Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: micky mouse on June 08, 2015, 10:46:20 AM
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The hotel al perrin has re opened in koca calis on the raised balcony bar you can get an effes for 5 and a half lira the new owners are an englishman and turkish man nice quite location cheapest beer anywhere.
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At current exchange rates, that works out at £1.31 a bottle. Fantastic value and setting!
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Well think yourselves lucky!
Here in the States we are paying an average of $8 for a pint and the other night it was $12 for 12oz!
Best we've found I'd $5.5 at Buddy Guys last night.
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Surely somebody can find a place where they are giving it away free - or even better paying customers to drink it! MM, you must be paying more for the extra "f".
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I've just bought some Efes at a B&M store in Brum, £ 1.19 per 50 Cl bottle, and very nice too. No flight ticket required. 8)
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Hurrah !
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I've just bought some Efes at a B&M store in Brum, £ 1.19 per 50 Cl bottle, and very nice too. No flight ticket required. 8)
Yes very true. But, drinking Efes in Brum is just not quite the same as drinking it sitting on the seafront in a t-shirt watching the sun go down over the Med.
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Sitting in my Mankini in central Birmingham with the waves of the canal gently lapping over me wellies whilst swiggin'
a bottle of Efes knocks spots off any seafront, and you've got some front for suggesting otherwise.
The ambiance is to die for, and many do. I'm off to pull another cold bottle from the "cut" an then for a Ruby. 8) 8)
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The ambulance is to die for, and many do. 8) 8)
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Yes very true. But, drinking Efes in Brum is just not quite the same as drinking it sitting on the seafront in a t-shirt watching the sun go down over the Med.
Have you actually had Efes in Birmingham Kawazakikid? Because if you haven't, your opinion is worthless. Only according to your rules of course.
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Lets think of the bar owners here. We spoke to one this week and he said wth the way the Lira is their profits are right down. They are charging 8 TL for a bottle of Efes and he says he gets 1 lira profit on every bottle.
So, we should not be denying them a small profit.
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Sitting in my Mankini in central Birmingham with the waves of the canal gently lapping over me wellies whilst swiggin'
Mate, I'm probably the only one... but I believe you, really :)
We spoke to one this week and he said wth the way the Lira is their profits are right down.
Yeah, but they never dropped their prices when the lira was strong against the pound, did they?
JF
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No, but they are all paying rent which as we know, goes up every year. I think the restaurants in Calis serve good food work long hours for us Tourists and we have always found eating out here cheap.
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"We spoke to one this week and he said wth the way the Lira is their profits are right down"
I am confused by this comment.
1. Rent is set and paid in Lira.
2. Food is bought and paid for in Lira.
3. Wages are paid in Lira.
4. Alcohol is bought and paid for in Lira.
What has the state of the Lira got to do with any of this?
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1. Rent is set and paid in Lira.
Actually, it's often paid in EUR, USD or GBP. Turkish landlords are no different to Turkish investors, ABL (anything but lira :) )
I think the restaurants in Calis serve good food work long hours for us Tourists and we have always found eating out here cheap.
They are a business like any other - and not so cheap for many locals who cant afford to eat in many of them.
JF
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"We spoke to one this week and he said wth the way the Lira is their profits are right down"
2. Food is bought and paid for in Lira.
What has the state of the Lira got to do with any of this?
Assuming the food is home produced. Food is also heavily dependant on fuel for production and delivery, and fuel is almost all imported.
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Its all relative. Last year 5-6TL for a beer, exchange rate was lower. This year 8TL for same beer. So the prices have gone up accordingly with the exchange rate. £2 for a bottle of beer would have been extortinate a couple of seasons ago. Last year 15-18 TL for buffets/menu of the day. This year 24-26TL. So not really gaining anything for the good exchange rate.
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I think the restaurants in Calis serve good food work long hours for us Tourists and we have always found eating out here cheap.
Well that's a bit of a contradiction to what you have been saying on here for the past 4 weeks Jacqui, I-e Curry house, brothers, Mancero (Fethiye) etc. ;)
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Assuming the food is home produced. Food is also heavily dependant on fuel for production and delivery, and fuel is almost all imported.
Annual food inflation in Turkey is running at 12.8% (May 2015).
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O.K. Des. Firstly it is about Calis, secondly, 98% serve good food... O.K. ?? :)
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I was actually surprised in May that I thought the food had gone up about the same as usual each year just a couple of lira per meal but not to match the exchange rate so we were getting a good deal.
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A couple of friends of mine from Adrassan which is about 4 hours drive on the coast road toward Antalya, came for a couple of days visit this Thursday.
When I commented on an expensive 9TL beer. He said that Calis is the cheapest place for food and beer that he has been to.
He also said that the majority of food in our restaurants here put other places (in the same price bracket) to shame.
When I visited them, we went into Kemer and had fish and chips in one place at 18TL, the portions were small and the quality was pathetic. Beer was 13TL.
We stopped at one place and the guy said beer was 12TL, I refused to pay saying it was between 7 to 8TL in Fethiye, he said that we could pay 8TL (the place was empty at 1400hrs), that was early last year. My friends still go to the same place and still pay 8TL.
Being ex retail myself I know all about costing's, mark-up's, taxes and running costs and fully understand and have sympathy with the people in the trade here. They have a short time to make their money and if the food is good, I am more than willing to pay their prices.
If the food is bad or they are making big mistakes like lettuce leaves under steak and kidney pie,( this actually happened to me in Calis) then I tell them.
If the food is good I also tell them.
The tax on beer keeps going up and they cannot keep absorbing that tax, they have to pass it on to the customers
Do not forget, the cost of living goes up here as well as UK, and the restaurant owners have to get that extra cash from somewhere, the gov't isn't going to step in and give them money.
I apologise for any ramblings or deviation of topic, but old age and disappearing of brain cells says I am allowed.
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Been to Kas for a few days, paid 8tlr for large Efes. Quality of food was good too.