Antalya Airport → Bella Resort & Spa Transfer

Bella Resort & Spa to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

With only the promenade between the hotel and the sand, a last swim on the morning you leave is a realistic plan rather than a gamble, provided it ends before the car comes. The useful habit is to keep one set of dry clothes and a bag for wet swimwear out of the suitcase the night before, and to have the cases at reception before going down to the water. The car pulls up at the front on Cumhuriyet Caddesi, where the minibuses also stop, so a stated meeting point at the main entrance avoids any search along the row of similar gates.

The way back is short on local roads: two and a half kilometres up through Çolaklı to the D400, then west along the Gündoğdu boulevard and on past Serik, the Belek turnings and Aksu. Gündoğdu is where any delay would come from, since the highway there doubles as the town's main street with crossings and turning traffic, busy from mid-morning and nearly empty before dawn. With an early pickup the 57 km are covered in the 55 minutes quoted, and the terminal comes into view on the right before Antalya's own traffic begins.

• Choose the pickup hour when you book, counting back from the flight: road time plus the check-in period the airline asks for, which on international summer departures is often about three hours.
• Name the main entrance on Cumhuriyet Caddesi as the meeting point; it saves a phone call among the neighbouring gates.
• Child seats for the departure must be booked separately; the driver fits them before setting out.