Snowsure: 3.9
- Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing
- Is often closed due to a lack of snow
- Occasionally suffers from a lack of snow
- Rarely suffers from a lack of snow
- Uludağ is snowsure even in the poorest seasons
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November 08, 2010
yiannis from
Greece
yiannis from
Greece
I visited Uludağ a year ago during a short trip in Turkey. For the quality they offer I can say that the hotels are very expensive (so the food and the drinks) and also the use of ski lifts. The safety on the slopes is very poor.
It is cheaper to visit and ski for a week in Austria than to stay for a week in Uludağ. If you visit Bansko or Pamporovo (Bulgaria) you will spend half the money. Uludağ hotels and the ski area can survive because Turkish (until today) can't travel abroad easily and the whole system relies on them.
[note from the editor: this review has been revised so the information is completely relevant]
October 07, 2010
Ahmet Akpinar from
Turkey
Ahmet Akpinar from
Turkey
Agaoglu and 17 more hotels have announced that they will go this 2010-2011 season on a "single pass" system for 1st and 2nd area pistes, probably not the "whole" but most of them included. According to the "non-official" information, daily unlimited price will be about 80 TL ( about 40 € ). The hotel managers are "warned" not to shuffle any price yet.
This is some good, some bad news for Uludağ. Most of the Turkish guests come here on weekends. That is the sign that the pistes will most probably be more expensive, at least doubled on daily basis. On the other hand, some of them might be connected, so you don't have to turn around on a single piste all day long.
I think, they have realized, that the critics here and other web sites are effective, and they have to do something about it.
What if they start thinking about more qualified, educated personnel, security, limiting barriers, information signs, experienced Search & Rescue Team, better teleskies, transportation between 1st and 2nd Area, and set some standards not to "fool" guests, keeping the environment and the rivers clean. Will it happen?
Well, maybe, if we keep the pressure on it...
February 19, 2010
Zeynep from
Turkey
Zeynep from
Turkey
I kindly ask you to read till the end, hope you enjoy it.
I admit Uludağ is not the best place for winter sports but you can make it the best for you. First of all you have to book the best term; i.e. google "uludag" and you will reach every info about events. To be honest, I wouldn't go there during the winterfest or spring break if I don't want to wait in the never ending queues etc. Between the second and last week of Feb, it is extremely crowded and I won't recommend you to go there. But when you visit the resort during the weekdays, hotels have good deals and you will do whatever you want on the borderless pistes. I also recommend you to take a one-hour lesson from the licenced ski instructors to have a good idea about the pathways and connections. I have to add that many hotels are going on a renovation this Summer and in 2010-2011 season, you will have really good service with the same prices. And as a little foot note, 1st district is the first developed one and has the most lifts; luxury hotels are located on the 2nd district, modern and very, very long and mostly black pistes are also connected with here.
Please check out other resorts in Turkey before planning your trip because we have really good resorts i.e. Palandoken/Erzurum (they have registered pistes for races), Sarikamis/Kars (Sarikamis has the best snow on earth - crystal snow and the best view of forest with yellow pine trees), Ilgaz/Kastamonu etc.. You just google for them and choose the best one for you. Good luck & Thank you!
February 09, 2010
ayıcık from
Turkey
ayıcık from
Turkey
February 07, 2010
Kasper from
Norway
Kasper from
Norway
Uludağ is a nice place and it is a good option for a one or two day ski trip from Istanbul. But if you go to Uludağ then be aware of the very poor lift pass system. I very much regretted for not having bought for Agaoglu from the beginning. Instead of buying a day pass to Agaoglu for 60TL, I spend 70TL for three other lifts other lifts. Agaoglu has slopes for beginners to intermediate skiers and it also gives you access to places with powder (for some reason powder is being left untouched in Uludağ). And they even have a modern 4person express chair lift.
