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Kalkan Discussion => Holiday Reports and Reviews => Topic started by: deepasforever1 on July 30, 2013, 06:13:26 PM
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Rather than idle away my precious time here I thought I'd conduct some ground breaking research on the beach clubs round here. Using my fingers I've worked out i've been to 5 different ones! Today it was the turn of Mahal beach club to support me in my investigations, which were thorough and waterproof in their cutting edge methods.
In summary (i have to keep it short here as I need to go and eat out) I give Mahal 8.5 out Of 10. ;D :D will continue later!
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I love the Mahal Beach Club and particularly the traditionally made Turkish Pide for lunch. Which other clubs have you been to? I think the Palm Beach Club was our favourite this year (we didn't try it last year). I look forward to further findings on your investigations! :)
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Our local,Palm beach club has a great barbeque night on a wednesday........A great night for research......interested to see if you pop down and what you think........Personal opinion but i think its the best one !!!
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Yes, can't wait to read your in-depth report :) Keep up the good work deepasforever1!
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Yesterday was Mahal beach club, which was fab but the 2 days before we'd pottered off to Palm beach, also lovely. However, as with everything it depends on stuff ( profound thought for the day). The first day at Palm beach we arrived earlyish - 10.30 maybe - and found sun beds on the platform by the sea. For me it was perfect - as was our late breakfast in their restaurant and the ice cold homemade lemonade. The snorkelling was pretty good too - better than Mahal . My partner 's only quibble was the constant vibrations as people moved around the platform, but he's a man and therefore extra sensitive of course. He was abe to retire to the ottoman areas for a siesta to sooth his furrowed brow you'll be pleased to hear!
The next day I returned, but in the afternoon, after lunch and therefore had the last available sunbed, stuck up high in a rather earthy terrace, which wasn' so appealing, but was ok. I moved after a bit, when people started leaving, and found abeautifully positioned bed. Tse service at Palm beach was excellent, the loos were first class and the water taxi frequent and lovely. A whopping 9.5 for Palm beach I think!
I did love MAhal, but it was more expensive. 4 tl for a small water as opposed to 2.5 at Palm beach. But restaurant was v nice with amazing views at Mahal.
Time to swim now! Back with the latest undercurrents on Indigo and others later!!
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Great report - can't wait till we're there in 5 weeks! We've been to Palm Beach, Mahal and Yali and Palm Beach has always been my favourite. Their homemade lemonade is to die for, looking forward to another few glasses of that :)
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we love Palm too...totally our favourite and the only beach club we go to now, having tried them all over the years. I'm also another devotee of their home-made lemonade which is like a lemon slush puppy but sharp and thirst-quenching.
Regulars on here know I'm partial to a Mojito or two on my sunbed once my personal cocktail hour has been signalled by the external sources ;)
I can only have a frontline sunbed though...we get there really early (9.30am) so I have my pick of the beds :) and stay till around 6.30pm
Really love these reports deepasforever1, keep them coming.
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Good job we have never been to Kalkan at the same time as you K4E as I fear we would be fighting for the same beds!! I have a personal preference and then grades others in their role as substitutes should we not be quite prompt enough for the favoured beds! Definitely my favourite and who would think you could find toilets that clean at a beach?!
If we make it to Kalkan in October (disabled dog permitting) I am going to try one of those famous mojitos! :laugh:
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ha ha Babs....we do exactly the same. There's the favoured spec followed by the reserve list, but I would be happy to share the reserve list bed space with you and yours if we weren't quick enough to bag the best ones... :-* Not Barry though >:D
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Have they got another boatman for the ferry to the Mahal Beachclub? Yusuf, the guy who had been manning the boat for as long as I can remember, left last year and when we went last September they had a new chap who didn't know what he was doing and kept crashing the boat into the jetty. I nearly fell in when trying to disembark :o , almost debagging one of the Mahal chaps in the bargain :D and after that we got taxis!
Kalkanbabe
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Not sure I want your cast offs K4E >:D >:D........maybe your blingy flip flops :laugh: Barry wouldn't suit them!
I have used my favoured bed as my 'calm space' whilst undergoing dental treatment before now!
Phew....that got me off 666 posts!!
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Kalkanbabe not only is it a new boatman for the Mahal water taxi, it looks like a new boat too :)
Oh Babs, I meant I wouldn't mind being next to you on the long frontline beds if we both missed out on our favourite spec. Thats the problem with that long line.....you never know who you are going to be next to. We did spend one visit next to a man in very skimpy gold trunks one year-not a young man I hasten to add - and it was like having my own personal sun reflector :o 8) thankfully he left before cocktail hour or I may have been too distracted to watch the boats coming back.
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Is a deal then K4E........next year we'll coordinate and camp out on the front row.....towels at dawn! :laugh:
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I'm loving this!!! After 6 visits to Kalkan, I'm ashamed to say that we've never visited a beach club :o I hope that this year will be different so I await tomorrow's instalment with bated breath!!! Thank you for your investigative journalism deepasforever!!!
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Our local,Palm beach club has a great barbeque night on a wednesday........A great night for research......interested to see if you pop down and what you think........Personal opinion but i think its the best one !!!
. What a shame, I missed this. I'll have try it another time - however we are off there again this am!
