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[cyprusgrump]

Now your being silly Grump!

Ok, how much was a litre of petrol when you moved out? How much is it now?

Lets see if we can get the prices on petrol in UK now and back in 2003 and see who has the bigger increase?

What would that prove?

Who is being silly now?

Tell me how much you pay in Council Tax (me = €250).

Tell me how much it will cost to heat your home and provide hot water between now and the end of November (me = £0).

Tell me where you can get a four course meal in the UK for €12*

Tell me how much it costs you for a litre of petrol or diesel (me = ~€1).

Tell me what you pay in income tax (me = 10%)

Then tell me how expensive Cyprus is.

BTW it is ‘you’re’ not ‘your’.

*NB a Big Mac, Fries, Coke & McFlurrey doesn’t count.

Ooooh, please can I include a Maccy'dees!

Anyway this is about tourism in Cyprus going down due to prices and not about fueling your house or the water in your tap. Petrol does effect the tourist

Oh four course meal for 12 Euro I can get one of those for about £10 at a local pub 5 miles from me. In fact I can get two meals, main course, 2 drinks for £8.00 Ok!

Ah, I’d forgotten ‘two for one meal deals’ at Wetherspoons…

[simonwjones]

Now your being silly Grump!

Ok, how much was a litre of petrol when you moved out? How much is it now?

Lets see if we can get the prices on petrol in UK now and back in 2003 and see who has the bigger increase?

What would that prove?

Who is being silly now?

Tell me how much you pay in Council Tax (me = €250).

Tell me how much it will cost to heat your home and provide hot water between now and the end of November (me = £0).

Tell me where you can get a four course meal in the UK for €12*

Tell me how much it costs you for a litre of petrol or diesel (me = ~€1).

Tell me what you pay in income tax (me = 10%)

Then tell me how expensive Cyprus is.

BTW it is ‘you’re’ not ‘your’.

*NB a Big Mac, Fries, Coke & McFlurrey doesn’t count.

Ooooh, please can I include a Maccy'dees!

Anyway this is about tourism in Cyprus going down due to prices and not about fueling your house or the water in your tap. Petrol does effect the tourist

Oh four course meal for 12 Euro I can get one of those for about £10 at a local pub 5 miles from me. In fact I can get two meals, main course, 2 drinks for £8.00 Ok!

Ah, I’d forgotten ‘two for one meal deals’ at Wetherspoons…

Its not a Wetherspoon so thats two!

[Pumpy]

I think one of the problems that faces the Cypriot tourism industry is the cost of flights to the island.

The thing is that cheapy package tourists tend to buy all in, so these are the people you have seen in Paphos etc over the last few years.

The upper end of the tourism market, the very well heeled, don't tend to come to Cyprus because the facilities and services they want are not part of the infrastructure.

So that leaves the ones in the middle. And these are the guys that are now used to putting together their own holidays using the net. It's these guys that are balking at the cost of flights, particularly when they know they can get a super cheapie to some provincial Med airport for tuppence, and drive down to spend two weeks in a cute Italian village.

The cost of flights is also knocking Cyprus out of the Easter/Spring break market. The island is competing with better value products: from the cheap and cheerful week in Krakow to the week in Dubai.

I think Cyprus needs to put the last vestages of an 1980s tourism ethos to bed, and radically rethink what it can offer and to whom. It's no use trying to attract the wealthy when you don't have acres and acres of quiet treelined traditional cobbled streets, or excellent shopping facilities, or world class spas.

[Oracle]

Pumpy ... welcome back

But all my seriously wealthy UK friends consider Cyprus as the bee-all-and-end-all of relaxing stress free holidays .... A big plus in this day and age.

Places like the Caribbean and Barbados are losing their appeal through chintz, crime, long-haul, lack of individuality.

Most have kids attached and the safe Britishness of Cyprus certainly has Major appeal .... Also being the furthest south in the EU is its biggest long-term draw ..... and there's nothing to beat some of the top-class facilities like Aphrodite Hills and The Anassa ..... and shortly the creme-de-la-creme in Polis.

The only thing that makes "package holidays" decline in numbers, is that those people are buying their own villas and now no longer have to package ... but arrive independently.

[purdey]

Pumpy Krakow is no longer the cheapie it was. I was there at Christmas and prices have risen. What a beautiful place though full of history and spotless...

[Oracle]

Pumpy Krakow is no longer the cheapie it was. I was there at Christmas and prices have risen. What a beautiful place though full of history and spotless...

Yeah the horse-drawn coach drivers always seemed to know when to stop and sweep up the manure off the roads ...

And so many Catholic Churches everywhere you looked .. tacked in unbelievably between any old building ... Marvelous place ....

Aren't the pretzels 1 zloty each still?

[Zimbo]

Cyprusgrump - if we are going to be picky with spelling - your McFlurrey should read McFlurry.

[simonwjones]

Cyprusgrump - if we are going to be picky with spelling - your McFlurrey should read McFlurry.

Ha ha

[cyprusgrump]

Cyprusgrump - if we are going to be picky with spelling - your McFlurrey should read McFlurry.

Thanks for that!

I was confident that a regular at McDonalds would be along to correct my spelling – I expected it to be Simon tho.

[DT.]

Pumpy Krakow is no longer the cheapie it was. I was there at Christmas and prices have risen. What a beautiful place though full of history and spotless...

Yeah the horse-drawn coach drivers always seemed to know when to stop and sweep up the manure off the roads ...

And so many Catholic Churches everywhere you looked .. tacked in unbelievably between any old building ... Marvelous place ....

Aren't the pretzels 1 zloty each still?

I was just there 3 weeks ago!! Had an excellent Bachelors weekend. (Yes the Cypriot stag do's are following the British ones)

You won't believe what you can get Polish police to do for you if you give them enough money