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Offline Rustythecat

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« on: June 13, 2009, 10:25:12 AM »
Hi all

got a friend over at the mo so been on a couple of boat trips.

Monday we went on Grand Bariş and had a wonderful day, visited some different bays and lunch was a larger than normal plate full of Spag Salad and M,F or C.  Very enjoiyable day and besides the small beer at 5TL the other drinks and ice creams were reasonably priced.

Friday booked with Hamish McTurk on the Ölü boat trip, again a lovely trip until we got our drinks bill.  Small bottles of coke and cans were 4TL (2TL on Grand Bariş), Chips with the meal were 5TL for a dozen tiny chips. Magnums were 5TL (3 on GB) so the bill ended up as being twice as much on Volkan boat as Grand Bariş.

I know the drinks are highly priced on these trips but I still felt ripped-off by the 87TL bill at the end of the day. 8)

Also Grand Bariş had a large price list in view whereas Volkan 3 didnt.

Perhaaps someone from Hamish McTurk and the other tours bookers should look at this and agree prices before using some of these boats.

Moan over now, and yes I enjoyed both days out.

Cheers Rusty (see you all on the 4th July - American theme me thinks) :)

Offline sue mac

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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2009, 10:48:54 AM »
Thanks for the tip.

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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2009, 11:45:12 AM »
thanks for the info

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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2009, 11:52:12 AM »
Two quid for chips! I wonder how many Turkish folk would pay that. We always booked direct and checked prices before we did so.

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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2009, 13:48:27 PM »
I'm not sure if this is the same company we used at the end of May, but we had exactly the same problem.  This was also on the Olu trip.  The driver picked us up in Gunlukbasi 35 minutes late - we thought he wasn't coming so had to ring their office to find out where he was.  When he finally arrived, he drove like a maniac down through Calis to pick up one other person, going straight through red lights, and almost knocking a man off his moped.  

This hair-raising ride continued with him picking up at about ten different stops on the way, ignoring red lights, and we made it just in time for the boat to leave at 11am.  The minibus had so many people on it by the last pick-up that some people were standing up, with others sitting on each other's laps!  We had two VERY near misses in the last couple of minutes, in his haste to get there in time.  The youngsters on the minibus were loving it (it was the nearest I've been to a white-knuckle ride since going to Disneyland Paris a couple of years ago!) - us people who could drive and see what he was doing were crapping ourselves!

The day was very nice, but the drinks/chips with the meal etc were extortionate.  We were very careful (only the kids had the chips and we didn't know how much they were!) and we only had a few drinks each.  The final bill was well over 100 lira!!  We have never paid this much on a boat trip before.  The food was average (not much of it, as they wanted people to buy the chips!!)

On the return journey to our apartment, we had a different driver, but had to wait almost an hour to be collected from Olu Deniz.

Will definitely ask prices before we do another boat trip and will not travel with this company again (the receipt is in our apartment so we'll be checking that before we book again).

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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2009, 16:34:38 PM »
It seems all these rip off merchants are basing there earnings on the mistaken fact that, most people ar only there for one or two weeks, so they think they are making a killing, then next season will wonder why they are not as busy,do they think we dont compare notes on the cost and quality of all things over there.

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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2009, 16:41:35 PM »
we went on dejavu last sunday
the food was great and plenty of it
19 people on board and he charged 30 tl each.
he must have made 230£ for the day plus drinks charges.

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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2009, 16:47:44 PM »
I always take my own drink.   :D






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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2009, 18:36:23 PM »
We always go on Eftelya 2, not too crowded, reasonably priced, friendly staff, yummy food and you can even have pancakes (extra charge, but a nice end of day filler.)

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« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2009, 18:47:53 PM »
We always go with Jerry. You know what the price is before you start, food is included in the price and if you want beer or other drinks just ask the price. It's a great day out with Jerry and his family. The food is fab




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