"A simple-chic resort with plain rooms in a resort that's Turkey's answer to St Tropez"
The Bodrum Peninsula of Turkey, on the Aegean in the south-west of the country, on the Greek sea border; rapidly becoming Turkey's chic St tropez-style destination.
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"A simple-chic resort with plain rooms in a resort that's Turkey's answer to St Tropez"
From EUR 650
per room per night
"Super-contemporary, blinding white designer hillside hotel, in St-Trop-esque Turkbuku"
From EUR 250.00
per room per night
"Contemporary style that still manages to feel resoundingly Turkish, with luxurious marble bathrooms, gorgeous gardens and private terraces"
"Modern recreation of a small, luxurious and exotic Ottoman palace in a village outside Bodrum"
From EUR 275.00
per room per night
Hand in Hand with History: Classical Bodrum | Rose Baring | Turkey, Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula), Bodrum
Water bubbles from the very same springs that gave rise to the ancient settlements and the air seems as pure as it was when Homer breathed it. In spring wild flowers of all sorts
Bodrum | Barnaby Rogerson | Turkey, Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula), Bodrum
Right beside the hotel pool stands a ruined temple converted into a Byzantine church.
Paradise (or the Worst Kind of Hell) | Annabel Simms | Turkey, Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula), Bodrum
I have recently crewed on three yachts. Each offered, respectively, variations on Purgatorio, Paradiso and Inferno, hell, of course, being other people
Bodrum Bound | Solange Hando | Turkey, Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula), Bodrum
Remember Cleopatra? Her beauty and eternal youth? At Pamukkale you can bathe in the very pool where the Queen of Egypt discovered the secret of the legendary thermal waters
Turkish Gulet | Jeremy Seal | Turkey, Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula), Bodrum
It was like being in a floating villa, but a fully-staffed and blissfully breeze-cooled one, complete with the scent of wild thyme and pine off the mountains
The Land of Light | Solange Hando | Turkey, Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula), Fethiye
Fethiye is a real Turkish city with minarets bristling above the palm trees and a colourful bazaar where water pipes bubble in the lanes and under the vine-trellises, ceramics and ‘blue eye’ charms mingle with carpets and table cloths, ‘sweat free’ cotton shirts, leather bags, belly dancers outfits, spices and apple tea