Turkish Luxury Villa Nurtan Blog

We have invested in a 100% ecological pool cleaning system that completely avoids the need to use Chlorine, Acid and all other harmful chemicals normally used to keep a swimming pool clean.

The new technology system from Spain was installed in Villa Nurtan by CEM HAVUZ of Marmaris. It uses a low salt solution instead of Chlorine, eliminating the polution problems when Chlorinated water is pumped into the environment when back washing the pool filters.

It is 100% chemical free, a big contribution to sustainable tourism in rural areas of Turkey like Orhaniye.

To make your pool free of chemicals, please contact Cengiz Aslan on +90 252 4131995, +90 532 241 3885 or email caslan26@hotmail.com

A group of luxury villa owners in Bozburun Peninsula Turkey have created a new brand and Web site to promote the Bozburun Peninsula to the British luxury travel market.

Seeing a gap in the market between the free or volume villa rental sites and the niche travel agencies a group of independent luxury villa owners on the Bozburun Peninsula have created a new ‘Luxury Villas Turkey’ brand, aimed primarily at the luxury British travel market. Its aim is to promote the Bozburun Peninsula as a high quality destination and offer the luxury villa holidays on the peninsula directly to guests.

According to John Cummins, the founder of this initiative. “Guests have expressed their frustration at having such a limited choice of villas on the Bozburun Peninsula, and for our part it is hard to get visibility on the large villa web sites as now there is a large amount of cheap villas swamping these sites, making them more like bazaars. This is our opportunity to promote the area and the best independent luxury villas as an alternative for guests”.

The group claim the advantage of booking directly with these independent luxury villas is that guests experience a more authentic rural Turkey experience as the owners are well connected in the villages, so guests are supporting sustainable tourism in the villages, providing employment and opportunities in the community. For example in the luxury villas featured on the site in the village of Orhaniye, all of the furniture was hand made in the village workshops and the villas were largely constructed using craftsmen from the village, with the support team living in the village.

To maintain the highest levels of quality, only villas that have been personally inspected and approved by the founder as offering a luxury holiday experience, with the villa constructed to the latest Turkish building standards are permitted to join this group.

The group has also linked up with the gulet owners of Bozburun to offer combined luxury villa and cruise holidays. Gulets are traditional wooden yachts and are made by hand locally in Bozburun, so are a good fit for the sustainable tourism values of this initiative.

To view the available independent luxury villas on the Bozburun Peninsula, please browse the web site at http://www.luxuryvillasturkey.com.

About Luxury Villas Turkey:

Luxury Villas Turkey is a new initiative, formed by luxury villa owners on the Bozburun Peninsula to promote the area as a quality destination to the luxury British travel market. John Cummins is founder of Luxury Villas Turkey and can be contacted on +44 7767 473057 or john@luxuryvillasturkey.com.

On Sunday 14^th February, Annabelle Thorpe of the Observer writes about a driving holiday from Izmir to Dalaman, driving to the Bozburun Peninsula via Ephesus, Mugla. On the Bozburun Peninsula they visited Bayir, Sogut and Dionysos. You can read the full article here. We are pleased that they referenced www.BozburunPeninsula.com as the reference web site for more information on Bozburun Peninsula and its villages.

www.Bozburuninfo.com is a new community site launched by tourist businesses in Bozburun to help guests find suitable holiday accommodation or gulet cruises directly with the owners, saving time and money.

In a bid to help guests to the Bozburun Peninsula find accommodation in Bozburun itself rather than Marmaris, the tourist businesses in Bozburun have created a community web site at www.bozburuninfo.com . It enables guests to quickly view and select the range of quality holiday accommodation available in Bozburun and the surroundings. This ranges from simple bed and breakfast houses, to boutique hotels, private gulet cruises, to luxury Turkish villas with private pools. Guests looking for a fabulous private gulet cruise or mixed cruise/villa holiday will save money by dealing directly with the owners.

Many guests do not realize that when they book a tourist gulet cruise through a travel agent, the agency takes a large part of your money so the actual owner has to cut costs on the cruise, which is not good for your experience or the owner himself. By booking direct you are sure to get pampered by the crew and enjoy an unforgettable holiday sailing the local waters, which are considered the finest in the Mediterranean.

On April 15^th this year a new Customs post will open in Bozburun serving the Bozburun Peninsula. This is excellent news for private yacht owners and gulet cruises as they can now clear Turkish Customs locally in Bozburun when entering/leaving Turkish waters. Gulet tours cruising Simi and the other Greek islands starting from the Bozburun Peninsula will now save a day compared to those starting in Marmaris. Gulet cruises from the Bozburun Peninsula can now avoid the long detour to Datca and sail directly to Simi. The news Customs post will be open from April to October 2010.  More info at www.bozburuninfo.com