Gazipaşa Airport → Çenger Transfer

Gazipaşa Airport to Çenger transfer

Çenger is a bay with hotels on it rather than a village: a sheltered curve of sand between Side and Alanya, pine hills behind it and nothing at all within walking distance. Guests settle in for the week and rarely leave the shore, which is usually why they chose it. The nearest shops are a kilometre or two east at Kızılağaç, up on the main road; Manavgat, well to the west, is the town for anything larger. Booking a car is therefore not a convenience here — it is the only way in and out.

Çenger is 86 km from the terminal, roughly 75 minutes. The D400 carries you west along the shore as far as Okurcalar, where the road is at its fastest and most open, and then comes the turning: the last few kilometres drop through scrub and smallholdings on a narrow lane with no street lighting. In daylight that descent is the best part of the drive, the bay appearing between the pines. After dark the driver takes it slowly and the hotel gate arrives with almost no warning, which is why the map pin matters more here than the name of the resort.

• The arrivals area at this airport is small, so a driver holding a name sign stands a few steps from the door rather than at the end of a long hall.
• Coming from the east the turning for the bay is easy to overshoot, and a pin on the hotel gate saves a turn-around on a narrow road.
• From Çenger, Alanya is the nearer town and Side the further one, which changes the direction a day out is worth making in.
• The climb back up to the D400 costs several minutes on its own, so build them into the return pick-up instead of counting only the 86 km.