Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

Does anyone know why Wetherspoon in my local town can sell a bottle of efes for £2.30 and the price in icmeler or Turkey is an average of 5 Lira which i estimate to be approx £2 surely the difference should be alot more! What do you all think? I love efes and was glad to see wetherspoon stocking it and i always nip in on a friday, cant wait to sample a bottle in the blistering heat so refreshing!!!!!

Correct me if I am wrong anyone- but the bottles of Efes you get here in the UK are much smaller than the bottles in Turkey. The ones I have got from various places here have been considerably smaller.

Dear Chocoholic They are the same size 500ml, although i did buy the taller slimmer bottle from a supermarket alot cheaper and it was also 500ml i think,

I think (someone will correct me if wrong) but the price off drinks is set by the local council at the start of the season.
Steve

bullybully wrote:Does anyone know why Wetherspoon in my local town can sell a bottle of efes for £2.30 and the price in icmeler or Turkey is an average of 5 Lira which i estimate to be approx £2 surely the difference should be alot more! What do you all think? I love efes and was glad to see wetherspoon stocking it and i always nip in on a friday, cant wait to sample a bottle in the blistering heat so refreshing!!!!!

Basically tax, tax is higher in Turkey on alcholol.

The same question is why can I get a good bottle of malt whiskey cheaper in a normal French supermarket than I can in Scotland, same answer is tax.

Dave

The following is taken from a news article

Beer has been a second target of the AKP’s cultural war against alcohol. Between 2002, when the AKP came to power, and 2009, taxes on beer increased a shocking 737 percent, with an additional 45 percent increase between 2009 and 2010.


Full article available at http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2010-05-10

Dave

OK guys. I suppose the answer is not to drink less but to save up and take more holiday spends!

Chocoholic wrote:OK guys. I suppose the answer is not to drink less but to save up and take more holiday spends!

Thats why I try and take 20% more than I spent the previous year, it's either that or the wife will have to drink water instead of Gin so I can have my normal intake of Efes, however saying that Efes has gone up 20% this year on average but the Lira is about 10% better as well so an effective increase of 10%

Dave

£2.95 in my Wetherspoons so a bit cheaper for me in Icmeler.

Very good points made on Efes. But, I agree, it all comes down to bringing more spends. Coz I am certainly not giving up my Efes this July!

got a 500ml bottle from morrisons on the weekend for £1.70
how much is this stuff in the turkish supermarkets

loates123 wrote:got a 500ml bottle from morrisons on the weekend for £1.70
how much is this stuff in the turkish supermarkets

I'm sure it was 9.75TL for a four bottle pack in Tansas, which is about £3.80, or 95p each.

loates123 wrote:got a 500ml bottle from morrisons on the weekend for £1.70
how much is this stuff in the turkish supermarkets

That seems steep!! I got a pack of four in Tesco's for £3.99!!!
Chris

£3.10 in the Wetherspoons I go to now, so even more of a bargain in Icmeler for me. I noticed on Tesco's online shopping site that Efes was available but my local store doesn't stock it so I emailed Tesco to get them to and they are going to oblige

Just back from my local off sales and lo and behold they now stock Efes. Happy days. 8 bottles of Efes plus a free Efes glass £7.99. Love it

Sounds good - at least it'll keep you going until your next holiday. Always tastes better in Icmeler though, doesn't it?

Efes never tastes the same to me over here, so I went for carling for tonight

Always better in Icmeler but I can close my eyes and dream while i am drinking it

I got some from Tesco last night , its not the same when it doesn't come in the short fat bottles . But never mind we will be in icmeler a week today and I will be drinking the real thing

yeah our bottles are tall, slim things, just makes it taste different