White Water Rafting with Lunch

We did the rafting tour in July and I would like to report on this one. Contact in advance everything worked out, but on the day of the tour we got the information 10 minutes before we were supposed to be picked up, that we should be picked up almost an hour later. Well, I can still live with it. Then we drive 10 minutes and take a break 15 minutes later, so we should buy drinks and kebabs there, on the bus he also only had water, although everything else was on the price list. Then it went on and the driver really drove like a wild sow, I was really scared when driving, he not only overtook before the corners, but also right in the corners, even though the car did not move forward at all. Then we got there and should sit down first, waited forever, I wanted to get us something to drink first, 4 colas and a water wanted the 17 euros, only on demand what cola and water cost individually, we got 3 euros back, although they didn't understand anything at first supposedly, because German didn't speak there a single one, well we are in Turkey, but I know really differently otherwise. Then we should sit somewhere else and wait again. Eventually someone came around and wanted to explain how important gloves, bath shoes and waterproof phone case are and we should definitely buy them. I already had phone case and shoes we all had, fortunately this was not my first rafting, so I know that gloves are not required, even if he repeated several times, we drive now 3 hours. Well, after waiting again we should pick out life jackets, helmets and paddles ourselves, there were hardly all sizes in the vests, so hardly anyone had the vest fitted properly and also the helmets were all too big and many also broken. On request, someone was simply taken out and held up. Paddles weren’t there enough either, we were told, let’s still get it, at least that was true and the advantage for me was that I didn’t have to drag the paddle all the time until the actual rafting. Then we should go rafting with jeeps, of course not everyone fit in, so we had to go again with our great bus driver. When we arrived, it was said that we were going to the waterfall now, so a very steep, rocky way up in full equipment, arrived at the top, the waterfall was supposedly not on, but we could now take photos, somehow hardly anyone wanted to or were finished quickly, yet waited forever until we had to go down the same way again. Then to a place where we could jump completely heated several meters down into the river. He had also tried to push a few who did not want to, but fortunately they successfully fought back. The jumping okay, might still have gone, but you had no reasonable way to get back up, just along such a tree root, which didn't seem safe to me. All right. Then it finally went to the place where the boats were, but first it was some boats in front of us, then eventually the missing paddles came and then he tried to distribute the boats fairly, well, that worked so semi, but we were finally in the boat. The boatmaster then only knew 2 words, forward and stop, he did not make any mood or anything at all, I know from the last tours also differently and you also witnessed on other boats from other organizers quite differently. So at some point a break. Lunch should be included, there was Gözlene, corn and drinks, we thought that was lunch, so everyone ate naturally. Then the guide said at the next stop it goes to the buggy and zipline and he said not to ask when it finally goes on, that seemed strange to me. So we continued shortly and shortly afterwards we stopped and we should leave everything in the boat. Then he said whoever has a buggy and a zipline now goes somewhere, the rest waits. We just booked rafting and we thought we were just rafting, so we asked and he said we have to wait an hour and a half for the others. I thought I wasn't hearing properly. We were in a completely dusty place and of course there were only expensive drinks to buy, so we said that we don't want to wait here because we only booked rafting. He said at least he'd take a look, so it was time to wait, but then he came up with the information that he'd get 2 from another boat to us and then we could go on. Okay, that's how we envisioned it. So eventually it went on. In between we took a few swimming breaks in the river and eventually we arrived at the starting point and were thus finished with the tour. Then we asked when we were going back to the hotel, when it was time to eat, when we realized that the food was the included lunch. But we were all so annoyed that we didn't eat anything because we just didn't have an appetite and wanted to go to the hotel. They said we had to wait for the others. That'll take another hour. Not content with that, I tried to find someone to help us get back to the hotel. There was also a nice man who wanted to help me first. But instead of us then being able to go back, someone came first who wanted the money for Gözleme and drinks. I explained we thought this was lunch, but no discussion helped, we paid way too much money for it and then just waited again. We were all super thirsty too, but I didn't see it throwing any more money down their throats. It came as it had to, the rest of the troupe came and they were actually in the boat with us, wondered that we were still there, we told them that, they couldn't believe it either. By now, more than the supposed hour we were supposed to wait had passed and those who arrived now had to eat, so wait even longer until they finally went on the bus. I was also just mad, which the bus driver had of course noted to me. There was a German girl on the bus who could speak Turkish perfectly and he then approached her about it and told her to tell me that he couldn't help it and he got shit himself and he had even made sure that we weren't dragged over the table any more, because that's probably what they were planning. I know it's not his fault, but we were just annoyed. But it also came as it had to. After another adventurous trip back, he stopped by the doner again, of course, supposedly for rest time or something, well who believes it, he had rest time all the time, but we put up with that. But finally we finally arrived back at the hotel after 8 hours, of which one and a half hours was rafting, so actually almost a whole day of vacation was in the bucket. So I absolutely do NOT recommend this tour, because even after I complained to the operator, the only reaction came that the tour was like this. Well, not with us anymore!