How Does the Referendum Result Affect Your Holiday Plans?

[Scunner]

Feel free to reply with any other views 

[JohnF]

It doesn't   

However, it wont stop me going to Istanbul on a regular basis, unless of course I get my jotters again.  Then it'll just be on an irregular basis.

I hope that, as usual, the Fethiye area will be insulated from what may (or may not) be happening in other parts of the country.  Same goes for Antalya and the other resorts round the corner - tourism brings in a lot of much needed foreign currency and puts food on a lot of local tables.

It's up to the individual to go with what their conscience dictates and to assess risks travelling to any country.  If I was planning a holiday in this area I wouldn't change my plans at this moment.

Buying a holiday home or property right now...  that's a whole new topic.

JF

[marina]

We've not booked anything for this year yet but are still planning on going towards end of season Sept/October. We will wait and see how things pan out over next 3/4 months and, if we're still happy to go, then we'll just get a late booking somewhere. We don't have our own place in Calis so we don't have any physical ties, we can go where we want. But we do have emotional ties and will be very sad if it comes to the point where we feel we can't visit anymore. But after yesterday's result I'm afraid that time might come 

[Jacqui Harvey]

Very worrying and very sad.  I think we can all see how things are heading.  We will still be visiting as we have our place in Calis and are booked, but not feelng the same about Turkey now.   Will see how it goes next month.  We have not booked for later in the year yet.   However, not desperate enough to think of selling,  but sadly it may be on the cards for the near future.

[ArtyMar]

Echo Jacqui. Worried about to sell or not to sell. Feel we haven't yet made enough good use of our lovely villa, and love Calis, but OH's health precludes us booking for now. Future looks bleak re Turkey.

[trainer]

this wont affect my plans from what I have read the change wont happen till 2019 a lot can happen before that, does this affect us as tourists I don't think a lot will change as John has said the tourist money is needed its the major cities that will be affected not so much the tourist areas.
Even though I have a property in Calis I was never going to retire in Turkey anyway (to many hoops to jump through) and always planed to sell up closer to my retirement date which is not for another 25 years    as for boycotting Turkey you could look at a lot of holiday destinations that have poor human rights but people still go I take my hat off to people who follow there convictions but as I have been told on numerous occasions by the wife I am a heartless b*****d but I believe that not going will push t a lot off hard working people in to poverty     

[Highlander]

It might be a selfish and narrow minded point of view but we will be visiting the same friendly people in a beautiful, relaxing place which we fell in love with many years ago. Many of those people are now firm friends.

And, yes we do feel a certain loyalty to those people who have worked so very hard to provide us with many special holidays.

[mercury]

We had already decided on not going to Turkey this year so this election wouldn't have made any difference.... We have loved our home and holidays there but it is a huge relief that we sold up when we did... Our last holiday in Calis last September was wonderful and restored our love of Calis but we really think that enough is enough now... Most of our friends who helped make our lives there so happy have gone to pastures new and most things that we loved have changed so much .  It is 10 years today that we bought our apartment in Fethiye and we loved it.. I hope that The Fethiye "bubble" continues for those still living there. Time will tell . Would I buy there again.? Not a chance...

[Karennina]

I still feel exactly the same about my lovely Turkey as i did 10 years ago when i fell in love with the country...Though I no longer wear rose tinted glasses...There is still no other place I want to go on such a regular basis, we do have plans though to go on a "proper" holiday at some point to Portugual, revisit Malta and a "fun" holiday in Benidorm...we will be going to these places purely because husband is retiring in June and we will have a lot more of that precious thing called time   
The only thing we wont be doing as property owners is moving to a new property in TUrkey which we had toyed with going so far as to look at a bungalow in Kemer twice last year, loved the property but were torn as to the remoteness of the house's location, had we been 10 years yoinger I think we would have gone for the move... We shall be staying put and just seeing how things pan out, defo not panicking or thinking of selling up out there at this point, hell we have one way tickets booked in June and it felt soooo good/ devilish being able to do so, we are not giving up our dream when Derek is just about to retire not yet anyway and hopefully for a while yet!  

[KIP]

I have every intention of coming in June as booked - but I would be lying if I said that the political situation in Turkey does not worry me a bit...

But then the political situation here in the UK and Europe - not to mention the USA - worries me a bit as well!

Difficult times we live in...