Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Property For Sale in Calis Beach & Turkey => Buying Property in Calis Beach, Fethiye and Turkey => Topic started by: BernieTeyze on April 14, 2013, 20:22:46 PM
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Please can anyone tell me where gunlukbasi is and whats there.
Would it be suitable as a permanent home,would you need a car or is there good transport links.
Is it closer to fethiye than calis
Thanks Bernie
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It's between the two. I am biased on the area as we have a place in that general region but for us it it is the right mix of tourists, ex pats and local Turkish people. The new promenade is just a few minutes walk away and the Dolmus for many places, including Fethiye and Calis is close by.
There are 2 large supermarkets nearby, Tansas and Kipa and you don't need a car as you can get a taxi for the 'big shop'. With the promenade it feels like there is growing investment in the area.
Hope this helps
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Do many people stay through the winter there steve. Any particular estate agents for that area or do I search gunlukbasi
Thanks steve
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Cenk sold us ours so that's a good start.
Liz101, on this forum lives on our complex all year, as do many others. Hopefully she will see this mail and reply but if not then contact her through her profile
Steve
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By the way...it's not unusual on estate agents site for it to be classed as either Calis or Fethiye rather than Gunlukbasi so if in doubt, ask
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Fairly big area, location gets a bit confusing as most areas seem to merge into each other, main street is the one leading to the main bus station (Otogar)
Very good transport wise, there is one Çaliş dolmus route goes through here - plus many of the out of town ones also pass by.
Both places are actually part of Fethiye not seperate towns, but time wise for going to the centre can be similar, depending on where exactly you are.
There are no big supermarkets, but plenty smaller ones, and probably every type of shop you would ever need, not many restaurants but plenty of smaller locanta type ones.
Maybe you should list what your needs/wants/dreams are to see if that gets you some more ideas, we took near 10 years to find our first place - OK we were never in a hurry, and 2 years to find our present one.
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We are here by the way. As Jim says the regions blur a little and we are probably nearer Fethiye than Jims location
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&cid=9257646697470716951&q=Babataşı+Parkı&iwloc=A&gl=GB&hl=en_uk
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We are using all the info we have received jim. Now we have an idea what we want,what our budget is now we have decided to buy. We are getting our bearings sorted. After hearing the costs of what could go wrong we have lowered our expectations somewhat.
Hopefully, our planning will pay off. what is your oppinion of Gunlukbasi, as a place to retire to
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Thanks steve thats pretty close to everything there.
Will haveca good look.
Bernie
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Yes Steve if you are near 778 Sk Then thats Babataşı - not far from us.
Slikmrs - after all our searching that was our choice - as Steve wrote good mixture etc - also 3 seperate dolmuş routes within a few mins.
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That seems like it might suit our needs better.
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Hi, our place is up by the Huzer Evi. (OAP home) we consider it Calis but address is Gulukbasi. A 20 minute walk from Calis beach front. A lovely quiet location but still not far from all the action. Plenty of people live in this area year round. There is a bus to Fethiye from outside the home and a taxi call button too. Could luck with your search.
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Our place is also in Gunlukbasi. It's a nice walk to the sea front and Calis Sunday market, and is ideal for all the shops along the Gunlukbasi road. There's a great mix of Turkish residents and expats in the area, and it's nice and quiet all year round, rather than buzzing with holiday makers, which is what we particularly liked.
There are a growing number of restaurants and bars in the area which is also good! Definitely a good choice slikmrs! :)
By the way, we bought through Mete at Golden Moon, and I would highly recommend them. :)
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I think Gunlukbasi is more authentic than most areas, it's a proper year round working area where the holiday season changes nothing - no restaurants open for May and close in October - it's almost a town totally unaware that there's a holiday resort down the road. It's a fascinating place, plenty of characters and plenty of bustle. I love to walk along "Gunlukbasi High Street" and see familiar faces and real life at work. Then you are a pleasant walk (25 mins?) down Baris Mango Bulvari to the prom, or a couple of minutes on the bus.
Given the same property in Koca Calis or Gunlukbasi to live in full time it would have to be Gunlukbasi for me.
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Hi Bernie
Our place is also in Gunlukbasi and couldn't agree more with the comments already posted.
We purchased coming up for 8 years ago through Scunner ( would also highly recommend Cenk at Interturk ) and haven't regretted it for a minute!
Every year when we arrive for our first visit we look forward to walking down Gunlukbasi high street to see what changes have occurred since our last visit and also to look out for familiar faces and places..As others have said its easy to get into Fethiye and also down to Calis Beach ( either walking down Baris Manco or catching the dolmus ), the local shops and restaurants are, in our opinion, great value for money, as they are catering for locals and not necessarily tourists.
