Antalya Airport → Gardenia Hotel Transfer

Gardenia Hotel to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

Heading back, the hotel's position works for you. Sitting on the Cleopatra side, west of the peninsula, it lets the car avoid the town centre and the harbour altogether: a few minutes through Saray and it is on the D400 pointing west. From there it is the 126 km in reverse, through Konaklı, Avsallar and Okurcalar with the long Manavgat stretch in the middle, and away from the busiest July and August days the 105 minutes is a fair figure. The part most likely to slow you is not Alanya at all but Manavgat, where the highway crosses the town on traffic lights.

What needs planning is the kerb rather than the road. In a quarter packed with hotels, departure mornings bring several cars and coaches to the same few streets at once, and the space in front of any one entrance is short. Be in the lobby with the bags a few minutes before the agreed time, so the driver can load and go instead of holding up the street. And if shopping in the centre has added a bag or two since you arrived, let us know beforehand so the car has room for them.

• Fix the pickup time when you book, counting back from the flight: 105 minutes on the road plus the check-in time your airline asks for.
• For a pre-dawn car, ask reception the evening before whether a breakfast box can be left out, since the restaurant may not be open yet.
• Flying home from Gazipaşa instead of Antalya changes the whole booking: booking listings put that airport at 45 km, and the car heads east rather than west.