Airport Bus :Havas Services 0252 523 00 40 Havas
has bus service from the Bodrum Milas airport to the
Bodrum Main Bus terminal and from centrally located bus
terminal to the airport. The drive which covers 30
kilometres distance in nearly 40 minutes costs 13.5 YTL.
The buses make stops at International Airport.
Departures from bus terminal in the town are arranged
two hours before the departure of THY flights. As to
departures from the airport, those busses depart after
the arrival of THY flights. Taxis Taxies in Bodrum
peninsula is rather expensive comparing to taxi fares in
the big towns where you have different taxi fares. The
fee from the airport to the city is nearly 80 YTL. Here
is the telephone numbers of the major taxi stations in
Bodrum.
CAR
RENTALS :There are may car rental companies in
Bodrum. some of them rent also motorcycles and bicycles.
Check the contract and insurance policies before you
rent a car. Taxi stops Minibuses Minibuses staring form
the main bus terminal provide transportation from the
bus terminal to the center or bus terminal of almost
every single town and village on the bodrum peninsula.
These very reasonably priced privately run minibuses
depart only when they are full. They run very
efficiently till late hours of the day. One can stop
these minibuses anywhere on the main roads.
DRIVING IN BODRUM Bodrum is a peaceful place to
drive in winter months. But arrival of construction
season makes the roads quite interesting. The trucks
carrying construction material, cement vehicles and
vehicles of the companies connected with construction
business make the roads quite dangerous. during the
summer months, roads are filled with holiday makers.
Beware of those driving drunk or novice drivers driving
in holiday sprit. The road at Bodrum peninsula are
narrow and have only one lane. Many roads have hair pin
bends in this mountainous region. Do not exceed 70 kms
per hour. Do not drive drunk and try to protect you from
some drunk drivers.
SHOPPING IN BODRUM Shopping is really wonderful in
Bodrum. Incredible choice of shops everywhere. First of
all do not miss the local open markets where you can
find anything you can think of : fresh fruits and
vegetables, textile products, flowers, birds and etc.
Merchants offer very attractive prices for their
products. If you miss one of them, there will be same
thing in the following day in the next town.You can
taste the fruits, nuts before you buy them.
Monday
Turkbuku Open market
Tuesday
Bodrum Fabric Bazaar and Golkoy
Wednesday Gumusuk and Gundogan
Thursday Yalikavak
Friday
Bodrum Food Bazar
Saturday Turgut Reis
For
Carpets Few carpets shops have attractive carpets and
kilims with reasonable prices. Sayin Burku Carpets at
Neyzen Teyfik Avenue sells old rug and kilims and
contemporary rugs and kilim made with the natural root
dyes. Sayin Burku, the young owner of the company gained
great reputation by weaving oversize Turkish rugs
following the traditional designs of classical rugs and
kilims. Galeri Mustafa Rug Shop on the Dr.Alim Avenue
offers a great choise for fine rugs and kilims.
Jewellery Those looking for fine Turkish jewellery in
Bodrum has a choise at the Kale Caddesi and Ataturk
Avenue. You can also check the prices of big centers
such as Golden Caria, Diamond Center etc.
Leather
Many wellknown Leather Companies such as Kircilar and
Naturel has shops in Bodrum. Marina Shopping Center
Turgut Reis Marina Shopping center Yalikavak Marina
Shopping Center
TIPPING
Restaurants At the fine restaurants tipping and VAT are
often included. So check the bill. If it is not included
%10 is the proper percentage for tipping. You can of
course tip more if you are extremely happy with the
service. Taxis you do not tip the taxi drivers unless he
helps you with your luggage. Hotels You tip the porters
at the hotels.
MONEY MATTERS CURRENCY
Turkish
Currency is Lira. After suffering very high inflation
rate, as part of economical measures 6 zeros were thrown
from the Turkish currency an now New Turkish lira is
used. Smallest unit at the NTL iskurus. 1 lira is 100
kurus there are 5 kurus 10 kurus 25 kurus 50 kurus 1
lira 1lira banknote 10 YTL 20 YTL 50 YTL 100 YTL For the
time being 1 dollar equal to 1.46 YTL In Turkey, shops
accept all kind of foreign currencies and credit cards.
If you like to have some Turkish lira. You can change it
at the Doviz Burosu or at the banks.
VOLTAGE
The voltage is 220 Volts and visitors from USA need
conventors.
DRUGS
The use or sale or trade of al kind of drugs are
strictly prohibited in Turkey and heavily punished. So
try to stay away from those.
Antiquities
Turkey
has strick rule for antiquities. You are not allowed to
take antiquities out of the country. Especially
antiquities coming from the soil belong to state.
Visitors to Turkey should stay away buying old coins
artefacts in the ancient sites because of two reasons:
1.Because of strict rules about antiquities 2. Most of
the artifacts sold illegally are fake antiquities anyway.
PHONING IN TURKEY
Dialling international you should put 00 Dialling inter
cities 0 Code for Turkey 90 Each city in Turkey has 3
digit code number code for Bodrum is 252
ENTERTAINING AND FUN IN BODRUM
Bodrum is also famous for
its night life. you can have fun according to your taste
and budget. Here are some advises for you :
Dance on the water:
Bodrum has the first and
largest open air Catamaran Disco in the world. Enjoy the
music and dance on this Catamaran boat which ups its
anchor 01:00 a.m and sail out to Aegean Sea. The boat
return the harbour at 04.30 a.m. In between there are
boat services between the Catamaran boat and the shore.
Tel 252 313 36 00
Halikarnas Disco
One of the oldest
institutions in Bodrum. Nearly last 25 years, it has
been one of the major entertaining spots in Bodrum. It
is frequenly visited by the famous figures of the world.
