Holidays in Kusadasi (Turkey): tours from Almaty from 515,000 KZT

First time I ended up in Kusadasi, didn't plan it at all, just wanted somewhere by the sea, and then this tour came up at a decent price — took it without thinking, because I love heat, but I’d already been to Antalya twice. This little town pleasantly surprised me, went to the market for spices, there this grandma let me try olives with lemon, I’d never eaten those — tasty, even wrote down the recipe, though I don’t cook at all. Came back tanned, bunch of cool selfies, already looking for this travel agency’s map for my phone wallpaper)))

Went to Kusadasi with my wife, first we just wanted to lie by the pool, but this agency picked out excursions so well that I even kinda got into ancient stuff. Ephesus, House of the Virgin Mary, very impressive but what stuck with me most was a little fish restaurant with a sea view where we were chowing down on mussels and washing it down with local beer. Nothing to complain about, the flight and transfer — all smooth, came back home in a good mood and with a sunburned neck, but that doesn't even ruin the vacation.

went spontaneously took what was available and didn't regret it. The manager picked us a hotel in Kusadasi I wouldn't have found one like that myself — the sea is right across the road, but the main thing is my son ate strawberries until he was in a state of happiness, here they're served by the bucketload at breakfast and somehow everything just fell into place so smoothly that even the weather seemed to be waiting for us.

Five plus, though it all started with me mixing up the flight date and almost staying home. The manager is a local — right at the hotel reception, when I was freaking out over the messed-up transfer documents, he just took my phone and sorted it all out in five minutes in English with the driver, by the way, in Kusadasi the mountains are visible right from the window, and it's incredible when you wake up. We managed everything: the old town with its cats, and the seaside promenade, and even some gorge where we were taken by a local excursion that I didn't book through them, so the operator's work was straight-up flawless, and the sunset on the pier with tea in a plastic cup would've made up for any logistical screw-ups, if there were any.

Well, how to put it. your typical four-plus, the sea is warm in December though the wind is awful, but fine for walks. The hotel is great but, you step onto the balcony and there they are… seagulls screeching like crazy every morning at eight, but the breakfasts are really hearty, I love the cheese omelette. We took the Ephesus tour through the agency, the guide was alright though he gabbed on about all those columns and pantheons, somewhere I just zoned out and stared at the stones. Got back in the evening and of course rushed to swim in the heated pool, the weather fooled me with the weather though I warned him and took a jacket for nothing, don't feel sorry for the money but the time flew by like one moment)) I give it a four because, well you get it. everyone smiled but the service was quirky in places, the towels in the spa were not restocked

Vernulas vchera nochyu i do sih por ne mogu poverit chto eto bylo na samom dele, kurort v Kushadasy okazalsya dazhe luchshe chem kartinki u agentov – hotya ya obychno ne doveryayu etim bukletam. Pervye dva dnya dozhd morosil, ya uzhe dumala vse propalo, no potom raspogodilos i nachalas skazka. More teploe, kak parnoe moloko, vyhodish i ne hochetsya vylezat, voda prozrachnaya do samogo dna, vidno kazhduyu peschinku i rybok u pirsa. Otel vybrala s animatsiey, tak vecherami bylo veselo, hotya sosedi po etazhu hrapeli tak chto steny drozhali – eto edinstvennyy minus, no ya bystro privykla. Ezdili na ekskursiyu v drevniy gorod, tam ochen krutye razvaliny, ya nogu podvernula na samom dele no vse ravno dovolna, potomu chto vidy otkryvayutsya neveroyatnye. Pitanie v restorane konechno nadoelo k seredine nedeli, vse odinakovoe, zato chereshnya byla vsegda i mestnye sladosti vkusnye, ya obelas tak chto dzhinsy ne shodilis. Opechatka gde-to sotsalas, no eto melochi, glavnoe chto zaryadka vosstanovilas i teper hochu vernutsya tuda zhe v sleduyuschem godu)).

