January 05,
2010
Dear L...
Happy New
Year! May God richly bless you this New Year.
Thank you so
much for your assistance to me in my trip to Ephesus.
It was an amazing trip. Also, I don’t know if anything
can be done, but I would appreciate it if you will send
the company you used to hire my tour guide news of my
high appreciation for my tour guide Melih Ozsoy. Melih
is a young man who was wonderfully professional and very
informative. He did back flips to make sure I was
comfortable, and he tried to help me find the answers to
all the questions I had. He is an excellent guide. If
I return, I would love to have him be my guide again.
You both were
very kind in helping me set up this trip with such short
notice. I am truly thankful for your kind assistance.
May God bless you and your families.
November 28, 2009
Hi Tugrul and Emre,
We cannot tell you how
much we enjoyed our day with Emre. He has a wonderful
personality to provide just the right amount of
information needed. The car was comfortable and
everything was great. I have recommemded you to a
friend. Thank you so much, Sue
November 11, 2009
We also remember what a
wonderful visit we had in your country in
October. Your tour guides
were excellent. We learned so much about the
history of the area and
enjoyed every minute of our time there. Thank
you very much!
Ruth and Gene Ciranni
Hi Emre,
I apologize
for the delayed thank-you. We had the pleasure of
touring Kusadasi with you last fall; October 5. You
gave us a most educational and enjoyable day; seeing the
house of the Virgin Mary, Ephesus and Terrace Houses,
the carpet factory and your recommended jewellery shop
in town. Indeed, you are a most inspirational tour
guide who made history come alive with your passion and
stories. We truly appreciated the personalized service
you and your driver provided us with.
I have
attached a few photos of our day. We will always
treasure our memories of Kusadasi and time with you.
Please feel free to use these photos in any advertising
you wish. I have recommended your tour to friends who
are planning upcoming visits to Kusadasi.
Thank-you
once again,
Sincerely,
Elizabeth
and Keith MacIsaac 24.12.2009
Yesterday we arrived home from a wonderful trip to
Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Ukraine. It was a
memorable trip in many ways, but the best parts were the
two days that we toured with our guide Tugrul! He met
us promptly at the ship and began an informative and
exciting tour of the Ephesus area giving us the history
then bringing us up to date. His English was excellent,
his energy level very high. It was wonderful how he
sorted through the layers of history to help us
understand the complexity of that wonderful part of the
world.
To our delight Tugrul met us two days later in Istanbul
for a extensive tour around that fabulous city. It is
amazing the factual knowledge that he has in his head.
We appreciate his attention to details such as arranging
a wonderful luncheon overlooking the city. The view of
all we had seen was terrific. He was thorough in his
attention to all things and it made our day perfect.
I would never hesitate to recommend Tugrul or Kusadasi
Tours to anyone looking for a wonderful Turkish
experience. His knowledge of Turkish history is
extensive and up to date. Best of all, he is a
gentleman with a good sense of humor.
Thank you so much and kudos to Tugrul!
Sincerely,
Karen Fleming
Hello Emre,
I just
wanted to say hi and thank you for such a great time.
Out of all the tours and places we went to we all voted
and loved Turkey. We would love to come back and visit
and see more of Turkey. We found the people of Turkey
to be so friendly it really made the time spent there
fun.
You asked
me to let you know about the tour in Athens and what
company I used. We used Island Marketing Ltd. at
www.greececruiseexcursions.com We liked the tour
guide she was very knowledgeable and know a lot about
Athens. She was on time and keep the agreements as far
as getting our tickets for us so we didn't have to stand
in lines. I would use the company again and would
recommend them to friends.
Atticus
wanted me to tell you hi and to see if you have a
facebook account?
Thanks
again for the great time and keep in touch with us. If
you ever get back to the USA please come and stay with
us so we can show you the beautiful state of Utah.
Andrea
Shelley
Thank you for the great tour of Ephesus on Oct. 2. We
learned so much from your expertise, but also enjoyed
learning about your life in Turkey as well.
