Our painting holidays introduce our guests the local face of Bodrum, unlikely to the crowded and touristy holiday resort of summertime. We support the local community whose income extremely decreases during off season by bringing groups to our town.
The accommodation will be at our small and charming family run hotel, in the undisturbed Paradise Bay. At our hotel, we do our best to reduce our ecological footsteps in many ways like using solar energy for water heating system, recycling water, composting organic garbage, using energy savers as key holders and planting trees. We use the water from our artesian well in our garden, drinkable but not tasty. We don’t use city water. We hire local people and give them education about the hospitality business as well as teaching them English.
We buy our produce from local bazaars both to give economical support to the local community and to present a fresh and healthy diet to our guests. During our painting holidays, we make excursions to nearby villages and ancient ruins where we encourage local people to preserve their cultural heritage, traditions and environment seeing people who are interested in their way of life and are supporting them economically. We also aim to make them aware of the importance of not damaging our environment, by being a good example and not disturbing the habitat during our trips into the nature.
We are planning to make a painting exhibition at the end of our holidays and donate the income we get from the sales to the only primary school in our small village Gölköy, which is suffering from poverty. Our aim is to buy books and make a library for the children. This, of course, will be due to the decision of our guests who would like to participate.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
