Quiet this year?

[johntaylor49]

My family and I are struggling to find flights to Dalaman full stop, FTC is showing very few outbound flights from Leeds-Bradford, Humberside, Manchester, Liverpool yet there are plenty of flights coming back into those airports! Could TC be 'hiding' flights? Surely if the outbound flights are booked up the inbound ones should be? Unless lots of northerners are emigrating this summer!

Have you tried the sites recommended previously??

www.travelrepublic.co.uk
www.sunshine.co.uk
www.sunmaster.co.uk

Which days you want to travel out/back and which preferrred Airport?

Meldrew, Victor --Git, miserable old

[johntaylor49]

I just looked as an example, 4 people flying out for 14 days from Friday 2oth July and found
3 options from Manchester? If, as I suspect from your post you are in or around West yorkshire there is a Compnay I have bo0oked with to come to calis who were excellent -- www.sunmaster.co.uk -- based in Sunny Bradford 

[Captain Squiffy]

If you think that Calis is quiet this year, just come to Greece. They are really suffering and at times Chrissie and I think that we are the only tourists in the area.

We were in Delphi the other day, one of the most important tourist spots in Greece but there were very few people there. Such a shame for the lovely people that we have met in Greece this year.

Believe me, Calis is well crowded compared with olther parts of Europe but the restaurants and bars will still complain that the "cash crop" of brits have not come. Perhaps they need to put a lot more effort into attracting people into their bars.

We will have to see what Italy is doing to attract tourists from tomorrow. Updates later.

[CharlotteC]

Thank you for your lovely replies and suggestions, there is still hope! Yep we're in sunny old Bradford so we're looking at travelling from one of the airports "local" to us (Leeds Bradford, Humberside, Manchester, Liverpool) without having to eat dry bread for the rest of the year. We have a very specific dates due to my old man's holidays which are 23rd July-7th August so pretty much the two busiest weeks of the year!
I will have a look through all those suggestions, thanks once again!

[johntaylor49]

Squiffy, and apologies to all this not strictly relevant to my original post, but I almost went to Volos
this year but despite the issues it seemed as if prices, particularly Hotels, in Greece were going up not down! (Not the way to fill the place). Sicily was looking good and unfortunately we will be there not Calis next year as I want to see Salerno. Calis still great value!

Meldrew

[Supacabby]

http://www.fethiyetimes.com/news/44-news/7028-mula-overall-tourist-numbers-down-but-russian-and-swedish-tourists-on-the-up-.html

Interesting article about tourism numbers.

[Ian]

Mark - hi - the worrying trend here is that 2012 is down 11% (doing it in my head so give or take a percent!) but that is on an 11% drop the previous year from 2010 to 2011.

Therefore they lost 70,000 brits in 2011 followed by a further loss of 60,000 in 2012 and the comment that "the schools haven't closed etc" is too ridiculous to take seriously!

Ian


British Visitors Down
British visitors for the first six months of 2012 are 60,000 down on last year.

The actual figures for British tourists in the first six months of the year are: 2010 – 594k; 2011 – 522k; 2012 – 462.5k.

But as we all know schools in Britain haven't closed for summer holidays yet so the situation could still improve.

[alybaba]

I for 1 has just got a job again so may be able to afford to come out again but with prices rising that fast may give it a miss

[Scunner]

Portugal 2012:

Pint lager (nice enough) from 1 euro
Wine red/white/rose (actually v pleasant) from 1 euro
3 courses menu (again some rather good) from 6.90 euro

Turkey's reputation as a great destination for cheap dining & drinks has SERIOUS competition. There was a pizza/pasta restaurant near our hotel which we used following a late arrival into resort - cheep and cheerful but food excellent and some nights people queued down the street for a table.

[Scunner]

Oh, and 4 return flights £286 from memory - roughly the price of one return to Dalaman from our local airports.