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[bill cobbett]

Will everyone please stop talking about cakes ....

Absolutely our O. There's a National Struggle to be fought and we spend so much time chatting about the price of a coffee in Paphos, about Eurovision and about cakes.

(Did someone mention Kataifi?)

[kurupetos]

Will everyone please stop talking about cakes ....

Absolutely our O. There's a National Struggle to be fought and we spend so much time chatting about the price of a coffee in Paphos, about Eurovision and about cakes.

(Did someone mention Kataifi?)

Brother Bill! We are with you on that! No worries!

[cyprusgeoff]

Sorry I forgot to say that there was 5 people in the group that had expensive coffee and cakes at Pafos harbour and they are still hopping mad about it. I'm going to ask them to show me which restaurant it was before they have to go back.

I did include 5 links to UK travel sites advertising holidays in North Cyprus as cheaper alternatives away from the Euro zone in my post but they were taken out as seen to be advertising.

It seems you can now fly from 18 different UK airports into North Cyprus which gives people the choice and if the prices here continue to be high I'm afraid people will vote with their feet and go elsewhere which is why I ended my post with: -

"I'm sure like most tourists they don't give a flying fig about the North - South problems as two weeks holiday in the sun is their main concern"

[miltiades]

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

Why is it a con?

Just charge more so that the clientele are more "refined"

Applicable to establishments with at least one Mitchelin star , but to a seaside resort where you are served by amateur waiters from Georgia its a rip off.

Michelin Stars!

You deformed corrupt excuse for a Stroumbian ...

I would on point of principle not go anywhere were they "Michelin Star" classified food ... and bear in mind, I have a home in France as well as one in the poshest place in Britain ...

How can you "Michelin Star" rate grilled haloumi or Kalamata olives or Burghouri with yiaourti?

Simple , you make sure that the halloumi is of good quality and that the person serving you has clean fingernails , as for the yogurt do ensure that it is at least fresh.
The Plonkers ripping tourists off at the old port have been given the right to print their own money just as the taxi drivers have been doing for years.
It is inconceivable that a taxi driver from Paphos airport charges more 40 euro for a five mile journey into town centre. Greed has got the better of them , plus the Brits have found them out and doing something about it.
The tourist industry has been extremely beneficial to all of Cyprus and especially to Paphos , it must be protected and not allowed to develop , as it has in some places , into a rip off industry.
Almost forgot the most annoying practice adopted by the Old Port Restaurateurs is to have a pimp approach you trying to entice you into their joint , how dated how Arabic how fucking annoying ,

PS. the correct term for someone born in Stroumbi the Great is not a Stroumbian but a Stroumbiotis the Great !!

[cyprusgeoff]

Yes my currency conversion was correct €51.50 (£46.00) but I should have put GBP or GB£. I thought everybody knew that the Cyprus pound is no more.

I find it strange that a lot of people are joking on this thread about the prices that the tourists are being charged here in Pafos with a pay up, look cheerful about it or stop away attitude because that is just what they will do.

As the whole economy is based on selling people houses and holidays and the house selling seems to have virtually stopped I would have thought that trying their best to encourage more tourists to come would have been a smart idea instead of ripping them off so they don't ever come here again.

[Milo]

Yes my currency conversion was correct €51.50 (£46.00) but I should have put GBP or GB£. I thought everybody knew that the Cyprus pound is no more.

I find it strange that a lot of people are joking on this thread about the prices that the tourists are being charged here in Pafos with a pay up, look cheerful about it or stop away attitude because that is just what they will do.

As the whole economy is based on selling people houses and holidays and the house selling seems to have virtually stopped I would have thought that trying their best to encourage more tourists to come would have been a smart idea instead of ripping them off so they don't ever come here again.

Geoff it is unfortunately a case of bury head sand and so far as the money has been rolling in from the 'awful brits' then so good. But we know that is changing rapidly and the economy is still fine here so we are told, yeh right

Do not expect any thankyou,s from Cyprus plc for any tourist or property money the brits have brought in in the past, that will never happen. The british will move on to other destinations cause thats how fickle the tourists are no real allegiances, just careful with the money they have to spend I suppose.

