inbed79 wrote:

yep i no that now but i would of thought Thomson would of kept me up to date never mind at least i no now
and not when we got to the airport

On the Thomson website it says it is your responsibility to check if you need a visa to enter a country , and to check the .gov.uk website , perhaps soon they will contact you and tell you this though ?? I wonder if it will be an email with the link to the £25 travel visa company or the official site ?

I think a little more pro active customer service would be a good thing , I think definitive and accurate service would be the least you should expect from a company who specialises in selling holidays .

well i can see a lot of people are going to get court out with this

(On the Thomson website it says it is your responsibility to check if you need a visa to enter a country)

We did with Thomson when we paid off our balance in jan 21/ 14 we asked the same staff member again can we still get our visa at the airport we were told yes we were not in informed that this could change by april we travel 2 of may
if i had not read the posts on this forum i would most likely not of found out till it was to late it goes to show you can not trust the words of a thomson shop staff i will be popping in to my thomson shop to speak to the manager this week


I Must thank Holidytruths and all Its members for the good info/posts. what would we do with out them

Please remember to use the OFFICIAL Visa application website and NOT the one that Thomson / First Choice are promoting that costs at least twice the amount per Visa, naughty

The OFFICIAL http://www.evisa.gov.tr/

The news of the change on 10/04/14 was being reported in British newspapers before you paid your balance Inbed79 the DT on 23/12/13 and the DM on 08/01/14 and was highlighting the points you are making , and ABTA were saying that they were making sure that travel agents and tour operators were aware of this , and the need to inform holidaymakers going to Turkey . But then again the default answer from the TA or TO can be " it's your responsibility that you comply with visas , travel regs " but it would be helpful if they could give you definitive and accurate information whilst you are actually handing over your money !!

Also to reiterate the OFFICIAL website given by Kiltman, there are lots of unofficial sites with similar addresses with the words evisa. , so don't just google evisa turkey as some of them charge from £27.99 to an eye watering £55 GBP !!!!! FCO do give advice to be aware of the unofficial websites

I read on a Turkey forum that they were delaying the time that the visa must be purchased before arriving and it can still be bought at the airports.
The authorities seem to change the rules all the time!

I read on a Turkey forum that they were delaying the time that the visa must be purchased before arriving and it can still be bought at the airports.
The authorities seem to change the rules all the time!

My understanding of this is that a delay WAS reported in a Dutch? newspaper which has subsequently withdrawn the article as it was incorrect and was refuted by the Turkish Ministry who insist the Visa on arrival is DEFINITELY being withdrawn from the 10th April and all visitors must purchase the Visa online prior to travel.

Here is a useful page for information on how to get the evisa:

https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/tour/

Greetings,thank you for the info regards ,wee-john

You will actually still be able to get a visa at the airport this summer season. They are installs evisa kiosks at airports but it will cost £20 per person, so do try to get your visas before hand.

we got a letter from our travel agent on friday informing us of the visa. they will do it for us free of charge
between 11th feb and 9th march . but we don't travel till august not sure if we should get it in march.Dawson & Sanderson is our travel agent. i meant pay cost of visa they do it for you fee free sorry if i misled anyone .

I thought you couldn't get it more than 3 months before you travel.

our travel agent dawson & sanderson wrote to us a couple of days ago about the visa.
they said they will do visa for the normal cost of a visa from 11th feb til 9th march for no fee
no good to us as we don't travel till august

that's what we thought so no good for us .

asked at travel agent today about the letter we received and was told the visa is 180 days so we should be ok getting the first week in march . i have not heard anything about a visa being 180 days

I bought mine and my wifes visa today . our travel agent done them
for us. we travel in august to alanya . the visa's are dated from june
to december . we paid £13.00 each.

So they can be done more than 3 months in advance then. That's good to know.

yes i wanted to know if were valid for our hols before we bought them . only gone up £3 not bad

travel agent was cheaper than they said when i checked my bank statement it was only £11.99 Each for our visa's plus 24p currency exchange good price .suits us

Glad you're all sorted Boroboy