Booking A Holiday To Turkey?

[naomi24]

Take plenty of money with you.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8474733/Tourists-charged-44-KEBAB-Turkish-resorts-recovering-coronavirus.html

[Bobbisox1]

went once and that was enough Naomi

[jno]

a great country, and I love the food there, but it looks as though I'd better hold off till I win the lottery.

[Gromit]

A Kebab in Turkey is not £44.
A bar tried to rip off customers. Obviously they didn’t pay that.

Pubs and bars when they open in the UK on Saturday will have significantly increased their prices because of Covid. Prices in foreign tourist destinations will do the same, and I think tourists will expect that. All anyone has to do is ask the price before they purchase food and drinks.

[ToraToraTora]

well it was inevitable that they'd hike it all up.

[youngmafbog]

"Pubs and bars when they open in the UK on Saturday will have significantly increased their prices because of Covid."

So how much do you reckon 'Spoons will be charging for a pint then Mr Oracle.

[youngmafbog]

It's a rock and a hard place for them. They have had income stopped for months, but overheads continuing, and now have daft regulations imposed on them so they cant get punters in.

I suspect some Majors and politicians would like to see them all closed anyway - permanently.

[Gromit]

Ymb.

Not the same as it did on 16 March.
To comply with the new rules extra staff will be needed, and because of social distancing, less people allowed in Wetherspoons. So their costs will increase, and that will be passed on to customers.

I expect prices to increase 10-15%.

Of course Wetherspoons behave like a supermarket and may just pay their suppliers (who are desperate) lees, and keep the price the same.
But most pubs and cafes that are not part of a £billion empire will increase their prices.
My pint has gone up from £2.60 to £2.80.

[LadyCG]

A kebab in Turkey is whatever the vendor decides it is, Gromit.

I was warned by a friendly local back in 2004 about agreeing a price before I order.

And as Bobbi says ... once was enough.

[youngmafbog]

20p, wont exactly break the bank will it? And anyway you are not paying the rip off prices we in the South have to pay for the same product, miles off it in fact. (Except for the excellent 'Spoons).

[Gromit]

Ymb,
We will have to disagree on Wetherspoons being excellent. There are occasional good pubs, but the majority magnets for scrotes attracted by the low prices.
The can only compete on price, and they do that by screwing their suppliers.
Where I live we already have low prices, and the local spoons shut because it couldn’t compete. It hadn’t been missed.

[Gromit]

Lady CG,
Cafes and bars have to display their prices on a board or a book menu by law. The only way they can rip you off if you don’t look at the price beforehand, or if you do not know how much a Lira is in Pounds.
If you each anywhere in the UK you look at the prices before buying, so why do tourists not look and then complain when the bill comes.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "The can only compete on price, and they do that by screwing their suppliers. " - it's essentially the boozer version of pile high, sell cheap model, beloved of Tesco et al.

[Gromit]

Exactly Tora, hence my reference to them as a Supermarket.
I don’t like supermarkets, but I use them. I don’t think of Tescos as excellent, more convenient and dependable.
Likewise, Wetherspoons are not excellent. They are on the whole, bland, soul-less, too large and full of the dregs. But they are convenient (by their astute locating) and dependable.
I prefer pubs with character, with ales from small independent breweries, and landlords not managers on minimum wage, and part of the local community, not another name on a corporate portfolio of properties.

[ToraToraTora]

fair enough if you are happy to pay a lady godiva a pint!

[youngmafbog]

I disagree, most Spoons are excellent - and I have been ion them all over the country, I have even stayed in one and it was splendid accommodation. But then I am not a left wing snob.