- Family resorts
- For the young and active
- Wellness Turkish resorts
- The best ski resorts in Turkey
- TOP 5 best resorts in Turkey
It is not for nothing that Turkey is called an all-Russian health resort: despite the events of recent years, due to which tourists increasingly make a choice in favor of domestic beaches, the best resorts in Turkey have been and remain a popular summer destination for compatriots.
The reasons why tourists choose exactly Turkish resorts are well known to everyone:
- Turkey has a warm and clean sea, and the Mediterranean climate on its shores has long and deservedly been recognized as one of the most favorable for health improvement and recreation.
- Turkey boasts an ideal tourist infrastructure. Her vast experience in the construction of hotels and entertainment facilities allows the country to be a trendsetter in the travel industry.
- Turkey is ready to provide a high level of services for a reasonable price, and therefore a vacation at its beach or ski resorts is affordable even for a large family or student.
- And, finally, the Turks are very hospitable, and you will agree that it is much more pleasant and useful to have a rest, feeling at home.
Family resorts
Rest with the whole family is a very responsible event and the degree of this responsibility most often depends on the age of the younger tourists. Before going on vacation with young children, it is important to study all the subtleties and features of the chosen resort so that everything goes safe, interesting and useful.
A children's beach holiday in Turkey can be ideally organized at many resorts, but the most suitable ones most often include the following:
Alanya
Couples with children prefer Alanya more often than others due to the not too far distance from the airport and the abundance of entertainment and budget accommodation options.
There are more than enough beaches for swimming for children, but the safest are Keykubat three kilometers east of the center of Alanya with a gentle entrance to the water and Damlatash or Cleopatra's beach, covered with fine and light sand, equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable stay and deservedly awarded a Blue Flag certificate for cleanliness.
Another children's resort in the vicinity of Alanya is Incekum. In addition to the ideal beaches for kids, Incekum is attractive for its proximity to the Water Planet water park.
Antalya
Have you decided to fly to Antalya? An excellent choice, because this resort is often called the beach capital of Turkey, which means that its infrastructure is suitable for families as well.
In Antalya, neither kids, nor teenagers, nor senior schoolchildren will be bored. The resort has many entertainment facilities, among which the guests are especially fond of the aquarium with thousands of different marine life, the Aqualand water park with water slides, attractions, wave pools and jacuzzis, and the city of Aktur-Park with attractions from all over the world.
On the list of beaches in Antalya, where a vacation with children can be organized most comfortably - Lara with a gentle entrance to the sea and a sandy surface and known for its picturesque views and special cleanliness of Topcham in the territory of the national park.
Do not forget about excursions, of which a great many are organized in the beach capital of Turkey. Young travelers will surely enjoy a ride on a pirate schooner, exploring the ruins of the ancient city of Phaselis, and the mystery of the ever-burning Chimaera Mountain.
Bodrum
The resort of Bodrum gives the guests of Turkey excellent opportunities for a family vacation. The most suitable beach for swimming for children is located in the southern part of the resort.
At Akyarlar Beach you can rent comfortable sun loungers and parasols. Noisy entertainment is not provided here, but the entrance to the sea is very convenient - with clean sand, without stones and algae. On the Akyarlar beach, there are no dangerous representatives of the marine fauna, and the water warms up to a comfortable temperature in the early morning.
The restaurants on the beach specialize in seafood, while olive and tangerine trees grow in the groves surrounding the bay.
Belek
In Belek, despite its respectability, young tourists also feel great.
The most popular entertainment here are trips to the Troy water park, built in the style of the myths of Ancient Greece. In the water park, despite the external "antiquity", there are quite modern attractions and fascinating performances of marine life.
Young guests of Belek will be able to communicate with our smaller brothers in a small zoo "Bellis", arranged on the territory of the hotel of the same name. The park's enclosures are home to monkeys, donkeys, zebras and kangaroos, and the small Baileys ranch offers pony rides.
