We had a bad experience last year with one of these Oludeniz boat trips. We had done quite a few Olu trips prior to this one and had mainly been on the Volkan 3 and Volkan 4 boats, so we booked through a guy we had come to know. He said he was related to the owner of the Volkan boats and had always been straight with us and us with him.
Anyway, we booked a trip for 9 people and we were to be picked up at our complex at 10:00 (as normal with the other trips we had been on). Come the day, 09:00 came and went, then 09:20 went passed so I phoned the guy we booked with and he said 5 minutes. Another twenty minutes later I phoned him again and he said the driver was lost and couldn't find us. This turned out to mean the driver was actually on his third trip from Oludeniz and when he finally picked us up we went to just about every complex in Ovacik and then some in Hisaranou before heading down to Oludeniz.
We were herded like cattle into a compound behind the beachfront at Oludeniz where were told we were going on the Easy Riders boat, not what we had booked, and as we headed along the beach you could see this boat was already jam packed full as we were the last of the round robin trips to be picked up. We have always taken drinks with us and some fruit etc to eat when we wanted on these trips and no-one has ever batted an eyelid, but not on this boat. Very rude and very arrogant.
There was a guy standing at the top of the gang plank who took one look at the cooler bag and just pointed to the floor and said "put it there and collect it when you get off". We said no thanks and that no-one on any other boat trips ever had a problem with this and he said not here you don't. I walked upstairs to have a look at how many people were up there and you could barely find a space big enough to stand in let alone lay down to sun bathe in so I said we were leaving and not going on the trip as it was like a cattle ship and so we left. We were ripped off by the guy who had up to that point been fine with us and will never book anything with him again any time we're in Turkey.
What's more, as has already been mentioned, these people think bad experiences like this just stay with the unfortunate people who they happen to and get ripped off, but no they don't, I make sure from now on if anyone wants to book any boat trips that I tell them who NOT to use.
