Turgutreis & Kalymnos - checkout & checkin

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Firstly I've read somewhere that Turgutreis does not have a passport & immigration office and that to check out of Turkey you have to take the bus to Bodrum to get your passport stamped. I've never checked out of Turkey but I understand that you do that last - after the transit log bits.

Has anybody done this - recently? Were the Bodrum passport people OK? Where in Bodrum is immigration?

Secondly I also read somewhere (on insidersegeln.de?) that Kalymnos is or was a port of entry in the summer. Does anyone know the current situation. (Kos marina can be difficult to get a berth in at weekends.)
 
Cant help re Turgutries as port of entry/exit. Kalymnos is definitely OK in the summer I have done it recently...I believe it stops mid /end october.

Bodrum immigration is right round the harbour (clockwise)at the end of the road.The customs is next door.
 
DaveRo said:
Firstly I've read somewhere that Turgutreis does not have a passport & immigration office and that to check out of Turkey you have to take the bus to Bodrum to get your passport stamped. I've never checked out of Turkey but I understand that you do that last - after the transit log bits.

Has anybody done this - recently? Were the Bodrum passport people OK? Where in Bodrum is immigration?

Secondly I also read somewhere (on insidersegeln.de?) that Kalymnos is or was a port of entry in the summer. Does anyone know the current situation. (Kos marina can be difficult to get a berth in at weekends.)
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Turgetreis is brilliant for check in and check out. For check in you visit the marina office and they do the agent bit and put you in the computer system. €20 at the last count which is a cheaper agent's fee than most places.

All the rest is done in one building. Passport & Immigration have been there on our last 3 visits (over 3 year) so should still be there unless what you heard is since last October.

Bob
 
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Hi, I concur that Turgutreis has and is easy to book in. We arrived last Thursday and as already stated 20 euros for the Marina to do the log and a QUICK visit to one building near the fuel berth and all the paper work compleated. Recommended.
 
BlackSheep1 said:
Hi, I concur that Turgutreis has and is easy to book in. We arrived last Thursday and as already stated 20 euros for the Marina to do the log and a QUICK visit to one building near the fuel berth and all the paper work compleated. Recommended.
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That seems very reasonable..as a matter of interest,did you have to pay for a stay at the marina as well,or could you have done it "in and out" so to speak?
 
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Good question,cant say for sure as we also booked into the marina anyway for a short stay. Whilst there we noted yachts anchored at the entrance to the marina and protected by the mole from prevailing winds. The customs area is only a couple of hundred yards away in the avon and the marina office 3 mins walk from there. Im sure the office would complete your log if asked as they are, after all getting 20 euros for there trouble. Give them a phone and confirm. I found them very helpfull.
 
We have an apartment in Yalikavak and you will find Bodrum like an oven.It doesnt seem to get the breezes Yalikavak and Turgutreis get. There always seems to be a cooling breeze in Yalikavak. Very important on a Yacht.
 
We checked out of Turgutreis and into Kalymnos

Turgutreis marina charged a 20€ "agency" fee. But you still have to visit the harbour master, passport control, and customs yourself (200m). Another skipper who went straight to the harbourmaster was told he must get the marina to do it.

If you're new to this, as we were, note that both harbour master and customs will stamp and extract bits from the cruising log. We failed to get customs to do this first time because they didn't explain fully where we had to go - we thought we'd cleared customs when we hadn't.. So it's easy once you know what to do.

In Kalymnos you should visit the police station first to get your passport checked. It is 400m up the one-way street that leads inland from the museum (Odos Venizelou), past the taxi rank (in Pl 28 Octovriou). Then visit the port police by the ferry quay.

We were charged 15€ by the port police - in addition to the daily harbour fee. (Another crew, which didn't have a DEKPA, couldn't get one from the port police: they were given some instructions involving a tax office that neither they nor I, listening in, could understand.)

The port police in Kalymnos were very active - telling every boat to come to their office; we've never experienced that before at Pothia. OTOH both the police and the port police were friendly and polite. What really amazed me, though, was that the port police office was a non-smoking area, and nobody was!

We were amused that the Turgutreis officials assumed we were going to Kos, and the Kalymnos officials assumed we had come from Bodrum - filling in the forms accordingly. Neither had asked us.
 
Very interesting DaveRo, thanks.

Do you know what dates Kalymnos are "open" during the summer.

Looks like I will pop over there next season from Yalikavak.

Mike
 
mikehibb said:
Do you know what dates Kalymnos are "open" during the summer.
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No. And it's the ordinary police station, not a special office AFAICS. I noticed (from a poster in a ferry ticket office in Turgutreis) that there is a ferry to Kalymnos (from Bodrum?) which probably only runs during the summer, and we speculated that this would require 'immigration' facilities in Kalymnos. But the police station is nowhere near the port.
 
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