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Bergama's hotel picture is not particularly
good.
Construction of the four-lane
Izmir-Çanakkale highway
brought Bergama within a 100-minute
drive of Izmir, so most visitors use
Izmir, with its large selection of
good hotels, as a traveling base, and
come to Bergama on day-trips.
Coming from the north, travelers
spend the night in Çanakkale,
Assos or Ayvalik, and visit Bergama
during the day on their way south to
Izmir or Ephesus.
That having been said, you can still
spend the night comfortably enough
in Bergama, as it has several adequate
3-star hotels.
The traditional
choice is the Hotel
Berksoy,
set in gardens on the main street between
the highway bus terminal and city
center.
The Berksoy was
built when bus tours still regularly
stopped in Bergama for the night. Its
prospects were good. A large 1970s
motel-style building on two floors,
it anticipated both tour groups and
motorists.
Today it hosts mostly individual motorists.
Its guest rooms are
comfortable enough (though hardly fancy),
with balconies, private baths with
shower and hair dryer, and Wifi
wireless Internet. Some rooms,
like No. 213, where I stayed in April,
2008, have been renovated, and it is
one of these that you want. (Older
rooms are less comfortable.)
Depending on the season and demand,
you may be assigned to a newer or older
room. If several rooms are available,
you may ask to see several, and choose
the best.
If your room reservation
is made by a travel
agency, you may
have a better chance of getting a renovated
room, as hotels usually favor guests
who come via agencies.
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