To Pumukkale
The last couple of days, one to get here, one to look around the ruins.
Hotel La’bella
Didn’t think much to the hotel I stayed in on Wednesday. The place was advertised as having WiFi throughout. Turns out there was none, anywhere. This obviously causes problems. After a period of trying to sort it out in my room, then trying the public areas, I returned to reception and asked to speak to the manager.
Suddenly, and mysteriously the WiFi suddenly came on. I did the more serious stuff and went out for dinner. When I came back, it had gone off again and it stayed off until I left in the morning.
3 Mobile phone masts
When I was testing the public area’s WiFi, I went up to the rooftop terrace. There I discovered that the hotel had 3 mobile phone reception masts on the roof!
Maybe you’re aware, churches in the UK use these to make money. Operators pay a lease. If you own a tall building in somewhere they want to be, they will pay you a sum to have their service operating there. Sometimes it can be a lot.
This woman had 3!
That made me think that the place made plenty of money, without any guests. They were just creaming it off basically.
Reception weren’t at all interested in the internet not working when I left. Nothing you can do apart from leave a good honest review, so that’s what I did.
To be fair, I left a really good review for the previous hotel, so they kind of balance each other out.
Getting to Pumukkale
Travel conditions: Ideal for cycling. Overcast, cold (for Turkey), no wind, not too much sun.
Whilst cycling down there, on this side of the Pumukkale hills, I saw some of this.
There was like a local farmer parked close to the front of this one. I was going to ask him what it was all about, but after some consideration, I thought better of it and cycled on… past a number of these devices.
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