi and something else like that. Finally, the bus was repaired and we drove back, since we practically did not leave Pamukkale, there were about 400 km of the road ahead of us on one God knows how the repaired bus. One woman on the bus said: "Orthodox tourists, pray to our God to help their God to take us safe and sound. " I had to return from the tour at 20.00, I returned at the first hour of the night. True, on the way we were fed at the expense of Ginza, as Natalya said, shawarma and auran. Of course, I didn’t get enough of this, it’s good that I sent an SMS to my husband (when I realized that I didn’t have time for a late dinner), asked me to go to the hotel for a late dinner and bring me soup. As a result of this excursion, I missed a wonderful dinner at our hotel and an evening show, and on this day a Chinese circus came, my husband said that he had never seen anything like it! And in general, it was scary to go back on this bus, but the company did not send a new one! We also had preschool children on the tour, it was a pity for them. And most importantly, the next day we went for a walk around Kemer and not far from the clock tower they began to invite us on excursions, the sign of the bureau was Ginza Travel, and then I told the young man everything I think about organizing excursions in their company , and was very surprised to learn that the company from which I traveled was not Ginza Travel at all, but Radiant, that they use their brand, because more tourists come to them, because Ginza has a good reputation. "Pay attention, they have Radiant written on top, " he told us. He also said that the real Ginza sells entrance tickets without extra charges. We already had no time to check what was written on the sign of the office of the company where we bought the tours, but on the way from the tower, if you stand facing it, to the Migras and Bazar-82 stores, and then go to the right, we saw another Ginza office Travel, and at the top it really was written Radiant, but it was done in such a way that you would not immediately guess that this word referred to the name of the company. I must also say that neither during the sale of tours to us and further on excursions the word Radiant never sounded, they are well disguised! So be careful, I hope that my review will help you avoid my mistakes.