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Kalkan Discussion => Restaurants, Bars, Nightlife & Shopping => Topic started by: pw on July 29, 2016, 10:34:20 PM
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Just got the credit card bill after our July visit. I won't bore you with the details but.....
Meal for 6:
3 X shared starters, 6 X steaks, several beers, 1 X bottle house red, soft drinks & water, possibly a couple of glasses of white, 1 X dessert.
TL 641 @ 3.89 = £165. That's £27.50 a head.
That was Musakka. Cannot wait until Sept when hopefully the fx will be better.
Enjoy Kalkan!
pw
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Me & oh went for a meal last Friday to a local restaurant in Tadworth (Surrey) where we live. Nothing to fancy but quite a nice place.....2 starters, 2 main meals & 2 bottles of house white hic hic......£100
It makes my blood boil when people say Kalkan is or is getting expensive :-(((
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For my birthday a couple of weeks ago we went, last minute to our local ask, we had 2 shared starters, 4 main meals, 2 puds, 2 beers and 2 soft drinks....we had a 25% off voucher and it still cost £100....it really took the edge of it for me. Its chain resteraunt food, not gourmet cooking...to be fair we coukd have eaten at Gourmet for about the same money. No guessing which I would have preferred!
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Due to daughters friends parent's concerns about safety in Turkey we have had to abandon plans for a week in Kalkan later this month and have booked a villa in Crete instead. Not only was the villa £800 more for the week in question but I've just been looking at boat trips - 800 euros for a 6 hour boat trip but hey free water and fruit included :o.
So ... VFM still good!
We are aiming to travel without kids (and their friends) in September so all is not lost.
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I'd have left the daughter's friend at home. Kalkan is just as peaceful as ever.
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100 % agree Kalkan regular.....daughter's friend would be staying in the uk ....if my daughter kicked off,she would be staying at home as well !
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Due to daughters friends parent's concerns about safety in Turkey we have had to abandon plans for a week in Kalkan later this month and have booked a villa in Crete instead. Not only was the villa £800 more for the week in question but I've just been looking at boat trips - 800 euros for a 6 hour boat trip but hey free water and fruit included :o.
So ... VFM still good!
We are aiming to travel without kids (and their friends) in September so all is not lost.
Be great to read a report on your holiday to Crete & how it compares with Kalkan & VFM villa comparison ?
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OneLove - Ok will do, I doubt it would be as entertaining as many on here but will certainly report back on meals, costs and general vibe. The silver lining on the change of plans is that we get to sample another destination with the family ..... and we will still visit Kalkan in September.
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Ok so here goes with my brief price comparison for our family trip to Crete:
1) flight £350 about the same as kalkan last July as I recall
2) Villa - £1900, £800 more than I was quoted for a 5 bed villa in easy walking distance of Kalkan
3) Transfers - 280 Euros for a minivan for 7 ( bit miffed as I was quote 140 only to find out too late that was each way!)
4) Drinks - similar, perhaps even a little cheaper
5) Meals out - this was the biggest difference both in terms of cost, quality and service. We very much felt like they couldn't wait to get the food out, eaten and us cleared away. On our last evening we were fleeced at a harbour side restaurant and charged about 100 euros for a seafood platter for two, much of which was of very poor quality. In total we paid 280 Euros for 7 main courses a bottle of average wine, a few beers and soft drinks - oh and 2 coffees >:( :(
So yes - Kalkan is still very good value for money. We wouldn't go to Crete again and we are back in Kalkan in 2 weeks ;D
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Well I hope your daughter's friend had a nice time......
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2 starters = seafood chowder, 2 mains = fillet steaks with all l the trimmings , 2 deserts = lemon drizzle cake , 2 bottles Kankaya white & two EFES beers , 2 X fresh bean coffees , fantastic views over Kalkan bay all for the princely sum of 85 trl :::::
location = villa roof terrace in Kiziltas and we ill be there in 2 weeks eating similar every other evening and like many other alternating with a trip in to the village to a different restaurant every other night , with lashing of people watching and total chilling thrown in : yeeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaa ;
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brian j p, please can I come for my tea if we happen to be in Kalkan at the same time next year? ;D sounds amazing!
AlisonD, - scary Greek prices, hope you've got some spending money left to enjoy Kalkan.
Hope you both have good holidays, lucky you two, back again soon. :) 8)