Over the past decade, the United States has largely become a cashless society. Nowadays, most Americans use credit cards and debit cards to pay for virtually everything. However when traveling abroad, they are often disappointed to find that credit cards aren’t as widely accepted for payment in other countries. Fortunately, they probably won’t have to worry about that when visiting Fethiye.

Turkey is Visa’s Second Largest Market
If you have a Visa card and will be traveling to Fethiye, you’re in luck. “Turkey is Visa Europe’s second-largest credit card market and may become our largest if the current growth rate is maintained”says Peter Ayliffe, CEO of Visa Europe. Dana Pierson, a financial analyst at Credit Card Forum describes Turkey and Visa as “a story of unbelievable business success.” She goes on to say “When you consider that Visa has only been operating in Turkey for 25 years, it’s a very impressive feat to accomplish.”

Using Credit Cards in Fethiye
As you can guess from the previous paragraph, Visa is the most widely accepted credit card in Fethiye. The second most accepted card is MasterCard/EuroCard. American Express comes in third and is accepted at many high-end and upscale places, like fancy hotels. Dana Pierson of Credit Card Forum says “The popular American Express Starwood Preferred Guest credit card is still accepted at Starwood hotels in Turkey. Many other luxury resorts and hotels also accept American Express, but just make sure you have a Visa card handy in case your hotel isn’t one of them. You should have a Visa anyways to pay for normal purchases during your trip to Fethiye.”

Some Important Tips
If you’re paying with a credit card, no establishments require a commission surcharge. If you bargain on a purchase and come to an agreement on price, a seller might try and charge you a credit card commission (komisyon) of between 2% to 4% on top the price you agreed upon. In 2003 this practice was made illegal, so don’t let a seller do that to you. Of course you should also bring along cash because not everyone will accept cards for payment.

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Using Credit Cards in Fethiye

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The last car boot sale in aid of the 2010 Çalış Carnival will be held this Sunday 18 April 2010 in Calis, Fethiye.

It will be held in the car park behind Mado Ice Cream Parlour in its normal location.

This is the last event of the 2010 Carnival year so if you have any second hand gear to shift make sure you get to this one.

Stalls cost 10TL (a stall constitutes 2 tables width) and charities will not have to pay for their stall but are limited to one stall per charity.

You can bring your own tables or hire them. Hire costs are 2TL for a table and 1TL for a chair.

All stall fees will go towards the Çalış Carnival 2010 and Carnival charities.

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Next car boot sale tomorrow – Sunday 18th April

The biggest street party in Fethiye – who would want to miss this? Every year the Calis Carnival party just gets better and better, with top performers, amazing floats and loads of partying people all taking to the streets in bursts of glittering colour. It’s Fethiye’s most famous street party, attracting immense crowds of people each year to the Fethiye area.

Entertainment includes the extravagantly colourful carnival parade, filled with feathered costumes and plenty of dancers, a craft exhibition, workshops, and the colourful extravaganza will culminate with a “Party in the Park” concert on the Sunday afternoon.

Carnival Weekend 2010 will take place on Saturday and Sunday 29/30 May and this year’s theme is “One World”.

There will also be a full programme of activities during the week leading up to Carnival Weekend as well as a fun packed calendar of fundraising social events throughout the year.

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The biggest street party in Fethiye – who would want to miss this?

Visit a natural phenomena most tourists don’t even know about – Alexander Cavern and thermal springs.

Located off the D-400 road, signposted for saklikent. Drive 5.8km and look for the sign on your left that reads “Iskenderin Magrasi Alexander cavern Hohle”.

Nestled away off the road up a short lane and easily accessible by car or minibus, is Alexander cavern and thermal springs. At the top of the lane you will come to a Tea Garden, take a moment to relax and have a refreshing beverage before being guided by my Fevzi to marvel below ground into the cavern where you will be guided by oil lamp through narrow passageways. Take a breath and be bewitched by the rock formations that formed thousands of years ago.

