Antalya Airport → Aspen Hotel Transfer

Aspen Hotel to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

Leaving Kaleiçi early has one real advantage: the lanes that are full of people at night are empty at dawn, apart from delivery vans and the odd street sweeper. The car comes down Mermerli Sokak, stops at the door, and the loading is quick if the bags are already in reception. Then it climbs back out of the walls the way it came, joins the boulevards and heads east for the D400. Before about seven the whole 17 km is clear and the 25 minutes is realistic, with a little margin for getting out of the lanes.

Later in the morning the picture changes. Between roughly eight and ten the city's working traffic moves along the same boulevards the car needs, and the stretch from the walls to the airport road is where minutes go. A midday or evening flight brings the opposite problem in summer: the old town fills up with visitors in the afternoon, and the lanes near the harbour slow down again. Neither is dramatic, but both are worth folding into the pickup time rather than discovering on the day.

• Have the bags waiting at reception at the agreed time, because a car in a lane this narrow blocks everyone behind it while it waits.
• A last swim at Mermerli on departure day is easy to fit in, as long as there is time afterwards to rinse, dry off and close the suitcases before the car arrives.
• For a flight in the morning rush, ask for the pickup a little earlier than the bare 25 minutes would suggest; the delay is in leaving the centre, not on the open road.