How not to renew your Visa

[brianthegardener]

I had to renew my visa, usually go to Mais, Contacted Selo from Altug Boat, this is the guy who runs the boat from Kas to Mais on 28th July to book my seat on his boat, this was one week prior to my sailing, no problem was his reply see you on 4th August as we agreed.
On the 4th August set off to Kas on the 7.30 am bus, from Fethiye, arrived at 9.50 at the bus terminal.
Walked to harbour to book in for my sailing, handed over my passport and paid my 15 euros for my visa to be told 5 minutes later that the boat was full and I was being transferred over to another boat company, after lots of protesting from myself I reluctantly went to the other company. This boat was not sailing for two hours so I was left just sitting at their office.
12 Noon arrived and I was escorted to the far side of the harbour, where I was shown the boat and asked to board, the boat was quite small and tatty to say the least. On getting on board I found 5 more passengers, that's 6 of us in total, the boat was pretty full!!! We started the engine and were about to leave the birth when it was discovered there was a fault in the water pump, switched engine off for repair,. One hour later we set off for Mais only to get a third of the way there and break down, we bobbed about for a few minutes then the captain called on radio for assistance and we were toed back to Kas. On leaving the boat I was taken on a white-knuckle ride on a scooter back to the operators office. After some arguing on the phone and visit by port officials it was decided to give me my visa, but I had to wait about 2 hours for this to be done.
Passport in hand and with a nice new Visa I was then asked to pay the boat fare of 40 ytl, which is the return journey price, :I protested strongly:but gave in in the end and paid:just glad to be alive and with my visa!!!! The company even had the cheek to invite me to book through them for my next visa run!!
Selo from Altug Boat, the company I should have gone with in the first place completely apologised for the over booking and was shocked at what happened on this run, but says he will look after me better on my next run:he couldn't make it any worse:or could he!!!!!!

Brian.

[puma]

brian what a fiasco,i bet you was terrified,and the bl**dy cheek of them to charge you.
better luck next time

[tel]

With your luck, maybe you should consider a residency. Were you the reason the Rhodes "Flying (not) Poseidon" went out of action for a long time last Summer?  LOL
90 days comes around far to quick for me to contemplate all that bother.
I wonder on these trips how well you are covered with insurance, let alone life jackets etc.

[lance]

I renewed my visa in rhodes end of june and got a 3 month visa not a 90 day why is that do you think.

                      lance

quote:Originally posted by tel

With your luck, maybe you should consider a residency. Were you the reason the Rhodes "Flying (not) Poseidon" went out of action for a long time last Summer?  LOL
90 days comes around far to quick for me to contemplate all that bother.
I wonder on these trips how well you are covered with insurance, let alone life jackets etc.

[stoop]

Originally posted by lance

I renewed my visa in rhodes end of june and got a 3 month visa not a 90 day why is that do you think.

                      lance


I thought 90 days was 3 months

[KKOB]

Depends on how many days you think there is in a month !

[stoop]

Jan + Feb + March = 3 months = 90 days (when it's not a leap year)

Feb + March + April = 90 days or 89 when no leap year.

Only combinations mind - so if you are getting 3 months on a visa it will usually be 91 or 92 days - result:D

[KKOB]

But, in Turkey, 3 months is always 90 days as far as visa validity is concerned.

Anyone thinking different will find out their cost of they try to exit after 91 or 92 days.

We have 2 friends who returned to the UK on 22nd July and had been here for 91 days. They were fined 110 YTL each by the Pasaport Polis at Dalaman.

[lance]

oh aren't you cleaver stoop i didn't know that,perhaps the Turkish authorities should be told there is only 2 days difference it wont matter will it .
everyone else who posts seems to get civil reply on subjects ,get off my back go wind yer neck in.
                        lance[!]

quote:Originally posted by stoop

Jan + Feb + March = 3 months = 90 days (when it's not a leap year)

Feb + March + April = 90 days or 89 when no leap year.

Only combinations mind - so if you are getting 3 months on a visa it will usually be 91 or 92 days - result:D

[tel]

Lance, you got us all wondering then.  LOL
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