We drove there last October from Fethiye. Stopped off at Isparta on route. The lakes were about another 45 mins away and with hindsight would have probably stopped there as Isparta is just another busy city. As we had a car we stayed in Çavuşin which was nice and quiet and has a number of hotels to choose from, all very similar in price and quality but Göreme which was only a 5 min drive away has a lot more choice of not only hotels but places to eat out. We paid about 80 euros each for a balloon ride. On the way back we stopped the night in Konya near the Mevlana Museum which is famous for the whirling dervishes. Again there are a number of hotels near by. I would recommend a sat nav (I used googlemaps on my phone) to find these hotels as it is a big city. Don’t expect to find a bar when here though! We then came back via Antalya which was a shorter and more scenic route than on the way there
Even though we have new maps loaded on the Sat Nav,still couldn't find our Pension in Konya it was totally confused by the one way streets,
eventually we stopped a Trafic Police car they stopped the traffic asked us to make an illegal u turn took us through no left turn lights whilst stopping the flow of traffic,delivered us right outside the Pension.A big tick for Konya Trafic as far as we are concerned. Konya itself not as restricted as we were led to believe plenty of young Turkish wearing modern western clothing.brilliant public transport system with lots of English language speakers about