Hi Jen
If you look at buying property in Calis & the one following you'll find plenty of info on shops etc.
I suppose we should all put the best shops on here as it'll save quite a bit of reading.
1 week should be plenty - you can do most of your shopping in 1 place - Erun Spot - electricals, furniture - you name it they have it.
We started at 1pm & came home with everything at 4pm. Ours was pretty well furnished though to start with. BUT ask anyone who has dealt with them & they'll tell you that you can get 90% of the stuff you need - at a really good price from Erun Spot. - I just copied the list of what we got & prices below
The air conditioning 4 X 9000BTU were £220 each fitted from Erun Spot in Fethiye 184 Ataturk Caddesi - Bekir speaks pretty good English. Also from Eren Spot we got the 2 bedsettees & 2 chairs (also bed)for 650MTL, we also bought bedside cabinets for 30MTL each and an emergency light - which goes on when you lose power (which happened a few times during thunder & lightening storms when we were there) for about 40MTL. Erun Spot is also supposed to be pretty good for all furnishings. Luckily we already had beds, wardrobes, washing machines, cookers, fridges, tables & chairs as the places we bought were furnished.
Erun Spot is above the Mosque on the lower road. When the bus goes out of Fethiye towards Calis it turns right & then goes left on the top road where all the furniture, carpet shops are. You come to a sort of V in the road on the LHS where there is a shop which is on the V where they have everything outside & sell crockery, plastics, cookware etc. - walk the other side of the shop & Erun Spot is about 5 shops up - full of electrical things in the front, fridges, cookers etc. Other side you'll see some bedroom furniture - Ask to go out the back where furniture is piled sky high.
It looks small from the front but you won't believe how much they cram in. It's worse than any dolmus. How they get it all to stay up there I don't know.
You certainly won't pay showroom prices. They'll even get it down for you to sit on it - if you can find a vacant spot, mine was on top of the small stairs LOL.
The carpets were from a double fronted shop on the top road about half way up to the V in the road on the RHS as you come out by bus. Shop around a few of the carpet shops & you'll soon discover which one it was.
The bedding shop was behind the Fish Market in Fethiye called Sumer .....? It doesn't look like a fabric shop from the front, more like a clothing store. The fabric is way in the back. There are other fabric stores around there also.
We picked up a 2nd hand vacuum cleaner for 40MTL from the village on the top road into Calis almost opposite police station. Not the best but it'll do till we find a better one - we were quickly running out of time at that stage.
Went to Migros & got tablecloths & welcome mats - to scrub off the mud. Their TV's were pretty cheap as were DVD systems.
Plastics - bins, storage etc. we got from Calis market.
One thing maybe I should emphasise - some agents take a mighty cut (up to 50%)(Scunner said 100%+ has been known) if you buy though them (Heidi & Cenk told us some horrendous tales of some of the rip off agents). Luckily we met this pair who were only too happy to tell us of all the best deals to ensure we didn't get ripped off. Do yourselves a favour & do your own legwork - you'll be surprised at what you can save. I know some of you have purchased through other agents - just check up on the prices BEFORE you buy anything through your trusted agent.
Good luck
Linda & Carl
