06 Aug 2023
A really nice day trip from Antalya. The pickup arrangement was a bit disorganized on whatsapp, with the person responding asking me to walk 15 minutes until the pickup point although my hotel is listed on Tripadvisor for hotel pickup, however Mete sent me the night before the trip that they can pick me up from a spot 4 minutes from the hotel, which was not what was booked but at least bearable. From this point everything was good!
The tour guide Alia called to get my exact location, the van was nicely air-conditioned (which is very important in the heatwave in Antalya) we rode for around 90 minutes till we took the boat, where there were tanning beds on the top deck, and tables/chairs in the lower level, free tea, and a nice basic but warm lunch. Alia was very pleasant for the whole trip, calmly attending to everyone’s requests with a lovely smile, speaking perfect English (and I guess Russian too), and explaining the next part on the trip.
We made 3 stops (-1 hour each) 1 at a beach called American Bay, beautiful clear and cool water, it wasn’t very crowded with enough space to swim and even jump off the boat to the water, then 2nd stop was Suluada which was also beautiful but a little crowded with many boats docking, reducing the swimming area, and the 3rd stop was at another bay which was only for our boat which was amazing.
Lunch was OK for this type of tours, nothing fancy or copious but good enough.
All in all really good trip, but a word of advice try to get written confirmation from the tour operator that they will do hotel pickup and don’t just rely on Tripadvisor booking confirmation.