Antalya Airport → Botanik Platinum Transfer

Botanik Platinum to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

Leaving, the car comes out of the gate onto the eastbound carriageway, which points it at Alanya rather than the airport. It turns round at the traffic lights a couple of hundred metres along, where a signal-controlled gap in the central reservation lets it across to the westbound side, and only then sets off for Antalya. The loop costs a minute, perhaps one red phase, and belongs inside the pickup time. After it the 93 km are the arrival run in reverse: back over the Alara, past Kızılot and Kızılağaç, through Manavgat, where the D400 becomes a town street of junctions and lights, and across the fields of Serik and Aksu.

Count back from the flight: 80 minutes of road, the time your airline wants you at the check-in desks, and a margin for Manavgat, which is slowest from late morning onwards and on summer afternoons. Because the two Botanik hotels share most of their pools, the last morning is easily spent on the neighbour's side of the grounds; the car, however, comes to the Platinum lobby by the roadside gate. That is where the cases and everyone travelling should be at the agreed time, and the walk back from the far end of the shared grounds is worth a few spare minutes.

• Name the Platinum entrance as the meeting point: a driver told only Botanik could turn in at the sister hotel's gate a hundred metres further east.
• Flying from Gazipaşa-Alanya instead of Antalya? Then the car simply heads east out of the gate, with no loop at the lights; it is a different route and a separate booking, so check the code on the ticket first.
• Nothing on this road changes what you pay: the price was set per vehicle when you booked, whether the lights east of the gate show red or green.