December 23, 2009
Jay Newman from
USA - California
Jay Newman from
USA - California
April 03, 2009
malto from
Turkey
malto from
Turkey
The visiting of the mountain Uludağ is suitable for people living in Turkey, Asia, Africa etc. But I noticed that people living in İstanbul often go to ski at resorts in Bulgaria; Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo. I want to congratulate them. It is really the best decision. There is a truly nice ski runs in Italy, France and Switzerland but if you have not visa for this country, unfortunately you must ski in Uludağ. The prices are realy high: hamburger 13YTL, Absolut votka 50 ml 21YTL Tea 4YTL. The owners and staff of the hotels at Uludağ are Turkish people with Turkish mentality. The first aim of a lot of people of this country is to deceive foreigners and strangers. At first sight we are very hospitable, friendly etc. But it is not so. A lot of people in Turkey use at least 10 masks. They never wil not understand that deceive yourself. Thank you for your patience(during reading of message/travel in Turkey).
March 03, 2009
Pete Marshall from
United Kingdom
Pete Marshall from
United Kingdom
Currently working in Turkey and on our 2nd trip to Uludag. Both times we have stayed at the Agaoglu Hotel which gives all inclusive board with good Turkish food and a large selection of drinks (it also has free Wifi in the rooms - as you are witnessing.). It has been renovated sometime between 08 & 09 which is good because the rooms were very tired on our first visit. Most importantly, the Agaoglu (pronounced something like 'Arollou') gives the best deal on lift passes and the best selection of ski lifts. The lift pass works out at about £4.00 per day (for 5 days) and you can get around the whole resort on the 5 lifts the ticket gives you access to. That gives you an idea of the size of the ski-area. The system of the hotels owning certain lifts at Uludağ is utterly senseless and someone needs to bang the owners heads together until they agree to form some sort of limited company and share the lifts. This is supposed to be a national park but they have allowed this feckless system to scar the mountainside by building 4 lifts from roughly the same start point to roughly the same end point. Every lift has at least one other shadowing it nearby. Someone needs shooting for that decision. Now I've got that off my chest.
The resort is about 25-30 years behind the modern European and North American resorts. Safety is typically Turkish in that it is your responsibility, not 'the managements'. However, the debarcle of a lost boarder mentioned elsewhere in this review section has obviously had some effect. We have just been refused skiing this afternoon because the military are on the slopes looking for a child who has been reported missing in the thick fog this morning.
Skiing in Uludag is comfortable. The first time you stop at a restaurant on the mountain and a man dashes out to take off your skis for you resolves to getting quite accustomed to this service. People are generally friendly and service is good. However, if you have a lot of Turkish children in your hotel at Uludağ, then may your god help you.
February 22, 2009
snowman from
France
snowman from
France
Just came back from a wonderful holiday in Uludag. Stayed in Monte Baia Hotel that had superb service, lovely people and easy access to the lifts and slopes. The ski instructors at Uludağ are absolutely perfect, lovely lovely people.
Uludag: such a wonderful place with snow, slopes, hotel, people. Truly enjoyed it.
January 23, 2009
Ahmet Akpinar from
Turkey
Ahmet Akpinar from
Turkey
A snowboarder died last week in Uludag. He was riding from Maden Area close to the 2nd Area hotels. The security people did not start a proper search operation for him properly, although he asked help from his cell phone to his parents many times. As he was found he was only 2 km away from the hotel, and it was known for 12 hours that he was missing. There were 2 hospitals on the top but they didn't find a doctor in there. During travelling to the city for 1 hour, he died.
This is a total disaster for every parties involved in it. The hotel which did not take any safety at all, the search staff who are inexperienced, lack of material, lack of communication, missing health care and all the other factors we don't know at all.
Besides all the problems said here, the safety in Uludag is a general problem. The lift operators, usually unaware of that "the safety comes first" are unfriendly or like bored and the pistes are "out of control", there are almost no information signs, no limiting barriers at all. So it's like "riding in wild, wild west". You can see those wide & big snow trucks in the middle of the day in the middle of skiers and snowboarders, trying to escape from them, because the night might be too cold and require overtime (!) for them. In the 1st area people just go sightseeing in the pistes and they look to you like seeing "what are you doing in my way?"
The Uludag Hotels are managed by those people who want to make good money in short time, but they are doing a business, which they know nothing about it.
Everybody tend to pay for good quality, but quality for a ski-center does not mean that the rooms are clean and the food is good, there is no good organisation for people who want to make sports with safety and joy.
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