Mr SC - I concur with your thoughts and spending experience.

yes yorkshire boy i agree mr sc's comments were more like it - especially that perhaps we should not think of turkey as a cheap destination more value for money which in my humble opinion you get in bucket loads

While I accept that haggling is almost part of the Turkish culture when it comes to eating out I have no intention of haggling over the price of a meal before I enter a restaurant. If I don't like the service/food/price I will not go back. Simple as that.

Wilson

Rwb

I have been all over Turkey (including Icmeler) and I have NEVER seen a restaurant where they don't display the prices! If they didn't diplay the prices how would a potential customer be able to decide whether or not to eat there? Or would they just order a meal and get a nasty shock with their after-dinner liquer?

As for this 'white van' that goes around Icmeler delivering meat: besides you not knowing how many restaurants the driver delivers to - you also don't know how many suppliers the driver is delivering from.

Restaurants vary enormously in quality; not just due to the quality of food, but according to how good their chef is - plus the location and decor of the restaurant itself.

But to get back to the original post - yes, Turkey in general has gone up and up and up in price, and one of the draws of Turkey was its inexpensive prices. Now they have shot the prices up people will just go elsewhere. You can find holidays to Goa or Mexico for the same price Turkey is offering, and as Goa IS really inexpensive (and apparently very, very nice too) why would people fork out to go to Turkey when they can holiday somewhere far more exotic and for less money?! The Turkish must be aware that there is a credit crunch - you'd think they'd be DROPPING prices to entice customers back!!

Strawberry

Rwb46

How am I missing the point??? Was the post not about price increases???

Why doesnt the price change for you, if you go 3 x times per year and it does for everyone else???

EVERY resturant we go in, has a menu with a price on it. Regardless of what time of year we're there - in or out of season... MY point is, that this year, more so than ANY OTHER YEAR they have put their prices up too much.

Like I have stated before, in other posts, its the families I feel sorry for. Because of the outrageous price they change for soft drinks. Some places charge the same price for a regular fanta as they do a beer!

strawberry - have you been to spain recently - have you been to greece italy france or the states - prices at all these place have shot through the roof too and far more so than turkey (france especially - beer AND soft drinks)

you mention the credit crunch - do you honestly think turkey is exempt!!! (you think our petrol is expensive then look at the pump prices in turkey !!) - they are struggling just the same as us all - are you suggesting they drop their prices and go out of business as im sure thats what would happen to alot of them

could you not at least agree that even though turkey is not the cheap holiday it once was that is is still GREAT value for money - if not then vote with your feet and holiday in Goa or Mexico but i bet you wont go to either of these place as much as you have turkey

Louietudor,

Petrol has ALWAYS been more expensive in Turkey than it is in the UK - they managed to keep their prices at a reasonable level then - AND make a profit!

As far as I'm aware the economy in Turkey is not suffering in the same way as it is in Europe - and inflation is stable. If it wasn't, all the resort workers would have seen big wage rises accordingly.

Anyway, according to Rwb you can find cheap places to eat at: so if those restaurants can do it why can't others?!

Strawberry

Seems a bit odd to say that prices aren't displayed outside restaurants. In Olu Deniz's high street every restaurant had black boards outside and also stands with menus etc that you could look through should you wish, although the moment you went near of course rather than being allowed to look at leisure and take in the choices (like you would in France, Spain, Greece etc and possibly Goa but not been) you had someone in your face.

We had considered having a few evening meals out from our hotel but the food there was excellent and quite frankly the staff in the restaurants put me off, so we contented ourselves with a few lunches out when the staff don't seem to be so aggressive.

Don't they realise I am an adult and can choose off a menu (if I'm allowed to read it) all on my own without them shouting recommendations in my face.

Surely this thread is about different tourist resorts in Turkey. Ichmeler is not the only place people go, they go to Bitez, Olu, Side, Marmaris etc as well.

