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How did you not know what airport you would be arriving at? Surely this was on the check-in, departure lounge, gate and airport screens?
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it seems only goldtrail do this............ i think that they book so many flights to marmaris and use Bodrum as a overspill facility, either that or taxes/fuel cheaper at Bodrum...... it is one hell of a journey and not the right way to start a holiday.....having said that,goldtrail are the cheapest operators so I suppose you get hat you pay for
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They did say they only realised it was Bodrum and not Dalaman when they got their confirmation. Third paragraph.
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Ah yes, my apologies. :wink:
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DJ1965... your holiday seems like a carbon copy of mine last year.

we booked last minute and picked up our tickets from the airport at that point realising we would have to do the nightmare transfer from Bodrum to Marmaris (so not quite as far as you, but not much different)

Once we got to the airport they told us we were at a completly different hotel to the one we booked and that is where we would have to go. We complained to the rep once in resort but she was useless and not prepared to do anything about it. The hotel we stayed at was pretty grubby and had a horrible small pool which stank. Needless to say we spent all our days down at the beach like you. Some girls staying in our hotel had also booked a much nicer hotel and had to end up slumming it in this place also.

It all boils down to the fact that goldtrail are complete and utter cowboys and when it comes to bookings it doesnt seem that they honour much, answer.... never ever book with them again, nightmare!
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goldtrail= cheap ..... get what you pay for unfortunately
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O.k since I'm probably nearly the only silly person who had a goldtrail/onurair flight, (know it's only an onurflight flight we had), I feel I must commend them while of course reminding anyone that's interested of any problem's I personally had with them.

Well I booked through low cost beds and they sorted out our accommodation successfully, (ask my daughter!) but yes it is true I won't travel with them again goldtrail/onur air because I took a bad asthma attack in Dalaman Airport on the way home, and although the ward/airport worker got me on the plane first, the actual cabin crew did ignore me on the flight, now if that were Thomas Cook who we flew with last year on our flight , they would'nt they have ignored my stiffiling plight and I was smothering without any oxygen, and my doctor said I should have been given oxygen, ( if anyone has or had anyone with any Asthma attack especially a very bad one they would understand my plight, actually I should have been hospitalised )or given oxygen) and would have been only I was determined to get home and not be kept in a Hosp., in Turkey, but anyway although the airport attendant got us onto the airplane first and let me breath the fresh air at the bottom of the runway before boarding the plane the airline staff wasn't sucessful in gettin the airline staff on the plane to allow me to sit in the first aisle while the plane was been boarded by 350 passengers if I remember,

Apart from that and the fact thet there was no t.v. and everyone was very bored on the flight after a liittle while, plus the fact that it was an airbus that we were travelling on makes a lot of more bored travelleres,;anyway you get the picture hard for me to relay it as I'm writing without my glasses.
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Sorry I'd intended to add that in my opinion it does'nt really matter who you book with you enjoy your holiday anyway no matter what holiday firm or airways you book with sometimes you do just to spite them I think it adds something to the holiday I rem., the youngest two kid's and I went to Muge Hotel in Marmaris two years ago, (goldtrail hol.,) now it was'nt anything in particular to look at but we still enjoyed it and Marmaris so it does'nt really matter honestly you'll still enjoy your holiday but it makes some difference also when you know you can settle in your hotel comfortably also as we could this year in Irmak Hotel/Apartments also. (a non goldtrail hotel)
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I can`t understand why more people don`t make their own arrangements when going on holiday instead of trusting a third party not to rip them off. If you can use the internet to complain about things then you can use it to book your own arrangements. It`s easy to do and you usually save money too. Only when more and more people vote with their feet will these companies realise that they have to deliver a good service or not at all.
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tibbs.... its not a case of complaining, my complains went straight to the holiday company themselves, people here are letting others know of their experiences so other can avoid being treated in the same way :D
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