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Oyster Residences
Ölüdeniz, Turkey
Price: $191 WHAT IT'S LIKE: Built in the style of a seaman's manor, Oyster Residences evokes the town's quaint traditional architecture with its stone walls and an olive tree–shaded courtyard. But the real treat is the attentive staff, known to leave flowers on your balcony. The hotel has access to a one-mile expanse of ivory sand and a turquoise lagoon on a tiny inlet along a rugged stretch of the Turkish Riviera. Book rooms on the ground floor, with garden terraces that open up to WHAT TO DO: Visit the nearby town of Kayaköy—the hundreds of abandoned Greek-style houses here supposedly inspired the novel Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernières, the author of Corelli's Mandolin. —Özgür Gezer
the pool and courtyard.
