I want to share a little with our readers with that information, as more correct and more profitable to make purchases of various kinds of goods or excursions in street shops and travel agencies. This article will, a kind of advice to avoid some errors, well, of course, save money, which is not so easy to earn and dig for the upcoming rest.
The most common mistake of tourists, especially those who visited Turkey, is the purchase of excursions on the first day of arrival at the hotel guide. Usually, after the guide appointed you the meeting time and you met with him, on his part there are various offers to acquire excursions.
Many immediately book the tours liked and pay their full cost. So, the price of such tours, significantly exceeds similar, which are sold in street travel agencies, and some are not just significantly, but two or three times. For example, Hamam in Kirish, in a separate SPA Center "Gold-Spa", on the street for sale on 15 dollars (two hours program). Exactly the same program in the hotel Hamam or the proposed guide with a departure to Kemer, it is worth a minimum of $ 45 (depending on which hotel you relax, the more cooler, the higher the price). Naturally, after the newcomers walking down the street, learning prices and communicating with the experienced and experienced tourists learned about what was clearly overpaid, they have a desire to cancel the excursions taken at the hotel and return their money. It is forced to disappoint you that you will not get your funds in full. If before the planned trip more than five days, then at best you will be returned only 75% of the cost, and even that with great reluctance and in the event that you will be tough to refund. Three days before the excursion, you will be returned only 50%, and with a shorter period and will refuse to return. I once even encountered the fact that tourists managed to return the full cost, but they simply had serious guys from Odessa, who were so pressed the guide that he had no other way out, health is more expensive.
Sell excursions guides are managed using the deception of tourists, saying that only when traveling with them, your insurance policy will act, and going on your own, you are not insured against accidents. This is of course, complete nonsense and that insurance, which is issued to you when buying a trip still in the homeland, operates throughout Turkey, starting from the moment you landed at the airport and until the country left the country. Many do not even open their insurance contract and do not read its conditions, although it would be nice to know that there is an item in which it is negotiated, with the slightest content of alcohol in the blood during the insured event, the tourist will pay expenses independently, in other words your insurance does not work . There is another attractive tour that is offered at the hotel, this is a sightseeing tour of Antalya.
Basically spend it for free (although some manage and sell), presenting this kind of gift from the tour operator. In fact, it applies to the sights of Antalya only indirectly, because only a minor part of the allocated time is given for this. The main goal is to visit expensive skin centers, jewelry, textiles, sweets and other things that the tour operator has an agreement and where prices are much higher than in other similar. From revenue, which tourists make in such centers, the tour operator receives a profit, or more correctly say commissions, in the amount of up to 50%. So it turns out that the excursion is not free.
Now, as for shopping in Kirish itself, outside the hotel. This resort is a single street, length near a kilometer, along which, on the right and left, are located hotels (first and second lines).
The first floors of hotels in the second line, which go outside, occupy stores, with various kinds of goods, travel agencies, pharmacies and small restaurants. Naturally, they came to Turkey for the first time or this resort, they want to see in detail what sellers offer. Most holidaymakers believe that Turks love to bargain. Must face you, they simply adore those who are not traded (although such tourists are units), but they are trading with you until the latter not from what they like it, but because they want to sell their goods. There are no own stores in Kiris, all rooms in the rental, which costs a lot and to repeal, and at the same time earn it, we need sales. Often, tourists take offense that in one or another store they scribbled or called them. This is because, considering a large amount of product and trying to take a lot of time from the seller, as a result, nothing is bought, which is annoying especially nervous vendors. It is worth treating it calmly and not spoil your nerves, some sellers, roughly speaking, descended from the mountains and behind their shoulders with a maximum of three grades of primary school. What kind of communication culture can we talk about. It concerns the owners, and the main mass of sellers are people from the former republics of the Union, who moved here to live. The main trump card is the knowledge of the Russian and Turkish language, since many are Meskhetians or Azerbaijanis Turks. For this reason, tourists have the opinion that all Turks know Russian well. So, I'll be back a little back and the following.
If you are not going to buy anything, but just decided to see what the store trades, then immediately tell me that only you are interested in the assortment, and you will buy another time. It will save you from the increased attention of the seller and from rudeness in the end.
I will give another good advice. For example, you liked the range in a certain store and you have acquired something, and would like to buy something else. Do not hurry. If friends are resting with you or you met someone in the resort and they also liked the things you purchased, take them into this store. The owner will be very glad that you have led friends, and it will be more buyers, and you will be guaranteed an additional discount in price.
Now I will say about leather and fur products that our tourists often buy. The bulk of such shops and trading offices offers a trip to the factory. This is a bit wrong, since there is no factory in the vicinity of Antalya, as they are located in Izmir or Istanbul. There are major centers that are in Kemer or Antalya, and where there is a large selection of topwear from leather and fur. There is a truth several shops in the Kiris itself, which trades the skin. But, must warn weighing that many products could stand as advertising, on mannequins, or just from the collections of past seasons. Since the skin, and especially the fur, should be stored at a certain temperature, without high drops, it is better to buy them in a major center, where these conditions are followed. The leather jacket preserved the entire season, in the store where temperatures (especially at night, when the air conditioner does not work), reach +30, very quickly loses the appearance or will deteriorate at all. And things like fur coats or fur vests, I absolutely do not recommend buying. For this reason, prices for such clothing in stores are quite attractive and lower than in a large center. Many are under this. Therefore, it is not necessary to give up a trip to the large leather centers of Kemer from advertising offices that organize a free shuttle service at any time convenient for you. Even if you do not find a suitable product, in any case you will be delivered back to the hotel. But such trips should be performed, only from leather shops, in no case do not agree to such a proposal from street travel agency, since also, like the hotel guides, they will have a big percentage of the goods you have purchased.
These are just a few tips of how to make purchases. The nuances in this matter are quite a lot and I, as a knowledgeable one that knows this topic, and personally working in this area, I will share such information and in chant.
