Gazipaşa Airport → Lara Transfer

Gazipaşa Airport to Lara transfer

Lara is the big-resort strip on Antalya's eastern side, and most people who reach it from Gazipaşa are package guests whose operator happened to fly into GZP that week. The mismatch is worth stating: the hotel stands ten minutes from Antalya's own airport, and you have landed 160 km east of it. What softens that is the kind of place Lara is. These are self-contained resorts with gardens, pools and a stretch of sand at the end of the lawn, so once the car is through the gate the day is over and nothing else needs planning.

Nothing about this drive is difficult; it is simply long. What makes it long is the coast itself: the climb off the shelf, the cliff curves past Kargıcak and Mahmutlar, Alanya end to end, then Manavgat, Serik and the last flat run towards the city's eastern edge, where the road turns down to the shore and the hotel drives begin. Count on about 2 hours 10 minutes for the 160 km. Whatever the hour, the distance does not change: 160 km is 160 km, and the only question is how much the towns along the way add to it.

• Tell the hotel you are arriving late: a charter into Gazipaşa plus two hours of road often puts guests at the gate after the restaurant has closed.
• Even at the end of a long day the final few hundred metres can take ten minutes, because the resort drives are long and gated.
• Child seats travel all 160 km on this leg, so book them with the transfer rather than counting on a short hop from the airport.
• If part of your group lands at Antalya and part at Gazipaşa, the two transfers are nothing like the same length, so book them separately instead of assuming one arrival time.