What are the benefits of fur coat tours to Greece - we dress fashionably and inexpensively

There are fur coats in Belarus - that’s a fact, but you definitely won’t find such a selection as in Greece in our latitudes. We found out what the essence of such tours is and what travel options will be available to Belarusian tourists this year.

To buy fur coats, tourists go to the picturesque Greek town of Kastoria, located in the mountains. It was this small settlement that once became the fur capital of Greece and even Europe, where tourists literally from all over the world come for their “furry joy”.

Fur coats made of mink, the most delicate broadtail, royal sable, fox, soft chinchilla of any colors and styles. Local manufacturers guarantee the quality - fur coats are covered by a guarantee from 2 to 15 years, depending on the fur. So far, not a single fur salon in Minsk and, by the way, even in Moscow can offer such a guarantee. Most of the city's population is employed in the furrier's trade, while children in families begin to master production techniques at the age of 8. Today there are about 2,000 fur coat factories in the city. True, these are not the factories that we imagine with large areas and dozens of warehouses - these are small two or three-story production facilities, often representing a family business.

PRICES FOR FUR COATS

The 2014/2015 season was marked by a fall in fur prices at world auctions, which was reflected in the final cost of fur products. Thus, some salons offer to buy fur coats with discounts of up to 70% of last year’s price. This trend continues and sellers say that this season will be one of the most profitable for buyers.

To literally give you a little orientation on this year’s prices, let’s compare several offers. Fur coats are sold at prices starting from 1,200 € - for this money you can buy a short fur coat without sleeves or a coat. A cropped mink jacket will cost €2,200 compared to last year’s €3,800. A fur coat from astrakhan fur costs 2,600 € instead of last year’s 4,300 € and so on. But here’s a completely exclusive offer: a fur coat made from lynx bellies last year cost 75,000 €, this year it costs 40,000 €.

Greek fur coat tour of Ural shopping girls

The table is magnificent, there are a lot of snacks, mostly national ones. The wine is good, red, tart. They bring the hot dish - a plate the size of a tanker - on it is a chop - the size of two of my feet and 1 kg. half a kilo of baked potatoes and vegetable decorations along the edges of the tanker. The quiz begins - first with small prizes. We win a bottle of wine, again with the help of a Russian-speaking Greek. We don’t take it because it’s embarrassing - everyone saw how he suggested it. And here is the main prize - a fur coat with a question about the name of Zeus’s first wife.

There are a lot of options being shouted out, but all of them are wrong. Then the sister says that the first letter is M. The guide agrees and asks to name the second letter, it is called, again accepted, but nothing further. In short, the main prize does not go to anyone, but considering how many letters in the word we guessed, we suggest that the guide give the prize in parts, i.e., sleeves from the nominated fur coat. Do not give. Well, let's dance sertaki (the guide promised to teach us during this evening). My neighbor and I on the bus get off - there are no more brave people, plus a guide teaching us.

We learn as we go, and since we are quite strong women, you can’t look at our steps without tears. The music starts to speed up, your legs get tangled, and then you have to squat, it turns out you need to. The contents of the tanker eaten plus snacks from the table and wine do not allow one to rise. With an incredible effort of will and with the help of the young part of the group who had joined by that time, we finish the dance. All. It's time to sleep. The most delicious thing for tomorrow is buying a fur coat.

And so in the morning we load into our bus and go to Edika. Simply put, this is a large pavilion where each, but not all, factories sell their products. At the entrance, everyone is given yellow cards, because we have a fur tour - this means for sellers that they must add 450-500 euros to the first product purchased. Since my sister and I were the last ones again, we didn’t have enough yellow cards, but they didn’t give us red cards either. We went just like that. A red card in their underground language means that the buyer did not come as part of a fur tour, but for a fully paid trip and there is no need to take 450-500 euros from him. In general, a shub tour is a tour with deferred payment.

The delay lasts until you buy your first fur coat. It was decided to start the inspection from the top floor. Oddly enough, all the sellers mistook us not for yellow cards, but for red tickets. It was we who then shyly asked the price for the product if we had yellow cards and everyone added 450-500 euros. Of course, the choice is large, but after wasting for 4 hours, we still didn’t choose anything, we didn’t particularly like anything, of which we desperately bargained for 1 hour, but the Greeks won’t give up more than 200 euros. Despondent, let's go down.

