You can't imagine a better vacation!
My husband and I purchased a tour through a travel agent from the Lagina travel agency. We took the tour specially designed for the fact that we are active people and it will be difficult to catch us at the hotel, in general. Therefore, we were arranged by the Lara Diamond 3 * hotel. On the second week of rest, we took a ticket for 2 days in Pamukkale, but not from the guide of the company, as she strongly recommended (of course - there is three times more fat there! ), But "on the street", in a small company "Gul-Tour", who sold tours from Pacho Tour, a monopoly in her area. As a result, a situation developed in which, as I understand now, we were divorced like children. While we were waiting for the transfer (as it turned out later, it was late, although the representative of the company in which we took the tickets assured us that this had never happened in our lives), a taxi drove up. Both porters of the hotel, who were on shift, unanimously assured us that it was just for us to take us to the place of transfer to the main bus in the airport area. I tried to resist, thinking that something was wrong, but when we asked the taxi driver to translate in English that we were tourists and showed receipts for the trip to Pamukkale, both nodded their heads so cordially that we believed. We realized that this was a scam, we only when the taxi driver almost dropped us off "in the open field", pointing with one hand at the sign of the Pamukkale company, hanging on some shed, and with the other waving somewhere in the distance, muttering that something in Turkish, where at the same time the painfully familiar word "airport" slipped through. We did not immediately understand the horror of the situation, because, in the end, the taxi driver took us back to the hotel, while requesting a fee of 56 lire (ours is 1120 rubles - for this money we recently left Reutov to the south-west of Moscow at 2 am arrived), and it's a 15-minute drive! Our porters immediately stopped understanding English, although before that they communicated freely. . . We must not forget at the same time that we were late for the tour, and excursions from Antalya are 3 times more expensive than from Alanya, since the buses go from there! By the way, our agent knew very well how we were going to spend our vacation, she did not warn us that excursions from Alanya were expensive, but that's another story. . . As a result, having passed along with the screaming taxi driver (he yelled so that his ears were pawned, apparently about what kind of Russian pigs do not pay according to the meter - why pay for it ? ! for the porter's mistake?!! ) to the ill-fated "Gul-Tour" - the one that sold us tickets to Pamukkale, we got into the following troubles. They flatly refused to give us money for the ticket, they told us to catch up with the bus. How, excuse me, in a foreign country, not knowing the routes, and where were we supposed to catch up with him ? ! The offer was received immediately - a taxi!! ! For only 50 (already bucks), and this was generally presented to us as a gift, since they won’t take money from us for the previous cruise! They, you see, agreed and the leader gives his head for cutting off, if it's different! I didn’t want to lose either money or time, because we had already paid 3 times more, and there wasn’t much time left for rest, and we decided! Upon arrival at the bus stop (moreover, there were only two Russians there, who were simply forgotten!! ! to pick up with the Russian group, then they threw them to foreigners, and the guide understood only English), the taxi driver's rate increased sharply. Now, in order to get our things out of the trunk, we were offered to pay 70 dollars. . . In short, I have never seen such a nightmare. The taxi driver yelled like a cut man, for sure, again, that the Russians are pigs and poked his finger at the counter, from which, of course, he did not reset the readings after the first trip. The British were staring at us, you won't explain the situation to them. . . Of course, we were left without money, the mood was spoiled. . . And upon arrival, we tried to talk to the Lagina travel guide to explain the situation. Diggie didn't even listen to us, she said that it was our own fault, that we should have taken a ticket from her, and in general the porter had nothing to do with it! We began to explain that we could wait for the car anywhere - in the city or for shopping, that it was not a matter of a ticket, but that we were put into another taxi. . . To which we were told that they did not want to listen to us, and, you see, they are in a hurry to meet other tourists. This is not all the adventures that we had a chance to experience in this barbaric country, where they try to cheat you at every step, but more on that another time. . . Sorry if I wrote chaotically. It's been two weeks in Russia, but I still can't come to my senses. Even my natural optimism is not enough to approach the situation with humor. . .