Antalya Airport → Delphin Be Grand Resort Transfer

Delphin Be Grand Resort to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

The departure from here goes wrong for one reason: fifteen kilometres reads like nothing, so people set the alarm by the drive instead of by the flight. Start at the other end. Take the hour you want to be standing at the check-in desk, add the walk from the drop-off and the queue at security, then subtract the twenty minutes of road — and only then decide when the bags have to be downstairs. Between the room and the car there is also the bill to close and the barrier at the entrance, neither of which appears on any map.

Westbound the same fifteen kilometres behave differently. The boulevard empties onto the airport road at the hour when every coach and every other transfer on the strip is heading the same way, and the approach at the far end is a stage in itself: the ramp up to departures, the lane where cars may stop, the last few metres with a trolley. On a July morning that ramp can cost more time than the whole drive before it. Before first light the journey is over almost before it has begun, which is why the earliest flights are the easy ones from this gate.

• Antalya Airport uses more than one departures terminal, so give the airline and flight number when you book the return and the car will pull up at the right one.
• On a busy checkout morning the desk can take a while over the extras, so settle the bill the night before if the car is due early.
• Fifteen kilometres leave nothing to make up: a pickup pushed back by ten minutes loses those ten minutes at the terminal, not on the road.