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Thread: Egypt the New Greece?

  1. 14th April 2015, 14:26 #1
    Steve@thaib
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    Egypt the New Greece?

    Not in the going bust sense but greece used to be the default destination for cheap sun and now a lot of those folk seem to be heading to Egypt. Only anecdotally, but I have spoken to half a dozen people in the last week or so who are going to Egypt for winter breaks rather than the Balearics or Greece.

    To my simple mind this is exactly where Greece should have been when the wheels came off in Europe. Instead of being stuck with interest and currency rates more appropriate to Germany they could have watched the arse fall out of the Drachma and cleaned up as a tourist destination.
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    Maybe it's just me, but I would not go to Egypt if all expenses were paid, and they paid me on top of that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by billpay View Post
    Maybe it's just me, but I would not go to Egypt if all expenses were paid, and they paid me on top of that.
    me too, but people seem drawn to bargain holidays.
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    Oh good..one for Faulty 555
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    ^Mrs said she'd love to see the pyramids, but is content to see them on tv for exactly the same reasons.
    Venezuela is a super cheap destination. Rooms $1 a night petrol $5 a tank meals 20c Beers $1 for 12. if you can get over the social collapse thing....
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    Quote Originally Posted by nelsonone View Post
    Oh good..one for Faulty 555
    ^He will open up with all guns blazing...555
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    Quote Originally Posted by nelsonone View Post
    Oh good..one for Faulty 555
    As Basil would say " Don't mention the coup !" 5555555555
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    What coup?555
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    Quote Originally Posted by billpay View Post
    What coup?555
    This one. I just mentioned the war, but I think I got away with it....

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  10. 14th April 2015, 16:05 #10
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    The numbers of Belgian tourists going to Greece for holidays this summer are way up. Egypt went down a lot.
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    is this the thread where we talk about Thailand ?
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    Loads of single Noggie women go for Tunisian and Turks on their holidays..........Hey, they are not sex tourists!!!!
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    I've only been to see the pyramids... well worth it. But I have more friends now who have been to Egypt for beach holidays, rather than Greece or Spain. In fact I don't know anyone personally apart from myself who has been on holiday to Greece in the last 15 years... but loads go to Egypt... especially a lot of single women in their 20 and 30's....
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  14. 15th April 2015, 06:06 #14
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    Probably my only reason to go there would be to dive in the Red Sea. Seen the Pyramids enough on TV. Meh
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