Using Credit Cards in Fethiye

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.

Credit Crunch on Printer Consumables

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.

Electricity price set to rise by more than 20%

Electricity in Turkey is rising at a phenomenal rate, 60% last year and it is set to rise by more than 20% this September, as reported by Turkish newspaper agencies.

It is now a good time for all of us to seek out other types of energy to use to reduce our costs and most importantly reduce our C02 emissions.

Solar electricity panels are the most popular. Now with new panels arriving from Japan, there efficiency is even better than before and with new technology the prices have fallen making it an ideal time for you to invest in the future, and redefine the way you look at electricity and power in your home.

We have found a small shop in Fethiye dealing with Solar Energy, and Mr. Ahmet speaks a little English and is very helpful in finding the right solar system for your home and your budget. The shop is situated at Cumhuriyet Mah. 504. Sokak 10/A and they are contactable by telephone on 0252 612 1102 or 0532 684 5084.

The Turkish Language | The Essentials

Speak Turkish
Learn the essentials…

Turkish isn´t an easy language to learn, but it’s worth picking up a few words and phrases to amuse yourself and to astonish and delight Turks!

Despite oddities such as the silent ‘g’(?) and undotted i (?) , Turkish is phonetic and simple to pronounce. In a few minutes you can get the hang of the sounds, and then you’re ready to start talking. Most letters are said just as they’re written: but here’s a list of the tricky ones: Read more

A Bumpy Week for the Turkish Lira

Up, down, up, down – that’s the way the value of the Lira against the Pound has been going during this past week. At one point one Pound would have bought 2.75 YTL but now that has dropped to around 2.44 YTL.

Who knows what will happen next…

The Easiest & Simplest Way to Renew Your Tourist Visa

Simply take a short hop to the Greek island of Meis, near to Kaş on the Altug Boat trip run by Selo.

A fantastic day out, a coastal highway you long to drive on, encountering breathtaking panoramic sea views along the way to finally arrive in Kaş – one of Turkey’s Gems, and then to be met by your captain – Selo, who is a splendid and honorable person.

He speaks impeccable english, is extremely professional and well organized in his business and operates two boats.

Here is our step-by-step guide; Read more

A practical guide to spoken Turkish for foreign travellers

We found a very good book the other day whilst we were shopping in Dalaman town centre; this book has been prepared to help foreign travellers be understood when speaking some basic Turkish, making it easy to communicate with the Turkish people

The guide contains daily situations that you may encounter to teach you to speak real Turkish in real situations.

A fantastic small book to carry with you. The guide is written by Mehmet AKTAR.

You can obtain this book from any good book store at a very modest price.