Pamukkale Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Started our new (and final, thank GOD) tour today. The demographic is slightly different to the previous tours we've been on and we're the grandparents of the group...there's no one else born in the 70s...at least we've got an excuse for bailing early and going to bed!!! We had a short stop off in Pergamum on our way today. It is spectacularly p...

Friday (Oct 05) The bus ride to Pamukkale was quite an interesting ride, through a valley flanked by rolling hills and through lots of agricultural areas also. As we were approaching Pamukkale you could see the white hills from a long distance away. Pamukkale, which literally means Cotton Castle in Turkish, now appears on the UNESCO world herita...

We're backing up one and a half days. The night before last we went over to Amishay's house for a visit. They had some Turkish friends that wanted to meet us. One of them spoke very good English and has just finished University in Ankara. She is interested in coming to the US for about 6 months to improve her English, but is confounded by US law...

Pamukkale is famous for its calcium travertines and on all the postcards and in all the guide books all you will see is these pools of beautiful clear blue water. In reality not really the case as you will see in the photos. As we drove into Pamukkale we were waved over by a motorbike rider - we thought we had done something wrong - who handed u...

Day 6 - 27th April - Gumuldur - Pamukkale - breakfast Today, we enjoy a guided tour at the legendary Roman ruins of Ephesus. Positively the best-preserved classical city in the eastern Mediterranean, and among the best places in the world to get a feel for what Roman life must have been like! Ephesus, under the Romans was a vast city with a popu...

crazy place where water running over a mountain leaves calcium deposits - looks like snow..and aparently the mud is good for your skin...:)