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Tips 1 - 4 of 4 Marmaris Tourist Traps
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Tourist Trap: CARPET SALESMEN
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This trip reminded me of a timeshare type thing with professional hard sell salesmen thrown in. It was ment to be an organized excursion to visit the local vilages and view the local customs. This was supposed to include luxury coach travel and lunch. the coach turned out to be a mini bus with no air con and with the temp 40 Degrees plus this was not fun. We went to one village which was basically dead, deserted, call it what you want, there was'nt sod all there, then it was lunch, this was typically turkish Ha Ha Ha Ha (i think not) that turned out to be chicken and chips at a petrol service station. Next it was a 2 hour journey on that bone shaker they call a coach to a carpet factory, where the whole purpose of the trip came to light. The salesmen lay in wait like spiders on a web and they wanted our money. One bloke begged me for 2 hours to buy a ?1.000 carpet saying it would be shipped over to me after my holiday Ha Ha Ha No bloody chance matey. Alright they were good quality carpets but this was ment to be a day out not a gloryifyed sales pitch. I just wonder how many actually recieve there carpets.
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Alternative: DON'T GO
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Tourist Trap: BEGGERS
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Marmaris does have its fare share of beggers and its hard to tell which ones are genuine and which ones are professionals. They seem to come out of the woodwork when night falls. Most will ask you to buy a rose or lucky charm this makes me laugh, if there lucky charms why are they poor Ha Ha Ha. Some will even pretend to be blind. So the best thing to do is be polite and say no.
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Tourist Trap: CROWDED BEACHES
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This photo shows the town beach near the marina and as you can see they pack the sunbeds so close together that you have a job just to get to the sea to swimm, so you can emagin how busy this part of the beach gets. Its so much better to hop on a dolmus and travel a few miles up the coastline to Icmeler or Turunc where its far less hectic
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At Least Do This: Why can't they take a few sunbeds off the beach so you can have just a little space to yourself
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Tourist Trap: CROWDED BEACHES
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The phrase people use about packing them in like sardines seems to be very true the nearer you get to the marina area of Marmaris
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Alternative: Go farther along the coast where its quieter
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sarah1966 Wed Oct 3, 2007 11:10 UTC
your info had me in hysterics, we're off to marmaris in 2 weeks for the 1st time. | aussirose Mon Sep 17, 2007 08:58 UTC
Wow!! What a fantastic write up Cliffee!!! Enjoyed every minute :o) Cheers, Ann xx | mindcrime Tue Aug 21, 2007 09:41 UTC
You made my day! Funny tips! | mafootje Tue Aug 7, 2007 04:52 UTC
Mamaris mmm never been there maybe because it's to close to home :) |
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