Around 300 tourists who had arrived to check in at the popular Middle Town and Palmet Bodrum hotels in Bodrum with bookings were stranded outside as the buildings were sealed off by police. Instead of rest, the travelers, among whom were Russians and Ukrainians, were shocked.
According to Turizmgazetesi, tourists were not going to leave the surrounded place and waited for news for more than five hours under the doors of hotels with suitcases in their hands, some tried to break inside. At this time, the hotel managers present tried to calm down the angry guests.
Thus, the publication quoted a tourist who paid for a three-day stay at the hotel but did not get into the room: “We arrived at the hotel in the morning, but we were not taken to the rooms, we have been waiting here for several hours, it is not clear what will happen. The agencies said that they would take us to other hotels because we don’t know where to go. We asked for our money back, but they didn’t agree, most likely we will go to court.”
It is clarified that the hotel, which sold rooms to the affected Ukrainians and Russians, a few weeks before had an order from the prefect and municipality of Bodrum to stop the activity because the object did not have the relevant documents for the provision of services.
Hotel managers said they would not make an official statement to the press, saying: “We are already in a difficult situation, we are now trying to solve the problem of tourists.” As a result of the prolonged upholstering of the threshold, the tourists did not achieve their goal, they were evacuated to other hotels.