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Russian tourists spoil holidays
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 05:37 pm |
Russian tourists spoil with their antisocial behaviour the holidays of Germans tourists in Turkey, especially in Antalya region.
The excessive eating and drinking behaviour of the Russians make the Germans furious, according to newspaper Bild. But worse than vodka bacchanals are the Russian prostitutes (the Natasha´s) who come to the holiday hotels to earn money. Several German tourists changed their hotels because they got sick of the nuisance.
For the first time there are more Russians than Germans in Turkey. For Turkeys economy Russians are not that bad: they don´t come empty handed. Russians spent about eight times more many than Germans do.
Source: nieuws.nl
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Anyone experienced this?
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 05:46 pm |
We had a tour guide in Oludeniz who was married to a Russian girl and he told us that the Russians are tight fisted and alway book the all inclusive hotels, and then don´t spend any more!
Makes a change to hear of another nationality becoming a nusiance on holiday, other than "Brits Abroad"
Oh and I just remembered the Russians paragliding at night and the Turkish paragliders were having nightmares in case they killed themselves. They paraglided with torches.
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 05:48 pm |
Quoting libralady: We had a tour guide in Oludeniz who was married to a Russian girl and he told us that the Russians are tight fisted and alway book the all inclusive hotels, and then don´t spend any more!
Makes a change to hear of another nationality becoming a nusiance on holiday, other than "Brits Abroad" |
Oh yes, the Brits! But don´t forget the (drunken) Dutch, I avoid them like the plague...! (And they´re MY countrymen!)
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 06:12 pm |
You can always recognize the Russians in Demre-they wear very tight white shorts and no underwear.
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 06:25 pm |
Their behaviour leads much to be desired,they were out of control when I witnessed them pushing and shoving at Ataturk´s passport control.
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 06:29 pm |
when in turkey, all i remember was seeing eastern europeans wearing tight speedos and gstrings at pammukkale
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 08:36 pm |
The New York Times reports about a water aerobics class at a hotel in Antalya, Turkey, built for Russian tourists to resemble the Kremlin and St. Basil’s Cathedral
Azade, I recommend you read this article
"Dancing with the New Tsars"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/12/new_tsars/index.html
and I found this quite interesting, have a look at the Kremlin Hotel picture in Antalya
Free and Flush, Russians Eager to Roam Abroad
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/world/europe/15russians.html
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 08:43 pm |
Quoting Roswitha: Azade, I recommend you read this article
"Dancing with the New Tsars"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/12/new_tsars/index.html
and I found this quite interesting, have a look at the Kremlin Hotel picture in Antalya
Free and Flush, Russians Eager to Roam Abroad
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/world/europe/15russians.html |
I´m reminded of the saying, "Every dog has its day."
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 08:46 pm |
The Kremlin in Antalya
The biggest struggle now for the Turkish hotels is to find enough staff members who speak Russian. Those in the tourism industry who had mastered German and English are returning to language school. “Everybody is studying Russian now,†said Suat Esenli, a worker at the Kremlin Palace Hotel, which has more than 800 rooms and opened in 2003, just as Russian tourism began to soar. Typically, about 60 percent of the hotel’s patrons are from the former Soviet Union, with the rest from elsewhere in Europe. Still, the effort to make Russian guests feel comfortable can go too far. For a time, one of the hotel restaurants served the sort of dishes — borscht, blinis and the like — that should have brought joy to a Russian’s heart. The restaurant had to scrap the menu. It turned out that the last thing that the Russians wanted was the food they could get at home.
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