Except, we would have to find somewhere else to stay. You know us. Boutique hotels do not feature heavily on our travel agendas. We would have to find a pension.
Meltem Pension, Kaş
We sat in a tea garden and looked up some places to stay in Kaş online. "This is the one - Meltem Pension. Good price and great reviews and it's not far from the otogar." We booked it there and then from the tea garden. Don't you just love the internet!
Meltem Pension - tucked away on a quite side street, not far from Kaş otogar
Reception is upstairs on the roof terrace, which also serves as a bar, common room and breakfast area. Adnan, the pension's owner was sat with a group of travellers enjoying a drink or two. "Come and join us," he said. So we did - we never need too much persuading. After exchanging some Turkey travel tips for some Poland travel tips (the travelling group were Polish) and downing a couple of beers, we got our room keys and were shown to our room.
Barry took himself off for a walk (I had a silly, painful blister that day that left me limping and unable to go) and I hobbled around town, taking photos with the tablet. It would be evening time before we went to check in at the pension.
Reception is upstairs on the roof terrace, which also serves as a bar, common room and breakfast area. Adnan, the pension's owner was sat with a group of travellers enjoying a drink or two. "Come and join us," he said. So we did - we never need too much persuading. After exchanging some Turkey travel tips for some Poland travel tips (the travelling group were Polish) and downing a couple of beers, we got our room keys and were shown to our room.
Gotta love a pretty bed decoration - common in Turkey
We'd booked an ensuite private room. It was spacious, simply furnished...and quite possibly the cleanest place we have ever stayed in. The vast majority of Turkish hotels and pensions are fantastically clean so to notice even more cleanliness in a building...there just wasn't a single speck of anything anywhere. "The internet password for this floor is on the wall for you, there." Oh joy. Free internet access for all rooms, too - we're sold!
Our brand new en suite bathroom in Meltem Pension
And, as with many of the hostels and pensions in Turkey, Meltem Pension is an older building. However, the bathrooms have been recently updated so we had a brand new bathroom experience to enjoy, too. We slept soundly that night and then wandered up to the roof terrace the following morning to see what was in store for breakfast. This is a pension. We were expecting simple but adequate.
Meltem Pension Terrace - there are also chairs and tables for those who prefer
The usual cheeses, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, jams, eggs and bread where there, as you would expect of any standard Turkish breakfast. But then it's the added extras that always make the Turkish breakfast more of a treat...fresh fruit, different home made kurabiye (difficult to describe - many are similar to the texture of shortbread), slices of home made cake...and...big fat wedges of home made, deep fried potatoes. Oh we just can't get enough of those - we helped ourselves to a lot of these. When we first came to Turkey and saw 'cold chips' on the breakfast table, we thought it was just bizarre. No more, however. It works!
But we were completely wrong. Adnan's wife has a hand in this and it's clear she likes to make sure their guests leave for the day with more than enough Turkish breakfast fuel inside them to keep them going. We arrived to a long buffet table that we could help ourselves, too.
The usual cheeses, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, jams, eggs and bread where there, as you would expect of any standard Turkish breakfast. But then it's the added extras that always make the Turkish breakfast more of a treat...fresh fruit, different home made kurabiye (difficult to describe - many are similar to the texture of shortbread), slices of home made cake...and...big fat wedges of home made, deep fried potatoes. Oh we just can't get enough of those - we helped ourselves to a lot of these. When we first came to Turkey and saw 'cold chips' on the breakfast table, we thought it was just bizarre. No more, however. It works!
Views of Kaş hillsides from the Meltem Pension roof terrace
We knew straight away what was coming. Seriously, it's very difficult to go anywhere in Turkey without bumping into someone you either know, or who knows someone you know. "Ahh, we know what you're going to say," we said. "You know the V-Go lot, don't you?" (You might remember we wrote a post about V-Go Guesthouse a couple of years back.)
And that's Turkey for you. We choose to stay in Kaş for one more night on a whim. We book the pension online because it looks good for our budget. We arrive to find the owner is close friends with people we know in Fethiye...And, this coincidence doesn't stop here. It gets even more silly. We'll tell you the rest of the tale in the next post, though...
Pension, Kaş - Useful Information
We sat chatting with Adnan again and he asked us where we'd come from. "Fethiye," we said. "We live there and we just fancied a couple of nights away."
"Oh I'm from Demre. My friends have a business in Fethiye."
We knew straight away what was coming. Seriously, it's very difficult to go anywhere in Turkey without bumping into someone you either know, or who knows someone you know. "Ahh, we know what you're going to say," we said. "You know the V-Go lot, don't you?" (You might remember we wrote a post about V-Go Guesthouse a couple of years back.)
"Yes, we're all friends from Demre."
And that's Turkey for you. We choose to stay in Kaş for one more night on a whim. We book the pension online because it looks good for our budget. We arrive to find the owner is close friends with people we know in Fethiye...And, this coincidence doesn't stop here. It gets even more silly. We'll tell you the rest of the tale in the next post, though...
Pension, Kaş - Useful Information
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