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Newest Review: ... however, the staff seem to be less used to foreign visitors but this only enhanced the experience for me. None of the staff spoke English so we all had to do a lot of miming along with the ten or so Turkish words I had learned. The hamam is listed by Lonely Planet as one of the top ten in Turkey. From the outside it looks like any other traditional building but it is instantly recognizable from above (you get a good view from the Pontic tombs) by the cute little domes. You enter from street level and go first through a doorway, then through a curtain and into the changing area - the "camekan". Around the outside of this circul... more

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Crowned ReviewMustafa Bey Hamam (Amasya, Turkey): You must be having a bath!!! (2266 words)
by - written on 12/09/06 (Very useful, 2291 readings)
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I recall from my childhood, numerous - shall we call them - discussions about whether a particular item, my bedroom, the dishes, but usually my face, were "clean". Not, you understand, that I am a "dirty" person; it's just that when I was a child I did not share the same exacting standards as my mother and I was usually eager to rush things in order to do something that interested me more. Having now experienced my first Turkish bath, I can safely say "Mother, you don't know what clean is!" The amount of accumulated muck and grime that a tiny Turkish lady managed to scrape off my body would have surprised even my mother. It ...  Read the complete review