Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

Hi all. We have been visiting Icmeler for 20 years now and have finaly registered, thanks to Rami. We have probably bumped into some of you over the years. We have stayed at Babadan Hotel & apts, Sahin Hotel, Bilnur, Kleopatra (op. Moonlight Restaurant), Turgay and the Grass Apartments. We have had a great time at all but the Turgay. Could someone please let me know how I can change my password? Thanks

In 1988 when we stayed at the Babadan Hotel we were surrounded by fields and you could see the sea!! We always had an apple pie or cheese pie for breakfast. The seller soon cottoned on and used to stand under our window and do his little chant "apple pie cheese pie" hey ho those were the days. We will try and get some photos up from 1988/89 when we have trawled through our zillions of photos.

Wellcome to the forum ellie.
After 20 years I bet you can tell us a few little storries about Icmeler, like how it used to be before a lot of this building work has gone on,or before the streets were cobbled, and the extinct apple pie man sold his pies on the street corners.

Looking foreword to any tales you could tell us ellie.

Gene

Hi Ellie Welcome to the forum. I'm newly registered too, though been visiting as a guest for a couple of years now. Interesting that you were surrounded by fields etc. We first came to Icmeler in 2004, enticed by a leaflet advertising the Cartier hotel with a pic that gave sea views. don't know how long that had been knocking about!! We thought it was hugely funny when we arrived to find our "sea views" blocked by the Mandalin Hotel etc. Perhaps you can remember the Cartier with sea views?

The thought of sea views is making me chuckle
On our first visit 6 years ago, we went for our first walk to get the lay of the land so to speak and had to ask for directions to the beach

As far as I can remember the cartier wasn't there. There were no 'proper' shops to speak of, just market stalls with bamboo roofs. A fruit stall just up the road from the Babadan hotel burnt down one day when the owner fell asleep with a cig in his hand. The fire engine arrived which looked as if it had been borrowed from trumpton!! The next day the stall was re-built and fully stocked.

How funny. Don't you just love them! I haven't seen a fire engine in Icmeler yet. Wonder if they still look as if they come from trumpton. What amazed us most on our first visit was the way the locals never throw things away they always find a use for it. Our so called rubbish that we took to the local bins had disappeared within minutes of us dumping it!!

Hi Sue, unfortunately the fire engines are now more up-uo-date. All the things that used to amuse us (in a nice way) have long gone

The thing we noticed over the years is how the guys transport has evolved....... Not that long ago, they would 'fly' about on bikes and a few in battered cars, but now, there are the smart motorbikes, scooters and quite a few flashy cars....... and of course no-one is ever seen without their mobile!

or mobileS

???? One for the wife, one for the girlfriends????

We had a two year gap 1991 & 1992 when my daughter was born. Prior to that if you talked about cds or a microwave they had no idea what you were talking about and there were hardly any TV's in the village. As you will see from one of the photos I posted when footy was on, a TV appeared on the beach along with all the local men!! Went back in 1993 it was completly different, it seemed as if they had moved from the 1950's to the 20th century in two years.