We also love the fact that local people always seem very friendly and if we want a day /evening down in Calis Beach its easy to get to but its also great to come back home to a nice,peaceful quiet area ( apart from occasional dogs barking/ cockerels crowing which never bothers us ) when we have had enough and want to escape from the crowds...
Although we don't get to use our place as often as we would like to at the moment we chose it specifically as an area that seemed to us a good place to retire..and 8 years on our thoughts are still the same...
Good luck and hope you find exactly what you are looking for and have a very happy retirement!
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If you are not buyıng a car/ scooter then Gunlukbası is a great areaı. A true workıng area and lots of regular transport to Çalış, Fethıye and other areas.Everythıng open all year as not a tourıst area and thıs ıs ımportant ıf you are thınkıng of lıvıng ın Turkey.
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we live calis/gunlukbasi on Serinkent .We are within walking distance of beach/market/gunlukbasi and directly on a dolmus route for Fethiye. Look at the FSBO section of the forum you may find something you like the look of on there.
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This must be a real headache for Slikmrs (and everybody else) trying to find where places actually are, the locations in Fethiye are a real mess for anyone trying to pinpoint an area, even if you look at the plans in the council offices the boundary lines are very vague.
Has anyone ever seen a decent plan that would maybe help others in the future.
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I have but not on t'internet - you occasionally see them on the wall in Government buildings with all the areas shown and coloured. I have searched for ages for one online without success.
But again, as you say things are vague and down to interpretation - for example there is no Calis on that map for example, it's an area made up of Foca/Gunlukbasi/Akarca I think. Fethiye is fairly strictly zoned, it's when you head our way that it all goes a bit blurry :D
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Hi i live Gunlukbasi/Catalarik have been living here for 4years permanent ,as scunner says it is a proper small town feeling although its realy only a village getting very busy now gunlukbasi goes up to bridge where catalarik starts that goes up to the main road ,plenty transport to the surrounding areas ,properties a lot cheaper and more for your money ,i would say more for residential than holidays,3km to calis beach 45 min walk proper turkey ,24 on our complex mixture turkish english ,very quite catalarik aqbout 1 km to the mountains and uzumlu road ,need any more info let me know all the best with what ever you decide on . :)
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Lisarob
You saved me a long post,that was how I would have put it.We must of bought our places from Keith about the same time. The local eating places are good so we use them more now.We are pleased we chose Gunlukbasi 8)
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We bought a place in Gunlukbasi last October and have just returned from our first visit. We are really pleased be have bought there. Everything is on your doorstep. There are some great eating places along the high street. Not tourist places, just good local food. We stayed in quite a few night and got a take away. You can't beat fresh bread from the bakers, fresh salad and a chicken from the spit. When we did eat out the local places were also good, it was quite funny ordering Efes and seeing the chap nip next door to the mini market to get it. Transport on the Dolmus to either Fethiye or Calis was simple and easy.
There were only Turkish people on our complex at the time we went and they were so friendly. Communication was mainly smiling or pointing, but we got there. The lovely lady next door kept bringing food over. I must learn more Turkish.
If you have any question please ask and good luck with whatever you decide.
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I also live in Gunlukbashi, havent bought but just signed a second years rental agreement. I love it there as it is more residential than tourist, can buy virtually anything from the vast selection of shops on the high street. Takes me about 30 minutes to walk to Calis but the buses are so frequent you wont have long to wait if don't want to walk. I do have a scooter as easier to visit friends in way out places but not really necessary as public transport convenient.
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Our new house is over old upside down bridge or behind
Not sure if I'm in Calis or Gunlukbasi.
And love to know what Foca Mah means ??
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Our new house is over old upside down bridge or behind
Not sure if I'm in Calis or Gunlukbasi.
And love to know what Foca Mah means ??
Savoyboy, I am a Foca too. haha. Foca Mahallasi is the official area. Mahallasi-district. as scunner was saying Calis and Gunlukbasi dont actually exist.
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Thank you for all the brilliant advice. We are going to have a look the second week we are there in June. We have also been in contact with cenk and he has sent a list of properties in our price range. We are both really looking forward to it.
Bernie
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hi silk
we have an apartment in gunlukbasi, lemon2, we will be there in june, if you want to come along and have a look you are most welcome.
we bought our apartment through cenk and keith so if you have a word with cenk i am sure he will bring you along.
john & christine
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Thank you thats really kind of you.
Bernie