Fun Pub coming to town

[angela]

well as a non drinker (and usually the driver) a mug of good old fashioned instant coffee, and non of this machine crap with a fancy name that that tastes of nothing!!

[desmartinson]

Wasting your time coming to Calis then UBT, you missed out street dogs crapping all over the beach too, and waiters in the same t shirt and shorts at night in the restaurants as they had on at lunchtime. except of course bela mamas, casa di mamas, who do put on an appearance for the punters, Tinks had it spot on, calis is dying and no one seems to care.

[Jacqui Harvey]

Des, Can I add George's to your list of Waiter's that do change at night?  We always notice that the tee shirts and short of the day are replaced with smart shirts and trousers in the evening. Phil has remarked a few times at the creases they press in their trousers are the finishing touch... he notices these sort of things.    Also they always smell really good when I get my goodnight kiss  

[Christie]

We go to many of the restaurants including Bella Mama, Er Oz, Meeting Point, Merhaba, Palms - the waiters have always changed into clean shirts / trousers.  We see some of them coming back from an afternoon rest, with different and clean shirts ready for the evening.  Even walking along the front it is obvious waiters have made the effort to change for evening service.  What restaurants are you referring to ? 

[grizabella]

I lived here long enough to know.... If it's good it stay's open,
If it's bad it go's skint!!!
The fun... Is watching
Sorry Barry but have to disagree with you.Its not always the way that a place closes because its bad.Sometimes it doesnt matter how good the food and the service is if the customers dont come and the landlords keep raising the rents it becomes impossible to make a living.Its not that easy in todays economic climate to make a living in tourism.

[Highlander]

What restaurants are you referring to ? 

Yes desmartinson do tell.

Calis bar staff and waiters are some of the nicest smelling men I know.

Oh, and one particular gentelman in Fethiye.

[nichola]

     (from Doğan)

[ovacik2]

It must be a very positive way for the Resorts of Fethiye, Calis, Olu Deniz, and  Hisaronu to keep up the changes.. Not to keep changing is a sure way to die as resorts, there will be winners and losers, the resorts are never going to please one and all. One thing for sure is that all the resorts mentioned are going to be here long after we all are done and gone. The only one element that could change that is "The Weather"
  Ovacik.Roll on May! Year 11  

Cannot think of any resort visited over the many years that have not made changes to good and bad..

[philrose]

Philrose - why do you equate families with a Fun pub? My experience tells me it will probably be the last place you would take your kids.

I think Nichola's description will be fairly accurate.

Family themed pubs such as the two I mentioned do fall under the umbrella of "Fun Pubs". Maybe I should have added a smiley as it wasn't a totally serious comment ;-)

[stoop]

The one place I can compare Calis to is Praia da Rocha on the Algarve.

We've owned our place in Calis ten years this autumn and have owned our timeshare in Portugal a year longer.

On the face of it Calis has changed the most. Infrastructure is totally different than it was back then and local wealth has obviously increased many fold.

However one thing that has hardly changed is eating out and drinking out on the front (apart from the cost).

I can honestly say that apart from one or two 'higher class' places such as Sat and Bella Mamas (there are one or two others as well) it's pretty much the same along the front. I include the choice if menu in this as well.

Businesses come and go in both places but we always go back hoping our favourites are still thriving and new places have opened to offer more choice. Sadly that's not always the case.

Praia da Rocha had a massive makeover on the beach a few years back. A long wooden walkway, stretching about a mile, was constructed with bars and restaurants every few hundred yards. This added choice as well as superb places to sit and enjoy your lunch or dinner. However the main 'strip' has altered very little. The good places have survived whilst others have disappeared.

In our part of Turkey, however, the only areas that have really changed and improved are Fethiye and Koca Calis. The latter now offering around 5 or 6 places to eat and drink compared with the solitary Birlik ten years ago!

Mostly I can't recognise the Calis of 1993 these days but along the front it's hardly changed. They do need to up their game a little and fresh ideas are needed if they want to get me and the wife back eating there regularly. At the moment only Guvens has that dubious pleasure  

Maybe one of the reasons for little change on the business front is that it's almost impossible for a foreigner to open (and survive) a business on his own - unlike Europe. Imagine the front with an array of Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Irish, Spanish, Italian, English, Portuguese, French, German, etc etc restaurants on the front. That's almost exactly what we find in Portugal. Plus an immaculate beach thrown in.

Still love both places though