Kekova Island (Kekova Adasi) Tours and Tickets - page 4

Very professional guide, well planned schedule. You have to pay the entrance fees, but it 's optional.

saw turtles, had 3 swims and the sunken city all in the 3 hours - ideal the boat owner didn't speak much English, but made do

The boat tour and tour guide were great, they took us to multiple swimming spots and served a delicious lunch. Highly recommend.

Yaşar was a great group leader. He was friendly, funny, and engaging. He made the experience comfortable and fun! The scenery was absolutely gorgeous. A small boat follows along in case of any emergencies and also is a good space to carry belongings that you want to keep out of the kayak or keep dry. They also take photos of people in the group so you don’t have to worry about pictures, but it’s nice if you have a waterproof camera.

Absolute best tour experience ever. The tour is packed full of once-in-a-lifetime experiences, including swimming, snorkeling, the underground city, and a castle hike. Lunch was fantastic, and Yassr provided lots of helpful information and did a great job keeping the group together and laughing. Absolute must if you’re in this part of Turkey (and worth the drive if you’re not.)

Highlights were the 4 swim stops in warm, crystal-clear turquoise water, plus the Kekova sunken city. Very well organised, beautiful boat, very clean, excellent lunch. Could have done with more time to see Simena Castle

Was incredible - definitely a must-do experience in Kaş. I will be dreaming about this day for a while. Overall, this was a very well produced 8-hour tour, with many different spots (4 chances to swim/snorkel, 1 island to explore, and 1 ancient sunken city to see from the boat). Here are some other details not included in the tour description that I would have found helpful for planning ahead of time: - Parking: Will be hard to find free parking in front of shop, but there is paid parking if you drive slightly past the shop. I believe it was ~550 Lira in cost - Water & snacks will cost extra $ (they do take card). However, many people on our tour brought their own - which is smart for an 8-hour day. - Snorkeling: you can snorkel, but you will need to rent the snorkel gear / lift vests for additional $ from the boat (pool noodles provided at no extra cost). We ended up renting - it was SO worth it. The waters are the clearest we’ve seen while snorkeling. Fish aren’t as common as a spot like Hawaii, but the fish we saw were super cool - saw pufferfish, eel, sea urchins, tiny shiny schools of fish, mini squid, etc. - Towels: bring your own, but if you forget, you can buy towels on the boat (we clearly ended up buying a lot of extras lol) - Clothes: I would bring 2 changes of clothing, 1 swimsuit, 1 swimsuit coverup. One change will be used for arriving + when you get off boat, other will be used in between snorkel stops when you visit the island town where you will get very sweaty if visiting in the summer (buy the homemade ice cream - it was delish & check out the castle on top of the island, took 10 mins to walk there). - If you get seasick easily: we brought our own Dramamine & luckily there were so many stops that it wasn’t a ton of time spent at sea at one time. I think there were 7-8 stops. Would recommend taking medication before though if you do get easily sea sick just because this tour is ALL day -Food provided: they gave us a nice plated lunch (with lots of things like chicken/fish, salad, noodles, potatoes, bread, beet dip, carrot dip), melon as a snack, and tea after last swimming stop. -Sunken City: please note, you will not be able to snorkel over the sunken city. Apparently it’s illegal to do so. For this stop, they just told us the history of the sunken city from the boat as we passed by. Was still interesting, but wanted to make it clear that you can’t snorkel here unfortunately (something we assumed you could do & were looking forward to it) Would 100% book again though. Thanks for everything!

this package is sold with use of a glass bottomed or windowed boat, I have been informed such a boat is illegal in Turkey( we , i would suggest you update the description, as it currently mis-sold with this description and the disappointment at not seeing Kekova up close is far reaching. Besides this issue the tour was very good with good drivers and guide, the 6am start was early but someone else was picked up at 5am, our trip was turned upside with kekova in the afternoon, to add to the disappointment, we were only allowed 15 minutes in the sea which seemed to be too little in the heat and might of helped overcoming the previous disappointment, the only reason for the such a high rating is the guide/drivers and of course the beautiful area-talking to others they were under the same opinion