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Moevenpick Hotel Istanbul is voted Turkeys Leading Business Hotel by World Travel Awards 2007. Rising above the skyscrapers, the Movenpick Hotel embodies the cosmopolitan flair and pace of 21st Century Istanbul. 5-Star boutique business hotel with 249 spacious rooms, superb restaurants and meeting facilities for up to 600 guests. Elegantly designed with a modern-classic theme and equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the executive rooms feature modern conveniences essential to today’s business traveler.

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Imagine a place of purity, where serene, crisp white connects with flashes of fiery red and mysterious black. The Hillside Su Hotel is an ideal place to hold your board meetings, international conferences and business organizations. On a green bank overlooking the Mediterranean, the hotel offers itself up as a clean white stage on which guests are invited to live out Turkish designer Eren Talu’s dazzling disco dream. Hillside Su Hotel is located on the beach front in Konyalti, 5 km out of Antalya city center. The hotel is the most fashion-conscious beach club on the strip, offering guests the graciousness of an array of stylish day beds and lounges.
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The hotel is a special category hotel located in the Old Town of Antalya, Turkey, just few minutes from Mermeli beach as well as the harbor. The Alp Pasa Charme Boutique Hotel is just 3 kilometres from Konyaalti beach and 8 km from Lara beach. The area attractions includes Selge, Phaselis, Manavgat waterfalls and many more.
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Set on the shores of the Mediterranean amid lush pine forest, the Adam & Eve Hotel is a luxurious modern landmark property located 40 kilometers from Antalya, Turkey. Adam and Eve Hotel is designed as a life style with the purity of life. The hotel has the world’s largest rooms - including 27 suits, the world’s largest pool (100 meters), the world’s largest bar, and the only hotel in the world to include a personal spa in every room. In 2007, Adam & Eve Hotel won the TV Best Design Hotel award. The hotel has been stylishly designed using mirrors, atmospheric lighting and white decor to create a serene ambiance, making the ceilings almost appear to reach to the sky. The Adam and Eve is a minimalist hotel set amidst 100.000 m of vast green forest, inviting you to turquoise Mediterranean, the most pampering and relaxing SPA treatments the finest cuisine from cultures a round the globe not to mention seaside golf. Truly unique Adam and Eve is the sexiest design hotel on the Mediterranean.
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Situated on a beautiful peninsula, Bodrum, home of the famous Greek historian Herodotus, is these days better known as a popular holiday resort. Characterised by sugar-white houses spilling down its hillsides, its bustling bazaars, maze-like old town, historic treasures and shop-lined marina make it ideal for action-seekers, shopaholics and sightseeing fiends. With excellent beaches, lie on the western side of the peninsula and are ideal for swimming, sunbathing and water sports. You can try your hand at water skiing, parasailing, dinghy sailing, windsurfing or perhaps the more sedate pastimes of canoeing or pedaloes. Bodrum is a very lively resort and will suit everybody. There are plenty of shops selling all the fake designer gear and fabulous leather and loads of restaurants catering for everyone. The town’s charm is well-known, attracting a diverse population of vacationers who stroll along its long palm-lined waterfront, while elegant yachts crowd the marina.

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The ancient city of Ephesus (Turkish: Efes), located near the Aegean Sea in modern day Turkey, was one of the great cities of the Greeks in Asia Minor. Ephesus, located 600km (373 miles) southwest of Istanbul, is one of the grandest and best-preserved ruins of the ancient world. According to evidence dating from around 1400 BC, the Hittites were the first to settle the site, which they named Apasas.
From the entrance at the Eastern gate of the city, there is the Eastern Agora, Odeon, the Temple of Domitianus, Polio Fountain, Trajan Fountain, Scolastica Bath, hillside houses, the Temple of Hadrianus, Celsus Library, Lower Agora, Marbled Street, Grand Theater, Arcadianus Avenue and the Church of the Virgin Mary. Near Ephesus is the house of the Virgin Mary.
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The rock formations of Pamukkale are a series of natural shelves and ridges, terraces that have been turned white from the solidified chalky calcium deposit sleft behind as the thermal waters tumble into further basins clinging to the cliff edge below. These impressive mineral hot springs are somewhat similar to the Mamoth Hot Springs in Yellostone Ntl Park, but those are much bigger and more impressive. There you are welcome to take a bath in the various natural ponds. The first thing you will see is a rock platform over 100 m in height rising up from the plain. The slopes of this hill, which look from a distance like a great white speck, are covered with large numbers of pools and terraces. As you come nearer, you will begin to see this natural phenomenon, which resembles a frozen waterfall, in greater detail.

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