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Kucuk Ev
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January 13, 2010 - 4:00 am
Arrived at night and was shown to my cottage by Sandy and Jon’s manager, Gonul, which was very helpful. The next morning I awoke to explore Kucuk Ev and found it was clean and very well equipped. The wood burning stoves were excellent, because our visit was in December and they were needed on the odd occasion to warm up next to !
Car hire is essential to explore the many historic sites and landmarks dotted around the area and very useful for trips into Fethiye. The bbq was a brilliant feature of the cottage and we used the outside seats many times to relax after a hard day’s holidaying ! The local restaurants are a must see and the people running them were very friendly and the prices affordable. A nice memory of the valley and area in general are the many stalls you see on the road side, where you can stop off and pick up fresh fruit and veg ; not only did it taste better but it was also much cheaper than Carrefour !! (mind the potatoes though – they are a bit squashy !)
A very enjoyable stay and we will be returning in the summer to experience Turkey in the heat !!
May 20, 2010 - 3:03 pm
Kucuk Ev is delightful, well equiped, cosy and with beautiful views around the valley. Fethiye is a lovely town, do try a Turkish bath at the old Hammam, Oludeniz very touristy. The drive to Fethiye from the house is lovely on the mountain road. If you like history there is a lovely walk to the site of a monastery and there are plenty of Roman ruins, plus Kaya Koy just in the village. The people are really nice and helpful, fruit and salads to die for. Tuesday is the weekly market in Fethiye and
there is a good bus service. There are little shops to walk to if you do not have a car but if you really want to see the area you would need one unless you are very good walkers. The beach at Gemiler Bay is nice, but there is a nice little cove to walk to next to it which is usually quieter. You seem to have to pay to park at the beaches. We enjoyed eating at the house and taking advantage of the bbq but there are basic restaurants in the village. Alcohol and petrol are dearer than in the UK, best to ask in a restaurant the price of the bottle of wine before you decide to buy. No noise from telephones, planes, emergency vehicles, electric machines, TV’s, etc. just lovely peace.
June 13, 2010 - 10:03 am
We just got back from 12 days at Kucuk Evi, that we absolutely loved. The cottage is lovely and much bigger than what it looks like in the pictures on the Sakli Vadi website. The interior is simply gorgeous and tastefully decorated. At every corner there is something to admire. We got to the valley without any hiccups thanks to the very precise and helpful instructions Jon and Sandy sent to us. After a journey started at very unsociable hours (our flight departed at 04:40!) we were especially grateful for a basket full of gorgeous Turkish fruit, veggies, wine and bread that was waiting for us in the kitchen.
When we got to the cottage we also found out that a plunge pool had been built in the course of the winter, which really rounded everything up.
Through a set of stone steps from the garden, it is possible to access the flat roof of the cottage from which we could see the whole Kaya Valley, the Ghost Town of Kaya Koy and the Baba Dag mountain, rising to nearly 2000 metres.
We spent most of our evenings in the patio on the cushioned benches next to the Turkish fireplace reading, chatting and listening to the wonderful sounds of the valley and of its animals. We often used the barbeque grid to cook the wonderful lamb and chicken you can buy in Turkey.
The bedroom was also very nice, air-conditioned (which is nice given the temperatures) and we even had a second en-suite bathroom.
Fethiye is the biggest nearby town where we found everything we needed. On Tuesdays there is a large market where you can buy fresh products. We also shopped for supplies at Hisaranou which is extremely touristy but has a good selection of supermarkets where we could get some souvenirs at competitive prices without any hassle or tiresome bargaining. We found quite a few upmarket restaurants a couple of kilometres down the road close to the ruins in Kaya Koy. The closest beach is Gemiler Bay, where you can perform quite a few water sports. As it was quiet that we were after, though, we found lovely, almost deserted beaches, mostly used by Turks – where you do not have to pay to park your car – on the peninsula around Fethiye passed the Letoonia resort.
We will definitely go back!
July 6, 2010 - 11:47 am
10th – 24th June 2010
Had a wonderful fortnight in Kucuk Evi. Really loved this spacious cottage, which lacked for nothing, even had some good books. Manager, Gonul, was very polite and attentive, nothing was too much trouble. Plunge pool was absolutely delightful, and a god send when temp rose to 45 deg! Local beach a trifle disappointing for us as we like to snorkle and it was just too busy with speed boats and jet skis. Bob enjoyed microlight trip (birthday treat) as well as paragliding and Helena had a blissful Turkish bath and oil massage. Local restaurant in Kinali was so good we didn’t bother to barbeque ourselves and the family were all delightful and so friendly. We hope the valley remains quiet and peaceful with only the sounds of nature all around.
July 22, 2010 - 1:45 pm
It was a great holiday and we would have loved another week. The cottage was charming and perfect for a family of four, none of us particularly small!
Quite honestly, it was nice just to be around the cottage, lounge, relax and jump into the plunge pool. But natural curiosity took us to Fethiye and the various local beaches. Gemiler Bay swimming would have been very pleasant had it not been for rather mucky water but it was nice to eat out there. We loved Oludeniz, even though you can’t get a free swim there! Hisaronu was a serious shock to the sensitive middle class British/Slovene system, but World Footer Cup matches drew us there perforce and we actually quite came to like it in a perverse sort of way!
Gonul and Nevin the housekeeping looked after us well. We enjoyed some of the restaurants you marked up for us, but I think our evening BBQ at Kucuk Evi was our favourite part of the day, followed by a game of Scrabble (in Turkish, of course).
You have a gem of a cottage in a gorgeous location. We hope to return.