Received an email from Booking.com yesterday. It was in response to my price match enquiry with the Jiva Beach Hotel I booked through Booking.com
As a couple who's travel is limited by budget not available time, but who also really enjoy our little bit of luxury (well what we deem luxury) we really try to scrape very little saving we can within reason for our travel $$.
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The refund of AUD 322.61 / EUR 208.12 for your reservation 1777888500 at Jiva Beach Resort - All Inclusive is confirmed.
Within 3 days you'll receive a separate email from
[email protected] with a secure link. This link will take you to a Booking.com page, where you can enter your Visa or MasterCard details directly into our secure system. After entering your credit card details, the refund will be credited to your account within 5 business days. "
This brought the total cost of our 5 nights at the hotel down to just over EUR 400 which for a great hotel with 24 hour food and drinks is up there with our best holiday value ever.
OK on with the report.
Jiva Beach hotel is situated in Calis Beach. It is surrounded by other apartment type hotels but also with a lot of smaller hotels, beach bars and restaurants etc than line the beach front and the surrounding streets for a few klms towards the main area of Calis Town. Most over the area is still quite underdeveloped and has a very relaxed atmosphere along with value pricing of food and drinks etc.
The Calis Beach promenade. About a 30 minute stroll into the centre of Calis town.
Beach is lined with small hotels, bars and places to eat. All reasonably priced.
Local hotel in Calis.
Calis markets. Mostly knock off stuff with a good collection of food and vegies/fruit/nuts etc.
From Calis you can catch a water taxi into the larger town of Fethiye. Water taxi is 7 Turkish Lira which is about $2. There are also the local Dolmus (small mini buses) that run every 5 to 10 minutes and cost 2 Lira. Great way to get around and met quite a few British people who stay regularly or even live in the area on the Dolmus who gave us some great advice on what to see and do.
We specifically went to Fethiye on our first day at Jiva Beach as we needed to organise our ferry to Rhodes for the next leg of our trip.
Calis to Fethiye water taxi rank.
Fethiye is built around the harbour. A lot of sailing and motor yachts mostly involved in the tourist industry with day trips to the surrounding area.
Streets of Fethiye which we walked also have a lot of hotels, bars, restaurants along with plenty of shopping (Mrs woodyren said it was OK) while I had a few local ales.
Fethiye area close to the port/marina area.
Walked around Fethiye for a few hours and then caught the Dolmus back to our hotel.
TBC