Large Modern Villa - Heart of Turkish Countryside
Review Submitted: August 30, 2009
Date of Stay: August 2009
My family of four including two teenage children were lucky enough to stay in this villa for 3 weeks in the August sun. The villa is very good, being spacious, new, and well designed with no less than three balconies overlooking the countryside and mountains. These mountains are so high that apparently the snow had only just melted from the tops of them in August! We're not into the beach scene so what made it for us was the pool including spa pool. It is very large and was a real luxury to have to ourselves. It is maintained daily and is where we spent the vast majority of our days. After staying in hotels you cannot beat having your own pool, no battles over sunloungers, splashes in the face and being swum over! If you need a drink, no expensive bar, just pop to the fridge where you have all your drinks to hand.
The villa is situated on a large plot at the head of a small complex of similar villas totalling about 15 in all. It is immediately adjacent to one of the single carriageway roads that runs into the village/very small town of Kemer. The road is not busy but when a car, lorry (but more likely tractor or moped) goes by they can be quite fast as you are near the bottom of a hill. This doesn't cause any major problem though. Our funniest passing sight was a cow standing proudly on the back of a trailer looking where she was going being pulled by the farmer on a tractor.
I would suggest that a car is really required when staying here. Kemer itself is just down the road about 1/3 of a mile away but for ease and getting to the more lively areas of Fethiye and Hisaronu, a car is really required. Kemer itself has all you need for day to day things. There is a small supermarket called "Tesko" near the town centre where you can get most things, including meat and charcoal for the barbeque at the villa, which we did a number of times. Most shops sell bread but go the local bakers in the town where the bread could not be fresher where a large loaf the size of a house costs 2 turkish lira, about 80p. Just a few doors down is the butchers where we got fresh steaks cut, again for the barbeque. For the men dont miss out on a turkish shave. The one to go to is the barbers on the same road between the butchers and bakers and for 7 turkish lira you will have an experience not to be missed. Take my word that it is not just a shave, more like a full head and shoulder service that goes on for more than half and hour.
Great holiday, can certainly recommend!
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