Please remember to send me contact information on your
friend in Macedonia and I will pass your information to
anyone going to Turkey.
You gave us an exceptional tour of Kusadasi last October
and I am wondering if you know of anyone who does
similar experiences in the Baltic area, St. Petersburg,
Tallinn, Riga, Helsinki, Berlin. Are you associated
with, or do you know anything about an organization
called A local tour guide? Thanks in advance if you can
help us.
Alice and Dick Bechtold
Hi
Selin,
Hope you are well!
We
had the most fantastic time in Turkey in June and out
trips went so well so firstly a big thank you!
We
had such a good time that 4 of us ( there may be
more) wish to return next year. The reason for my email
was to see if you do Hotel bookings as well as tour
bookings. We would like to stay in Hotel Charisma on a
Half Board basis again from Arrival: 02 July 2010 and
depart 05 July 2010. We would require 2 x twin rooms ( 4
adults) Is this possible?
We
will also book trips too but I will email you next year
sometime with our requirement and numbers.
Many thanks again
Best regards
Christina Aust
Selin,
We
just returned from our trip and everything was
wonderful. Thanks for your help. And also,
congratulations on your new arrival!!!
Ernie Seger
Thank you
for your time, your company, and words of wisdom during
my tour of Ephesus on November 7th. If you have digital
photographs of this visit, please send them to me at
this email address.
Sincerely,
Dr. Michel Gagner
Emre,
(Hope the spelling is correct)
Just a
reminder of who we are. We are the American couple that
you took to Ephesus in late November. (Actually the day
before your religious holiday) We promised that we
would communicate as soon as we arrived in our winter
home. We are here but without our own computer. Ours
died and we are now in a study to replace it so
borrowing our neighbors. We would like to tell you how
much we enjoyed our tour with you and all that you did
to make our day special. Your knowledge was vast, we
loved your sense of humor and most of all we appreciated
that you listened to our wants and needs and fulfilled
them. It was a wonderful experience. We promised you
we would put comments on the internet but I have
misplaced the paper with the sites. Please email them
to me and I will get it on as soon as possible. We wish
you a happy and prosperous New Year and hope soon that
we will return to Turkey.
Dennis and
Lynn Parsons
Dear Selin,
I can’t thank you enough for our wonderful tour guide-
Melih was so intelligent and informative. He was a joy
to travel with and we learned so much history from him.
We were astounded with his knowledge and he was so
pleasant. We will recommend him to all of our friends.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Linda Smith
Hello Emre,
We arrived back safe and sound. I just want to say
again thank you for the wonderful day. It was one of
the most memorable parts of our cruise.
Please also
send me that information on the tour contacts in Asia.
Thanks
again.
Laurie
Brown
Hello Tugrul,
My
apologies for the delay in responding to your email due to
circumstances beyond our control.
My
intention was to write to you to thank you for the service
provided by your company and ask for permission to include
the name of your organisation in the paper we will be
publishing on the internet relating to our Mediterranean
tour.
The guide was knowledgeable, friendly, respectable and
very helpful, and we will be very pleased to recommend him
as well to all our friends.
In
the name of every member of my family, I say thank you.
A
special mention goes to Selin for the good work.
Semper Fidelis
Neville Louis
Your tour was definitely one of the highlights of our
vacation. In addition to providing very interesting
commentary and a valuable history lesson, it was really
great to spend the day with you. You and Emre will have
continued success if you continue to treat customers the
way you treated us. Whenever we have the opportunity,
we will definitely refer our friends and family to you.
As soon as I can get Shelly to organize our photos we'll
send you a few. Ron and I really enjoyed hanging out
with you guys that afternoon, I hope you made it home
safely! Please keep in touch and come visit us in
California some day soon.
Hi
Melih,
Just to say, many thanks for the great tour last week.
I
will be sure to recommend you to any friends who decide
to
visit Ephesus .
