Turkey/Greece - Part II

Oludeniz, Turkey

Oludeniz is a beach town, which became popular by the British in the 1970s.  Most of the posters advertizing travel in Turkey show the popular beach and blue lagoon. 

We were disappointed overall with Oludeniz for several reasons.

•  We found out the day before we flew in that the hotel we reserved and paid for did not accept babies.  We quickly had to book another hotel and negotiate a refund from the original hotel, which was not easy.
• The town lacked any character. We were looking for a little Turkish beach town and what we got felt like a party town in Mexico with bars/restaurants serving frozen margaritas, nachos and pizza.  Not what we expected at all. 

Our hotel was about 1 km up the hill from the town but had two fantastic pools and great views of the ocean. The hotel rooms were pretty dated but the amazing hotel grounds and the family that ran the hotel made our stay pleasant. They loved Henry and referred to him as ‘best Henry’ and ‘my best Henry’ which we have been calling him lately.

We spent out 2 days here swimming in the pool and at the beach/blue lagoon. The most popular activity is paragliding but we weren’t feeling like risk takers. 

We are excited to leave for Greece… back to the EU and safe drinking water.  It’s not easy to wash baby bottles with bottled water… or bath Henry with bottled water. 

** Henry’s first time in the ocean was here, in the Aegean Sea.  I still can’t believe his first experience was in Turkey!

View of Oludeniz from our hotel.

This has to be the oldest highchair I have ever seen.  We just had to laugh about it. Which is how we dealt with most things on this trip.

Love this picture.  I wish I knew what he was thinking. Probably something like...why did you bring me here.

Swimming and splashing.

Wrinkly toes.

Hank's first time in the ocean.  

Here's my traditional Turkish margarita. haha