White Water Rafting from Side, Turkey

An amazing experience although the 4 hour timing was off by a few hours. We were picked up at 10am and were dropped back at our hotel at 6pm. But it was worth it. The rafting activity covered 14 kilometres down the mountain and the views were breath taking. We also stopped off at a natural spring and waterfall spot on the way to swim and enjoy the views. Our rep was great and very professional and the included lunch (chicken shish, salad and rice) was fresh and tasty. One thing to point out when booking this activity, you'll have to wait for the group you were picked up with to finish their activities before you can all head back, this will have some waiting around if you've only booked rafting. But the waiting is worth it. There is no other full day experience for this value.

Rafting was a lot of fun. The Trip took us 8,5 h. And we were the Last ones to be Picked up and the First ones to be dropped of. We hat to wait 30 Minutes for the Bus becouse of Traffic. After contacting the Agency we got that info after 20 Minutes of waining. The First Meeting Stop is a lot of Chaos, If you don't catch the Attention of the Guides and you are not speaking russion or turkish, you are overlooked. They try to sell you foodwere and gloves. You don't need them. We booked just the Rafting Tour but got to also do a mud Tour with Quads and other dirtbikes. Also ziplining. As we did Not book this, the scedual was Mixed up and the Guides argued with the owner of the place. We had to wait a very long time to take our turn.

We signed up for a rafting experience only but though that was advertised as a 4-hour activity it became a 9-hour one. Generally the bus driver and the boat guides are a very nice group of people and thinking only of that experience that was great. Lots of fun and splashing. With a little bit of organisation and less aggressive attitude to sell kits and extra food and drink (one organiser on the base particularly) this could be a 5-star attraction. We had to wait long periods of time for that person to sell his goods - disgusting way to convince tourists to buy everything that you really don’t need for a nice day. Later while waiting for others to finish different activities at other spots you are left without drinks and food, only one site that was offered for ridiculously expensive price knowing that a bottle of water in Turkey is only 3-5 lira. I am not sure that the tour advertisers are aware of these problems but it would be ideal to look into these to help future travellers to enjoy that more and give better feedback.