Kusadasi Experience

Some like it hot

Advantages: Hot, great beaches, great places to eat, inexspensive.
Disadvantages: Pushy in the bazaars.

...family and I have visited Kusadasi several times now, and overall I would rate it highly. We tend to rent out villas, of which there are thousands. There are plenty of excellent hotels on offer also. Kusadasi is a popular destination, for Turkish holidaymakers, this is obviously a good sign. Eating Out : Kusadasi has literally thousands of places to go out to eat. They range from high class restaurants, to dodgy roadside cafes. We found that along ...
...Degirmen restaurant, this is outside Kusadasi on the road to Davutler. It is in my opinion a fabulous place to experience Turkish cuisine at its best, it is set in a gorgeous area, not to be missed. Nightlife: Kusadasi is a vibrant, busy city. It has plenty to do at night. You can have almost any type of evening you want. If you want clubs, and all night bars head to Bar Street. However expect to meet lots of drunk revellers. Down this stretch there ...

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Kusadasi for Twentysomethings

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. ...

Foxy1212 18.07.2008 · Read full review
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Kusadasi and Ladies Beach Turkey

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. ...

anniebubble 15.10.2006 · Read full review
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Ladies Beach - Blackpool with sun & mosquitos

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 - ...

Sandroulla 16.04.2006 · Read full review
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Kusadasi - Feeling HOT HOT HOT!!

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 ...

hunni786 17.09.2005 · Read full review
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