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Hi
Are you sure it's not the Karakan Apartments? If so they are in a central location near the bech front. Sorry I cant help you more :duh

Jackie
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Hi
I think I have found what you are looking for, if you go onto http://www.travelrepublic.co.uk and search hotels/apartments in Marmaris, Karakas Apartments come up, with a couple of photos and a map to show exactly where it is. Hope this helps.

Jackie
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Who did you book with? Do you have a link to the tour operator's website?

luci :wave
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I havent actually booked these apartments, I was browsing the Travel Republic site looking for something else and I came across the Karacas Apts, go to http://www.travelrepublic.co.uk and search accommodation only, you will find it there. :)
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Sorry, that question was for the OP. I did search TR, but didn't come up with them, but I was trying the original spelling. Ihave tried with your spelling and still can't find them on TR.

I am getting 5 pages of accommodation for Marmaris with TR. Which page are they on?

luci :wave
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It appears that the OP had the wrong spelling and that's why I couldn't find them!

Right, I have finally found the apartments' own website HERE and I shall add them to our reviews site.

luci :wave
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The WORST place I have EVER stayed in 10 years of visiting Marmaris for at least 4 weeks a year I have never stayed at such an awful place.
The staff were rude and just inconsiderate
the rooms were never cleaned, after 5 days without clean towels and bed linen we eventually had to complain at the reception an were given clean towels but still never had our floors mopped or bins emptied. we stayed at these apartments for 3 weeks and in 3 weeks I dont think we had clean bedding more than twice, when it is supposed to be changed every 3 days.

The manager tried to charge us for electric because we decided to buy a fan from the shop instead of paying the £60 he asked for air conditioning.

The staff were kicking heavy footballs across the pool which was very small to begin with without any thought for the small babies swimming.
The pool was set with nets at each end but because of how small it was this meant if anyone decided to play pool football noone else was able to swim untill they were through, the baby pool was way too small to keep the kids occupied so they had to just sit and wait untill they were able to get back in the water.

we really love Marmaris and it was a real shame that these apartments and rude staff were the downside to our 3 week stay 14 members of our family had gone on holiday together and on the days we were sat at the pool we only used 5 sunbeds as we were mostly swimming and the staff tried to take the few beds we were sharing as we were not eating or drinking from the bar.

To add to this the food is awful if you are unlucky enough to have already booked these apartments my advice go across the road to Janas as the food in Karakas is so bad.
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We and friends stayed at the apartments for the first two weeks in September, we had two apartments, both spotlessly clean, towels and bed linen changed every third day, balcony and floors mopped, bins emptied daily. We had air conditioning for the whole two weeks and were not charged, the only charge was for the safe.
We had four or five evening meals in the restaurant, four of us choosing different things, all of us happy, excellent food and good value for money. We only had lunch by the pool a couple of times but again good value for money
The staff looked after us very well, all were friendly, we were not on a package deal but just booked the apartments, it was mainly Dutch staying there which might account for the higher than normal standards. This apparently was the first season british had stayed there and while we were there the only disturbance one evening was from english people I'm afraid to say
The four of us would have no hesitation in going back to these apartments or recommending them to our friends or families.
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we stayed here for 3 weeks Aug 2008, I have been going on holiday to Marmaris for 8 years and lived there for 2 years so I have stayed all over Marmaris and can agree that this was not a great place to stay at all. The air conditioning is £20 per week the safe cost £10 per week which is fairly standard through out Marmaris so all to be expected, what we didnt expect however was how rude the staff were with the exception of Tyson.

We also didnt expect that the only way of getting clean sheets put on our bed was to strip the beds ourselves and request someone come and put on clean ones, as we were self catering we were using our bins to get rid of unwanted food and im sure you can imagine if the bin is not emptied for a day in that sort of heat the room smells pretty bad so we had to take to putting our bin outside the room.
Also having stayed self catering at many hotels this is the first I have come across which has a problem with you taking food and drink to the pool.

The other problem we had with this hotel is they charge everything to your room and you go down and check your bill each evening and sign to say you agree it the number of occasions we had various things added to our bill that were not our's was endless

I can say we would never go back to these apartments the pool was very small and whilst there I spoke to various british people who were disappointed with the place I think I would reccomend paying the extra and staying at a better standard of hotel.
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we are heading out these apartments this summer. Does anyone have any uptodate
reviews??

I was told these apartments are near the maxwell 2 apartments, george and dragon apartments at
the big traffic lights?? is this correct??
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yeah thats right they are up that way just past george and the dragon and if you haven't already booked them don't bother and if you have I hope you have more luck there than we did

ohh an hope you can stand the smell of fish cooking for the staff every single day the place stinks!!!!

I love Marmaris have lived there in the past and this place was just beyond bad compared to everywhere else we have stayed....
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thanks for your reply

i had friends working out there last year (at these apartments) and they said they were fine. They also said the owners
don't mind how much noise you make at night which is best suited for our group! To be fair we got the apartment direct with the
owner (everything else with travel republic) for £18 for a week for 3 people.Total bargain of £9 each. I
I just wanted to know if anyone had been
out recently.
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ohh ok its with you asking where they were i just presumed you didnt no much about them

as for recently season doesn't really open till April and 90% of the places in Marmaris are shut till then

sounds like a bargain £9 each but to be honest the place isnt worth more than that anyway
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it was a guy mate and his idea of right next to the george and dragon apartments and my idea is
different! he said. 'yeah its just behind'....Im glad it is close by then! we only need the
apartment to sleep in. what i meant to ask was is the air conditioning unit in the bedroom?
we will have 2 in the bedroom and 1 in the livingroom sofa bed thing. Wondering if we should drag the bed through to the bedroom or if we leave the doors open will the unit cool the apartment down??
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just back, had a super time here. Probably not a place for families, more for couples and groups. The staff were all fantastic and our group got to know the staff quite well.
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