Turkey. To Bodrum with children

This article will be extremely useful for parents who plan to travel to a Turkish resort with children, especially small ones. If your choice fell on Bodrum, take your time, but carefully consider the choice of a particular hotel. The reason is simple – any resort trip may show “pitfalls” that you did not foresee in advance. Regarding Bodrum, we will focus on such “pitfalls”.

“Underwater stone” number 1

Bodrum, as the resort's ad says, is life throbbing 24 hours a day. It pulsates especially brightly, loudly and lively at night: laughter, deafening music and fun do not stop until the morning, while children need peace and quiet for a serene sleep. Moreover, the festive action often takes place not only on the territory of the hotel near the pool, but also rapidly continues in the surrounding areas. The end of the festivities is usually prolonged fireworks, accompanied by loud shouts. All holiday offers can be found by visiting the best catalog in Turkey.

For youth recreation, such a resort routine is just the ultimate dream: club parties and discos, turning into noisy festivities until the morning, then a deep sleep until lunchtime, then a smooth exit to the beach and … all over again, and so all seven days. But young and middle-aged children are unlikely to benefit from such a vacation.

Therefore, the main task of parents, before ordering trips to Turkey at a travel agency or booking a hotel on their own, is a careful study of the entire hotel list and the obligatory reading of the reviews of those families who have already rested with children in a particular hotel.

The best option, undoubtedly, would be a hotel, which is comfortably located in a fairly quiet and peaceful place, and does not have walking areas next to it with numerous cafes, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and discos.

“Underwater stone” number 2

As you know, in resort areas, not all hotels are located on the first line and have their own beach. Bodrum is no exception.

Moreover, this region of Turkey is distinguished by its peculiar features of the coastal relief. Not all beaches have a pebble or sandy coastline with umbrellas and sun loungers, which smoothly goes into the sea.

In Bodrum, there are many quite extreme beaches, which are concrete piers on stilts. On both sides of the pier there are stairs, going down which you get immediately to a considerable depth.

For divers it is just a paradise, for people who know how to swim well it is not a problem either, but for vacationers with children such a swimming area is not provided. Moreover, in most of these bathing areas, there is a warning sign in different languages ​​stating that children are not allowed to enter.

Therefore, when ordering a tour, be sure to check with the tour operator to the smallest details what the bathing zone in the hotel you have chosen is, what is the coastal relief in the area and whether children are allowed to swim not only in the pool, but also in the sea.

And do not forget to read the reviews of experienced tourists – there you will find out the most truthful information.

But you shouldn't despair right away. If you want to spend your family vacation in Bodrum, then you can find a way out of this situation. You will need to do a detailed monitoring of all Bodrum hotels, focusing on the task of avoiding three main negative factors for children – a beach not intended for children, a wind-blown territory, the hotel's location in mountainous terrain.

The last factor – the location of the hotel on a steep mountain – will overshadow the rest of not only children, but also adults. Walking 500 meters down in the morning is still bearable, but to climb closer to noon under the scorching rays of the sun upwards is already a test for a relaxed body with rest and bathing.

But here, too, there is good news – a number of hotels built in mountainous terrain are equipped with special elevators that bring vacationers straight to the beach and, accordingly, bring them back to dinner.

Pay attention to this and rely on such a hotel, then your vacation with children will be comfortable and carefree!

As for such an unpleasant climatic phenomenon as the wind, even this can be avoided on vacation if you choose wisely a hotel that will not stand “on the seven winds” and darken your vacation with constant waves at sea.

Open the coastal map of the Bodrum region, explore the coastline and note that the relief will delight you with numerous small coves that cut the coastline. But on the map they are small, but in fact – these are beaches that are quite suitable for children's recreation with good entry into the sea, calm sea and territory protected by cliffs from the winds.

We wish you a pleasant family holiday in Bodrum! We hope that, guided by our advice and feedback from experienced tourists, you will make the right choice of a hotel and relax in comfort for yourself and your children!