First thought it was just going to be beach and hotel, but the manager somehow picked excursions so well that in a week I crawled all over ancient Ephesus and some cute little villages in the mountains. The ancient theater in Miletus — now that's real power, sat on the stone steps and imagined crowds of people yelling there, goosebumps right on the skin. Local food worked for me, pide and all kinds of flour stuff didn't let me go broke on restaurants while I ate to the brim. Though the weather let us down towards the end of the trip – two days of stupid wind from the sea, but that's not their fault, it's Turkey. At the hotel the cleaning was done properly, but the air conditioner ran louder than I wanted, slept like under a tractor but got used to it. Souvenirs I bought not in a tourist shop but at a small bazaar where the manager advised to bargain, thrill of course, but special thanks to her for the tip. So it's a decent trip, solid four out of five, the main thing is to take tours and adventures and not just lie in a bare hotel all day long bored.

needed a dogsitter for two weeks and i just happened to find a decent one in Kusadasi so i figured why not mix business with pleasure especially since splitting a cottage with a neighbor works out cheaper than a one-bedroom in Astana. the town turned out livelier than i expected grilled the fish myself on the promenade we got charcoal from a local old man for five lira and he even sliced lemons for free (probably just bored). in the morning at the market tried baklava like you wouldnt find back home even for big money, it was still warm, and right across the street some old lady was selling fresh pomegranate juice, god it was so good with plain bread and olives.

Even didn’t expect Kusadasi to be so nice in February, the weather was really up and down – sometimes sun, sometimes wind, but the sea… I thought I’d freeze, and it’s beautiful, turquoise and not scary at all. Took a cheap hotel, thought it’d be awful, but it was actually pretty clean and the food was decent, only the wifi in the room worked every other time, but that’s nothing. The thing I remember most was the walk to the bird paradise by the lake, I’ve never seen so many flamingos, they’re noisy and push each other around like at a market. Came back happy and even a bit tanned – what else do you need to be happy, right?)

Total delight, the Turks at the hotel didn't even try to push any nonsense, but the manager from the agency was in touch — helped with the transfer when I myself messed up the time. The only thing, the sea in February is chilly, but I knew what I was getting into, so a solid five.

went to Kusadasi, don't regret it at all. sea is clean, warm water, and this is in January, though the weather was changeable, but we were fine. almost no hydras, swam on the beach by the hotel, local vendors — quite an invasion, but it's Turkey.. if you walk away to the old fortress, it's totally empty and beautiful, mountains nearby. everything was arranged by the manager, she immediately understood what i needed from a holiday, without extra questions we just took a last-minute deal and hit the jackpot

needed to stash wife and mom somewhere for a week while I was on shift — and just this summer they found a tour to Kusadasi at a decent price, got there with a transfer and at the hotel they first checked them into the wrong room but quickly changed it. but the sea is right across the road, the maid changed towels twice a day though I asked for once, and from the food I really overate loukoum at breakfast — then walked around sticky and happy all day. well and they booked excursions on the spot, the guide talked their ears off about carpets, but overall all good

We went to Kusadasi because my mom had wanted to go to the sea for a long time, and I found a tour in this agency and decided — well at least once I’ll send her off and myself too, though I’m more into mountains myself. The town is cute — lots of shops, a promenade, it was even nice, but our hotel turned out to be a bit far from the center and the beach, honestly, wasn’t great, but for a three-star it’ll do, and a couple of days I just lay around by the pool with a book. Came back calm, without any craziness, for us that’s good too

We picked this travel agency because it was the only one in our area working with a normal payment plan, and we had no money for a last-minute tour at all, so we just settled on a Turkey format, didn't even think about Kusadasi. The holiday was tolerable, for a couple of days we went out to the old town and the aqueduct, of course in summer everything there is burnt out, but for insta it's very much. A bus from the airport would have been nice and to doze off in it, but the driver's music didn't let that happen, though later they compensated everything with a bonus cocktail for everyone who broke down without a transfer, my umbrella spokes even bent from the heat 5)))

пәтер өзі қарғыс атқыр еді — көршілер таңғы алтыдан бастап қабырға бұзғаны, сондықтан жай ғана тур сатып алып, бас түріп кетейін деп шештім, таңдау Кушадасы, Түркияға түсті. сапар ешбір кінәратсыз өтті: теңіз жылы, тамағы қалпында, тіпті Эфеске экскурсияға үлгердім, ол жер шынымен монументальды, дегенмен кешке қарай аяқ гуілдеп кетті, бірақ қонақүйдің балконынан күн батқандағы көрініс қандай, фотоны аваға қойдым да бәрі таңданып қалды. ал жергілікті персонал — өздері жақсы жігіттер, біреуімен футбол туралы да сөйлестік, жалпы көңілім толып, керемет күйіп қайттым