Belek hotels, built on the first line, have their own beaches. They are covered with clean sand, and the entrance to the sea is shallow enough for babies to swim safely. All the beaches of the hotels in this Turkish resort are equipped with lifeguard towers.
Kemer
Kemeri beaches are mostly pebbled, but even there you can find a destination suitable for a family holiday.
The Moonlight Beach, located to the right of the Kemer yacht berth, is covered with rather fine sand. The entrance to the sea is pebbly, but the stones are small and even small children can swim comfortably. In the afternoon heat, guests spend time in the park, laid out along the Moonlight Beach.
Moonlight Park offers its visitors playgrounds, tennis courts, souvenir shops and cafes with ice cream and soft drinks. The water slides of the water park at Moonlight Park are refreshing and invigorating, and the show at the park's dolphinarium will delight little animal lovers.
For the young and active
If your scenario for an ideal summer vacation includes more than sunbathing and lazy swimming on a mattress, choose Gumbet Bay, a couple of kilometers from Bodrum: after a busy beach day with banana rides, jet skis and paragliding, it will be pleasant to dance until the morning in one from local clubs. The grandest dance floor in Bodrum can be found at the Halicarnassus disco. Built in the form of an antique amphitheater, the club can accommodate up to five thousand guests at a time.
The reputation of a large beach discotheque is also entrenched for Marmaris - a resort where there are much more night and dance clubs per square kilometer than in other regions of the country. And in the vicinity of Marmaris there are more than fifty dive sites, and therefore fans of outdoor activities will find something to do during the day.
Wellness Turkish resorts
In addition to the beach, Turkey offers its guests a wellness holiday. The healing factors of Turkish resorts are healing water of mineral springs, mud, climate and fresh air filled with phytoncides.
Icmeler, which is 7 kilometers from Marmaris, has recently become a fashionable, but still calm and quiet resort. Icmeler was named after the mineral springs, the healing water of which is actively used for treatment in our time.
People come to Pamukkale just for excursions and for treatment. The natural baths of the Pamukkale plateau are filled with thermal water. It is used in local hotels and spas. Pamukkale water is rich in iron, and with its help, patients with various diseases of the skin, heart and nervous system are rehabilitated.
The mineral water of the Yalova resort helps with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and skin pathologies. Treatment can take place in the complex "Yalova Thermal", where hotels are open, as well as sports complexes and various baths - from Finnish to Turkish.
The best ski resorts in Turkey
Despite its reputation as a summer resort, Turkey welcomes guests not only on the beaches. Turkish ski resorts have long and firmly enjoyed success with those who are not accustomed to overpaying for a name. Turkey is rapidly developing the direction of active winter recreation, and every year its tracks for skiers and snowboarders are becoming more attractive and modern. The level of difficulty of the slopes and slopes of Turkish ski resorts is not yet very suitable for professional athletes and advanced craftsmen, but they look perfect for families and beginner skiers and boarders.
In the collection of arguments for spending the New Year's holidays in the ski resorts of Turkey, you can add a few more:
- Firstly, hotels on the Turkish slopes offer guests all inclusive accommodation much more often than hotels in France, Italy or Switzerland.
- Secondly, in ski schools on the slopes of Uludag or Palandoken you will be welcomed by Russian-speaking instructors.
- And finally, ski passes are often included in the cost of living in Turkish hotels, and this, you see, becomes a pleasant surprise for the budget-conscious tourist.
When choosing a place where to uncover your skis or snowboard, pay attention to the most popular slopes of ski resorts included in the TOP-3 in Turkey:
Sarikamysh
At the Sarikamysh resort, skiing can be combined with pleasant walks in the coniferous forest - its slopes are surrounded by pine trees, and the air is considered healing and very useful for a person tired of urban everyday life.
