Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Hisaronu Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Sleuth on September 13, 2015, 09:19:40 AM
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Help please....We have family coming to Hisaronu on wednesday Sept 16th to. wednesday 23rd... one of our group wants to experience a `turkish night` at a hotel ( belly dancer, but also folk dancing group etc )
We contacted the Yalcin Hotel but they only do it every other thursday and its not next week
Can anyone please recommend any hotels locally who are doing one on a thursday / friday/ or saturday / or monday evening ?
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Have sent you a PM Sleuth.
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apparently Yakamoz have a good one.
sorry I have no contact details
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http://www.yakamozhotel.com :D
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Make sure it is a Turkish Night. A lot of the Belly Dancing is not a Belly Dancing exhibition. The girl does a bit of dancing then drags men from the audience and makes them strip to the waist, put's scarves around their necks and then procedes to make them "dance" with her. IMHO very embarassing and not what a lot of tourists would want to see.
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To be honest, we were both surprised when Kayakebab suggested Yakamoz. We've stayed at Yakamoz Hotel very many times over the last 16 years but have never seen one of those Turkish nights, all we had was just some very funny nights with the staff dressing up. They may do them now but I'd contact them first to find out. ;D
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Make sure it is a Turkish Night. A lot of the Belly Dancing is not a Belly Dancing exhibition. The girl does a bit of dancing then drags men from the audience and makes them strip to the waist, put's scarves around their necks and then procedes to make them "dance" with her. IMHO very embarassing and not what a lot of tourists would want to see.
Can I suggest that it WOULD be what lots of tourists want
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You can suggest that, once you show us the poll you have done of the tourists who want this.
A traditonal Turkish Night, should be that and it is something I would very much like to see and not the tired old belly dancer getting men up to make a fool of them
I bet, like us when we saw our first Belly Dancing show, new tourists expect the woman to give a dancing exhibition. We would really like to see a proper belly dancing evening, but it would seem there is no such thing.
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A couple of years ago I was treated to an authentic Turkish evening at the Lagoon Hotel. There was
a belly dancer and a dance troupe in traditional costume, approx' six men & six women and they danced
for about 1 hour. A couple of the dances were the Turkish equivalent of the sword dance, but using large
daggers. An enjoyable evening ( with no audience participation ).
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We went to the Yalcin Hotel on thursday night and was not disappointed !! the food spread was excellent .. yes there was the usual belly dancer routine we have seen so many times before as Jacqui described but the rest of the entertainment was superb.... folk dancers. knife throwing act, a female contortionist, and a very good breakdance act ... around Hisaronu the Yalcin would be a `hard act to follow` as a `turkish night` and all that for only £11 per person !!!!
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You can suggest that, once you show us the poll you have done of the tourists who want this.
A traditonal Turkish Night, should be that and it is something I would very much like to see and not the tired old belly dancer getting men up to make a fool of them
I bet, like us when we saw our first Belly Dancing show, new tourists expect the woman to give a dancing exhibition. We would really like to see a proper belly dancing evening, but it would seem there is no such thing.
Can I suggest you show us the poll you obviously took in order to make such a conclusive statement. I agree with Highlander, it probably IS what the tourist here for a couple of weeks holiday and fun does want to see. I recon that a show like this on Calis front will have the bar heaving. It must be what people want or nobody would go Simples.
Although have to say you wouldn't be seeing me there.
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Probably because I have spoken to many people who do not want to see these shows. If you go to a Turkish belly dancing exhibition this is what expect to see. Not a woman dragging men up and stripping them to the waist and making them dance with her, then going around begging men to put money in her bra. As you say yourself it is not what you would do. I also know my husbnd hates this and no way would he be doing it, IMHO it is embarassing and degrading. I see only Highlander advocating he likes these nights,
I also hear that the one Belly Dancer that people in the area are familiar with is English.
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Jacqui - surely the mere fact that establishments continue to put on “Turkish Nights” with the degrading behavior you describe, proves that it is something that a good number of tourists want.
Much against my better judgment I have had a quick squint at Trip Advisor and it seems that quite a few people seem not to find it embarrassing and/or degrading.
Which of course proves absolutely nothing.
PS I am not "advocating" such Turkish Nights - what I am advocating is that people do what they want to when they are on holiday.
PPS I confess to being unable to adequately describe how much I enjoyed lying on Letoon Hotel's restaurant floor with a beautiful woman sitting astride me ;) ;) ;)
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PPS I confess to being unable to adequately describe how much I enjoyed lying on Letoon Hotel's restaurant floor with a beautiful woman sitting astride me ;) ;) ;)
Absolutely priceless Highlander. The first time I have laughed out loud today. Thank you so much ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Nothing said on Trip Advisor proves anything!
But, even though it's not something we'd go to watch ourselves, obviously lots of people do enjoy it and if that's the way they want to spend their hard earned money during their holiday then good luck to them. If you don't like this kind of thing - don't go. I'm sure somewhere in Turkey you will find a genuine Turkish dancing exhibition, but probably not in the tourist areas.
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Exactly.
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Problem is you spend you hard earned money to go, thinking it will be an exhibition of belly dancing, as we first did only to find it is not. So, now we DO choose not to go to any belly dancing and have done for years now.
It is a shame, but there is no way of knowing whether you will see a real belly dancing exhibition or not.
It was unfortunate that at the last BBQ in the Istanbul they had a belly dancer and we did not know she was going to be there. We watched her trying to drag men up from the next table to us and they did not want to go, one guy got very angry with her. It IMHO better for the girl to ask for volunteers to participate.
I have only every spoken to one man who enjoyed this entertainment and that was Highlander. I would also think that the lovely Brenda was a million times nicer than a belly dancer. ;) :) :angel:
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Go on `you tube` and you will see the `real` belly dancers.... on stage, and in clubs in the major cities around Turkey.
We watched a belly dancer whilst in Istanbul at a club, a `proper` turkish night` and believe me there is a big difference with the belly dancers to the ones around Hisaronu who dance alone for two minutes... then quickly get the men and ladies up etc... get the 5 lira`s out of the men then hastily leave to go to the next bar/ hotel and repeat
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I would enjoy seeing a "real" belly dancer, but they do not seem to exist around our area of Turkey. I am sure if some establishment actually had a real belly dancer it would attract a lot of business.
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It's a bit like when we first started to go to Spain years ago and there were always 'flamenco' dancers in the hotels, who were ok but not exactly the real thing. It wasn't until we went on a tour round the Andalucian cities and were taken to a genuine flamenco club in Seville that we realised the difference. Brilliant! :)
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"I would also think that the lovely Brenda was a million times nicer than a belly dancer."
Here is the lovely Brenda being as "embarrassing" as her depraved husband. Personally, I think a more fitting description would be fun-loving and vibrant.
(http://s1.postimg.org/b98p5dad7/bd3.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/b98p5dad7/)