Planning Your Trip

Kalkan and Kaş are two of the most beautiful small towns on Turkey’s Turquoise Coast, just 30 km apart yet offering completely different holidays. Kalkan is upmarket and sophisticated, all rooftop dining and sunset views. Kaş is bohemian and lively, with something almost no other town in Turkey can offer: a ferry to Greece in

Both Antalya and Side sit on Turkey’s stunning Mediterranean coast, both have ancient ruins, warm turquoise water, and excellent all-inclusive resorts nearby. But they are very different places, and choosing between them genuinely shapes your holiday. Here is an honest, practical local’s comparison to help you pick the right base. Compare hotels in Antalya &

The Land of Legends is Turkey’s largest theme park, and it is far more than a water park with slides bolted on. Set in Belek, about 40 minutes from Antalya, it combines a proper aquapark, roller coasters, a shopping boulevard, canal boats, and one of the most spectacular free night shows in the Mediterranean. Get

Antalya is not simply a beach resort with some ruins attached. It is the ancient region of Pamphylia and Lycia, where Alexander the Great was stopped in his tracks, where Roman emperors built triumphal gates, and where a Mediterranean coastline of impossible blue meets 3,000-metre mountains. Today it welcomes more visitors than almost any city