New Year 2023: directions and prices
Leaders of holiday preferences are warm countries with the possibility of a relatively budget beach holiday.
Tour operators distinguish two popular and affordable routes for foreign New Year trips of Russians.
Turkey
In the New Year, our compatriots are in demand trips to the “three Turkeys”:
• city and excursion rest - Istanbul,
sea and beach - resort hotels, all-inclusive system,
• ski resorts (Uludag, Kayseri, Erjies, Palandoken, Kars).
Antalya is the leader in popularity among clients of tour operators for the New Year and holidays, as well as all previous years.
To spend the winter holidays in the warmest often go tourists with families. The share of travelers with children who choose routes to Antalya exceeded 80% of requests. The average duration of the tour for the New Year in Antalya is 6-8 days.
The share of tourists with children in Istanbul is from 3% to 7%. Russians choose 3-4* hotels in the city with paid breakfasts, most often in Fatih, Laleli, Taksim. Tours for 4-5 nights are popular.
Turkey’s ski resorts – Ercies, Kayseri, Erzurum, Palandoken – are in demand among couples and families with children. Required category of hotels - 3-5 *, as a rule, with full board or half board, and "all inclusive" (in mountain hotels this system is present, but not everywhere). The average duration of the tour is 6-8 nights.
Prices
In 2022, the New Year and holidays in Turkey became more expensive compared to 2021 from 1.5 to 2 times due to rising prices for air transportation.
Tourists now pay for the New Year in Turkey from 125 thousand to 250 thousand rubles for a tour package, respectively, to Istanbul or Antalya for two. Of course, there are more expensive tours.
ANEX Tour: starting cost of weekly routes to Antalya this year - from 160 thousand rubles for two (departure 28.12). Flights to both destinations from Moscow, fuel tax, transfers, hotel "all inclusive", festive dinner.
FUN&SUN: New Year tours for two (7 nights, departure on December 28) to Antalya, meals "all inclusive" cost from 192 202 rubles to 406 513 for two.
Istanbul
PEGAS Touristik: a week of rest from December 26 starts from 120 thousand rubles for two with breakfast.
After New Year’s Eve, prices drop, unlike Antalya, not too noticeable. A trip from January 2 to 7 nights with breakfast will cost at the hotel 3 * - 65 000 rubles per person, at the hotel 4 * - 67 363 rubles, hotel 5 * - 77 546 rubles per person.
Ski resorts
Coral Travel: The cost of a New Year ski holiday in Turkey with a direct flight to the resorts for 6-7 days for two:
Erzurum (hotel 3*, breakfast): from 144,600 rubles for two. Kayseri (hotel 3*, half board): from 131 600 rubles for two.
Ergies week tour (6 nights) for the New Year - from 101 600 rubles for two with breakfast.
Palandoken - from 118 900 rubles for two, breakfast.
Tour operators note a high demand for ground service (reservation of a hotel without a flight) (growth to 25%) due to the fact that such tours are chosen by Russians who relocated to Turkey from March to October 2022.
Such trips will be cheaper than packages with a flight. A week for two in economical hotels in Antalya, meals "all inclusive" costs 15-17 thousand rubles, tours to "fives" - 45-70 thousand rubles, tours to deluxe hotels 5 * - 80-130 thousand rubles. with meals "ultra all inclusive".
Thailand
The Kingdom of Thailand is one of the most beloved countries of Southeast Asia among our compatriots. The temperature of air and water is very comfortable, in the afternoon about +30 ° C, at night - +23 ° C.
Russians have access to direct weekly flights to Thailand from Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk.
The cost of tour packages from Irkutsk is in the range: 137-157 thousand rubles for two for 7 nights. Departures from Krasnoyarsk - tours of 6 nights in hotels 3-5 * - 174-191 thousand rubles for two.
Two weeks in Phuket from Novosibirsk in early December - from 190 thousand rubles for two, the same tour from Khabarovsk - from 223 thousand rubles for two.
Aeroflot Airlines has launched direct regular flights Vladivostok - Bangkok and Phuket.
Phuket - departures from Moscow, a week for two.
From 30.12.22 travel will cost from 240 thousand rubles to 350 thousand rubles.
Tours for the New Year 2023 in Phuket - departures from 04.01.23 - from 201 thousand rubles. in hotels 3 *. In hotels 4 * and 5 * accommodation costs from 230 thousand rubles to 270 thousand rubles.
Pattaya - departures from Moscow, a week for two.
From 26.12.22 travel will cost from 220 thousand rubles. to 250 thousand rubles. in hotels 4 * and 5 *.
Tours for the New Year 2023 - departures from 02.01.23 - from 217 thousand rubles. in hotels 3 * to 230-280 thousand rubles. in hotels category 4 * and 5 *.
Bangkok - departures from Moscow, a week for two.
From 26.12.22 travel will cost from 206 thousand rubles. in hotels 3 * to 225 thousand rubles. in hotels 4 * and 5 *.
Departures from 02.01.23 – from 217 thousand rubles to 290 thousand rubles.
Text and photo: personalguide
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