Anyway my review: - we arrived at Dalaman at about 3.30am, recovered our luggage (always a tense time....did it arrive?) looked and eventually found our ICR transfer guy, who appeared to have been hiding
were escorted to our mini bus (hmmmm not taxi this time, that was slightly worrying).... after another 45 minutes of waiting for another flight to arrive, 
another 13 people boarded the bus and we finally got underway. Luckily we were the first drop off, at the Kontes Beach hotel, but by now it was 7am and all we wanted was our bed. The transfer had not been the best, as we experienced in May, but at least we were there.
After a couple of hours sleep, we woke....well at least I did, not wanting to miss another minute, I started to unpack and we went off to have a look round the town and do a bit of catching up with old friends and then went into the ICR office to try to book some trips which we had decided on. This is where we were disappointed - only to find that we would only be able to book them, if there was enough interest.... some people had already put their names down on a list, but some were due to go home, or had already gone... ICR would let us know at our hotel, if anyone else enquired and they got enough interest. Well by Wednesday, we hadn't heard, so booked some trips elsewhere. (Not terribly impressed with that)
The fortnight was very hot at times, so most of the holiday was spent on a sunbed with Patrick "Merry Christmas & Happy New Year" attending to our every need on the beach. We were lucky to be sunbedded next to two other couples, with whom we shared many a laugh, which helped to make our holiday most enjoyable.
Luckily we had not booked with XL this year, but one of our new friends had, but were not due to come home until 22nd, so hoepfully they will now be safely back home.
A great holiday again in Icmeler. Can't wait for next year
