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Erzurum is an amazing venue for Winter Sports.Excellent value in the resort.Highly reccomend The Polat Hotel superb location with excellent staff throughout the hotel.Brilliant taxi service and the airport is about 15 minutes from Erzurum airport. A wonderful hotel and very safe friendly destination.

Erzurum is a lively little city and because of the University there are lots of energetic young people about! There are plenty of lovely old buildings and history to investigate and if you can try to get hold of the free Erzurum visitors guide book. This is excellent and contains detailed maps, a walking tour and information about the cities history. Being Turkeys highest city be prepared for the cold, if you come in winter like I did, but it was worth it as everything is covered in a deep blanket of crisp, white snow. Beautiful. People are very friendly and helpful, but don't expect anyone to speak English- they don't as this is well off the tourists trail, and all the better for it. So consider downloading the Google translate app and the offline Turkish language, which I found dead useful when I ran out of gestures! There are lots of eating places, and shopping is good too. Clothes and shoes are especially good value in Turkey, so you might want to stock up, so leave room in your rucsac! I would highly recommend travelling to Erzurum (at least in one direction) on the lovely sleeper train from Ankara, where it leaves about 6pm. The journey is beautiful and very relaxing, and great value. A single private cabin costs around £25 one way and can be booked online about a fortnight in advance, and you print the ticket at home....

Erzurum was the first stop in our journey from east to west of turkey.We arrived there after a 1200 km drive from Tehran, we were to tired to explore the area, just went to hotel and jumped into bed. It was holiday & almost every shop was closed. But Erzurum is a quite big city with nice weather & may be we go there again someday to spend our holiday.

this city is close to Palandoken ski resort which is the biggest in Turkey, it offers a lot of blue and red slopes that never makes you bored. the skipass is quite cheap, 70 TL for full day and there is no half day entrance. you can go visit Konakli ski resort close by if the weather is good.

Erzurum has a lovely atmosphere along the main strip and side streets. We enjoyed wandering around, visiting the museum and madrassa, having our boots shined, and looking at the shops. The setting is beautiful with the mountains around the town, and on sunset we enjoyed the view from the castle. We just had 24 hours in between trains, which was enough time to look around.

Apart from its railway connections, Erzurum has some important Islamic pre-Ottoman buildings, distinguished by their rich ornamental carvings in stone, that deserve visiting: the Ulu Mosque, two madrasas (Çifte Minareli and Yakutiye), plus three tombs (Üç Kümbetler).