Day 1 ... is never a good day. We stumbled off our 10 1/2 hour flight from JFK at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul. Fortunately visa, passport, and customs are all very efficient and simple in Turkey. We had a very helpful taxi driver offer his services for only 80 € ($105) to our hotel. We found the shuttle bus for 20 Turkish Lira ($11).
The hotel was great. IBM Corporate Service Corps booked it for our group stay so we thought it would be good enough for our vacation as well. A little pricey but really nice. Here is the hotel at night and the views from the breakfast room on the top floor.
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| Hotel at night |
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| View from breakfast - front of hotel |
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| View from breakfast - back of hotel |
We ate lunch at a kebab restaurant near the hotel. Good food but we were still half asleep. So back to the room for a little 'down time' that turned into a 3 hour nap. Oh well, neither of us slept on the plane so we were dead tired.
We woke up long enough to find a nice dinner at Pharos near the hotel and then turned in for the night.
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