Kemer on a Budget: Money-Saving Travel Tips
Kemer is a resort town, and resort towns have a way of draining a budget if you let them — the airport transfers, the hotel upgrades, the seafront restaurants, and the excursions all carry tourist prices.

Kemer is a resort town, and resort towns have a way of draining a budget if you let them — the airport transfers, the hotel upgrades, the seafront restaurants, and the excursions all carry tourist prices.

Kemer is a resort town, and its food scene reflects that: a wide, international range that serves the tourist trade, with the Turkish cooking of the coast — fish, meze, grilled meats, pide, and gözleme — as the…

Kemer is a resort town built on a simple pattern — a walkable center around the marina and the seafront, with the hotel strips and the quieter resorts running along the bay to the north and the south.

Kemer is a resort town with a surprising amount on offer, and the honest list of things to do combines the town’s own pleasures — the seafront, the marina, the beaches — with the region’s great sights that sit…

Two days in Kemer is enough to catch the town’s essential character and to reach its two signature sights — the cable car up Mount Tahtalı and the ancient city of Phaselis — without rushing.

Kemer is the resort town that the Turkish Mediterranean does so well: a purpose-built beach holiday center that grew up on the coast between the mountains and the sea, with a marina, a lively seafront, a choice…

Çıralı is a seasonal place in a way that most Mediterranean destinations are not.

Getting to Çıralı takes a little patience, and it is worth being honest about that at the start: there is no airport in the village, no railway, and no direct express route.

Çıralı looks like a simple place — a small farming village on a wild Mediterranean beach — but it sits at the heart of one of the most history-rich landscapes on the Turkish coast.

Çıralı is a photographer’s gift wrapped in a working village.

Çıralı is not a shopping destination in the way of the Grand Bazaar or a resort town’s boutique strip — there are no carpet emporiums, no jewelry arcades, no shops selling identical trinkets to a thousand other…

Let’s be clear about what nightlife means in Çıralı, because the village has nothing to do with neon, DJs, and queues — and that is precisely its appeal.
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