Looking at trying to get out to Side for the cheapest possible price.
It's flights that are the problem (cheapest accomodation is £25 for four people for a week). We have tried all the normal travel agents, travel republic.com, and pegasus. Any more we could try that fly from East Midlands/Birmingham/any London airport, to Antalya (don't mind if its via Istanbul)?
Don't really care about where we are staying, as long as in easy reach of the bars opposite the Hemera/Melas/Sunrise Queen.
We can get flights, 25kg luggage, transfers, and half board apartment for £1384. This also includes £300 spending money.
A self catering appartment is £1206 (again, including the £300 spends). This works out at £25 a day to find food for 4 people, rough 61 lira I think (according to google converter anyway). So, could I get evening meals for 4 people for that price, as well as some kind of cheap food to fill them up at breakfast/lunch?
Are flights prices likely to go down? We won't be booking until September time anyway, so it will be a late booking, and we will keep looking at any deals that are coming up.
Thats why I still say its cheaper going and buying a package holiday with a fully bonded ABTA certificate.
Lisa
Lisa
Sorry, but I've always found the opposite - people keep saying you can get a package cheaper than doing it all separately, but it's never worked out that way for me.
You could well be right, Lisa - unfortunately, for those of us living north of the Border, there's never a CHEAP option!
I am not far from the border and have the same problem, either with flight times or price.
Lisa
Lisa
The flights are making both options expensive. There's not that much difference between package and diy, we probably wouldn't save anything at all (once we have added on transfers).
Which are the cheapest airlines that fly to Antalya (don't mind if its not direct - although not too many stops, as one flights I saw stopped at 4 different airports, and took 35 hours from UK to Antalya
)? Looking to fly from any London or Midlands airport.
Which are the cheapest airlines that fly to Antalya (don't mind if its not direct - although not too many stops, as one flights I saw stopped at 4 different airports, and took 35 hours from UK to Antalya
)? Looking to fly from any London or Midlands airport.
have you tried aegean or gold trail.
i think you would be pushed at £25 for 4 people for an evening meal and lunch snacks. we have just come back from a none tourist resort so its cheaper to eat out and for 3 of us we were spending around £20 for evening meals and thats only for a main course and 1 drink each and a bottle of water , unless you are talking about very basic food
in the resort we were staying at these were the following prices approx , we found side quite a bit dearer
casseroles 9-12 lira
steak 16- 20 lira
pizza 5-8 lira
beer 4 lira
sizzling chicken 12-15 lira
chicken salads 5-9 lira
gozleme 3-6 lira
fanta, sprite etc 2.5-3 lira
large bottle of water 2 lira
maybe someone that has recently been to side could give you an idea of the prices of food there
we have had good prices with easy jet this year, they fly from manchester and gatwick to dalaman though
in the resort we were staying at these were the following prices approx , we found side quite a bit dearer
casseroles 9-12 lira
steak 16- 20 lira
pizza 5-8 lira
beer 4 lira
sizzling chicken 12-15 lira
chicken salads 5-9 lira
gozleme 3-6 lira
fanta, sprite etc 2.5-3 lira
large bottle of water 2 lira
maybe someone that has recently been to side could give you an idea of the prices of food there
we have had good prices with easy jet this year, they fly from manchester and gatwick to dalaman though
We were having an evening meal for dh myself and dd - things like seabass, steaks with the trimmings, 2 beers, 2 vodkas, 2 soft drinks and it wasa coming between £20-£30 an evening. Very reasonable we thought. Breakfast were about £2-£3. Water worked out at 50p a bottle.
If there were only 3 of us going, we would consider Self Catering, as it might be possible to get meals for the price. However, it works out we would have to buy breakfast, daytime drinks, dinner and nighttime drinks for £25 for the 4 of us - each day. Don't think that is realistic.
I must admit, regardless of going to Turkey or not, self catering has always worked out dearer that B&B and HB.
Whilst its nice to have the freedom of an apartment or studio, I have found the accommodation works out alot more than a hotel room (under occupancy which does not count children).
Lisa
Whilst its nice to have the freedom of an apartment or studio, I have found the accommodation works out alot more than a hotel room (under occupancy which does not count children).
Lisa
I have added a few links that you might find useful for finding flights..
http://book.flythomascook.com/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb
http://www.kthy.net/kthyen/index.html
http://www.flypgs.com/EN/
http://www.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/Antalya/London/
http://flights.monarch.co.uk/
you might want to look at cheap flights to Istanbul and then fly domestic to antalya.
I found this http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp
Domestic airline carriers in Turkey
http://www.onurair.com.tr/
http://www.thy.com/
http://www.atlasjet.com/
http://www.flypgs.com/EN/
http://www.sunexpress.de/english/announcement_100126_0.html
http://book.flythomascook.com/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb
http://www.kthy.net/kthyen/index.html
http://www.flypgs.com/EN/
http://www.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/Antalya/London/
http://flights.monarch.co.uk/
you might want to look at cheap flights to Istanbul and then fly domestic to antalya.
I found this http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp
Domestic airline carriers in Turkey
http://www.onurair.com.tr/
http://www.thy.com/
http://www.atlasjet.com/
http://www.flypgs.com/EN/
http://www.sunexpress.de/english/announcement_100126_0.html
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