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Offline Clioman2

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Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« on: June 05, 2019, 15:35:12 PM »
have had a message from someone recently out there that the exchange rate is about 7.1 lira/£ and that local shorts with a shot of Coke/whatever are 25 lira a pop. £3.50 for a local short seems a bit steep from past experience, is that accurate? Perhaps Mete Ay's annual pre-season get together with local businesses has fixed prices a bit higher this year.
Let's hope for a bit of competition.

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2019, 16:13:10 PM »
The tax on alcohol has substantially increased since last year. Plus the inflation rate in Turkey is high thus pushing up prices generally.

Is £ 3.50 a horrendous amount to pay ?

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2019, 16:40:42 PM »
It will depend where you drink. We got back 2 weeks ago and, unless prices have gone up since then, we never paid more than 44tl for vodka and coke and g & t and most places were cheaper than that.  However, I know there was a tax increase on alcohol being implemented any time so bear in mind these prices are not neccessarily down to the bar owners overcharging. It's still not bad for a large shot of whatever and mixer.

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2019, 16:44:48 PM »
didn't know that taxes had increased recently, thanks for the update: I wonder if that will help me stay less 'pickled' next week... na, don't suppose so. Roll on the holiday!

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2019, 17:17:42 PM »
I'm sure you'll still have a great time Clioman2, have a fabulous holiday!  :D

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2019, 17:20:24 PM »
And it depends where you go.

Whilst I dont recal spirits prices, we paid from 15TL to 23TL for an Efes in different places!

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2019, 17:26:00 PM »
Yes the Lira as gained a bit lately, on the pound.Dollar,and Euro.

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2019, 07:09:42 AM »


Just a comparison post, I drink pink gin (preferably Gordons if anyone is buying), Summer Rose, 35.5tl, Bambu 35tl,  Ocean Blue 35tl, Meri 25tl, Ali's boat 25tl. Now, seeing as normal gin and pink gin are the same price in the supermarkets (circa 139tl), you can see which bars are being "fair". When I asked in Ocean Blue about the price, he didn't believe the supermarket price and looked it up, then said the cost of a measure to him was 10tl, but said he had to make a profit........

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2019, 10:47:08 AM »
Profit running at 8-10 times a litre bottle

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Re: Exchange rate & Drinks Prices
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2019, 11:11:24 AM »
How's the EPI (Efes Price Index) looking these days ?




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