Turkey is such a wonderful country to visit, with its great cultural and historical assets. Unfortunately, we chose the wrong company for this trip, because GATE1 TRAVEL delivers tours of very poor quality. The hotel in Istanbul was old, poorly kept, and located in a seedy part of town. In Izmir, the hotel was far from everything, so that we wasted a lot of time on public trasportation to go to town. Some of the other hotels were mediocre at best. To add insult to injury, we had to endure a tour guide who was anti-American, and... read full review »