Just returned to this forum after two years. Spent the last 4 summers holidaying in Turkey (Marmaris & Altinkum). Some interesting posts here about peoples feelings regarding how costly its become. Just to put things into perspective, I spent the nine previous years in a caravan in Tenby South Wales. Back then I was paying anything up to £500 for van rental per week, top that with travel costs, eating out, trips, and of course drink (I have paid over £3.00 for something they dared to call beer). Don't get me wrong I love my country and probably would still have been doing that now but my kids discovered the sun and I have to say it costs me not too much more now to holiday in Turkey than it did then in Wales. We all went to Turkey the first time not thinking about cost and have returned year on year charmed by the people and all the country has to offer. I appreciate some people are on a budget so need to watch the pennies to a degree (so do I being a single parent), however, we work hard all year so I don't see that it hurts to push the boat out once a year and hang the cost. I'm off on Wednesday 20th August to Marmaris (Club Ilayda) but only for a week I'm afraid. But make no mistake I'll be booking as soon as I get back for my return irrespective of the prices this year or any year.

hands bags down gentleman.......................

I haven't been to Marmaris in 12 years so I am expecting a pretty big shock when I go out there. No more 17p beer Im guessing . The reason why I choose Turkey this year is that it was the cheapest place to go with regards flights and accomodation and it would have brillant weather. When I get there if its the same price as Rhodes was last year or Cyprus was the year before for food and drinks I will be more than happy. I do think that if Turkey gets to expensive though then people might think it's 'above its station' and stop going there.But hey, each to their own, Im Scottish so I wont be ripped off in a hurry

rwb46,all you can drink for 22 lira,sounds great,was there a time limit and did that include spirits not just beer?.

As the blackboard states Get drunk (wasent that word but it started with P and ended with D) for £10, unlimited beer.

greenshoes...."handbags down gentlemen"

(I am a ladyyyyyyy) said in a David Walliams voice)

You will find that Turkey is still very cheap compared to Spain Greece etc but the people who have visited this year more so than ever, have noticed the way the prices have risen.

Gone are the days when the beer was 30p a pint but it is still good value for money!!!

rwb46 wrote:

As the blackboard states Get drunk (wasent that word but it started with P and ended with D) for £10, unlimited beer.

If I saw a sign like that I would avoid the place like the plague.

If those are the types of places I've got to go to get Turkey on the cheap. I'll stick to more up market places in Spain, France or Portugal thanks.

Fortunately Lykia had nowhere telling me (or my kids) that I could get p***** on a budget. Than heavens for little mercys.

Why would i want to spend my precious 2 weeks surrounded by p***** Brits ? Says everything I have always suspected about Ichmeler.

i don't honestly think that sign should be taken so seriously!!!!

come on guys, you know what the turks are like! go to the markets "cheaper than asda" "cheap as chips" "better than primark" - they love their little phrases to make us chuckle and that sign is obviously one of them! its no wonder some people think us brits are uptight - we're on holiday, have a laugh and let your hair down! (that will open a can of worms )

anyways!!!

back onto the subject of price increases - this is just going to go round and round in circles, the whole of europe has seen price increases. i think i mentioned before about my friend being in france this last two weeks and paying £4 a pint, another friend was in greece and he said the prices had shot up horrendously since last year but the people were ignorant - again as loads of people have said on here you are getting far much more value for money in turkey. somebody mentioned goa, yeah that is cheap, but also on a different continent and its a winter destination so out of the question for a lot of us so shouldn't really come into the comparison.

but i for one, amongst many many thousands of other people am going to stick to the wonderful country of turkey because i love the people, i love the place, i love everything about it and i couldn't give stink if a pint of efes has gone up 30p because the whole aura of the place just makes my holiday and if people don't want to go because of it being "expensive" then fine - leave it all to me!!!!!!!

alizda

Very well put.

Wilson

At the end of the day i'm entitled to my opinion...In this country we do have freedom of speech don't forget.
All i was saying ORIGINALLY was in my opinion it was dearer in Icmeler than i had been TOLD on here i'm not interested in having an English breakfast for 2 lira, i don't want to have a cheap meal that is crap quality, so what if i went to the same restaurant 5 times that was MY choice. This is about Price increases and nothing else, i also think the post saying people go around with blinkers on is out of order, but then again we do have the right to say on here what we like....Once again for the doubters out there, i did like Turkey, and i will be back.

Now let's stop all the sniping

Stew

well said stew - like ive said before turkey may not be the cheap holiday it once was but its still GREAt value for money - and no matter what the price of effes if we are ever on the same holiday id be proud to buy you a pint!!

Many thanks Louie, seeing as your paying i'll have a cocktail!!!!

Regards

Stew