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Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: siamesechris on May 02, 2017, 19:47:13 PM

Title: exchange rate
Post by: siamesechris on May 02, 2017, 19:47:13 PM
what is the exchange rate at present - and the price of Efes - so we know how much money to bring
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: KKOB on May 02, 2017, 20:00:48 PM
You'll need to consult the EPI for the price of Efes.
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Highlander on May 02, 2017, 20:17:16 PM
4.32 at the Post Office , you will get more in Turkey and the amount you need to take will surely depend on how much you drink  :)
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Jacqui Harvey on May 02, 2017, 20:31:53 PM
Here is the Official Turkish Exchange Rate on the Dovis.  This is the Bank Rate so you will get a little less.  If you keep it on our favourites, you will see it changes every day.    ;)
https://www.doviz.com

Well well, it is Holiday time again and time for her annual thread on the price of Efes.  The most important question on CBF.  ;D :o :angel:

Bring all the money you have saved as you cannot bring anymore.  Anything you do not spend you can take home again.  Also bring a card for emergencies.    :) :D
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Colwyn on May 03, 2017, 09:22:53 AM
Yesterday MasterCard was giving 4.55 TL/£. Your bank may add their own charges - so join a different bank for holiday spending!
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Taddy on May 03, 2017, 09:24:59 AM
Love threads like this  ;D

Arriving in August. I hope the rate stays above the 4 Lira mark, and that the Efes price will average out about 10 in the bars like Joseph's etc.
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Karennina on May 03, 2017, 12:40:46 PM
At Calis change shop this morning I got 4.48 had got 4.56 two weeks ago...some places on prom are charging 13 tl for a beer this season
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Taddy on May 03, 2017, 13:13:49 PM
Thanks for the update.  13TL is a jump on last year for the front, but you can pay a fiver for a similar pint of lager at home in a city centre pub ( minus the view and hot weather)   :)
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Colwyn on May 03, 2017, 14:30:47 PM
13TL is a jump on last year for the front,
Turkonomics: Rule 1: If the numbers of tourists fall {e.g. by 30%} you have to charge the rest that still come more {e.g. 30% more} to make up your money.


Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: davybill on May 03, 2017, 15:31:14 PM
I think most of the bars on calis front around 10lira.for a Efes.
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: MrT on May 03, 2017, 16:37:14 PM
13TL is a jump on last year for the front,
Turkonomics: Rule 1: If the numbers of tourists fall {e.g. by 30%} you have to charge the rest that still come more {e.g. 30% more} to make up your money.

And if all the bars get together and do the same its good for business, a co-operative or is it a cartel never could work out the difference ?
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Colwyn on May 03, 2017, 16:52:53 PM
And if all the bars get together and do the same its good for business
In the short-term. In the long-term - second holiday in September or next year - another 30% may disappear to Greece or Spain or Xxxxxx so prices have to go up 30% again. This brings in Turkonomics Rule 2: People run bars and restaurants on short-term leases; the long-term has to look after itself [unless your cartel/co-op can impose a more long-term collective view].

I should point out that Turkey is not unique in this. Greek Cyprus went into a similar self-feeding downward spiral in the early 2000s.
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: MrT on May 05, 2017, 09:11:51 AM
I'm off to Spain in a couple of months to a festival we go to every year in Pineda de Mar just north of Barcelona , and the hotel prices have shot up this year, about 40% higher than they have been for the last 10 years we have been going. Flights and alcohol may be cheaper but in all Turkey still works out better on price as accommodation is so much cheaper. 
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: kimmie on May 09, 2017, 11:15:23 AM
 HI ALL,
 i have just booked the club e again for June same time as last year and paid the same price but staying for 14 nights this time not 11 as is our usual stay so i do feel that we have got a decent price for the holiday having said that we have just been to corralejo and again paid the same price for that holiday as we have just done for Calis but what was really suprising was the cost for food and drink whilst we were there it was no more expensive than calis and it was really good quality so whilst i am a fan of Calis having visited twice a year for the last 8 years i am thinking this visit will probably be our last Calis it is not the same anymore (even tho it still good and we meet lots of friends every year) I do hope Calis remains a popular resort and it not spoiled any further by the noisy bars which we noticed more than ever last year and i am now on the count down looking forward to my first meal of Topkapi.
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: JohnF on May 09, 2017, 11:30:31 AM
Wanna buy a full stop?

 :)

JF
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: kimmie on May 09, 2017, 11:39:52 AM
 Oh gosh yes i agree my punctuation is terrible i have just rambled on apologies 8)
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: JohnF on May 09, 2017, 12:24:53 PM
No apology required, it was meant in humour  :)

JF
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: shandy on May 09, 2017, 14:22:04 PM
Blimey Efes is more expensive in Calis than it is here, £1.25 a bottle in B&M Bargains, can't beat it   ;) x
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Karennina on May 10, 2017, 07:44:05 AM
Some places as another member said are still charging 10tl for a beer, the thing is how many people arrive at a bar and say how much is a beer, you order your beer guzzle it while looking at beautiful surroundings and stunning sunset, guzzle a few more, on saying the magic words 'hesap lutfen' is when reality sets in of cost of said beer and the next sentence uttered is ( well by us anyway) just like the Garveys in Benidorm "Im on me holidays"    ;)   ;)   ;)
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Taddy on May 10, 2017, 10:59:56 AM
Bottle of Efes  in Wetherspoons  in Leeds station was £2.99.   Fair  price I thought, but  not the same ambience as Calis.   ;)
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: KKOB on May 10, 2017, 11:16:39 AM
Bargain Booze stock the 500ml bottles of Efes Draught at £1.99.

http://www.bargainbooze.co.uk/products/beers-lager-cider/efes-draught-500ml.html
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: madmart on May 10, 2017, 13:48:12 PM
10TL at Bambu and Dawn Beach. Place that used to be the Roka opposite Sunday market 8 TL

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Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Colwyn on May 11, 2017, 08:21:21 AM
Bargain Booze stock the 500ml bottles of Efes Draught at £1.99.
Do they also have bottled Efes on draught?
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: KKOB on May 11, 2017, 08:44:21 AM
Only when the doors are left open.
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Ally B on May 11, 2017, 08:53:33 AM
Tuborg draught at Luka 8tl
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: Karennina on May 11, 2017, 11:16:49 AM
12tl at Yasmine hotel on prom and 13tl at Aroma beach club...not sure how much at Curry Palace as we consumed far too many of the damn things and have no recollection of paying the hesap and leaving said establishment   ;)
Title: Re: exchange rate
Post by: stoop on May 11, 2017, 12:10:03 PM
Tuborg draught at Luka 8tl

Must say I'm more into the Tuborg Malt than the Efes these days but price will have the last say ;-)