Recommendations around Fethiye?

[neil1967]

I'm off for a weeks sailing on Friday with my wife, starting/returning from/to Fethyie, Turkey. Any particular recommendations of places to visit/avoid or routes to follow - I prefer tranquility rather than hussle and bustle! We have sailed out of Bodrum a few times and love the area, but this will be our first trip out of Fethiye.

 

[Marsupial]

I have a house is fethiye, but I am not there at the moment, but its a great area for sailing.

For a week you need not leave Scapia limani except to empty tanks, there are plenty of places to visit for lunch or tie up to a tree overnight: 20 fathom cove (beware of goats eating your mooring lines), cappi creek (the bread and honey is to die for), sansarla (Piddi, Kofta and beer/wine/tea served on board if you desire), cleopatras mud bath (no facilities just mud) - and not forgetting Fethiye its self - there is a super market near the town quay for vitals, moving away from the seafront the food gets better and is MUCH cheaper - if your into fish ask directions to the fish market (5 min walk) from the quay. A little further afield is Olu Deniz - well worth a night on the hook, theres a fish resturant on the way (the name escapes me but the approach is important - ask about the reef - its not on some charts). And not forgetting Goeck - the problem I had was we fell in love with the place and sold up in the UK! (SunSail has lot to answer for) By the sound of it you wont like Marmaris - too noisey and Eckechek (I think its spelt something like that) is great but expensive. The beer is EFES and insist on TURKISH pizza and you wont be dissapointed - you will be offered Itallian or at least their version of it.

The wind blows old socks every afternoon around 4 ish from the west if memory serves - then it stops for the night.

Take a nationwide debit card or change money up in a bank when you get there, these little places I have mentioned dont do plastic but do accept euros or pounds (at a lousy rate).

ENJOY

 

[neil1967]

Yes we love Turkey too - we ended up buying a Jeaneau 36i to keep there, but as we still have to work she will be chartered out much of the time (hopefully!) We will probably keep her in Fethiye for 2-3 years and then move her back to Bodrum.

Thanks for the advice.

Regards

 

[MASH]

Sadly my experience with Fethiye area is that it is noisy and overcrowded, especially with gulets (noisy generators, disco music and sewage) jetskis and speedboats from the big motor boats (and I mean BIG). Being woken every morning by speedboat din and wash at 0530 as the crew zoom off to get fresh bread is v irritating. The water can be filthy with effluent from the gulets and day trip boats.

Agreed the spots mentioned above are idyllic in quiet conditions, but many are crowded from early June onwards, privacy is scarce, esp with so many Germans about who seem to delight in anchoring 3m away from you...

Turkish food and hospitality is second to none, Efes beer is good. You'll find quieter conditions to the North, (Marmaris Westwards) but gulets are a problem everywhere, especially the sewage that they aren't supposed to pump overboard.

Catch Fethiye area when it is quiet and it will be idyllic.

 

[neil1967]

As a quick follow-up, the Fethiye gulf last week (early May) was lovely. Not too busy, nor too hot. Some rubbish, but no worse than elsewhere in the med. Reasonable winds, although changeable - from no wind to 20+ kts in 20 mins. We stayed quite close to Fethiye, but there's plenty more coves to visit and places further afield when we return in Sept.

Regards

Neil