It turns out that 11 people have already purchased their goods and are sitting downstairs happy. Two more are rushing between departments and feverishly wondering which fur coat to get. Well, my sister and I are again ahead of the rest. We tell the guide that we didn’t choose, and that we need to visit the factories. How did you not choose???!!! And here you had to see her eyes, as well as the eyes of all our fellow soldiers who happened to be next to her at that moment. My student years immediately flashed through my head, when our psychology department group visited an institution popularly nicknamed the “shelter of the sages.”

Many patients immediately flashed before my eyes. For those who have not been to such an establishment, you can remember the final scene of “The Inspector General”. After a while coming to her senses, she asks how many fur coats we need, we answer - how will we trample and how much will be enough... After 20 minutes, a car arrives and takes us to the factories that we call. The first factory “Grekopel” - I already have a fur coat of excellent quality, bought from them earlier, but it turns out that now they deal mainly with leather and almost never sew fur coats.

Next is “Rizos”. - this is where the kingdom of mink coats is for some reason in light colors, but that’s what I wanted. I feverishly grab everything I like from the racks, throw it onto 5 chairs put together, then the owner and I run to the 2nd floor for short fur coats, throwing the short ones on top. The sister below catches it and tries it on. She tries it on herself, and the short fur coat is intended for my daughter - their figures are close in size. The owner and I run downstairs, I start measuring, and the owner looks for a towel to wipe off the sweat, otherwise the entire floor in the cabin will flood. I frantically try on fur coats, the owner brings himself to his senses. Finally the choice is made.

For me, a blue-gray one with a floor-length hood, for my daughter, a short blue one with a hood. We start bargaining. As a result of the incessant fighting, the opposing sides suffer some losses, such as: I smoke 3 cigarettes one after another and drink half a bottle of one and a half liter mineral water, the owner changes his complexion with transitions from grayish pale to crimson blue, and one towel for wiping off sweat is not enough. The price of a fur coat drops from 5 to 3 thousand euros, and a jacket for a daughter to 1.6 thousand. Purchase time is 20 minutes. Let's move on. "Naomi."

My sister immediately chooses a floor-length fur coat with a black llama hood. True, after announcing the original price, our brains and memory are completely knocked out. We still can’t remember whether it was 5.8 or 6. Looking at the owner, we understand that this “fortress” cannot be taken by storm - a long and tedious siege is needed. With the eyes of a sick and beaten dog, the sister begins to choose cheaper fur coats, but also black. And for some reason each of the proposed options is not suitable, and she methodically returns to the previous black lamé and asks how much it costs, trying it on again. After 8 or 9 approaches, the owner becomes angry and runs away.

The sellers methodically bring us new fur coats. About 15 minutes later the owner appears - the picture is the same. My sister’s eyes are already like those of a dog ready to die. She simply no longer has coordination of movements and she is tossed from rack to rack almost unconsciously. This picture is already starting to stress me out, and in order to somehow relieve the tension, I choose a short chicken-colored fur coat with such sleeves that the entire Greek fleet along with the Black Sea could easily swim in them.

I ask how much. They answer - 3. Will you give it back for one and a half? Here the owner, nervous, runs away again, and I begin to walk in this monster back and forth around the store to the beat, raising my hands forward, backward, up and down, saying that I have almost become intimate with this fur coat and that I won’t even think about taking off such beauty until you pay for 1.5. Moreover, in this fur coat I look like a huge yellow mountain, and due to the sleeves I am 5 sizes larger. I walk for about 15 minutes. The whole group is tetanus, except for my sister, of course. The owner appears and watches us for about 5 minutes.

WHY DO FUR FUR TOURS TO GREECE COST 1€?

Of course, it is naive to believe that you will pay 1 €, fly to Greece and return back without buying anything. Free cheese, as they say, does happen, but you don’t need it - the consequences are always not pleasant. So, fur coat tours for such a low cost assume that you will purchase a fur product in Greece for a certain amount, agreed upon in advance. And only in this case, the tour itself, i.e. Flight, accommodation and transfer cost 1€. If you do not buy a fur coat, the travel agency will have to reimburse the cost of services on the spot. In addition to shopping, by the way, as part of the program you also get a sightseeing tour of Thessaloniki.

