What was good:
- This is not a hotel, this is a nice house meant for owners to stay at summer. This means it is packed with all kinds of useful stuff and appliances. A lot of towels, napkings, huge amount of tableware, cutlery and utencils. There is also some vintage stuff to look at and some books to read. Grill comes with charcoal available in quantities. Some beach toys, too.
- Enough shade in the territory, working air conditioning, good hot and cold water supply, gaz tank will be replaced and drinking water delivered upon request in no time. Neighbours around are mostly home owners, never had any trouble with them, they're very helpful and open with tourists. This is a duplex house sharing territory with another house and bigger location within cooperative.
- Consider yourself on the first line: 3 min walk to the beach. The sea is wonderful, sandy entrance, almost no boulders. You will find yourself on the biggest beach around: couple kilometres left and right are not interesting at all. Nearest shop is a minute walk. Despite this, it's relatively quiet around, not much happenning except on Staturdays and Sundays.
Things to consider:
- As said, this is not a hotel, this is a private house. If you never lived in one before, some things may be a surprise. First of all, cats - there is huge count of them everywhere in Turkey - they may visit you on several occasions, jump on tables, strip your grilled chicked of existence and etc. If you're not careful with your litter (garbage containers are a minute walk too), it may attract pests of all kinds. Beware of mosquitoes, too.
- During unlikely (but possible) rainstorms, electricity supply may be lost for entire site or village, this is normal and usually restored at earliest.
- You should optionally water the grass, bushes and trees every day. No, this is not what you're paying for, but this is what should better be done and takes 10 minutes in the evening. There are of course house keepers, which keep an eye on the house, too. But in general, again, this is not a hotel, keeping everything clean, safe and sound is your responsibility.
- While there are some shops around, they're mostly boring. If you need a choice of groceries, there is a Sok Market 1.3km walk uphill in the sun, so don't make my mistakes and take a bus or a car.
- For any things like variety of fresh meats, fish, kebab, kofte and etc - better take the local taxibus to Silivri - this is the only drawback of this location - being between two towns. I also cannot recommend buying vegetables or fruits from travelling trucks - first of all, overpriced, secondly - boiled in the hot sun and not tasty. Take a 15 minute ride to Silivri, 0.30 EUR per person (In Lira). As for highway bus, it also goes to Silivri, but they don't accept cash, only Istanbulkart, don't forget about it.
Generally, everything is fine with this place for quiet family stay. Owner is helpful and always responds in messenger.