Here's the hotel in Izmir.  The Crowne Plaza.  Pretty spiffy.

Nice lobby, don't you think?

A really modern place.  The "disco" on the top floor served Sprite for $10 a glass.  None of us spent much time at the disco.

There was a super-modern shopping mall attached. 

They served good food at this place.  So I took a picture of the "cold hors d'oeuvres" that Mete warned us against.  This stuff tasted just great.  But as Mete warned, it had a disastrous effect on my digestive tract.  So what to do?  Eat and suffer?  Or forego the cold hors d'oeuvres?  I ate.  And suffered for days.