Below if a few pictures from the Gala Dinner

Above is a video of a selection of good photos from my self and a few photos taken by friends from my recent trip to the Algarve last week.

It was sucha  great time and nobody had anything at all bad to say about the trip!

A big thank you to everyone involved in making the trip possible and a big thank you to Porto Bay Falesia for hosting us for the 2 nights!

Yesterday I returned from staying at the beautifull Porto Bay Falesia in Albufeira, Portugal.

The hotel was such a lovely hotel, with great facitlities and friendly staff.

I was only staying at the hotel for 2 nights with work as a reward for being an ‘A Performer’

The flight out was good as well with around 45 of us checking in for the flight from Newcastle we had our own dedicated checkin desk and fast track through secuirty at the airport!

The hotel was only around 35mins from Faro Airport which was nice to to be travling for a long period of time to get the hotel.

When we got to the hotel first impressions were good, it was a lovely hotel and clean.

The swimming pool of the hotel also was great as well.

The staff at the hotel were very helpfull and we also had the Thomas Cook Rep’s throught the holiday who were a great help and a big hello and thank you goes out to Hazel, Kelly, Troy and there Gateway Manager Jo!

I am not sure what else to post here but just to say that the hotel was great and that I would highly recomend the hotel to everyone to go and stay at!

During our holiday in Turkey one night we went for a Dinner Show to see ‘Talk of the Town’

Some people when you first hear about it think it will just be a Drag Show with only Singing, oh how wrong!

The show did involve singing yes, but it also included some Comedy as well as Dancing.

Every week the cast of the show change the whole show so each week is different, which in away is good but also a way to make people come back to see the show (and believe me it would be worth going back to see if you are in Turkey for 2 weeks twice as is very very very good)

The cast who were in the show had come from England and brought all their cloths all the way over from England to Turkey just for the show!

I would give this show 10/10 and highly recommend the show to anyone who would wish to go!

Back in June, 2009 I went on a holiday to Turkey with some friends of mine.

This was the very first time I had been to Turkey and must say it was a great time.

We stayed in Club Turban, located in Marmaris

The hotel was so lovely, it had its own private beach, daily entertainment durring the day and night, its own Turkish Bath as well as a large number of other features.

The swimming pool was very big and as well as that away from the main pool (just a short walk) the hotel had its own 2 slidies and 1 small slide for children!

The hotel was built around tree’s which gave it a nice feel as well as provided some shade from the very hot weather of Turkey.

Below is a video I have put together with some pictures and videos of sights around the hotel.

My Hotel Review, also on TripAdvisor

Having just returned from Club Turban for a 11 night holiday I had a wonderful time!

The hotel is one of the best hotels I have been to.

In the Main Lobby they have the Lobby Bar which is open 24hrs and serving alcohol from 10am – 2am.

There is also 2 other bars in the hotel during the day, one by the pool and the other by the beach (which is open till 1am)

We had no problems getting Sun Loungers at the pool as the hotel had plenty of them and were able to go down to the pool in the afternoon and still get a sun lounger!

The hotel also had there own onsite shop, hairdressers and internet café where you could get on the internet for 5 Turkish Leira

The hotel also had its own private beach with is a stone beach and not a sand beach and also has some great views.

There is a very good Entertainment Team at the hotel providing entertainment during the day and night starting at 10am and then at night they also have a different show each night, the entertainers are very skilled and every night it is them who provide the night entertainment to the guests ranging from dancing, singing and comedy as well as improvisation.

There were many different nationalities at the hotel and not had a problem with any of them.

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner is severed as a Buffet unless you decided to go to one of the 3 A’la Carte Restaurants on-site which you get 1 visit to (you can go more than once for an extra 15 Turkish Lira per person)

The room I had was very spacious and could not fault it.

I did not find one thing wrong while staying at the hotel, after reading some bad reviews on the hotel I was worried before I went to the hotel, but after getting there had such a great time and would go back again and also have been recommending the hotel to family and friends to go to.