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[Ching]

Yup, too right! Cyprus should weed out the skinflints and go for the top-end of the market!

As I always say, if I was Presidentess ... I would double the cost of all tourist centred pastimes ...

Less people, same profit!

You do come up with some rubbish woman dont you .
The con merchants at Paphos will be sooner rather than later be wishing that they run their business properly and not as some shark entrepreneurs.
The rip off merchants ought to weeded out , they are causing immeasurable damage to our tourist industry.
My son and his lady , two weeks ago had a fish meze for lunch at one of the old port restaurants . Their bill , 180 euros . ! A couple of beers and an ice cream . !!
Wait till I get there

Hello Miltiades,

I am visiting Cyprus from China!

Oh very nice place. Yes some areas expensive. I went restaurant across the street from Colombia plaza called barolo but prices were shown outside before i enter so i know already how much food was.

Very good food here. Can you or any one else tell me what other nice restaurants around here? I stay for only 3 weeks.

[cyprusgeoff]

At last someone has noticed and has come out and said so.


http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=46198


‘Stop hiking prices while we’re handing out money’
By Stefanos Evripidou

FINANCE MINISTER Charilaos Stavrakis yesterday called on hoteliers and restaurants to stop the “unacceptable” practice of increasing prices at a time when the government was pumping money into the industry to make it more competitive.

The minister highlighted that the increasing prices did not help tourist arrivals, which were on a worryingly downward trend, with the first days of June registering a 12 per cent decrease. The fall in arrivals was concerning the government, he said.

“For the first four months, January to April, we had a reduction of about eight per cent. Unfortunately, in May this went above ten per cent, and the first days of June showed a reduction (in tourist arrivals) of around 12 per cent. So there is a slight deterioration, which of course, altogether we will have to try to overturn,” said Stavrakis.

The minister criticised the hoteliers for on the one hand, seeking tax cuts and incentives from the government to weather the storm of the global financial crisis which has hit tourism hard, and then on the other, refusing to lower prices and in some cases even raising them.

“A big problem at the moment is the question of prices of hotels and restaurants. Based on official statistics for inflation in the first five months, it is clear that the hoteliers are increasing their prices, same as the Cypriot restaurants,” he said.

“All this at a time when the state made a very generous gesture, contributing €52m to the tourism sector, exactly to make it more competitive,” he added.

The minister pulled no punches when he identified where the problem lay regarding the tourism industry’s competitiveness.

“It’s unacceptable in this period that some hoteliers, instead of lowering prices, are increasing them,” said Stavrakis.

Tourists have long complained that air fares, coupled with hotel, restaurant and general entertainment prices in Cyprus are above and beyond what they would pay for similar tourist destinations.

This paper is constantly inundated with letters from visiting tourists complaining that they have been forced to abandon Cyprus as a tourist destination after years of coming here for other shores, having been priced out of the island.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2009


If some of the idiots on this forum believe that putting prices up will make
Cyprus a more desirable and attractive place to spend a holiday then they surely need their heads tested because without the tourists and the
people buying property this place could be a desert in a few years.

By desert I'm not talking about apple pie I mean an Arid land with little or no vegetation and very few people.

[kafenes]

If some of the idiots on this forum believe that putting prices up will make
Cyprus a more desirable and attractive place to spend a holiday then they surely need their heads tested because without the tourists and the
people buying property this place could be a desert in a few years.

Can you name one idiot on the cyprus forum who beleives putting the prices up will make Cyprus more attractive and desirable?

[cyprusgeoff]

I refer you to the post at the top of this page.

[bill cobbett]

My Beloved Fellow North London Brothers and Sisters, time to help out the old country again.

So don the dodgy beach fashions, stuff the pockets with the easy come Sterling and make for our traditional gathering grounds in Phinikouthes, Mackenzie, Nissi etc.

It's ok CYCYs, your siblings of style and substance, the Charlatans are coming to the rescue again, to a beach near you, this Summer.

[Get Real!]

...without the tourists and the
people buying property this place could be a desert in a few years.

By desert I'm not talking about apple pie I mean an Arid land with little or no vegetation and very few people.

Income from tourism is around 10% of the whole RoC economy so how do you suppose this biblical catastrophe will occur?

[bill cobbett]

...without the tourists and the
people buying property this place could be a desert in a few years.

By desert I'm not talking about apple pie I mean an Arid land with little or no vegetation and very few people.

Income from tourism is around 10% of the whole RoC economy so how do you suppose this biblical catastrophe will occur?

Nearer 20% when Mrs BillC hits the shops!

[kafenes]

I refer you to the post at the top of this page.

You seem to have missed the 'smiley' at the end of her sentence. She is only winding miltiades up.

[Free Spirit]

...without the tourists and the
people buying property this place could be a desert in a few years.

By desert I'm not talking about apple pie I mean an Arid land with little or no vegetation and very few people.

Income from tourism is around 10% of the whole RoC economy so how do you suppose this biblical catastrophe will occur?

There you go again

[miltiades]

Prices are high , no two words about it. Locally produced wine prices are absurd . Restaurants that once were reasonable are now more expensive than in some London Restaurants.
A glass of 175ml wine at a sea side cafe opposite my apartment costs 6 euros , or £5.50 Stg. In London's Battersea and Chelsea an average price for a 250 ml glass of wine costs stg 7.60 , on a pro rata basis it works out at £5.32 stg per 175 ml .

Here is a secret , I'm currently negotiating taking over a Cafe / Sanwich bar in Kings Road Chelsea ( my son will manage ) , the rent Stg 114,400.00 per annum. Currently price charged by present owners for a large cappuccino stg 2.80
, at this Limassol cafe the price of a coffee is 3.50 euros . A jacket potato at "my prospective cafe " currently sells for £4.50 with a filling of your choice , in the Limassol Cafe /Restaurant 6.00 euros.
Every one knows that Kings Road Chelsea warrants much higher prices than other London Cafes etc because of location , similarly the Limassol Cafe being at the best possible location also warrants higher prices.
Cyprus's economy , regardless what some may say , relies heavily on tourism and foreign investment.
There is no reason why butter , milk , cheese , bread and many many other basic food commodities should cost more in Cyprus than the UK.The Cypriot supermarkets must , in my opinion , operate a cartel in order to keep prices ridiculuosly high.

I have noticed the continued increase of food and restaurant prices over the last 2 or so years. I dont count the pennies but I'm now much more price conscious than I was a few years back.