no youre right chris i couldnt put up with loud music

shame the belcekiz is so expensive £625 for 5 nights does seem very expensive , lykia coming out at £340 big difference, but hubby fancies staying in olu close to lagoon, shops etc for second week, we could go to akyaka but taxi is £55 and will probably cost us less staying in olu in an all inc, wonder what the alize is like as that is very cheap lol, im so useless at making decisions lol

hotelopia doesnt do the belcekiz
thanks lyn, i think ill have a think about it before i rush into any decisons, b&b and hb are coming out very cheap

£625 for 5 nights at the BB seems too expensive to me. It's nice but the food wasn't quite as good as Lykia, and the pools at the BB would be a major disappointment if you were going straight from Lykia. The huge plus for Bel Beach over Lykia is it's location, although it does have a nice atmosphereas well.

What about Asena Beach on HB that should keep costs down and seemed nice. (I had a nosey about it) Lyn's been there.

Karen . why did you not book Lykia for the 2 weeks

Are there any hotels in olu that you didnt get a chance to have a nosey in Chris
loved the Asena Beach . That was our first ever holiday to turkey so it kinda holds special memories for us

We stayed at the BB last August. We booked accommodation only with Thomson and it was about £1100 for 3 adults for 14 nights. £625 for 5 nights seems very expensive for October Was this price from Thomson Karen?

lyn we didnt book lykia for 2 weeks cos i was told it closed on the 30th oct when i rang them ,our flight is early hrs of the 1st nov, but some hotel sites are selling it til 1st which would worry me and i dont want to change for 1 day.

cazz, this quote was from bb direct, now this is very strange, i emailled the manager back re this quote and he said hes made an error as soon as i told him i could get lykia half price,very fishy lol here are his emails

Dear Karen, Thanks for your e-mail.The room price is 125 GBP per room per night on all inclusive basis.Return airport transfer price is 90 GBP in total.Hearing from you soon. Best regards,

Hi Karen,

Sorry I made a mistake on dates.
The room price is 100 GBP per room per night on all inclusive basis.
Hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

looks like the prices have gone up loads , if you paid less in aug and this is the last week of the season lol , even thomson are coming out over a £100 a night

I can't believe the prices have risen that much, especially comparing August to October but when I checked Thomsons, the price was £510, but they also want £490 for the Lykia Seems you get a much better price booking direct with Lykia.

Karen, I presume you want to stay from 26/10 and check out on 31/10 ... doesn't seem any point in having a room on the last night, not with that lovely flight time home

yes caz thats right 26-31, we are staying at lykia 19-26, if you look at monarch hotels lykia is only £344, it has gone up £4 in a few days lol

i think the prices for bb are crazy and i cant imagine anyone paying that , if thats the price for last week im going to look at august prices on thomson now for a nose lol

ive just priced up our family for 5 nights in august to the bb on thomsons site omg !!! £790 who would pay this for hotel only , thats just silly prices lol

lynwestie wrote:

Are there any hotels in olu that you didnt get a chance to have a nosey in Chris

I was always 'looking for t'internet' Internet room in Lykia in summer was full of those business men who think their offices can't manage without them for two weeks. so are welded to their laptops. Either that or they dont want to play with their kids.

If your 5 days is during Oct half term Karen, it might be that the BB can charge more or less what they fancy. although I would have though bookings woud be down due to the credit crunch, so perhaps that's why he has suddenly remembered it's less per night lol.

The year we went, by July it was fully booked for both English half-term and Scottish half-term which I guess must be different, as we were told at the Thomson welcome meeting. Don't think they would make it up as not point as people might want to book to return in Oct.

Personally I think 100 per night is still a lot for it. I reckon they fill most rooms on TUI packages, most folk who had booked direct seemed to be Turkish.

chris there is no way i would pay £100 a night for 2 adults and a child in turkey lol, especially as lykia is only £68.

bb might have increased their prices for that half term week but all the other hotels in the resort are really cheap that week, here are some examples compared to bb for 5 nights, olu deniz resort 234, sun city 173,lykia world 344, majestic bb 27, karbel bb 29,alize all inc 150, akdeniz all inc 147,pine village hb 78, asena beach 88. so you can see that these are all reasonable prices, so this makes the bb extortionate lol, oh decisions will take me ages to make it

Headache time Karen . Have the nurofen ready . Way too much choice

It's so annoying that thomsons seem to have the monopoly on the BB .

As ive said in my pm I would go for the olu Deniz resort but I know your worried about their closure date

lyn

We must have like minds then Lyn, as I was thinking the ODR was the closest in the list to the BB. It certainly looks a very pretty hotel from the outside, it was covered in bouganvillia (spelling) and other lovely flowers, a bit in the same way as the BB is.

I had them all trailing over the french balcony on my rooms at BB. Being in a nice environment, will lovely grounds and gardens is important to us. Although I appreciate lot of people couldn't care less about that kind of thing. nice gardens etc. lol

very sad as i wanted to try the bb as it has such good reviews but not paying £100 a night ellie eats like a bird anyway and i dont drink so we wouldnt get our monies worth, if she had a big appetite and i drank loads might be worth it
yes im tempted by olu deniz resort only thing im worried about is when i went on their own website put in my dates it came back saying hotel closed

Oh Er ! Sounds too risky then sometimes these accommo only providers are a bit sloppy with the info they load on their web-site's. Suppose they loads 1000's of hotels and dates. I wouldn't put it past them to make admin errors.

Does anybody know if you can get milk shakes as part of the all inclusive.

Our daughter will be 14 when we go, she is a tall girl at 5 foot 8 inchs and is sharing a room with us, im worried that she will not sleep comfy on the sofa bed. Do you think if i e-mail the hotel a week before we go that they could put a single bed in the room for her.

Oliday, did you book direct with the hotel or through Thomson/Portland? The hotel have a couple of spacious studio apartments that sleep 5 adults comfortably but these are only available to those who've booked direct. The standard rooms are small

We have booked through thomson. Do you think the sofa bed will be ok. Are all the rooms the same size.

We stayed at the Belcekiz last August with our daughter who was then 13. We asked for a room change on arrival as the room was too cramped for us but I'm sure my daughter would have been okay on the sofa bed. We were told all the rooms were a similar size. It was strange as everyone we met loved the hotel yet all complained about the small rooms, but no-one ever mentions it in the reviews!

You could try emailing the hotel with your concerns and asking for a larger room/studio.

It is a lovely hotel though, I'm sure you'll have a great time.

Thanks cazzyholly i will email the hotel before we go.
Only got to wait 16 weeks now we are all looking forward to it.