Help- I'm looking for an all inclusive trip to Turkey for 4 for under £1,500

wallbash

Got to agree with delwynsholidaydeals, Cheap and Ai is a recipe for a disastrous
holiday. Go cheap , use a B& B and eat out .

Or Go Ai or better still Ultra Ai and blow the budget.

me4bargains

Thanks for all your suggestions.
I'm due a tax rebate that I thought was £1500 but now think it could be £2,000 so I don't mind 'blowing the budget'.
We have never taken a family holiday abroad before so want somewhere really nice.
If anyone has any other suggestions for destenation, I'm all ears!!

wallbash

Keep looking at Turkey , I have booked for this year.
But I have to go July/August , and will be paying more like £900 each

But as stated , you are Four adults now , they grow up fast.

welshmoneylover

delwynsholidaydeals wrote: »

if you find a hol to turkey for 1200 AI the hotel is gonna be rubbish

I know of a few people from work who bragged about a cheap holiday to Turkey, and I mean really cheap.

When they got home they had such a krap holiday they vowed to save up and go to a 'proper' travel agents :rotfl:

Serves 'em right!

wallbash

You have to admire those that search the web for the cheapest holidays ,
they gamble their two week holiday , me , I wont take a chance .
I go to a travel Agent , read about the hotel on trip advisor ,
Pay top wack but I have never had a lousy holiday .

sherry_d

I have been looking at Turkey too and its really the flights that are expensive. I really like the Cirali and next door is backpackers haven of Olympos so your teenagers arent going to get bored. This place gets raving views http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g311312-d610055-Reviews-Canada_Hotel_Cirali_Olympos-Cirali_Turkish_Mediterranean_Coast.html that cost about £70 a night family suite

You can then play around with dates on kayak to find the best days for flights.

me4bargains

wallbash wrote: »

You have to admire those that search the web for the cheapest holidays ,
they gamble their two week holiday , me , I wont take a chance .
I go to a travel Agent , read about the hotel on trip advisor ,
Pay top wack but I have never had a lousy holiday .

I've never ever booked a holiday before so this is all new to me.
The last holiday I had was in 1996 and my friend booked it through Teletext!
I'll pop into my local Thomas Cook

wallbash

Take your travel agents advice . But do your research.
As others have said , Trip advisor is a wonderful site.
But , we all have different ideas of the perfect hotel /resort.
So if 99% of the guests rave about the hotel , but 1% hate the place , go with the crowd .

minxtress

sherry_d wrote: »

I have been looking at Turkey too and its really the flights that are expensive. I really like the Cirali and next door is backpackers haven of Olympos so your teenagers arent going to get bored. This place gets raving views http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g311312-d610055-Reviews-Canada_Hotel_Cirali_Olympos-Cirali_Turkish_Mediterranean_Coast.html that cost about £70 a night family suite

You can then play around with dates on kayak to find the best days for flights.

I fancied Olympos too after speaking to some people I met in Turkey a few years back who said it is on of the most unspoilt places around. I didnt fancy a treehouse type place though so think il look at the Canada Hotel

quoia

wallbash wrote: »

Take your travel agents advice . But do your research.
As others have said , Trip advisor is a wonderful site.
But , we all have different ideas of the perfect hotel /resort.
So if 99% of the guests rave about the hotel , but 1% hate the place , go with the crowd .

I agree about doing research and taking advice etc..

but I'm not overly convinced about tripadvisor. (and other similar review sites)

You have to be even more careful about what you read on there to be sure it is anywhere near the truth.

It's only as good as the reports posted there, and whilst the report might be quite accurate (about the holiday experience and hotel actually stayed in by the poster) it may not be posted in the correct place.

It might be 100% fine (and accurate) for hotels and apartments that have UNIQUE (or relatively unique) NAMES in a location (and anything very similar is in a totally different resort - preferably in a different country) and there is NOTHING nearby with which it could be confused.

For instance I've also been looking at Marmaris and using tripadvisor (and similar) to see what I might be letting myself in for.
I've found a few reports where several EXCELLENT reviews with some Very Goods , have been followed by many Poor and even more RUBBISH, ALL for the SAME PLACE.

Reading carefully then revealed as to why the entire exercise of what I ws doing was pointless (in these instances anyway)
The clues were in the descriptive narrative and the discrepancies of what was in (or not in ) the brochures.
Comments about AI when there is only Self-Catering available, the out-of-order children's paddling pool when the hotel doesn't even have one, the trouble climbing the stairs to the 4th floor because there are no lifts - when in fact the hotel has 4 lifts but DOESN'T have a 4th floor - it's ONLY 3 storeys high.

Many of the posts are for a TOTALLY DIFFERENT hotel. The poster didn't stay in the one they are complaining (sometimes complimenting & praising) about.

WHY ?

VERY similar names

Hotel XXXXX, Club XXXXX Hotel, XXXXX Apart Hotel. Hotel XXXXX & Apartments, XXXXX Hotel Resort

5 different accommodations, all in the same resort, and people filing complaints (mostly) willy-nilly under the first XXXXX that they find on tripadvisor - unaware that there are others with a similar name - complaining about a hotel that they never even stayed in !