But I live here and am in my own little heaven so I have to agree that less bucket and spade type tourists would be better and a complete turn around to a higher end market would be much better for Cyprus in its future, there is much to do to enable this BUT it could easily be done in a short space of time too. Lots of money needed but they have it, I,m a massive fan of Cyprus but only of how it was not so much what it has now become.

So 100% behind a change of tourist tactics and a larger global marketing it would be so right for an island this size.

As for theproperty side well don,t get me started its a shambles and a mess and hopefully they will knock down all the unsold cement skeletons and landscape the areas. Then when all this is done I will be able to sell my beautiful place here in the East! yes they do build very good stuff, with Deeds and move on. This is not because I dislike Cyprus at all in fact might keep a small place on here, but purely as we want to try other places too before we get old But no UK anymore that is in the past also.

[cyprusgeoff]

Hey, I live here as well and we are having to put up with the higher prices in the shops for essential things but it still annoys me that the tourists are seen as fair game for being ripped off.

Most folk just pay up, realize that they have been over charged and don't go back but I question the business wisdom of this attitude of fleece 'em for all they've got while they're here.

I've found over the years that a lot of people used to come back to Cyprus year after year because they had a good holiday, good weather at a fair price and now that seems not to be the case.

Very sad and very short sighted in my opinion.

[miltiades]

Hey, I live here as well and we are having to put up with the higher prices in the shops for essential things but it still annoys me that the tourists are seen as fair game for being ripped off.

Most folk just pay up, realize that they have been over charged and don't go back but I question the business wisdom of this attitude of fleece 'em for all they've got while they're here.

I've found over the years that a lot of people used to come back to Cyprus year after year because they had a good holiday, good weather at a fair price and now that seems not to be the case.

Very sad and very short sighted in my opinion.

Here is one Cypriot who is appreciative of the enormous benefits that tourists have contributed to the Cyprus economy . The Brits in particular have brought wealth and prosperity to Paphos that was once the poorest region of Cyprus. Without the Brits this fairy tale would come to an end.
Us Cypriots have a habit of burying our heads in the sand when things go wrong , well we just blame the Anglo Americans , it is NEVER our fault , but always the fault of the Anglo Americans.
Stand up against exorbitant prices boycott shops that rip you off , tell them when they do so dont just pay and accept it.

[Oracle]

I've found over the years that a lot of people used to come back to Cyprus year after year because they had a good holiday, good weather at a fair price and now that seems not to be the case.

Maybe they were living off the credit they now have to pay back!

Easy to blame high prices in Cyprus just because everyone in the UK is feeling the pinch for their ill-advised spending sprees over the last decade or more.

[miltiades]

I've found over the years that a lot of people used to come back to Cyprus year after year because they had a good holiday, good weather at a fair price and now that seems not to be the case.

Maybe they were living off the credit they now have to pay back!

Easy to blame high prices in Cyprus just because everyone in the UK is feeling the pinch for their ill-advised spending sprees over the last decade or more.

O , Cyprus is extremely expensive to Brits , partly because of the strong euro and mainly because prices in Cyprus have been allowed to escalate without any government intervention. Im a business man , have my own business and on average travel to Cyprus 6-7 times a year. I'm not rich and neither am i poor , but most certainly I would not pay almost 8 euros for a 200 grm of nescafe that I buy in the UK for £3 or Euro 3.30 less than half price , now this highly inflated price can not be because of either customs duty or importing restrictions . Who makes a killing here.
Prices of locally produced cheeses , Lountza , hiromeri , olive oil have shot up to levels that makes olive oil in Cyprus much more expensive than anywhere else. Prices on some household necessities are in some cases three times as much as the UK. I compare the UK because the Cypriot economy is heavily dependent on UK investments tourism etc.
The absolute nonsense you post ie "ill- advised spending sprees " have absolutely nothing to do with prices being extravant in Paphos.