Breaking News - Prices of alcohol, petrol and tapu's go up from today

[jacqtay]

Why do you sign it " Meldrew " John        

My guess is that he thinks himself to be a right old moany gitt, and his opinion is one of a moany git that has nothing better to do than moan... all in my opinion of course. ( insert smiley here).

[ronzeus]

Sus i am amazed that you find the price of drink cheaper in Turkey than Spain or as Scunner pointed out in Portugal,as someone that spent 7 months of the year in Turkey till last year and have just returned from Murcia ;i can assure anyone Spain is a lot cheaper.

[Sus]

Sus i am amazed that you find the price of drink cheaper in Turkey than Spain or as Scunner pointed out in Portugal,as someone that spent 7 months of the year in Turkey till last year and have just returned from Murcia ;i can assure anyone Spain is a lot cheaper.

I do not think I stated that drink is cheaper in Turkey than Spain.

[Sus]

And of course your posts throughout your membership here have never been rude in the slightest...

Tut Tut, not me never, now would I really be rude :-)

[Ray1951]

Price hikes in flights coupled with higher costs all round will impact on tourism. Turkey should have been using the 'euro' problems to boost tourism and advertise the country more.  They cannot influence the tour operators but I do think they have made a mistake with these tax increases. We have to consider the people that live there as well.  There isn't a lot to do in winter apart from socialising. The places that expats frequent will certainly feel the pinch.  I have noticed quite a few people returning to the UK in the past year but there are people living there who may own their own homes who cannot afford to return until or if they sell their homes.  This is becoming more difficult with the number of apartments and houses up for sale.

[stoop]

As someone who frequents both Turkey and Portugal on a regular basis I can honestly say that even though you can get cheap deals in Portugal on beer (1 euro happy hour that lasts nearly all day) we find it much cheaper to holiday in Turkey.

OK - in both places we have our own kitchen and we can buy food/cook/barbecue. Turkey is much cheaper in this aspect.

Getting about is also cheaper - no dolmuses in Portugal taking us as far as Fethiye for a quid!

Both destinations have seen huge price hikes in flights.

Can't say I'm happy with any price increase but I don't think it's the end of the world quite yet. I am more concerned about Turkey moving towards the East rather than West and as this happens I think we will see more changes that we do not like very much. We were warned when we bought there 9 years ago but things were much different then and the presiding government were far more pro West than this lot are.

Still love it but it ain't the only place in the world to holiday and the Turkish government needs to realise that sooner rather than later.

[Ally B]

Very strange quote from Sus "as we all know Brits and Scots like their drink" are Scots not British any more? We were when we were helping with the gold medal tally.

[Rimms]

It will be interesting to see just how much the bars put their drinks up in price. Our local shop was selling large Effes for 3.25 until today when I see it's now gone up to 4.25 a bottle

[cheers]

I'm sure the costs will go higher in the near future as the suppliers will have to pass their higher costs on to their customers

 

[stoop]

I'm sure the costs will go higher in the near future as the suppliers will have to pass their higher costs on to their customers

 

It will be interesting to see just how much the bars put their drinks up in price. Our local shop was selling large Effes for 3.25 until today when I see it's now gone up to 4.25 a bottle

That's' £1.50 a bottle!!! Tesco at the moment are selling 4 x 660ml lagers (various premium ones) for £5.00.