Kind Regards,
Neil.
We loved our tour! Oscar was
our tour guide and he was excellent. My mother is
handicapped and he helped guide her through the ruins. He
was very knowledgeable and pleasant. He also took us to a
wonderful rug school where we bought rugs. it was
wonderful, much better than the rug shops that other
tourists went to. (We heard about other tours on our ship.)
We highly recommend your company to others needing a tour
to Ephasus. The price was right also.
I have been meaning to write to you to tell you how
pleased we were with our private tour of Ephesus. Tan
Ergen, our Tour Guide, was fantastic! Thank you very much
for providing such good service! We will be sure to
recommend your agency to friends and colleagues.
Hello,
We enjoyed our tour of Ephesus very much. The pick-up
and transport back to the port was very easy. The tour
guide, Gonca, did an excellent job of making us feel
welcome and providing us with information about the
sites. We will definitely recommend your company to
anyone we know who may go visit Turkey.
(It was a little surprising when the port authority at
Kusadasi took our passports for the day…. We are told by
our government to never let anyone take your passport away
from you (because they may be duplicating it), just let
them stamp it and give it right back. I know you have
nothing to do with that procedure, but you may want to let
people know that the passports will be taken and returned
at the end of the day.)
Thank you very much! Greetings to Gonca !
Janine
We did indeed enjoy our Private Ephesus Tour and day in
Turkey. And our guide, Emre was wonderful. Will
certainly recommend you to friends and hope to be back
someday. Thanks again
Nancy Cord
Dear Tugrul Sokmen
Thank you for your
message. My wife and my son have enjoyed their time in
your Kusadasi hotel and wish you all the best in your
business.
They wish you could look
into putting wide range of modern music in the disco bar
and possibly re-design the lobby.
I hope to visit this
hotel myself as well.
Best Regards
Imran Hajiyev
Dear Ipek
I would like to kindly inform you that my
family enjoyed the trip to Kusadasi and the hotel Adakule.
Many thanks for your professional service
and looking forward to visiting your site again in the
future.
Best Regards
Imran Hajiyev
Dear Mr. Tugrul Sokmen,
Thank you for the
wonderful tour of your company and best guide Emre Ates provided
to our group. The group finds the Kusadasi Tour the best
in our cruise.
I informed our office
mate regarding your services for private tour in Kusadasi
area.
Regards
Bert
City Tours and Travel
Dear Selin Bakilan,
Our tour in Kusadasi
was just perfect!!
The van was extremely
comfortable and our guide was wonderful in her knowledge,
warmth and friendliness. We were so pleased that we will
highly recommend your company to everyone who will be
traveling to Kusadasi.
Thank you very much
for your great service.
Sincerely,
Carol Christ
Hello Emre,
I wanted to thank you
for the tour of Ephesus it was great and appreciated your
knowledge and bad jokes, lol, just kidding.Here is the
posted I placed on Cruise-chat.com, the link is below, but
you may have to sign up (free). I posted it under Europe
ports under Kusadasi. Thanks again, and if you ever come
to Toronto, let me know.
Vincenzo Perri,
30.05.2008
Post on Cruise-chat.com
Just came back from a
cruise which included a trip to Kusadasi and we went to
Ephesus with a private tour. We used Kusadasi Tours,
www.kusadasitours.com and wanted to make a quick post
for anyone interested.
We had Emre as a tour guide and it was a great day. Picked
up at the port by Emre and his driver in a new air
conditioned vehicle.
The tour was great and so was the lunch. They also took us
to some shopping spots for rugs and leather goods.
Overall a great experience, competitively priced (was less
than half the cruise offered tour).
