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Best value sunshine hols now Euro rate is pants ?
Kev64
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We've just returned from a last minute week in Rhodes and were really stung by the prices of everything out there. The awful Euro exchange rate made things very expensive indeed - e.g. £2.50 for a coffee (instant !), £4 for a spirit and mixer, even the cheapest meal like a basic spaghetti dish was hard to find under £7.
We guesstimated that it would have been cheaper overall to have gone all inclusive to Mexico or Cuba !
A friend has just returned from Turkey and commented on how cheap it was... and it got me thinking...
If the Euro rate is poor, where else can you go for a good value beach holiday ?
I'm thinking specifically in terms of exhange rates combined with local prices.
We guesstimated that it would have been cheaper overall to have gone all inclusive to Mexico or Cuba !
A friend has just returned from Turkey and commented on how cheap it was... and it got me thinking...
If the Euro rate is poor, where else can you go for a good value beach holiday ?
I'm thinking specifically in terms of exhange rates combined with local prices.
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Bulgaria and Croatia spring to mind. Not sure how nice they are but they are outwith the Euro and prices are still cheap as far as I know.
But yeah I thought the same when we visited Zante last year for only 10 nights. We spent almost the same that trip as we did on a fortnight AI to Cancun 6 months previously.0 -
Possibly add in an AI to Tunisia...0
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Croatia is a beautiful place, but not that cheap due to the millions of tourists that have 'discovered' it.
Egypt seems to be 'the' all-inclusive destination of choice these days.From Poland...with love.
They are (they're) sitting on the floor.
Their books are lying on the floor.
The books are sitting just there on the floor.0 -
Egypt is still good value but not quite as good as it was a couple of years ago. Again probably due to people discovering it and the exchange rate dropping against the Egyptian pound over the last couple of years.
I certainly wouldn't hesitate to go back though although imo it is more of a Winter destination.0 -
KonkyWonky wrote: »Bulgaria and Croatia spring to mind. Not sure how nice they are but they are outwith the Euro and prices are still cheap as far as I know.
Bulgaria may be cheap but Croatia certainly isn't - at least not in the tourist places. Just take a look at the prices of hotels in dubrovnik! Just because a country hasn't joined the Euro it doesn't mean it will be cheap. It's the £ that's worth less more than the Euro being worth more that makes it seem expensive.
Like most of Africa Egypt is pretty cheap once you get there. Another place you could consider is Morocco but that's more expensive than it used to be.0 -
I went to Dubrovnik a couple of years ago. Cheap is one word it was not. Beautiful yes, cheap no!Cover me in honey and fling me to the hermaphrodites!0
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How about Sri Lanka?"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."0
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