Kartalkaya Ski Resort Guide
Kartalkaya Ski Resort Guide
Kartalkaya is a small ski resort located off the Istanbul - Ankara highway, 50 km from Bolu, in the Koroglu Mountains. Kartalkaya is much quieter and cheaper during the week because of weekend coaches from Istanbul and Ankara. There are 14 trails at Kartalkaya and the vertical drop is 1210 mtrs. 10 lifts and a terrain park are available. There is accommodation slopeside at Kartalkaya.
Resorts close to Kartalkaya include:
Mt Keltepe (77 km),
Elmadag (143 km),
Kartepe (144 km),
Mt Ilgaz (169 km),
Uludağ (234 km),
Select Kartalkaya Location Map Detail:
(Also see our detailed Weather Map around Kartalkaya, which will give you visual overview of current and future snow conditions)
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Trails (Pistes): 14 |
Halfpipes: - |
| Summit: 2225 m |
Toplift: m |
| Beg: 40% Int: 40% Adv: 20% |
Terrain Parks: 1 |
| Vertical Drop: 366 m |
X-Country: - |
| Lifts: 16 (3 chair lifts, 13 surface lifts) |
Snowmaking: - |
| Gondolas / Cable Cars: - |
Slopeside accommodation: Y |
| Restaurants: 4 |
Acres of ski: - |
| Bars: 3 |
Nearest Airport: Ankara |
| Nearest Train: Ankara |
Tourist Info Phone:: 0216 330 18 18,
Kartalkaya Tourist Office Website |
Visitor Reviews of Kartalkaya
Philip Upson from Turkey writes:
We stayed in Dorukaya Hotel (at Kartalkaya) over Christmas last year (2010). Nice Hotel: relatively small rooms but adequate (unless like us you have three young kids - and a bit more space would be handy). Food was good and plentiful. Some nice waiters but the hotel reception suffers from the often found grumpy unfriendly Turkish hotel staff. Note: many of these probably do not ski and just come up from the coastal hotels so don't expect the Austrian/Swiss welcome here.
The absurdity of the two hotel chains having separate lift tickets will be a bug bare to most foreigners who have skied more developed resorts, and could easily finish all the on-piste routes of both areas in one day. But saying that you can off course on one day go and buy the other pass. There really are no appropriate slopes for absolute beginners, and safety is an issue (on both the so called baby slopes as well as most others).
Like others we found the hotel full and the slopes empty. weird. Patchy snow in places (i.e. grass) but runs still open. Anyway we attempted it and once over the windblown pasture we got to a nice black run. I saw in another post that the off-piste was untracked during powder and we found that too but, unfortunately, the powder was gone and a sort of spring snow was found so we still managed much off-piste on the untracked sides of the pistes. The trees off the side of the only chair look good if you have powder.
Price looks expensive to start with but as meals and lift passes and drinks are included, as well as kiddies club, and pool etc, it was not too bad. Some children accommodated for free too.
Christmas...of course they had not yet heard of it...so not a decoration in sight...but that did not matter.
All in all, for a few days a good break from the cities. But not the Alps by a long shot.
2011-01-24 |
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NEW!
Announcements & News from the Kartalkaya ski resort manager
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- Season closes: 10 Apr 2012
Kartal otel snowpark tam 2012 sezonunda hazır
Information supplied 6 Feb 2012
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