Lezhala na plyazhe i dumala: a ved ya pravda otdohnula. more teploe, noyabrskiy barhat nam dostalsya, povezlo s pogodoy, hotya v Kushadasy veter inogda zloy. Ekskursiya v Efes — nu takoe sebe, vezde tolpy, zato koshek tam nemereno, ya odnu pryam gladila i ona murchala na razvalinah. Vecherom nashla malenkiy restoranchik, hozyain sam vyshel pogovorit, eda bozhestvennaya, kebab tayal, a chay besplatno podlival. otel vybrali sami cherez tur.agentstvo v Almaty, vse chetko sdelali, transfer vstretil, nikakih nakladok. Hotya vot russkih turistov bylo mnogo, no eto skoree plyus, mozhno bylo poboltat))) Shoping ne zadalsya, vse tseny kak u nas doma, zato kovry nasmotrelas, takie krasivye, ruki sami tyanulis potrogat. Suveniry vzyala tolko na posledniy den, kogda ponyala chto pora, i vernulaas sloyano dovolnaya..

the key thing was to drag my parents out of their eternal home for our wedding anniversary, cause they won’t go anywhere themselves now, and I specifically wanted Kusadasi, so I got the tour from that agency by the bazaar. Three days straight we stomped the promenade from the old fort to the pier, until my wife said her soles were burning.. stop, she climbed onto the rocks in flip-flops, and I was just watching a local old man feed a cat from his hand, that thing was shaking its head like crazy. The sea water was ice cold but I still jumped in twice, cause I’m stubborn. my parents loved the cafe where they make borsch right in the open kitchen and chicken kyiv, kinda symbolic in Turkey. we checked in without any delays which is a plus, room on the fifth floor with a view of the bay, but the AC rattled like a tractor and I kept turning it off so I wouldn’t lose my mind. We wandered around without excursions on our own — found some viewpoint above the city, the wind there was so strong it almost blew my cap off, but the photos came out nice and sharp and even my parents smiled for real, though mom grumbled that dad «is showing off with his telephoto lens again». in the evening we got raki and cheese, sat on the balcony — it’s for moments like these we came, honestly. we all came back four people happy as elephants, mom’s already asking when we’ll get another tour like that. do I wanna repeat it myself — rather yes than no, main thing is that three free days in january come up again when it’s empty and quiet here

We went with a friend because she was recommended this direction for a lazy vacation — she didn't like the heat and that's exactly why we chose Kusadasi, not Antalya. The manager picked us a hotel in five minutes, casually told us where it's better to exchange money and that made life a lot easier. The beach is right at the exit, the water is clean, we came back happy and with a bunch of Turkish sweets, wich we've already eaten.

алымның тойына барамыз деп жүргенбіз, содан демалысты да соған ұштастырып жіберейік деп осы агенттіктен пакет алдық. ыңғайлы болды, ұшақ билеті мен қонақүйді бірден шешіп берді, әйтпесе өзім іздеп әлек болар ма едім. Кушадасыдағы қонақүй теңізге жақын екен, балконнан қарасаң көрінеді, бірақ таңертеңгі ас бір түрлі – жұмыртқаның дәмі таныс емес, майды да үнемдеп қойған сияқты. Кипрдің айналасындағы сол бір көне қираған қабырғалар – керемет әсер қалдырды, тасқа қолын тигізіп, тарихты сезінгендей боласың. жалпы 4-тідемін, кемшілігі аз болды, тағы барсам тап осы агенттіктен алар едім

Thought it was just another "weekend purchase", but turned out a full-fledged mini-vacation. The hotel in Kusadasi greeted us with AC and a view of the pool with palms – already good. The sea warm like fresh milk, and that smell of sunscreen, always mixed with smoke from a grill on the beach (probably, the neighbors'). Was coming back by taxi from a tour and accidentally saw that very abandoned village on the hill, just like from a movie. Came back with tons of photos and a steady feeling that I found a spot for next time, thanks to the travel agency for the organization without any hiccups