Sunday, May 17, 2009

Drinks & Bars

Beers, House Red & White Wine, Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Fruit Juices, Water & Soda Water etc are all free during meal times when sat at a table & are done by self service using their bar pumps around the restaurants.

The only time you pay for drinks is when you go to one of the 14 bars or order something other than the above at mealtimes. You then just hand your room card to the waiter who charges it to your bill and gives you a recipt each time.

Drink prices (I accidentally took a bar menu) :whoops

Vodka - Finlandia, Absolut, Smirnoff, etc are 5,50 Euros. Etalon & Russion Standard Platinum are 6,50 Euros. Grey Goose & Absolut Level are 7,00 Euros & Belvedere Vodka is 7,50 Euros.

A glass of Coke / Diet Coke / Fanta / Sprite is 1,75 Euros and a bottle is 2,00 Euros

All prices in Lykia World (apart from the imndependant shops) are shown in Euros but your bill comes to you in Turkish Lira. Stupid if you ask me but hey!

We only took TL with us at a rate of 2.27 TL to the £1 so a large beer cost us £3.50, Malibu & Coke cost £7.20, a coke cost £1.86, Fresh orange juice £2.56, a magnum ice-cream £2.79 & a token for the game room cost £1.86 a pop!

I have everything on a spreadsheet on my laptop as I kept all our receipts and paid our room bill daily to work it all out. Your receipt shows one amount but the bill is broken down to the cost & the tax so some may find the bill hard to understand as there are so many transactions what with a tax transaction for almost every item. :que

Cocktails start from 4 Euros for a child's cocktail, then 6 - 9 Euros for alcoholic cocktails

  • 6 Euros (Caipirinha, White Russian, Black Russian, Bloody Mary)
  • 7 Euros (Good Father, Cubra Libre, Tequila Sunrise, Planeters Punch, Lykia World, Dry Martini, Tom Collins, Brandy Alexander, Daiquiri, Green Devil, Whiskey Sour, Salty Dog,)
  • 7,5 Euros (Mojoto, Pina Colada, Long Island Ice Tea)
  • 8 Euros Kir Royal, Margarita, Old Fashioned, Negroni, Cosmopolitan,)
  • 8,50 Euros B-52 & Mai-Tai)
  • 9 Euros (Americano, Sex on the Beach & Manhattan).

Bearing in mind that we are not talking large glasses here like you get in some places, these were fairly standard sized glasses, IMO.

Other drinks prices are as follows:

  • Mineral Water, Glass 0.75 Euros
  • Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Coke Zero & Diet Coke, Glass 1.75 Euros & Bottle 2.00 Euros
  • Tonic Water, bottle 2.25 Euros
  • Redbull, Can 4.75 Euros
  • Fresh Orange Juice, glass 2.75 Euros
  • Pineapple, Tomato Juices, glass 2 Euros
  • Martini 4.75 Euros
  • Campari 7.00 Euros
  • Dry Sherry 8.50 Euros
  • Standard Scotch Whiskies 6.25 Euros
  • Premium Scotch Whickies 10.00 - 19.00 Euros
  • Jim Beam 6.25 Euros
  • Jim Beam Black 8.00 Euros
  • Malt Whiskies 11.50 Euros
  • Irish Whiskey 6.25 Euros
  • Imported Vodkas 5.50 - 7.50 Euros
  • Imported Gins 5.50 - 600 Euros
  • Rums (Malibu, Bacardi, Captain Morgan Black etc) 5.75 Euros
  • Tequilas 7 Euros
  • Bitters 6.00 - 11.00 Euros
  • Imported Liquers (Archers, Blue Curacao, Tia Maria, Baileys etc) 4.75 - 7.00 Euros
  • Imported Cognac & Brandy 7.50 - 21.00 Euros
  • Local Liquers 3.75 - 4.00 Euros
  • Rakis 3.25 - 4.00 Euros
  • Local Vodka 3.00 Euros

Wines varied so much from 4.25 Euros for a glass & 9.00 Euros for a bottle of Piccolo (Sparkling Wine) to 190 Euros for a bottle of Barola D.O.C.G (Italian Red Wine) to 600 Euro's for a bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne!!!

Others were Rose Wines for 18.00 Euros a bottle, American Savignon Blanc for 48 Euros, South African Chardonnay for 35 Euros, American Pinot Noir for 35.00 Euros, Shiraz & Merlot48.00 Euros.

However you could also buy a bottle of local red / white / rose wine for around 18 / 27 / 36 Euros.

We purchased one bottle of Rose whilst we were there and it tasted awful, worse than their free House White which was actually quite drinkable!!! S o we stuck with that for all other mealtimes, lol.


  • Irish Coffee, Brazillian Coffee & Mexican Coffees were all 7 Euro's
  • Nesquik 1 Euro
  • Turkish Coffee 1.50 Euros
  • Coffee 1.75 Euros
  • Expresso 2.00 Euros
  • Hot Chocolate 2.25 Euros
  • Cappuccino 2.25 Euros
  • Latte 2.75 Euros
My hot tip for drinks would be to make the most of the free wine / beer at meal times & as my favourite tipple was Malibu & Coke I bought a bottle in duty free on the way out so I put some in a water bottle and carried it with me everywhere I went so I only had to pay for the cokes!! Some of the waiters thought this was hilarious....those that knew anyway!!

Unfortunately due to not wanting to be up too late with the children we only tried 6 of the 14 bars but they were all very good and had lovely, friendly staff........some of who gave you free nibbles with your drinks which was nice.

The children had their drinks bottles that I took with us, I also took a bottle of squash with us for them to have a drink with them throughout the day rather than having to buy them drinks all the time which actually worked out very well as I didn't want them having fizzy drinks all the time so these were limited to lunch & dinner only which were free.