Kusadasi > Kusadasi Experience

Advantages: Value for money, weather, atmosphere
Disadvantages: the odd stray dog

...an Ibiza type holiday, and Kusadasi is perfect in that it offers good nightlife, cheap food and beautiful beaches, but allows you to relax and unwind without worry of hugely drunken tourists. The excursion boat trip was the highlight of the holiday, for around £11 we spent 8 hours in glorious sunshine with free drinks and food, topped off by dolphins racing the boat home. The locals were extremely friendly, especially the staff at Halikarnas on ...
...The value for money is astonashing, and on the whole, Kusadasi really offers everything you need in a summer holiday, with the added bonus of one of the seven wonders of the world just down the road. We'l be back next summer for sure, I couldn't reccomend the place enough. ... Read review

Advantages: A great holiday resort.
Disadvantages: Some pushy shop keepers

...be very cold and Ladies beach area most restaurants are closed just a few open. Kusadasi has a lot more to offer in the winter it is mainly a summer resort but you can still find plenty to do.Flights are getting cheaper and cheaper so it makes sense to come. ... Read review

Advantages: Guaranteed sunshine, Cheap, Friendly locals
Disadvantages: VERY British, Overcrowded beach, Nothing traditionally Turkish

...from the main resort of Kusadasi on the south western coast of Turkey. It has a compact, very safe sandy beach, where bars and restaurants line the pedestrianised beach promenade and hotels climb the surrounding hills. It is a very popular resort with the Irish, who come in large family groups throughout the summer season. This is no doubt the reason bars advertise themselves as "Irish Bars", despite the fact that there is nothing Irish about them, ...
...a good selection of inexpensive restaurants, with names like "June & Ray's Hot Pot", where the cooks (to use the word chef would be an insult to chefs the world over) churn out steak and kidney pie, chips and egg and chicken nuggets for hours on end and their tables are always full. Servings are generous and there are usually a few freebies thrown in - free starter or dessert and coffee. If you have travelled to Turkey to sample the local food - ... Read review

Advantages: Absolutely gorgeous weather! Lovely beach & friendly people!
Disadvantages: Being hassled by all shop owners/market workers to come and buy something from them!

...& 3 friends settled on Kusadasi in Turkey (on the Aegean coast - about an hour from Izmir airport) for our holiday. We booked our tickets in July (this year -2005) & then saw on the news the week after that a bomb had gone off there - felt a bit anxious at this point but decided to still go on the holiday as I really feel that anything can happen at any time anywhere so any place is safe/dangerous as any other (well you know what I mean?!) ***THE ...
...of places to go in kusadasi itself - like the ladies beach which is gorgeous but obviously very busy during peak season.. crystal clear waters & lovely for sunbathing but watch out for the hot sand on your feet (it hurts!) There are loads of bars n cafes n shops - i suggest going to 'bar street' - really good for going in the evening/night (one thing i didn't like is that the locals seemed to charge too much money sometimes for food n drink etc ... Read review

Advantages: weather: HOT HOT HOT!
Disadvantages: being bugged to buy something everytime you set a foot outside

I went to kusadsi, Turkey, last summer, which was an experience. The journey there was very long, i think 3/4 hours and an hour taxi ride, on their crazy roads. At one point there was even a man driving a woman around on a tractor right beside us. Who said romance was dead? :s Also, i was quite amused by a woman walking a goat. But seriously, Turkey is a beautiful country, which is a behind on the industry side and overtaken by touristy things. ...
...the 'real' people lived on the drive to and from the airport/hotel, as i didn't see much of that where i was staying. It was a major culture shock when i saw that people lived in what looked like huts, and not very decent living conditions. I didn't actually think that people lived like that. There were mosques everywhere, and sometimes at night and early in the morning you could hear the turkish people being called to pray by a man singing on a ... Read review