It has beautiful beaches, long history and market places that capture both the past and modernity of this fascinating area. It's been compared to both Monaco and Cancun, but you can g et there for £300 in October, when the sea is still going to be very warm and temperatures should still reach the mid-20Cs, making it delightfully warm but not oppressively hot. Bodrum, in Turkey, is just a four-hour flight from the UK.
It has developed from a little-known destination more than 20 years ago to a place with a busy restaurant and nightlife scene as well as upmarket shops. But it's probably still less well-known than some more popular Turkish holiday destinations like Marmaris or Kusadasi (it's located halfway between the two). You'll find it on a peninsula in the south-west of the country jutting out into the beautiful Aegean Sea .
It's slightly further west of Marmaris, and in the same region as Kos and Rhodes. One travel writer compared it to Monaco, while travellers said it was "better than Cancun". Giving advice to one person thinking of Bodrum as their next holiday destination, a Reddit user said: "Bodrum is better than Cancun.
Has a pleasant slightly upscale Mediterranean vibe. More domestic tourism than Marmaris or Kusadasi. If you know Mexico think of Bodrum more like Puerto Vallarta to Kusadasi/Marmaris's Cancun.
" They added: "Bodrum is best used as a base for travelling around the region, taking boat tours, going to places in the area like Gumusluk." Holiday firm Tui, w.
