Our daughter and her family stayed at our apartment this May for a week and all four of them thouroughly enjoyed their visit. Their airfare this year 2008 was for 2 adults and 2 children only £600 flying from East Midlands airport.Great price compensated the horrible flight times, but still good value.
Wanting to visit again in 2009 she recently tried extensively to find reasonable flight prices to Dalaman for May 2009 but failed to get anything cheaper than £1150 for 2 adults and 2 children !!!
She was so disappointed as she loved Turkey so much, the apartment, and the people of course, but reluctantly she had to search for other destinations and found a 10 day holiday in a hotel Half Board in Majorca for £850 !!! so she booked that and good luck to her as I understand Majorca is a much improved holiday destination these days thanks to the clean up of its yobbo club 18 / 35 image of 20 years or so ago.
Anyway some friends of ours on our complex also had the same experience they told us, where their son and his family couldnt afford to join them in their apartment this August because of the airfare etc
What with dramatic price hikes for airfare, the present credit crunch.., the dropping lira ( now comparable to the Euro exchange rate )also there is the renewed interest in holidays within the UK.. so my question is ...will there be a dramatic dip of people from the UK visiting Turkey in 2009 ??
Obviously us apartment owners will aways be visiting whatever the cost, but are we entering a new era ? Turkey because of its geographical distance from the UK will no longer be a `cheaper` destination and will be unable to compete with the likes of Spain, France, Portugal, the Beleiric Islands , and the other western med destinations that are closer to the UK ? A ` bottle of beer` will be the same price everywhere.. a meal out also..particularly if the lira remains low
If we were not `Turkey lovers` we would much prefer a 2 hour flight on a plane as against a 4 hour one, and its half the cost.
Yep I reckon Turkey are up against it in 2009 in respect of UK visitors... but the `russians are coming` so that may fill the gap for them.