Nov 7, 2024
Green canyon tour with family - Beautiful nature and place. wonderful views and mountains. our family was very satisfied with everything, we highly recommend visiting this place.
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Nov 7, 2024
Great experience - We really enjoyed our trip.
We stopped for two swimming breaks and had lunch together in a restaurant.
The landscape was beautiful and the staff was nice.
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Oct 21, 2024
Green canyon excursion from side - Relaxing boat trip at the Green Canyon. Stop offs for swimming and fishing which was lovely. Nice buffet selection.
Good communication via whats up with tour organiser Eric. When coach was running late in the morning Eric called them for us and gave us an update.
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Nov 10, 2024
A great day out in Green Canyon - The whole trip was enjoyable.
Coach from hotel to the Green Canyon, then a boat trip along one of the canyons followed by a 40 minute swimming/fishing stop off on a floating platform.
The water is very cold!
Then to the restaurant for chicken/meat ball/fish salad. Good selection of salad. Soft drinks. Everything included in tour price.
Then back on the boat for another short ride up another canyon followed by a 30 minute swim/fishing stop.
Then coach back to hotel.
The whole day was about 7 hours.
Just under 5 hours was spent up at the lake.
Interesting geological features around the canyons and the bluey green water is colourful.
The lake is formed by a large dam.
The crew on the boat were friendly and good humoured.
We were given a few basic bits of information about the geology and the rocks but were told nothing at all about the dam so I had to Google it when I got back to the hotel.
The dam was planned by the Russian and built in 1984. It provides drinking water to the population along the coast and also generates hydro--electricity.
The only downside was the steps up to the restaurant from the boat. I don't remember seeing that in the information when booking.
It was a very challenging climb made worse by the fact that in November the lake is at it's lowest level. I'd estimate that it was equal to climbing about 8 floors in a hotel.
The steps were a little uneven too but OK.
Having said that, I would definitely recommend the trip.
It cost £78.76 for 2 of us (£39.38 each).
Enjoy! ☀️
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Nov 8, 2024
Worth visiting - Beautiful nature! Worth visiting! Services on boats were okay, stops for swimmimg long enough and the lunch was also really good!
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Oct 27, 2024
a lot of wind - It was very windy and the boat was open without any shelter from the wind, difficult to climb all the stairs up to lunch service
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Oct 28, 2024
Avoid - This excursion was unfortunately a disappointment. We booked the trip through whatsapp, which was easy enough, also I did find it a bit odd when I was asked for a deposit despite the website saying so pre-payment was required.
We were picked up from our hotel at 8:30 and drove all around the Manavgat area, picking up other guests from their hotels. The driver was constantly on his phone and smoking while driving up treacherous mountain roads and seemingly took random detours in order to make the drive to the canyon last as long as possible, meaning the drive, including a random stop at a service station for no reason at all, took around 3 hours rather than the advertised 45 minutes.
Once we arrived at the canyon there was no organisation at all. We were all herded onto the same boat like cattle after waiting in line for around half an hour, even though there was another boat available. Due to this overcrowding, the boat was noisy, rowdy and unpleasant. We were promised English speaking guides on the tour, and even though these were provided, as the majority of the other passengers were German and Russian, these announcements were just spoken over.
The scenery aboard the boat was the only upside of this excursion. The canyon is properly beautiful and worth seeing.
The photography aboard the boat was a bit odd too. A man with a camera went round the boat and essentially forced us to have photos taken despite the fact we said no multiple times.
As the excursion states, there are unlimited soft drinks, but unless you want warm, budget soft drinks in tiny cardboard cups, its essentially pointless.
We were only in the canyon for around 2 hours before sailing over to a tiny pier to swim. although with the water only being 16 degrees we chose not to.
We were then taken back to the harbour and were taken on the bus to the "restaurant" for lunch. This was the worst restaurant I have ever been to. We were asked whether we wanted chicken or fish at the random service station stop at 9:30am, and I'm pretty sure that was when the food was cooked, as it was inedible by the afternoon. The chicken was raw, slimy and cold, the pasta tasted as if it had been left in the sun for hours, the salad was swimming in greyish brown water and everything was coated in flies. The only upsides were the views and the cats.
We were also promised the ability to fish and canoe at this restaurant but that never happened. While fishing rods were available, the didn't actually work and there were no canoes about, just one rusty pedalo that looked like a first world war relic.
After this "experience", we were taken back to our hotel after another ridiculously long and drawn out journey.
I definitely wont be booking here again anytime soon, especially for 30 euros each.
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Nov 26, 2024
Very bad tour company - I'm very dissatisfied. The tour was very bad, I do not recommend this company. Because always late and threatening. So friends, it is better not to brother tour from this person
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Nov 19, 2024
They're the mob!!! - Terrible treatment of customers!!! HAMSKY!!! service and the tour itself sucked! we saw the audacity of the staff and a lot of rude words received from the PAYLESS office, I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS EXURSION!!!
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Nov 11, 2024
I do not recommend visiting this excursion!!! - I do not recommend visiting this excursion!!! The people who work for the Paylles company are rude and are not even able to organize a transfer from the hotel!!! I do not advise you to waste your money and nerves
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