There are several types of fur coat tours:

Quality and approximate cost of fur coats

Of course, prices for fur coats in Greek stores are lower than in boutiques and stores in other countries. This affordability of the price range is quite logical. It is due to the fact that tourists buy products first-hand, that is, directly from the manufacturer.

If they purchased a fur coat, for example, in a Parisian or Milanese boutique, the price would be much higher, since there would be markups from intermediaries for exporting goods across the border.

For every fur coat purchased in Greece you will be given a guarantee and a passport. The quality of all fur products produced in this country is confirmed by the presence of ISO certificates.

A full mink fur coat, depending on the color and manufacturer, costs between 2900-3900 euros. A mink coat made from tails, pieces of skins or paws will cost about 1,500 euros. The price of a short fur coat made of solid mink fur varies from 2,700 euros to 3,400 euros.

The cost of fur coats and short fur coats made from other types of fur varies approximately within the following limits (prices are indicated in euros):

• made of raccoon (fur coat – 1600, short fur coat – 1200);
• made of fox (fur coat – 1900, short fur coat – 1300);
• from silver fox (fur coat - 1800, short fur coat - 1450);
• from astrakhan fur (fur coat – 1300, short fur coat – 950);
• from seal (fur coat - 1650, short fur coat - 1100);
• made of beaver (fur coat - 1400, short fur coat - 1150).

There are outlets selling fur coats in all cities of Greece, as well as in many other European countries. But you will not find such the highest quality, such reasonable prices and the richest selection anywhere except Kastoria. Come to Greece for the fur coat of your dreams, enjoy your shopping and happy shopping!

FUR TOURS WITH COMMITMENT

These are the same tours for 1€. True, in addition to the contract, the tourist signs an obligation under which he must purchase one solid fur product worth at least 1,200 €. Whole means that, for example, two small sheepskin coats for 600 € or some other similar options do not apply to the obligation. The low cost of such shopping tours is explained by the fact that part of the payment for the tour is covered by the fur factories of Kastoria.

If the obligation is not fulfilled - after all, sometimes it is not possible to find your style, all expenses for the flight, accommodation and transfer are paid by the tourist on the spot. This costs an average of 450€.

Such tours are usually designed for 2 days. But there are longer options with included seaside holidays.

A little about the program and duration of the tours

These tours may vary in duration, which usually varies from 2 to 7 days. However, the program remains unchanged, that is, planned according to the following principle:

1. the first day. Checking in at a hotel in Kastoria and visiting interesting city excursions;
2. second day. Shopping, which involves visiting exhibitions and viewing collections from famous manufacturers of fur products;
3. other days. Check-in at a hotel located on the Chalkidiki peninsula or in the city of Thessaloniki. During this period, tourists can visit spas, improve their health by swimming in thermal springs, and enjoy local attractions.

FUR TOURS WITHOUT OBLIGATION

According to the program, such a tour is no different from a tour with a commitment, except for the price. Since you do not guarantee the purchase of a fur product, you will have to pay for travel services in full - about 450 €. And even if during the trip you still purchase a fur coat, since you did not sign the obligation, the money for the tour will not be returned.

FUR TOURS WITH COMMITMENT + HOLIDAYS IN GREECE

Often travel companies make good offers to tourists by combining shopping tours with several days of relaxation at sea. So for 1€ you can sometimes not only get the opportunity to buy yourself the fur coat of your dreams, but also have a great time under the warm autumn Greek sun.

In addition, companies have already formed tours that combine a trip for fur coats and a full-fledged excursion or pilgrimage program. On such trips, tourists also buy a fur coat, and they get to know Greece in its full glory. True, the cost of such proposals is already an order of magnitude higher.

Choose a tour to Greece

Why only with Mouzenidis Travel?

will help you fully experience all the benefits of fur coat shopping tours, and our specialists will guide you to the best salons and help you make the right choice.

Tours for fur coats from our tour operator are organized in such a way that nothing distracts you from the main goal of the trip - buying a fur coat. At the end of the tour, you will find an “Evening in Kastoria” in an atmospheric tavern in the city, as well as many pleasant surprises.

A Greek evening is the best way to celebrate the purchase of a new fur coat and find out what real Greek fun is. This is an enchanting celebration in one of the best taverns in the city, in which the centuries-old traditions of hospitable Hellas come to life.

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