The slopes of the resort are more suitable for beginner skiers, and therefore it is worth coming here to spend a relaxing vacation with your family. A team of qualified instructors helps the guests of Sarikamish to hone their riding skills. Among them there are specialists in both snowboarding and alpine skiing.
The resort is the record holder among all Turkish ski slopes. It is in Sarykamysh that the longest route is laid. The season usually begins before the New Year holidays and lasts until the second half of March.
Palandoken
If you prefer snowboarding to all other winter activities, Palandoken resort is your choice. It is developing by leaps and bounds, and the level of its slopes and tracks annually attracts more and more tourists to Palandoken.
The infrastructure of the resort is very convenient: right next to the hotels you can take the ski lift, and the payment for its services is included, as a rule, in the cost of living.
The first skiers and snowboarders arrive in Palandoken in mid-December. The season lasts until early April.
Uludag
The most expensive resort in Turkey where you can practice winter sports is Uludag. But even his hotels and restaurants are quite accessible to the average Russian tourist, especially if he has already skated in Andorra or France and can compare.
The resort also pleases with the prices for the services of ski school instructors and the rental of equipment for sports. Most of the hotels also offer their guests their own lifts, which is very convenient and profitable, because their cost is included in the payment for the room. The season lasts from mid-December to the last decade of March.
Near the slopes of Uludag, there are mineral springs, from which all hotels in the resort are supplied.
TOP 5 best resorts in Turkey
Choosing the best among dozens of Turkish resorts is a thankless task. Each of them has a lot of advantages and its own "zest" and in the summer becomes a center of attraction for hundreds and thousands of people from all over the world. But if you trust the opinion of reputable travel portals and publications, there are several places in Turkey where you should visit at least once:
Oludeniz
The Sundy Times newspaper once named the world's best beach one of those that delight guests of the Turkish resort of Oludeniz. The turquoise water of the Aegean Sea is favorably set off by the emerald green of the pine groves, and the sunsets on the beach in Oludeniz can cause delight and romantic mood. It is not for nothing that newlyweds and lovers often come to Oludeniz, the most beautiful resorts in Turkey.
Antalya
The most popular family resort in Turkey is Antalya. Its infrastructure is capable of meeting the needs of any tourist. There are hundreds of hotels of various levels and degrees of starry in Antalya, in its restaurants you can find a menu of not only Turkish cuisine, and the abundance of entertainment rightfully allows you to call the resort the capital of the country's summer vacation.
Belek
If you consider yourself a respectable person and noisy entertainment at night is absolutely not your format for spending a vacation, go to Belek. There is an extra-class golf course for you, hotels with less than five stars on their façades, and almost Michelin-level chefs prepare in the restaurants. Shopping in Belek is also beyond praise and you can buy jewelry or a fur coat here in a comfortable shopping center with air conditioning and sales assistants.
Kemer
Kemer is one of the pearls of the Turkish Riviera. The city is protected from cold winds by the Taurus mountain range, the slopes of which are covered with cedar groves, which provides a unique microclimate in the resort. Kemer's beaches are covered with small pebbles, on the one hand, they seem to be not as comfortable for lying as the sandy ones, on the other, they are considered more hygienic. In addition, hotels offer to sunbathe in comfort, sitting on sun loungers and sun loungers. One of the most popular activities in Kemer is diving, there are many dive centers for equipment rental and training. Experienced specialists will show you the most interesting dive sites.
Side
Those who prefer to take everything from life and not be limited to just one lazy beach vacation should buy a tour in Side. The popular Turkish resort is famous for its antique sights and archaeological sites. Many of the ruins are more than 2000 years old, and Side is in no way inferior in the sense of antiquity to the Italian and Greek celebrity cities. Gourmets at this Turkish resort will not be disappointed either: Side restaurants specialize in seafood and fish dishes.
And remember, Turkey is good because you can always come back here. She is approachable and very welcoming. Holidays in the best resorts in Turkey can be repeated over and over again, discovering new places and experiences.