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oh deepasforever.....how I envy you....despite the fact that it is going to be over 30 degrees here in Kent today what wouldn't I give to be pegged out on one of the beds at Palm Beach rather than hunched over a computer doing the most tedious task that I have ever had to do in my long career!! :( :(
we went to a bbq at Palm Beach a few years ago and had a brilliant time.....lovely food, good company and a great mix of traditional and modern music so everyone was up dancing.....last year we went again expecting a repeat.....again the food was gorgeous, view exceptional etc etc......but the music was loud dance music (club style) even the 4 twenty odd year olds we had with us felt it was all wrong so we left quite early. Maybe it was just a one off.....I hope and imagine so.
can't believe I've just written something negative about Palm Beach.....one of my favourite places ever and certainly somewhere that I dream about when I need to chill out!! ::)
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Back to work- more blue sky thinking about the issues affecting me in Kalkan, like what to wear... Back to beachclubs first.
I've visited Indigo a couple of times since I've been here. I like to swan down there mid/ late afternoon- preferably in time for free Turkish tea and cake. It's a very chilled place and I love it as it starts to empty out whilst the sun loses some of it's fierceness. The lemonade is possibly my favourite too. They do a half day rate on sunbeds which I feel justifies a shortish visit. I think it was 5 tl.
I did notice there as a sign charging for the loos, but I assume that's for people wandering round the harbour.
It's a good spot for watersports and has a raft, but no trampoline, a chillout area, bar and restaurant. Good music too! Can't remember exactly what, but I' sure there was some Bob Marley in there...mmm. It's not bad for a bit of snorkeling either, although like all the clubs the area of sea is quite limited. It doesn't feel safe to break out of the swimming areas because there's so much going on with boats and watersports. (That applies to Palm beach and Mahal too).
Anyway, thanks for all the nice comments! Kalamar bay beckons and I must respond!
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Forgot to give my all important raing ;D
I think 8.9999
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Carry on the good work Deepasforeve1 :)
Jetting off in 7 days so am gathering all your findings and will debrief the family once your mission is complete :)
Palm Beach will be our 'local' so really excited to hear that it seems to be a favourite with a lot of members.
Will be interested to hear about Kalamar as from a lot of posts on here, it seems to be popular with families/teenagers. My two are 15 and 19 so I await your report.
Are we talking about 10tl per bed in most beach clubs?
Thanks. Enjoy!
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Oh dear, like Lizilu, in all my trips to Kalkan, I have never been to a beach club :o :o :o Call me a spoiled brat (please do not), have always been at the villa, in the pool, or extracting sand from unmentionable parts after a visit to Patara :o :o :o. Next visit, on the list, a beach club, promise ;) ;) ;)
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Lizilu and Maryjane you really have to try the beach clubs. The attraction for us is that you get to swim in the beautiful clear sea, in my mind so much nicer than a pool, and you usually get a breeze and also (big plus for me) no sand related issues! ::) ::)
Don't forget there is also the town beach.....the beds give me serious 'bum ache', plan to take small blow up cushion next time.....but its cheap, close to lovely bars and restaurants and once again you get that gorgeous clear sea......just don't forget your beach shoes for getting in and out of the sea or you will be the day's entertainment! :laugh: :laugh:
Obviously I'm a bit of a fan of the sea in Kalkan......so much so that if we get to go on our planned trip in October we will be staying b+b where our pool will be the town beach!
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we are off to Kalkan next thursday ;D ;D
i was wandering what you had to do to get to these beach clubs do you have to go down to the harbour and catch a boat? do you have to pay? are they child friendly?
sorry for all the questions
tessa
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Yes, the boats all leave from the harbour at regular intervals. No charge for the boat. Some of the beach clubs are better geared up for children than others - Kalkan Beach Club has a water slide.
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Thanks for that it sounds ideal for my son
we will definitely try it
Tess
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Never been to Kalkan Beach Park but Kalamar is brilliant for teenagers, trampoline, free kayaks and free pedaloes and generally lots of other families with children and teenagers.....it was my daughter's favourite when they were that age. You can get a taxi there and the beach club will pay and then arrange for you to be picked up. Palm Beach is good too, our favourite now....brilliant friendly staff who are usually up for a game of table tennis. You can get boats from the harbour for Palm, Kalkan Beach and Mahal......Mahal is definitely not good for kids or teenagers....in fact its so quiet I get a bit bored.....but I have never seen a loo with a better view! :laugh: :laugh:
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Thanks Babs i will deffo try kalkan beach sounds ideal for my son who has autism and learning difficulties.
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Can't believe we've been back for nearly a month and I still haven't completed this important research... Several times, just after we returned to the Uk I woke up thinking I was on a sun bed, just a short splash away from that beautiful blue sea, hmmmm
Anyway, here are my findings on the Kalamar bay beach clubs - if you find them a little shallow then please feel free to contribute to my fund for continued more in-depth research ;D ;D
This year we came without kids for the first time and for us it made sense to visit the Kulube hotel beach club, rather than the bigger, more child orientated Kalamar beach club next door. Kulube is free - but you pay to get there. There is sadly no water taxi service to Kalamar bay but Kalamar beach club provides a free road taxi service. Not sure how it works though. ( yes, shoddy research here, I can hear all the tutting over the ether...)
I love the Kulube club. It' small and set in a tiny cove. The snorkeling is better than Kalkan bay and it's nice and quiet. There is a a beach restaurant with reasonable food and good lemonade - although I felt the food wasn't quite as good as previous years. Really, it' a great option if you're staying out Kalamar way. Otherwise you do have to pay to get there... Oh someone said you could walk :o (not in August!!!)
Hey ho, it was great recalling that. Now it's back to a rainy reality here in Brighton.