more time

[johnno]

confused, going to turkey for many years now ,icmeler mainly ,meeting and making many friends. i just cannot understand why many airports , and mainly the hotels ,plus the good people who work in them are so keen to give it up with-in six months ,after looking at J.T. photo,s at this time of year i just wonder why, want we are missing and want the trade is missing. really thinkabout it ,is everyone happy about this . or could we push for more months to be open. like to know the forums opinion.

[Chocoholic]

I don't think I would want to go in Winter. The weather was bad enough in October when I was there- on a night it was so cold the last week we were there we ended up looking for very closed in bars or going to bed early. It was warmer here in the UK at evening time when we got home. Also most of the restaurants/restaurants and bars in hotels and apartments had closed early October even when they had guests as they were so quiet, as had ours. not ideal. Restaurants are struggling now when it's busy in July and August so I can imagine them running at a great loss in Winter. Sorry but I can't see it happening and if it did would be at a great loss to the restaurant/hotel/apartment owners. If I want a holiday in Winter it would be much further afield to get nice weather.

[JT]

When October ended the first rain Icmeler saw was about the 12th December and every day up to that was in the mid 20's and some days more.

The reason the bars start to shut early in October in my opinion is because the people that own the flight companies try to RIP OFF the people that want flights by charging stupid prices because thjere is half term holidays in the UK and because they are different times across the UK they put the prices up after the first week in October.

People will not pay the stupid prices they ask, the bars start to close because no one will pay the prices and then the flight companies stop the flights

Resorts are run by flight companies.

Antalya is open and flights go there because the flight companies want it open albeit all inclusive deals and cheaper because it is off season.

Spanish tourism started 30 years before the Turkish resorts so have a head start and eventually they put flights on through the winter because of the ex pats that had bought there anbd themselves and their families needed flights, the bars stayed open (ok not all) so there was a supply and demand.

Maybe in 5-10 years time when the Turkish resorts are a bit "older" we may see it happening here.

Maybe the council could bring in a bylaw and cap the number of licensed premisesallowed to open in the resort and maybe that would make it a bit easier on the resort