Dalaman is best known as the airport that serves the whole south-west coast — but right on its doorstep sits Sarıgerme, one of Turkey's calmest and greenest beach destinations and the shortest transfer of any resort on this coast. Sarıgerme is a low-key village beside a long, golden Blue Flag beach, backed by pine forest and pomegranate orchards, with a handful of large, polished resorts and almost none of the bustle you find in Marmaris or Fethiye. It is the place we send people who want a quiet, scenic, beach-and-pool week, very little nightlife, and to be on a sunbed barely twenty-five minutes after landing.
Every Dalaman package we sell carries full ATOL financial protection under licence #11211, and your ATOL Certificate lands the moment you book — you can read how your ATOL financial protection works before you commit a penny. Both of the resorts on this page have been hand-picked and inspected in person against our 22-point criteria, not chosen from a brochure, so you are booking somewhere a member of our team has actually walked through, eaten in and timed the walk to the water.
"Sarıgerme is my quiet recommendation — the people who go there tend to go back," says Raşit Eti, our Turkey Destination Specialist, who has spent more than thirty years in Turkish tourism — from senior management at Sunrise Queen and Mylome Luxury to director roles at Air Tours — and still travels the coast every season, re-checking the hotels on this page in person. "It's a beautiful long beach, the resorts are big and well-kept, and the transfer is so short you barely lose a day of your holiday at either end. If you want lively, go to Marmaris; if you want calm and green, Sarıgerme is hard to beat." If you want the bigger picture before you choose, his overview of holidays along the Dalaman coast sets Sarıgerme next to Fethiye and Marmaris, and his guide to where to stay in Turkey helps you place it against the rest of the country. Meet Raşit Eti, our Turkey specialist.