And no I am not getting paid for this, lol.
http://cruisechat.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=712603081&f=1261017441&m=9661050573&r=9661050573#9661050573
Re: Tanner On May
5th my wife and I had the pleasure of having Tanner as our
guide for a visit to Ephesus. We both concured that Tanner
was the best guide we ever had. He was on time when our
ship docked. His mastery of the English language was,
propably better than mine. He posessed a thorough
knowledge of the hisory of Ephesus and was very generous
in answering our questions about present day live in
Turkey. We learned about Turkish government, healthcare
system, politics, real estate, tourism, economics and
religion. He was wonderful.
Thank you very much
Fred Murman,
12.05.2008
This has been extreme pleasure to have
spent nearly three days with you while we stayed in Izmir.
We visited the lost city of Ephesus, Artemis Temple (fortunately
to have visited this really)
Pottery making, silk weaving etc. etc.
on day 1. Wow! that's amazing - isn't it?
Day 2 was a long drive to Pamukkale and
we were amazed to have been able to walk past the calcium
deposits brought over by running water - unimaginable life
to be there. Thermal bath was a real hot experience.
Izmir city tour was the third day of
our stay. It is a wonderful town blending new and old
cultures culminating into wonderful traditions of
hospitality. We(self,wife & doughter) had enjoyable time
loved bread-so smooth and flavoured- were thrilled and
come back again.
Tugrul is very well trained and
excellent guide. He is very personable and fantastic
friend to have. Serkan has been excellent helpful all of
us. We're fortunate to have them with us. They did a great
job. Thanks to them. thanks Izmir + Turkey. We love you
all.
On behalf of my family :
Jesse, Courtney, Liene and me, I would like to extend my
appreciation to the Kusadasi Travel Agency and its staff for the
wonderful vacation we had in Turkey. From the time we arrived in
Kusadasi until we left we were treated very well. I would like
to especially acknowledge the services of Tugrul Sokmen and Muge
who served as our tour guides. Their knowledge of the area is
extensive and they shared so many good stories with us. We will
never forget their kindness to us! It is indeed rare to go on
tours with guides who have such in-depth knowledge of the
history and culture of the region. We would also like to thank
Emre Ates who wanted us to have a good time and continuously
asked what else we wanted to do. We would also thank our drivers
Ali and Ahmet for their professionalism and expertise to
guarantee us a safe journey!
We are at the end of our tour, and I wish to let you know
that we absolutely are thrilled to have had some days here in
Turkey with Turul. He was professional, intelligent,
knowledgeable, and fun to be with. Both Katherine and I have had
a wonderful time here with him and we learned quite a bit.
I will absolutely recommend your agency, and Turul in
particular, whenever colleagues and friends come to Turkey.
Thank you, and kindly give Turul our regards and sincerest
thanks.
Many thanks to Kusadasi Tours for making our one day in
Turkey a truly wonderful experience. Our every need was met with
a smile and our expert guide Tugrul Sokmen was so well informed
and personable. He has endless knowledge and great a sense of
humor. You will be in good hands with him and Kusadasi Tours.
The Mercedes Benz van was an excellent vehicle and very cool and
comfortable. Five Stars !!
We had a wonderful time in Turkey and appreciate all that you
did for us.
We are sorry we were not able to connect with you John and
Arin directly, but we tried very hard. We did visit the
Potters House in Cappadocia and met Arins helper (What was his
name again?)
Tugrul was our tour guide in Kusadasi and we had a great time
with him. He went out of his way for us. He did tell us that
he was studying to learn more about Christian beliefs for his
tourism business. I told him that I would get with you and
see if you might have a good Bible reference that he could
have. Perhaps a Turkish/English one.
Hasan was our tour guide in Cappadocia and we stayed at his
Canon View cave hotel in Goreme. It was great and he and his
family and friends were good hosts and guides. We bought a
carpet from him as well. All our Turkish friends said that we
got a good price. We should have bought more. We also went
on a fantastic balloon ride with him.
If you can help us fill in any of the titles, that would be
great. I may get with you Hasan and Tugrul for more details.
Thanks again. We hope we get to come back and visit Turkey
again. There was much more we should have seen and done.
