Cratos. Music?!

[Panchocat]

Hope to goodness the "music" at the Cratos ends soon.
The base boom is horrendous up here in Çatalköy. It's nearly three o clock, I am up and awake because of it. Lord knows how anyone in the hotel manages to sleep!
No objection to music but does it have to be so loud with so much base?

[Poppy]

Totally agree we are in Ozankoy and Wednesday and Saturday nights from midnight until 4am are horrendous. We can even at times hear the DJ say goodnight.

[Panchocat]

It was still thumping out when the first call to prayer was being broadcast from the mosque! I think I must have fallen asleep sometime after that. Siesta this afternoon methinks.

[mikelapta]

We are way back ın Lapta vıllage,and,yes,I awoke to loud musıc ın early hours....God help those so much nearer the venues

[wanderer]

Are they still doing the fireworks after 2 am as well

[mrsgee]

We arrived back last night from UK, got back to Bellapais/edge of Ozankoy, the fireworks went off, very loud, and the music was still thumping away at 4.00. I have not known it that bad in previous years.

[Marions]

Guess you all need to have a word with the hotel and/or the police. What is the law for your area, and what is the constant seemingly exceptions to those laws.
We get it a little form the Merit, but nothing to worry about - just some pretty fireworks now and then, but we do't liv eon top of it.

It is a problem in a tourist area - anywhere in the world - but you really have to go and sort it out or at least get them to pay for your treble glazing and super ear plugs.

[Ragged Robin]

Well thanks for this thread,at least it has set my mind at rest on one point - I kept thinking I heard gunfire (particularly last night). Now I realise it was fireworks! I hear the throb of music about 10 or 11 when I take the dogs into the garden, but not usually in the house, but last night it woke me about 4 am. I am inOzankoy and my sincere sympathies to those who are nearer. Surely some of the guests at Cratos must have gone there just for a quiet holiday by the sea, not to party alll night, and must be complaining?

[wanderer]

Just a point our place is 1 and a 1/4 mile from the Cratos up the hill
All the time they were building the place diggers moving piles of earth could not hear a sound now with the music & fireworks till 4 its gone past a joke

[Panchocat]

We are higher than the Cratos which is about a mile away but we are in direct line of vision with it.
We have nothing apart from trees between us and it, no buildings to absorb the sound so it is very loud thump thump!
When we bought the house over ten years ago we particularly liked the fact that Çatalköy was quiet and not touristy. I know progress happens and mostly for the good but this loud thumping "music" starting around midnight until dawn can in no way be called progress.
We will call the police next time and although they don't have noise meters they won't need them to know the noise is unacceptable!

[wanderer]

Panchocat
We are the same as you bought 8 years ago for peace and quiet
1 and 1/4 miles away direct line of sight up the mountain Ozankoy Bellapais border

We hear Tropicanna till midnight 1/2 a mile away LeJardin & Bollywoods both shut out by doors closed again they stop by midnight
What makes Cratos different
We are away at the moment but support you getting the police to shut them up

[elizabeth]

Sadly loud music is a problem in many areas now, and there doesn't seem to be anyone prepared to deal with it. Three times a week we have music from Hilltop, Friday is the worst night and often goes on way past the licensed hours, and now we get music blaring out from Lapithos as well. I appreciate this is a holiday island but surely we who live here and have invested here deserve a little consideration.
Restaurants and hotels etc should have to display their licensed hours, which should be no later than 2am except for special occasions, then if the Police receive a complaint they could check the hours and shut them down if the are acting illegally.

[greengate]

If you can get hold of a copy from the ministry offices near the hospital in Girne:-

Article 94(1) of the Constitution.
21/1997
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (TRNC)
(As modified by and merged with Law number 36/2001 and 24/2004)

Look at Section 17, which deals with Noise pollution and the restrictions on music etc.

If you need one, and you have a smart phone, you can download a free noise meter application.

hope this helps

[Panchocat]

Thank you Greengate we will look into that.
Surfmeetseast I think this thread is going

[PoshinDevon]

This thread is about Cratos music. A number of comments have been deleted as they were going off topic and reported as offensive.

[waddo]

Also look at this: http://www.mahkemeler.net/cgi-bin/elektroks.aspx It is not easy to find or translate but good old Google will give you the bare bones. Looks like your first port of complaint against noise is direct to your local Municipalities.

The above link will take you to a starting point not the actual law - you have to do work yourself to find that! On the RH side bar click on "Search Law", this gives you another page. Now you need to know what law you are looking for - hint, all the laws are in Turkish in the search engine you will use - and that is what you type (or cut and paste) into the search box.

Lets say you are looking for "environmental" - what is the Turkish for that? Out to Google translate and type in "environmental" - translate to Turkish and it becomes "cevre" (sorry not Turkish keyboard and have not figured out how to get this under Linux yet) but the c has the little bit under it as well. Problem solved, now copy that one word and go back to the search box on the Law site.

Paste in the word and click on "find", you should now have a list of four "Laws". All of which are in Turkish so if you want to know what it says you now have to spend some time translating it a bit at a time.

You can do this with any Law on this site - the site is well up to date and can teach you an awful lot if you are patient. Good Luck.