Orhaniye | Marmaris | Turkey

The owners of Villa Nurtan have invested in a 100% ecological pool cleaning system that completely avoids the need to use Chlorine, Acid and all other harmful chemicals normally used to keep a swimming pool clean.

The new technology system from Spain was installed by CEM HAVUZ of Marmaris. It uses a low salt solution instead of Chlorine, eliminating the polution problems when Chlorinated water is pumped into the environment when back washing the pool filters.

It is 100% chemical free, a big contribution to sustainable tourism in rural areas of Turkey like Orhaniye.

To make your pool free of chemicals, please contact Cengiz Aslan on +90 252 4131995, +90 532 241 3885 or email caslan26@hotmail.com

No chlorine used in Villa Nurtan Pool

A group of luxury villa owners in Bozburun Peninsula Turkey have created a new brand and Web site to promote the Bozburun Peninsula to the British luxury travel market.

Seeing a gap in the market between the free or volume villa rental sites and the niche travel agencies a group of independent luxury villa owners on the Bozburun Peninsula have created a new ‘Luxury Villas Turkey’ brand, aimed primarily at the luxury British travel market. Its aim is to promote the Bozburun Peninsula as a high quality destination and offer the luxury villa holidays on the peninsula directly to guests.

According to John Cummins, the founder of this initiative. “Guests have expressed their frustration at having such a limited choice of villas on the Bozburun Peninsula, and for our part it is hard to get visibility on the large villa web sites as now there is a large amount of cheap villas swamping these sites, making them more like bazaars. This is our opportunity to promote the area and the best independent luxury villas as an alternative for guests”.

The group claim the advantage of booking directly with these independent luxury villas is that guests experience a more authentic rural Turkey experience as the owners are well connected in the villages, so guests are supporting sustainable tourism in the villages, providing employment and opportunities in the community. For example in the luxury villas featured on the site in the village of Orhaniye, all of the furniture was hand made in the village workshops and the villas were largely constructed using craftsmen from the village, with the support team living in the village.

To maintain the highest levels of quality, only villas that have been personally inspected and approved by the founder as offering a luxury holiday experience, with the villa constructed to the latest Turkish building standards are permitted to join this group.

The group has also linked up with the gulet owners of Bozburun to offer combined luxury villa and cruise holidays. Gulets are traditional wooden yachts and are made by hand locally in Bozburun, so are a good fit for the sustainable tourism values of this initiative.

To view the available independent luxury villas on the Bozburun Peninsula, please browse the web site at http://www.luxuryvillasturkey.com.

About Luxury Villas Turkey:

Luxury Villas Turkey is a new initiative, formed by luxury villa owners on the Bozburun Peninsula to promote the area as a quality destination to the luxury British travel market. John Cummins is founder of Luxury Villas Turkey and can be contacted on +44 7767 473057 or john@luxuryvillasturkey.com.

Orhaniye now has an ATM saving guests the trip to Marmaris to get cash. It is located in the front of the restaurant in the Palmiye Hotel. Please click here for more details of the Palmiye Hotel and where to find it in Orhaniye.

If you do not have a car in Orhaniye you can call the Palmiye Hotel on +90 252 487 1388 or +90 532 739 1606 for free return transport to the restaurant.

ATM in the Palmiye Hotel in Orhaniye

Palmiye Hotel

On Sunday 14^th February, Annabelle Thorpe of the Observer writes about a driving holiday from Izmir to Dalaman, driving to the Bozburun Peninsula via Ephesus, Mugla. On the Bozburun Peninsula they visited Bayir, Sogut and Dionysos. You can read the full article here. We are pleased that they referenced www.BozburunPeninsula.com as the reference web site for more information on Bozburun Peninsula and its beautiful villages.

According to this Turkish News Report, a total of 877 properties in this region have been reported to the Governor as illegal and listed for demolition. There are a suprising number of high profile establishments scheduled for demolition named in this report, including Marti Marina in Orhaniye, Robinson Club Resort Select Maris and the Palmetto Hotel at Selimiye. As previously advised foreigners cannot buy any property in Orhaniye, either directly or through a Turkish company, so take extreme care when buying any property anywhere in this region as it may be on the list of properties already scheduled to be demolished. Aways take professional advice and check all deeds with the land registry in Mugla to determine exactly what the staus is on the property.

Turkish Luxury Villa