This is great news for anyone in Turkey wanting to visit North Cyprus with affordable flights. Fly Kibris www.flykhy.com are flying direct from the popular destinations of Bodrum and Izmir with flights just 1 hour 10 minutes from Bodrum and 1 hour 19 minutes from Izmir. This is a great getaway for anyone wanting to experience the delights of beautiful North Cyprus. This new flight route begins on...
Liverpool is set to become Jet2.com’s 11th base in the UK when flights start operating from March 2024. Jet2 will be operating 20 new routes in the summer season with 54 departures on a weekly basis. Out of the 20 routes 7 are to destinations which are not currently operating from Liverpool. These routes are to Rhodes, Paphos, Zakynthos, Gran Canaria, Bourgas, Menorca and Funchal. Four of...
There are only a select few areas in the world that are going to be able to compete with Istanbul’s new family friendly ‘Garden’ which has been planted on the site of the former Ataturk Airport, with the first phase of the project officially unveiled last Sunday. Soon to become Türkiye’s largest public garden it will offer citizens approximately 2m square metres of green space once it’s...
This year will see Bodrum Cruise Port operating yet again as the main port hosting a total of 46 voyages of Lagoon Sea Cruises' Blue Sapphire. Back in 2022 Bodrum Cruise port was the main port which hosted 21 trips with a total of 15,000 passengers. The Blue Sapphire vessel is 200 metres long and can hold a total of 750 passengers. Flights to the Turkish, European and South American...
When a town like Bodrum becomes popular with locals, and citizens of the country start migrating there in large numbers, then you know it’s the People's Choice and a good place in which to invest & enjoy the rich cultural lifestyle which will undoubtedly be instilled in next to no time by the migration. That’s what happening in the beautiful town of Bodrum right now, as those who have...
Turkey is not all about fabulous beaches, a warm climate, and a delicious cuisine, it’s also an architectural & cultural wonder, with no less than 17 sites currently deemed to be that historically significant that they make the UNESCO World Heritage list, with another 84 sites having been forward for the ‘tentative list’. Modern day Turkey has been built around it’s richly diverse history...
An architectural dream, and one of the most iconic buildings in Istanbul, the ‘Blue Mosque’ was officially re-opened today by President Erdoğan following on from the completion of a 5-year restoration project. An important symbol for Istanbul it attracts a significant number of tourists and worshippers throughout the day, as it’s still a functioning Mosque, and has been even during the restoration...
We all know that the Airline Industry struggled massively during the pandemic as flights were virtually cancelled across the globe within days – so it’s extremely positive to see that both Pegasus Airlines and Turkish Airlines reported extremely good growth in 2022, along with profits that were close to pre-pandemic levels. Pegasus Airlines, one of Turkey’s main low-cost carriers, have several...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just introduced the new Basaksehir-Kayasehir metro line in Istanbul. The new metro line has been completed by the Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry, taking over the project from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The President spoke at the opening stating that “Over 50% of Istanbul’s rail network will have been completed by our Ministry of...
I bet you didn’t know that Turkiye is the second biggest country for Motorbike Sales in Europe over the past three years, and the fifth highest country for the number of registered motorbikes in Europe. That would explain why the Motorbike Show in Istanbul was so popular in 2022, with higher numbers expected in 2023. It’s taking place between the 27th and the 30th April 2023 at the Istanbul Expo...