I have posted elsewhere but someone obviously complained about the post midnight noise and the jandarma are on the case. All that needs to happen is for people to try and get through ( through FT, LoL etc or even by writing to the mayor) to the Istanbullus part time bar owners who are competing with each other for limited trade that they are going about it the wrong way. Hisaronu has a core of loyal returnees but the once-only rate is probably pretty bad because of peoples experiences as described in this thread. The resort is getting a make-over, some of the older hotels are closing or being re-furbed, loads of new apartments have been built (these tend to be under-occupied and occupants will make use of the fridges and cookers they provide at the expense of the bars and restaurants), new shops like the Nick-Nick centre (whatever you think of it) will mean that a lot of the dodgy shops on the periphery of the village will close (that's the ones with no prices on anything - pot luck pricing is rapidly being driven out of Hisaronu thanks to Azda) We should complain to the jandarma about restaurants pricing in sterling, all prices should be in lira, IT IS ILLEGAL TO DISPLAY NON-LIRA PRICES IN TURKEY!!
The place is looking up, it has gone through the transformation from three bars in a field through it's club 18-70 phase and could end up being a seriously good resort in a few years time (if the property developers don't get too greedy and build on every plot of space). If you like the place so much, and many of us now have skin in the game as council tax payers, lets talk the place up and engage with the Turks to give us what we want and not what they think we want!
Some things to get mad about.
How about sensible bus services from the airport? Put an end to this monopoly of transfer services. That might get a few more people turning right at Dalaman instead of going left to Marmaris
How about designating some land in the village as green land?
Rip off Dalaman airport - nuff said
How about a limit on shops and bars ( I know, I am dreaming now)- hosts of empty shops send the wrong message
And lets get some foreign tourists in there so that the Turks aren't dependent on the Brits so much for a living
Rant over.