Gazipaşa Airport → Manavgat Transfer

Gazipaşa Airport to Manavgat transfer

Manavgat is the district town a few kilometres inland from Side, built along its own river and serving as the administrative centre for this part of the coast: offices, a bus station, hospitals, banks and the weekly market that draws visitors down from the hotels. Arriving here from Gazipaşa is rarely a package traveller's route — more often it is a flat rented for the season, a family visit, or business in the town. At 98 km Manavgat sits at the far end of what this airport comfortably reaches along the coast.

Count on roughly 85 minutes for the 98 km. Alanya is the one place on this road where the clock stops behaving: the D400 runs through the middle of town along the seafront, and on a July afternoon those few kilometres can cost more than the twenty that follow. West of Okurcalar the highway is fast, and Kızılağaç, Kızılot and Denizyaka pass on the seaward side almost without registering. The turn inland for Manavgat comes near the very end, and in town the river bridge gathers whatever traffic the day has produced.

• From this direction you enter Manavgat from the Alanya side rather than past the Side junctions, so give the neighbourhood as well as the street.
• Market day congests the streets around the river bridge, and on this route that bridge falls at the very end of an already long drive.
• The waterfall lies north of the town and the beaches south of it, so neither is on the way in from Gazipaşa — plan both as separate rides.
• On the return the clock is set by Alanya rather than by the open highway, so an early-morning departure is worth more here than on any short transfer.