After exiting the caverns you will be guided through the shrubs and wooded area, to the thermal bathing where large baths are filled with thermal water, where you and you family can bathe. Or stay overnight in a traditional Turkish pansiyon, room sleeps 2-3 people at a cost of approx 30TL including breakfast.

The thermal waters have beneficial properties for your health and is good for conditions such as;

• Skin Disease
• Infections
• Burns and Wounds
• Stomach and Intestinal Problems
• Hemorrhoids
• Rheumatism
• Body Odour
• Pimples and baldness
• Encourages smooth skin

Thermal Pansiyon – 0252 638 2049 – 0537 665 84 62 – Fevzi Kucukaydin

Please let us know if you find an area or place that you feel we should have on our website, please send your story and photographs to info@fethiyebay.com and it will be considered for publication.

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Fethiye’s Forgotten Gems – Alexander Cavern

Pelicans still grace the Fethiye Bay and openly play on the promenade, tossing objects around with their long beaks, not taking much notice of the passers-by that watch them.

Seen approximately 9 months ago, they have caused quite a stir in the Fethiye area, and are proving to be quite an attraction.

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Pelicans grace the bay of Fethiye

Ali is a Turkish folk musician who has gigged all over turkey and appeared several times on TV programmes.

His unique style and repertoire’s been much loved within Turkey and he is now looking towards expanding into touring venues in Europe, the UK and Northern Island.

In the mean time Ali is delighted to stay with his music followers in the bars and clubs local to Calis and Fethiye.

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Ali – The Turkish Folk Musician

The next Calis Carnival Car Boot Sale is on Sunday 27 September 2009 to kickstart the fundraising for 2010 Calis Carnival.

It is to be held in the same place – Car Park to the rear of Mado Ice Cream Parlour which is on Calis Seafront.

Sellers 8:00am Buyers 9:00am

Stalls are 10TL (2 Tables). Bring your own tables or hire them for 2TL each. All stall fees will go towards the Calis Carnival 2010 and Carnival charities.

Get There Early
The allocation of stalls are on a first come first set up basis and stallholders should get there before 8.00 am to secure a place.

As it is still the man holiday season the promenade cannot be used for the sale.

However, the side road between the car park and the Lighthouse Restaurant has been allocated for additional stalls.

New goods stalls, trade stalls and hot food stalls will not be permitted but craft stalls, hand made goods and second hand goods are fine.

Important – Future Dates
As from October, as requested by the Fethiye Belediye, the Car Boot Sales will be held on the second from last Sunday of every month if the weather permits. The dates will be as follows;

Sunday 18 October 2009

Sunday 22 November 2009

Sunday 20 December 2009

Sunday 24 January 2010

Sunday 21 February 2010

Sunday 21 March 2010

Sunday 18 April 2010

For Bookings and/or info call 05363739520 or 05358554919.

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Car Boot Sale – 27 September 2009

A new kind of shop has opened in Fethiye where you can take advantage of less than half price consumables for your printing needs. It is the Universal Cartridge Filling Centre.

Most all printer inks and toners are very expensive when buying original replacements, this new service offers you dramatically reduced cost on refilling your ink or laser cartridges.

There are 2 ways to accomplish this, you can take your empty printer cartridge to them or give them a call and they will come to you and pick it up.

They are very easy to find and located on the Kaya Caddessi (road) the same road that goes to Kaya and Kale Park Restaurant.

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Credit Crunch on Printer Consumables

The Credit crunch has caused all building work in the UK to cease, but despite this world wide crisis Fethiye continues to go full speed ahead building a variety of high quality homes.

Villas and apartments are still being built in the area despite a general down-turn in the economy.

There are homes from as little as £40.000 to £250.000 that are being snatched up by British buyers, ready to sit it out for the long term, and planning their retirement in the sunshine, joining over 3,000 expats now living in the area and enjoying their new life here.

It is not surprising that this trend will continue.

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Fethiye Building for the Future