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is it just us or are the staff at Dalaman getting ruder each year,last week i got passport thrown at me, told to go away (was in the wrong queue, their fault not mine!) pushed to one side so cabin crew could go through passport control before us and had my hand luggage rifled through and all the guy took out was make up and my contraceptive pills which he took great joy in waving in the air!! Oh well as from next we are going to have turkish lessons at our local college so should be able to converse with them

I am sure that Reesy will give you some choice words

One year I will get a smile from the passport stamper man, I know he has a boring job and is prob paid peanuts but a smile wouldn't hurt surely

One of them was giving some man a right good talking to when we were waiting in the que comeing home. I think the guy was Kurdish, so maybe that's why the Policeman was being funny with him.

Steve

i agree the day we get a worker in passport control , check in , or flight and ground staff ,with a smile or a friendly look, is the day the moon turns to cheese !!!!!!!! civility costs knowt !!!!!!! bill atkinson PS the rest of the turks are tremendus thats why we go

Colette wrote:One year I will get a smile from the passport stamper man, I know he has a boring job and is prob paid peanuts but a smile wouldn't hurt surely

I got one, mind you he was trying to look down my top at the time and a nice friendly policeman wanted to exchange mobile numbers so next time I'm over in Turkey he can show me around. Very thoughtful

admin wrote:I am sure that Reesy will give you some choice words

Mr JT, are you saying I talk a lot?

I love the staff at Dalaman, it means we are back in Paradise, but I am not so fussy on them on the way home, so sad to be leaving.

passport control always spend ages looking at my passport and then looking at me, I always think they aren't going to let me in

I had a sort of happy 1 when i was there few weeks ago.Going to get my visa stamped and he stamped the wrong 1 so i told him and he started laughing and i had to show him which 1 it was...he gave me the stamp as to say do it yourself.He kept saying too many times here.
Coming home the guy wasn't as happy...maybe the time of morning it was!!He stamped my visa and then started looking at all the other visa's again and then at the 1 what had ''cancel'' put through it from when i went into the country.

I've had a happy girl check me in too in May.She gave me a window seat and whispered ''i've give you a window seat'' and smiled,i was like thanks.Luckly nobody sat next to me so had 3 seats to myself...slept the whole way!!

Think it must be luck of the draw!!

Arriving this year in the visa queue and I actually got asked how I was!!I think he was trying to be a bit of a smart alec though as he asked in Turkish waiting for me to look at him blankly. I told him I was very good, then proceeded to ask him how he was etc in turkish, to a very suprised look!!

Pooise wrote:Arriving this year in the visa queue and I actually got asked how I was!!I think he was trying to be a bit of a smart alec though as he asked in Turkish waiting for me to look at him blankly. I told him I was very good, then proceeded to ask him how he was etc in turkish, to a very suprised look!!

I love it when you can understand what they are saying, let them talk a little more, then come out with a little Turkish.