Dalaman marina

[niyaz]

Any news on the Dalaman marina?

[stuart]

I read recently in one of the airline mags, I think it was Turkish airlines that D Marine are going ahead with the project and starting soon, if those boys get involved they mean business with a lot of marinas already in TR and also in other countries.
It will be a big one, so you will be able to jump off a plane at dalaman and step aboard your gin palace in no time at all.

[niyaz]

Lets hope Stuart and fingers crossed of course.

[Chinook]

Their website still says open 2014 but as they have previously said that it would take 2.50 years to construct don't hold your breath

[robbins]

hi there thought as yet another October had been and gone we would go down and take a look needless to say the area is as desolate as it always has been oh well maybe next year

[rosehillgirl1]

Hi.

We first went to Dalaman in 2004-we were told that it was starting the following Spring. At that point they had been waiting five or six years already

Sadly its not going to happen ever. Other marina's have been built and other golf courses but Dalaman Belediye and the powers that be aren't particularly forward looking or dynamic-they like things just as they are.

Ann

[Chinook]

Originally Posted by rosehillgirl1

Hi.

We first went to Dalaman in 2004-we were told that it was starting the following Spring. At that point they had been waiting five or six years already

Sadly its not going to happen ever. Other marina's have been built and other golf courses but Dalaman Belediye and the powers that be aren't particularly forward looking or dynamic-they like things just as they are.

Ann

Its a private enterprise the building of which will be based on commercial decisions so please do not blame the Belediye

[rosehillgirl1]

Originally Posted by Chinook

Its a private enterprise the building of which will be based on commercial decisions so please do not blame the Belediye

Hi.

That's not entirely true-but if you want to believe that the Belediye have welcomed the development with open arms-that's your perogative.

Obviously Dalaman is not a good economic proposition to build any kind of new developments.


New marina developments have been completed across Turkey which were planned years after Dalaman-why?

Dalaman golf course was planned (and started) before Bodrum but where Dalaman was abandoned Bodrum went on to be completed.

Yes it is private investment funding but it requires a forward looking Belediye willing to welcome new and different developments.

After eight years in Dalaman we gave up waiting for anything to happen.

Ann

[Housemartins]

We need to look at wider issues, why did we get a new road from the airport, because RTE didn't think it was good enough. Dalaman was quite happy with the way things were. And I think this is true with many issues in the area.

[Aloysius]

The D-Marin project in Dalaman will be entering it's eighteenth year next year. Why is it taking so long? well there are many and various reasons for this, however most of those have been put to bed. The ongoing problem is the ecological damage this particular marina could be responsible for but this too is being addressed. There are also environmental issues that have reared their head over the last couple of years which are also muddying the water if you will pardon the pun.

D-Marin is a part of the Dogus Grup which is one of the largest privately owned conglomerates in Turkey. However marinas here in Turkey fall under the BOT system and as such is under the control of the government.

Given all of the environmental and ecological issues involved, it does beg the question of how the airport got built.