If you enjoy large, sterile hotels, with 5 restaurants, a pizzeria, and chips with everything, plus activities thrust at you on the hour, then this is not the hotel for you. This is a lovely, peaceful, Turkish hotel, with fantastic locally sourced Turkish food, with a delightful Turkish chef, who kindly shares her recipes. The hotel is on the banks of a river with boats going by, little pontoons with sunbeds and a boat service to the beach twice a week. If you want to go another day tell Riza at Reception and he will arrange for a boat to stop for you. You can take any boat back from the beach, (there are signs). The trip to the beach is about 35 mins through the marshes. Beautiful. It was about £3 for 2 sunbeds for the day and there are toilets and a cafe serving very reasonable food. NB This is not a commercial beach. The turtles come first. You can walk to the turtle sanctuary but its about 5km. Alternatively a taxi ride from the hotel. We tried a number of riverside restaurants for lunch in Dalyan town, (a 15 minute walk), all were excellent - and we saw a turtle! You do not getting hassled in town. And if you are lactose intolerant there is a stand selling lovely goats milk ice cream. The pharmacy is at the very end of town near the turtle roundabout. Kaunos- take a right then left out of the hotel and walk past a lot of chickens. Take the car ferry across the river and then walk for about 10 mins up a small hill past the lady selling pomegranate juice. Turn left for the ruins, amphitheatre, roman baths etc and right to see the rock tombs. To get back, a rowing boat near the rock tombs will take you for a few lire. The setting of the hotel overlooking the river and rock tombs is magical, Ali, Riza and the team are helpful, and our rooms on the first floor had everything we needed. There is lots to see if you enjoy exploring or maybe even a bit of fishing, and the Turkish food is fabulous and plentiful. We hope to be back very soon and thank you.
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