Crowne Plaza Izmir
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We Finally Arrived!
We have finally arrived in Izmir, Turkey. It is Turkey's third largest city with 5 million people - pretty big! It's been 32 hours since we left home, 3 plane flights and very little sleep. You forget how horrible those long haul flights are and then to have a 6 hour stopover in Dubai is murder. Anyway we've checked into the Crowne Plaza …
May 29, 2012
Nwaugh stayed here on May 29, 2012 during their trip titled: Nolan and Jill's Great Turkish Adventure.
And still no sleep (part 2 of the palarver)
Evening.
So, we left off earlier with us getting to the stadium just in time for the National Anthems, here's what we've been doing since.
We worked out, whilst watching the first half of the game, that we had been traveling for 20 hours from leaving home to actually getting to the game - did anyone actually know that Turkey was …
Smyrna - Running on empty and a wild goose chase
... to the underground area. A water channel runs the length of one of the galleries and was used to distribute water coming to the agora. We spotted water droplets coming out of a spout from a stone pedestal with the words "SMYRNA Agora" engraved on the stone. Above this was a sign "NO DRINKING" in English and Turkish. We astutely divined that these markings came much later than the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine (Early and Late) and the Ottoman era, perhaps even to ...
Welcome to the country of the doner!
... dress well covered. Also, although the mayority is muslim, they rarely pray 5 times a day or even go to the mosque. I guess is a little bit like christianity over europe, tradicional but not massively followed up to every rule. This makes Turkey a really pleasant country to visit, because nobody looks at you in an bad way as a tourist, and even is quite multiculturalised. Of couse I'm talking about the big cities, because, same as ...
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- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Fitness/Health center
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TravelPod Member ReviewsCrowne Plaza Izmir
“ Excellent!!! ”
Reviewed May 28, 2012
A wonderful international hotel.
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