Full-Day Tour to Bodrum Pamukkale

My trip was cancel the day before because my hotel “was not in the route” but this information was not provided when I checked the availability for the day.

Tour was great, unfortunately my bad review is because the agency booking agent got confused with pickup point and he even was rude when we called him. We had to spend time and money to change pick up point and the agency was not willing to assume responsibility nor partial refund.

This trip was so horribly organized, that we thought we were in some kind of comedy program. We knew Pamukkale was far away and they had to pick us up really early. But they stopped the bus 3 times. We were so many people that we used 3 buses and they kept trying to split us between rushians, polish and english speakers. Stop for breakfast, horrible place, very crowded. Then they make silly stops in expensive jewelry shops or wine shops. When arrived at Pamukkale guide didn't wait for us. Well, he had to check in his little boy, so just walked away. Barely any information given and just a time given to return to the bus. Lunch break wasn't much better than breakfast... I think it can be done with better organization and proffesionalism.

We had to share the tour with a large Russian group. Their guide was very loud and argumentative with my husband when asked to lower her volume on the way back. English guide abandoned us sbout the last 1.5 hrs of the journey back.

Pamukkale and Hierapolis were amazing. However, the guides were average, with the Polish guide being slightly rude. They wanted to sell us tickets for Cleopatra pools for 450 liras. But when challenged that's not the correct price, she just said that's their price. Make sure you don't buy tickets from them, as the price at the entrance is 340 liras. Also, Viator app shows incorrect price for the pools. They were also rushing us to finish lunch so they can take us to some local shop where they tried to sell overpriced fruit wine for 30€ and olive oil for 60€. But they didn't seem to rush from that place. We generally enjoyed Pamukkale but the everything else was slightly annoying.

Well organised, punctual. Efficient english and Russian speaking guides. Appropriate number of stops. It would have been better if the guide stayed with us inside Pamukkale too. We went in July and it was too hot to enjoy, so bear in mind what time of the year you choose to go!

The limestone terraces, thermal springs and Hierapolis remain unforgettable. Although the journey from Bodrum by bus was quite long, it was worth it. Thank you all involved for the perfect organization and great trip.

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The only good thing about this trip was the warm Cleopatra pool, which you have to pay extra for anyway! Save yourself £200 and don’t go ! Awful driving, I thought we were gonna go over the cliff every single bend and going up and down the mountains it felt like a final destination scene !! Got ripped off at every stop with pushes to buy more and more as well as the so called free lunch buffet being very tasteless and full of flies ! In a nutshell , don’t book it as you will regret it !

The scenery and pool was nice but that’s it. And looks nothing like it does I the photos of the lush blues and greens. Complete scam fest all the way. Driver was a complete maniac and think the axel of the wheel was about to come off. It Said 130 on the booking for the pool but the reps charged us 250 on the coach. One of the reps tried to take double that off one of the tourists until we stepped in and told her the correct price. Everything so expensive, the lunch was dreadful and not fit to serve a dog. Every stop we had was a scam fest and just trying to get your money. The wine tasting started out good but was just 4 half shot glasses of fruit wine which was very good but the whole thing was just a massive sales pitch to go next door and get robbed! As we walked next door was literally jumped on by every worker in every department very aggressively shouting to buy stuff and then kept loading more on top of you. I found that really aggressive and got so annoyed we left without buying anything. The pools are beautiful and well worth seeing but the money we spent and the awful journey was not worth the money we will never be doing that again. Turkey is just ripping everyone off now. It’s a shame as I love turkey but don’t think we will be coming back again.

We really enjoyed this trip! We were picked up outside our hotel (however, this wasn’t smooth riding! There was bad communication between us and the driver and at one point we were unsure if they’d arrive) and then taken to the bus we were using for our journey. The journey to Pamukkale was enjoyable and we stopped for breakfast too. The Guide we had was really nice and well-informed. Whatever we didn’t know history-wise he told us in an enjoyable way. When we got to Pamukkale, we were told he history and then given a couple of hours to explore by ourselves- we had enough time to enjoy Cleopatra’s pool (water was warm and very enjoyable, the pool wasn’t too deep either- it’s definitely not something to skip) and to walk around exploring it all. Lunch was provided- it was a buffet with a vast range of foods. It was delicious. We had various stops to learn more about the culture, both on our way there and back. Overall a lovely day trip and something I would definitely recommend!

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