0252 316 80 00
Dedeman Aqua Park
Located at Ortakent (
Facing to Metro Hypermarket) This is Bodrum's first and
Turkey's largest aqua Park. It has 24 slides, pools and
Jacuzzis.
Camel Tours
If one of your dreams to
have a ride on camel, go to Ortakent Yahsi Beach. You
can get there by daily boat trips or by minibus going to
Ortakent even to yahsi where you have great choise for
camel ride. Water To be on the safe side, Drink always
bottled water in Turkey. bottled water is sold
everywhere and reasonably prised. The word for water is
" SU"
HORSE RIDING
You can enjoy the Bodrum
Peninsula's varied geography on horseback. You will have
wonderful views of the Bodrum region. You can have
introductory Lessons for horse riding. Riding through
the countryside is beautiful.
Country Ranch
Farilya Riding
Yahsi Riding
Shopping in Bodrum
Bodrum offers endless possibilities for shopping. In
addition to Bodrum, the Bodrum peninsula has many good
shopping possibilities. Town Center Kale Caddesi Looking
for Jewellery check the shops at Kale Caddesi near the
town square. There are also few leather shops down there.
Cercim former CerciAn interesting shop for jewellery.
Cercim is now an old institution who design very
attractive jewellery using semi precious stoned and
silver. Also attractive Evil Eye and good luck Symbols
can be bought there. Dr.Alim Caddesi The street named
after famous doctor has several fine shops selling
jewellery, carpets and Turkish tiles. Cumhuriyet Caddesi
All kind of souvenir, jewellery, custom jewellery and
leather shops are lined along this street which realy
gets so narrow sometimes.
Bodrum Sandals
We
can mention the shop of Ali Guven, who was the pioneer
of the hand made sandal making in Bodrum. More choise
for Bodrum sandals are be found on the Cumhuriyet
Caddesi such as Sur Sandalet, Taban and Bodrum Sandalet.
The Dalyanci, famous ceramic artist and painter has
several shops in Bodrum. You can buy there fine glass
and ceramics with the "fish design", a trade mark for
Dalyanci. It is a good place to choise souvenirs from
Bodrum and gifts for friends. Vivaldi, fine shop with
Turkish Tiles and Seramics;
Hizma,
an authentic shop for unusual souvenirs mainly
originating from Asia. Hizma has great variety of goods.
Its collection needs to be discovered. One can find
silver, copper ceramics and wood objects, pareos,
sculptures, fashion dresses and blouses.
Arte
Bodrum, for painting by local Turkish artist. ........
for high quality fabrics and souvenirs. Pastries, pies
cakes
Facing
to Dalyanci, there is Yunuslar Karadeniz Pasry Shop
where you could buy sweet and salty pastries, pies,
sandwiches and different sorts of Breads.
Neyzen Teyfik Caddesi
This
Street has many fine restaurants, cafe houses and some
selected shops. one of them is Sayin Buku Carpets Shop.
Sayin Burku has a good collection of all kilims and
carpets. But his real fame comes from the oversize
carpets he produced for the great figures of the Arabic
World and famous artist and well known people of Europe
and rugs and kilims with natural dyes. Marina Shopping
Center
Marina has many fine shops for clothes, shoes, parfumes
and jewellery. Some of the local and international name
brand fashionable shops are situated there.
EC
Diamond Fine jewellery shop offers wide selection of old
Jewellery, beautifully designed new jewellery and nice
selection of Gurhan, fumes Turkish jewellery designer
living in USA.
gima
There is also a super market for boat owners or people
planning to have blue voyage in the region.
Cumhuriyet Caddesi
Ataturk
Caddesi
Cevat
Sakir Caddesi
Oasis
Oasis shopping center has great number of fine shops or
clthes, shoes, furniture, light equipment, jewellery,
custom jewellery, Real estate companies. One of the
biggest Jewellery companies, Caria Gold Center is
located inn Oaisis.
Turgut Reis Do not miss the Open Market Day on Saturday.
Town has got fine shops on the main Bazaar area and
Turgut Reis Marina area.
Yalikavak
Yalikavak has nice shops for all kind of souvenirs,
jewellery and fabrics. Marina has also very attractive
shops for clothes, shoes.
Boat Trips in Bodrum
If you do not have time to
enjoy a gulet for few days, try one of the daily boat
trip in Bodrum. This one day journey will give you an
idea about the Blue Voyage, world famous boat trips to
unspoiled south western coastline Turkey. Initiated by
great intellectuals such as Fishermen of Halicarnasus,
Azra Erhat and Selahattin Eyupoglu, The blue voyage
became a well accepted way of daily trips. Daily Boat
Trips are organised by the Deniz Tasiyici Corporation (
Bodrum Sea Carriers Organisation). Many charter
companies doing these daily trips have stands on the
main square and along the coastline. You can rent boats
for few hours, daily bases or longer periods of time.
You can also join one of the daily tours following a set
program. If you are planning to dive and join one the
diving tours, organised by some companies. The cost of
renting a boat might be changed according to size of the
boat, the season you rent the boat and the program you
choose.
Daily Boat trips start
10:00 a.m. and end 05:00 pm. Price of the trip includes
a lunch. But it doesn't include the extra drinks.
Normally a modest lunch is served. Main course is mainly
meatballs or fish, accompanied by spaghetti or salade or
rice. Do not expect a gourmet meal.
Warning: In the high season,
these boats might be crowded and noisy because of the
loud music played on the boat. Since the sun is very
strong in Bodrum Region, bring a lot of suntan lotion, a
towel and additional swimming suits. Boat trips are
arranged from every town on Bodrum Peninsula.
