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Bergama's bus station is on the main road about 500m from the town centre, and within 15 minutes' walk of most accommodation. The tourist office (daily 8.30am-5.30pm; tel 0232/633 1862) is further along the same road. Beware that Bergama's taxi-drivers are a cunning lot, and will blithely insist your choice of pension has closed before whisking you somewhere else entirely. Many of the budget hotels are located in the old town; Athena , Barbaros Mahalli, Imam Çikmazi 5 (tel 0232/633 3420, www.athenapension.8m.com ; under £5/$8), has elegant waterless rooms in a nineteenth-century mansion, plus ensuite rooms in a newer annexe; over the bridge, the family-run Nike Pansiyon (tel 0232/633 3901, fikretnike@yahoo.com ; under £5/$8) has clean rooms around a tidy garden with shared bathrooms; Pergamon Pansiyon (tel 0232/632 3492; under £5/$8) occupies an atmospheric 150-year-old stone house in the town centre; Bobligen , Zafer Mah, Cad 2 (tel 0232/633 2153; under £5/$8), is a clean and well-run option on the way to the Asclepion. If you're on a day-trip from Ayvalik don't feel obliged to eat at the restaurant stop: cheaper and better options abound. The restaurant in the Pergamon Pansiyon 's courtyard has excellent home cooking; Saglam , Hükümet Meydani 29, has a good range of traditional Turkish food and a shady courtyard. There's a number of outdoor drinking places opposite the museum.