Antalya Airport to 5M Migros Antalya transfer
Antalya Migros AVM, which most people who shop there simply call Migros AVM or 5M Migros AVM, is the shopping centre on Atatürk Boulevard in Arapsuyu, Konyaaltı, at the western end of the city. Its anchor is the Migros hypermarket on the entrance floor, the chain's large 5M format, and around it chain shops spread over three levels: Zara, Boyner and Koton on the same floor, LC Waikiki, MediaMarkt and English Home one floor down, and a food court with a cinema upstairs. The airport is 21 km away at the opposite end of Antalya.
Geography decides this one. Stay in Konyaaltı, Liman or Hurma and it is your local centre, a few minutes away; from Beldibi or Göynük it is about half an hour up the coast, from Kemer about forty minutes, and for all of them the obvious weekly stop. From Lara allow half an hour across the city, from Belek about forty-five minutes, and from Side a little over an hour each way — at which point a hypermarket has stopped being a reason to travel. Nobody runs a group excursion to a supermarket: this is a trip with a boot, a list and your own clock.
Twenty-one kilometres and about twenty-five minutes separate it from the terminal, but a transfer from Antalya Airport to 5M Migros Antalya only makes sense in one direction: you are heading for an apartment on the Konyaaltı side and the centre is on the way in. Calling here before a hotel out east means crossing Antalya twice, which no shopping list is worth.
Visiting 5M Migros Antalya
Leave the hypermarket until last. It shares the entrance floor with Zara and Boyner; the floor below holds the household and electronics shops, Gratis, Watsons, a toy shop and two children's play areas, and the food court and the cinema are upstairs. Whatever you want from those is better done before a trolley exists, so the food belongs in the last twenty minutes. Most families in a rented flat find the whole thing takes between an hour and ninety minutes: a quarter of an hour on another floor for whatever the suitcase forgot, one slow lap of the hypermarket with the list in hand, then the checkouts, which are long enough that somebody may as well join a queue while the others finish.
Nobody spends a hot afternoon here for its own sake, and it would be an odd way to fill the gap between a noon checkout and a late flight, since the airport is at the far end of the city from Arapsuyu. What the building is genuinely good for is the first hours of a flat rental, when the fridge is empty and half the day has already gone, and the middle of a wet week, when the play areas downstairs give the children somewhere to be while one adult works down the list. Konyaaltı's Aktur Park funfair stands directly opposite, across the boulevard. In July, being here before ten keeps both the car park and the drive home cool.
So this is a waiting car rather than a booked return. Ninety minutes sits well inside what a driver can stand by for when it is agreed at booking, and a second pickup arranged for an hour you cannot yet know is the part most likely to go wrong. The one real question is volume: a week of food for four takes the same room as two large suitcases. If you are coming straight from the airport with the cases already loaded, say so when you book, because the fare is fixed per vehicle and agreed then, so the size of the car is something to settle in advance rather than discover in the car park.
- Do the other two floors before the hypermarket, because whatever goes into the trolley first waits longest in the warm.
- One adult in the checkout queue while the other finishes the list is the difference between ninety minutes and two hours.
- Write the list in the flat before you leave; the point of a store this size is to come once instead of three times.
- Bring a folding bag or two with you, because a trolley this full needs more carriers than anyone plans for.