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Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
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spongemom
2009-01-14 09:20:20
Hi everyone. I have been reading for a while and found lots of great tips, hopefully someone can help with this one. We are looking for 4-5*AI in Turkey for July, room only, for me, husband and 2 daughters. We really need to book by the weekend.

I thought I had narrowed my choice down to 1 or 2 hotels until I read a post where someone mentioned the 'wasps being a pain' :( I am really terrified of them and my whole holiday would be spoilt by this. I am prepared for the odd one but keep imagining the hitchcock movie and me running around the pool being chased by millions of wasps, I feel sick. Please don't think I am crazy, I honestly just have a really bad phobia so please, please, let me know of any resorts etc where you have been and they were a big problem.
I am looking at Lykia world, Suesi and a couple of others.
You help is greatly appreciated :)
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cazzholly
2009-01-14 10:14:46
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
We stayed at the Belcekiz Beach in Olu Deniz last July and there were some wasps around when we were eating our evening meals. There weren't hoards of them. The hotel staff would put small mounds of ground coffee on silver foil and set light to it and this was effective in warding them off. The main problem was that there was only one restaurant at this hotel and it was outdoors. I'm sure at Lykia there would be indoor restaurants? We found that after our meal when watching the entertainment or sitting at the outdoor bar the wasps were not around - just attracted by the food I guess. I don't recall seeing any when we ate lunch outdoors either. Hope this helps,

Cazz
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ellie_meg
2009-01-14 13:04:03
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
i dont remember seeing any wasps when we stayed at lykia world in may to june, the residence restaurant which everyone can use is inside so there wont be any wasps there, i find the worse time for wasps in turkey is oct when there are dying off thats the only time ive been stung. maybe someone that has been in july might know if there are wasps then.
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SandC
2009-01-14 13:13:18
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
I don't think there is any one place that always attracts wasps, I think it is just one of those things occasionally. I don't recall there being many around in Olu in first two weeks of July. We were bothered hugely by them on our gulet in the first week of September but that's the first time it's been like that in the 5 that I've been on.
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simon m
2009-01-14 15:44:25
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
hi , we found their to be a few wasps in oludeniz last july in the early evening when eating out so the thing to do was eat out after sunset (830ish) , then their was no problem , the previous three years we went to marmaris and dont think we even saw one , although it has not put us going back to olu this year
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denny.53
2009-01-14 16:35:17
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
I too have a serious wasp phobia (so bad I have had trouble even writing the word) - I can't tell you the lengths I go to to avoid them!
Honestly, there does NOT seem to be any worse a problem with them in Turkey than back here in the UK. I did find on the beach there were a couple flying around the bins, where people had put disposable cups etc. Just make sure you don't sit near any bins and that when you have a drink, don't leave it lying around when you have finished and you will be OK. Honestly!!

Denny
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doe
2009-01-14 23:50:30
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
We found them quite 'difficult' in the Belcekic Beach hotel a couple of years ago when we were having our evening meal. Although we dont have a particular phobia of them though, they were a nuisance. The staff bring little saucers of raw coffee and set light to it, it sort of smouldered, the idea is this keeps them away, although I wouldn't say it was 100% effective, it did make a difference.

This was last two weeks of July. We also had them at Lykia in the Marina restaurant, although the advantage with Lykia is that you can eat inside if they bother you. We prefered the Residence restaurant, after the initial novelty of the marina wore off, we weren't bothered with them in there.

Must be a seasonal problem.
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spongemom
2009-01-15 00:32:57
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
Thanks soo much everyone, I feel much better now. I can tolerate a few so looks like my holiday will be phobia free :)

Thanks again, you are all really helpful :)
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Kedi Yavrusu
2009-01-15 09:34:14
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
When I lived in Bodrum I don't remember wasps around much at all. There were a few odd ones hanging round the showers sometimes on the beach (maybe they like water :que ) but there certainly weren't loads of them at any time of the year.
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carly0803
2009-01-17 20:04:29
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
I've been to marmaris about 10 times and have never seen a wasp, I have however seen other flying creatures lol.
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Jozzyd
2009-01-17 20:49:29
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
I also am terrified of wasps and have seen less in Turkey at the height of summer, than I do at home in England. That said, my son who was only 2 at the time stood on 2 and was stung twice walking on the grass near our pool :(
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morh
2009-01-17 21:39:17
Re: Any resorts with wasp problems!!!!!!!
Whilst on holiday in Marmaris (July 2008) my granddaughter age 10 accidentally stood on a wasp on the first day of our holiday.
It stung her but our very friendly hotelier came to the rescue with the first aid box and dabbed some kind of cream on.

In all my years of visiting Turkey (and many other countries) I have only ever been stung once. Yet one year on the first day of our return I was stung in the back garden whilst hanging the beach towels out to dry.
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