Question about hotel Caretta Beach Hotel 4*
Current tours to this hotel
Get the best price from travel agents
Ask a Question
Ask a question
Topics questionа
Related question «General issues»
Is it safe to buy excursions "on the street"?
I heard it's much cheaper.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
Subscribe
Answers • 11
Safe and really cheap. Have traveled many times. But I advise you to ask the "old-timers" of the hotel if anyone has purchased excursions from this bureau. Since a lot depends on the guide, how interesting he will tell. And some excursions on the street do not offer. For example, a one-day excursion to Istanbul or Israel.
Like
You like
answered 13 years ago
The insurance is valid throughout Turkey, and not with a specific operator, as hotel guides assure. Therefore it is safe. The only advice is to check with the agency what the national composition of the future group will be, and whether the guide speaks Russian well. And then we once got into an English-speaking group, and my husband had to translate separately understood phrases for the entire excursion and explain Russian words to the annoying guide :))
Like
You like
•
1
answered 13 years ago
On the way from the hotel there is a Kitabus travel agency, very friendly staff and prices are much lower.
Like
You like
•
2
answered 13 years ago
If you want to read how we went to Cappadocia from a street agency http://www.turpravda.ua/tr/alanja/Monart_City-h9636-r54054.html But in Turkey, basically, we always take excursions on the street.
Like
You like
answered 13 years ago
We always take excursions on the street, there were no punctures. I repeat: it is important that the tour was for the Russian group! Do not be too lazy to go around all the nearby travel agencies and talk with representatives, it is checked for yourself that where the agents themselves are fluent in the language, there are Russian-speaking guides, there should not be any problems with the language in Alanya. It is also important to find out which bus will be provided, check on the spot, what is included in the cost of the tour and how much money you need with you (payment for lunches, entrance tickets, drinks, etc.) - it happens in different ways.
Like
You like
answered 13 years ago
Thank you. I am planning a trip to Pamukkale. Maybe someone will give advice on what to take with you. And how expensive it is.
Like
You like
answered 13 years ago
On the street, a 2-day (1 day very long trip) trip to Pamukkale costs about $ 40 (includes a visit to Pamukkale, Hieropolis, a night in a hotel with a thermal pool (the water is the same as in the Cleopatra Pool) 1 dinner (without drinks) + breakfast, visiting a mosque, a carpet factory, wine tasting) From the guides they offer all this in one day, without a hotel and for $ 75. Only from a guide you can take Pamukkale + Ephesus for 2 days, about $ 175. With you dry rations, water, money for drinks, payment for lunch in a restaurant ($ 10), payment for the Cleopatra Pool ($ 18) - lunch and Cleopatra at will! Instead of a pool, we wandered around the dead ancient city of Hieropolis, and enjoyed the thermal baths at the hotel. Of the things: if there is a pillow under the neck (the road is long), a swimsuit, slippers for the hotel, a towel, all the Japanese b socks - it’s easier on bumps, the rest are barefoot
Like
You like
•
1
answered 13 years ago
Hello everybody! I want to write to the account of street agencies in Turkey, the principle of opening is the same for everyone - this is a license and insurance. The license is made in Tursab and each agency has its own number, control over this is very serious. I used to work as a guide at a hotel in Pattaya and Tenerife, my goal was to sell and no matter what to say. Not long ago she married a Turk and he turned out to have such an agency. He explained everything to me how to open such an agency, I want to say it's not cheap, only a license costs $ 20,000. Now I myself sell excursions to our tourists and many always have one question: "do you have insurance?". People, you already have insurance, when you buy a ticket, just always check with whom you are insured. When contacting the hospital, say the name of the insurance company, the hospital staff will contact them themselves. Some hotel guides even make mistakes thanks to street agencies, they sell let’s say pamukkale for $85, and they buy from us for $35, $50 per person in their pocket, of course, if the management finds out, they will be fired, but still there are such. From here follows the question "Why are tours so much cheaper with street agencies than with tour operators?". It's hard for me
Like
You like
•
½
answered 11 years ago
It is difficult for me to answer, but my husband says that the owners of the agencies are "fools"))) that such ridiculous prices. But we also cannot sell at the price we want, we sell like everyone else. They still constantly want discounts, but where to throw them off, for example, the organizer sells us a motorcycle safari for $ 20, and we sell for $ 25, where is it even cheaper?))) So don’t trust the guides, but buy excursions wisely. The agency where I work is in Kemer called TGI Travel? If you have any questions, write to [email protected] or you can read about us in contact vk.com/idtgi_travel (sorry for advertising, work requires
Like
You like
answered 11 years ago