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Could anyone tell me how much we can expect to pay for sun bed hire on the beach, can you pay for a full week or just daily

The majority of them are owned by bars along the beach, so it is free. All they expect is that you maybe buy a couple of drinks or ice creams from the beach boys that come round who will deliver them to your sun lounger.

Steve

Hi Wilts
As Steve says dont "ever" pay for them, If they say there is a charge just keep going untill you find some opposite a bar, these will definatly be free, just in order to get your custom.
If you hit the beach and go as far as you can to the right towards the new jetty just before the boat moorings, there are 3 beach bars up there, the Deniz Kapisi, the Harmany and the Liberty bars, all with drink and food service to your free beds, plus clean and free toilets,and shade for a little respite indoors, only a matter of a few yards away.
Peli

hi round your pool at the hotel are for free ,when we use the beach in front of the blue rainbow hotel, we pay £1 per day from ibrahim or osman to of the best beach boys in icmeler, [ in my opinion] the beach is clean ,rolled everyday,they look after you ,with your towels,drinks ,lunch etc. we pay daily,as we don,t go some days,for one reason or another.you can,t miss ibrahim as he uses a refs. whistle to attract you,also a nice helpful guy,osman also. enjoy bill atkinson

One sunbed and brolly is about 2.5Tl.
The advantage of useing these sunbeds is that you can eat and drink were you want.
Walk to the Erdam and get an inexpensive lunch,
have a walk up to the Buffalo bar 5 mins from the seafront for a cheap lunch and Efes at 1.75TL a pint or bottle the bars on the front with complimenary sunbeds will charge you 3TL for beer.
The Cafe Del Mar at the other end of the beach from Harmony etc have free sunbeds,a fantastic breeze and views as well as good food and ice cold drinks.

I think it is just a personal preference of what people like to do,
but when you pay for your beds you are under no pressure to buy from any Restaurent.
You are are a Free Spirit.

You can pay for the day week or fortnight and be guaranteed the beds of your choice.

Gene

This is a little piece I wrote about sunbeds a couple of years ago,but it is what our holidays are all about.

If you want a sunbed and brolly on the edge of the sea you must arrive down on the beach as early as possible.


It was the first morning of our August fortnight in Icmeler.
After a light breakfast in our apartment of coffee,toast and cereals,we packed the bags ready for our "First Day At The Beach".

Now the bags we take to the beach are Huge, having to hold 6 towels,
2 each, various grades of sun oil ranging from 2 for me to total block for Mrs Genes nose, snorkel and mask for Andre, lilo for the Rhino to play in the sea with and the obligatory reading books for Ann.
We also take two x two litre bottles of water that I have frozen in the fridge overnight, and these will keep iced all day if kept out of the sun.

Last visit to the toilet then we are on our way yours truly laiden up like an human pack horse.

We have decided to spend our first day on the stretch of beach in front of the Kontes Hotel,so having walked past the Prince Apartments on our right, sauntered passed the Efendi Hotel also on the right with the Etoil Hotel on the left, we arrived on the Promenade.

A voice shouts "Sunbed Sir", and an arm with open palm is thrust in my direction which I grasp and shake vigoriously.

"How much for the beds" I enquire.
"A £1 sir" is the reply.
"Can I have one near the waters edge " I ask.
"I have saved these just for you" he says as he escorts us to three beds and a brolly right on the waters edge.

How do they do that?
How did he know I that I was coming on that day?

He wiped the beds for us, gave us one of those cute little pots to put our rubbish in and told us if we needed anything to give him a call and that he was there to make our holiday a memorable one.

We exchanged names and I offered to pay for the beds.

"You pay later " he says.

Another friendship has been forged.

Many thanks - can hear the sounds and feel the heat already. We are flying out of Manchester 24 July at 11.00 a.m. for 18 nights and it can't come quick enough.