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Kalkan Discussion => Money & Finance => Topic started by: pw on June 26, 2016, 09:36:20 AM
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Can anyone currently in Kakan give us an update on the current exchange rate on the street please?
TIA
pw
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I've seen 3.85 - 3.90. The restaurants answer to this less favourable exchange rate - bump prices up.
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Really? I can't imagine restaurant owners having changed their prices over the space of two days?
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Rate goes up - response: raise prices.
Rate goes down - response: raise prices.
Sounds like they're getting ready to join the EU >:D
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One popular restaurant has just put a new menu out mid season. My favourite dish was up 25%. I don't get it (anymore 🙂)
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I can understand that businesses want to take as much cash as they can especially when visitor numbers are down but they don't have much of a clue about economics!
I'd have thought the tried and tested method of reducing price to increase footfall would be a better model when there's reduced numbers of visitors and supply outstrips demand.
Anyway, thanks for your feedback. I'll be there in less than 2 weeks and can't wait to do my bit to boost the economy.
pw
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Several places have 'just' devised a new menu with price increases, very greedy. For those of us who live here very annoying, so we will be eating in more or just going where the prices are good.
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The rules of supply and demand only apply when extra profit can be made.
The rules are flexible, arbitrary, and generally designed to impact the customer.
If an establishment chooses to follow such practices, you can, like any other freedom of choice, vote with your wallet.
(Does not apply to EU system rules, where encouragement to vote again in order to get the right result may/will occur)
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I saw the Aubergine had actually reduced its rates and had been quite busy as a consequence. Is this still the case or have they also now raised prices? I am now back home and my son is arriving at the weekend and I was going to tell him to go to the Aubergine, but won't if they too have put their prices up
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Several places have 'just' devised a new menu with price increases, very greedy. For those of us who live here very annoying, so we will be eating in more or just going where the prices are good.
Name and shame please. We are out in 2 weeks and will support local business but won't be held to ransom.
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Agreed. Out there myself in a few weeks and would appreciate a couple of hints. Please also advise re cost of a bottle of Efes, usually found Fotos Pizza has the cheapest beer of all the eateries.
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Yes Aubergine did reduce their prices but from friends who have just recently been it seems they have raised them again, the food sadly wasn't very good & the service was poor.
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I didn't realise all these businesses bought their produce, paid their wages and bills in Sterling.
I'll bet the things they buy and sell in TL haven't changed much!
That said, I can accept the ones that do price in Sterling will have to adapt to compensate.
But the TL prices? Shades of opportunism!
Wonder what's happening in the more EU-centric resorts that have hordes of Germans occupying the sunbeds - I'll bet their prices aren't so volatile >:D
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I'm out on Saturday for the first time, so name and shame would help.
Tony
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One other thing I booked my airport transfer a while back to be paid in resort in sterling. Will they be after more money off me?
Tony
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Hi Tonye 1960.....
No, you will be fine to pay the same sterling amount. All airport transfer companies price in STG and I would expect this to show on that particular companies website. Most charge the same amount for single and return journeys.
I think you state its your first time out to Kalkan, I'm sure you will have a great time and find the people charming, honest and will help in any way they can. All of the restaurants will have their prices displayed, so you can make your own choice.
Enjoy.......!!!!
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Bump.
Any news on price hikes in restaurants and can anyone elaborate on the cost of a beer in a couple of venues ? Thanks ???
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The cost of an Efes is anything from 9tl ........16tl depending on where you go, from our personal knowledge. There are price rises in some restaurants & revised menus, but then if concerned you should check the prices before committing your custom. Infact if more people did query the menu & prices at the door to restaurants perhaps some of the owners would get the 'message' & not be so complacent in these difficult times. Putting up prices is not necessarily the way to make more money, especially if the standard of the food served is lower.
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Agree with DRBD. Went to Aubergine today where Efes had been on offer previously. Now 15tl with 25% discount during some times, so still 12tl. I mentioned it was still too expensive just so it plants a seed. It's ridiculous that people should be paying £4 for an efes. Tourists will not only be driven away by the current problems but also by the prices.
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There a quite a few Turkish tourists about Kalkan at this time as it's their holiday season, although many of them won't be drinking Efes etc nor will they be paying high prices for their meals😉😉😉😉
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I don't often write on this forum but read it fairly often. I feel compelled to write and give a different point of view. This week I spent a day and evening in Kas. The minimum we paid for a large Efes was 12TL, the average was 15TL. In one place we paid 15TL for a small Efes- a large beer wasn't an option. In a different bar we ordered two local Gin and Tonic's, they were 24TL each. Kas was absolutely packed- I've never seen it so busy. All of the bars on the main square were full, as were the majority of the restaurants. The hotel we stayed in was also full. I would say 70% of the customers were Turkish- happily paying the prices, not complaining and have a great time- the atmosphere was electric. Apart from seeing a handful of other British tourists, the remaining tourists appeared to be from various European countries. This continuing suggestion on Enjoy Kalkan that local business owners are hiking prices because of the British market is tiresome and incorrect. If anything, Kalkan is much cheaper than comparable Turkish resorts. After recent events in Turkey and the tragic bombings in Istanbul this week, Kalkan needs all the help it can get, not constant griping from people who supposedly love the town and it's people.
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We live here full time so can only comment on what we experience & obviously support Kalkan otherwise we wouldnt be here. We spent the day in Kas last week & certainly enjoyed an Efes at 10tl on the square, cannot comment on the evening etc as we were home by then.
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Drink is expensive in Turkey, not due to restaurant owners but taxes imposed by the Turkish government who doesn't want alcohol being sold. It costs 5 lira to by a bottle of beer in a supermarket - how can you honestly expect a restaurant, with overheads to sell it for any less than 12/15 lira. Give the businesses a break!
Like Mitch we too found Kas and other resorts more expensive than Kalkan when it came to food, wine and drinks and a much lower standard than is offered in Kalkan.
Just sit back, look at that view and enjoy :)
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Only going on personal experience, I agree with Mitch re. prices in Kas.
I think it also depends on where you live in the UK and what prices you are used to paying there.
A meal and wine in a restaurant or even a pub where I live would be a whole lot more expensive than a comparable meal in Kalkan, and not so good.