Sweedon...
As a student you are maybe used to roughing it so I am going to be positive and say at a push you could live on £300 but you are going to have to penny-pinch these are my tips (btw you have not said where you are staying hotel B&B or self catering?)
Starting at the airport take your own rolls, sandwiches, crisps for meal at airport and for plane.. enough to cater for delays what you dont eat you can devour when you have arrived and unpacked (I'm always peckish then and always take a packet of M+S sausage rolls) and another good tip is to buy some cartons of juice, freeze them and pack them in your suit case they will be nice and cool on your arrival.
Take with you for example... tins of corn beef, tuna, ham, tin opener plastic knives and forks ( at M+S free by the food to go ) and a few tubes of pringles if you like them (they will all save you money in the long run) and some tinfoil and a couple of plastic glasses.
At the airport get some bottled water to drink on plane and SAVE the small bottles dont throw away!!!
If you want to push the boat out and have a vodka on the plane buy a bottle of coke from Boots or
WH Smith to go with it (coke is expensive on plane for a tiny tin)
I would not chance buying vodka on the plane (incase they have none) I would buy it at the airport not sure what the offers are this year but last year Manchester were doing 5 litre of vodka for £35 (enough to get pi**ed every night (if you are a typical student AND bring some home) that might seem a lot to spend on booze but remember it would last you both for the whole fortnight. You would spend more than that on one night out!!! Just doing all the above could save you a fortune before you leave the country!!!
On arrival go to the largest supermarket use the dolmus and stock up if you are self-catering. Buy the largest bottle of water you can carry and decanter every day in the bottles you have saved that should save you a few bob, buy the bread every day it is yummy and fruit from your nearest market when you are almost out of money you could have tomatoes on bread I am drooling thinking of their toms and bread!!!
Never eat on the front.. you will find these places very expensive.. never order a soft drink very expensive (on a budget) try and order water and eat in Turkish back streets... last year a vodka coke was 7 lira.
Just ask when you decide where you are going and let us all know and we can help you!!! and always ask if you are not sure of prices in resort. If you take food with you that will do you for some lunch time meals and picnics,more you take the better!!!
Boat trips are fantastic value about £10 for the day (shop around) but NEVER BUY a drink take your own water with you!!!
Coming home dont forget your food for the airport plane split a loaf and fill with cheese.
Where ever you choose you will have a fantastic time I can promise you that... and I am sure when your student days are over and you are in your "well paid" job this will be one of the holidays you will remember for the rest of your life.
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Failing all that you could always go to your nearest bookmakers and bet a horse called EVASIVE in the 2000 guineas stakes in the 3.20 at Newmarket on the 2nd of May (each way),
Im in a similar position to you although me + my girlfriend go in September so we have a little more time to save up and i also work at McDonalds part time Im looking at taking £400ish for two weeks although we are going Half Board. What does everybody think?!? Sorry for hijacking your thread.
Other posters have offered you some very good tips on how to work on quite a strict budget in Turkey. After reading your post it makes me feel as though I am far too extravagant. Truthfully last year in Marmaris my daughter and I and 2 granddaughters were spending around £48 between the 4 of us daily for soft drinks. Hard to believe, isnt it. Our drinks worked out at approx £1.50 each and we were drinking around 8 a day each. Our fridge was stocked with drinks so we could have gone upstairs to our apartments but in all the heat that seemed like hard work. The owner didnt like people drinking their own drinks at the pool either and gave some people a ticking off if he saw them eating/drinking anything brought to the pool area.
Hope you enjoy your holiday. Good luck in your budgeting. I am sure you will find ways of making ends meet.
£400 for two weeks HB, I managed that 5 years ago in Tenerife so again with the pound being weaker I think it will be tough again. Im a student and Im Scottish! I know how to budget.
Not really an answer to above but connected, I have a notice from Nationwide flex account that cash withdrawals outside Europe will not be free anymore, 1%charge from (i think) June 1st.
Still free in turkey
When I asked in the local branch I was told that free was for Europe only, and as Turkey is not in Eurpope either geographically or financially I assumed that it was excluded.
Pleased to be wrong in this instance though
edit
just phoned Nationwide out of curiosity and their answer is " Turkey is included in Visa Europe", so it's still free.
Luci posted this link a while back.
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