Antalya Airport → Haydarpasha Palace Transfer

Haydarpasha Palace to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

Leaving is the simpler half. The side road the car came in on leads straight onto the westbound carriageway, so the departure starts with a right turn and no traffic to cross, and from there it is the same 109 km to the terminal, about 90 minutes in normal traffic. The hotel runs no airport shuttle of its own, so the return needs booking just as the arrival did. Count backwards from the check-in deadline on your ticket: an hour and a half of road, a margin for the security and check-in queues at Antalya, which are at their longest in high summer, and a few minutes at this end to bring the cases down.

Haydarpasha Palace has its own car park, and that settles where the car waits: the driver turns off the highway and pulls in there or at the main entrance, never on the hard shoulder of the D400. Give the main entrance as the meeting point when you book, and be there with the luggage at the agreed time. Nothing at this end slows the start of the journey. The place where a morning departure loses time is Manavgat, where the highway runs through the town's junctions and traffic lights, and in July and August a late-morning flight deserves a margin for it; before dawn the town is quiet.

• Check the airport code before booking the return: GZP is Gazipaşa–Alanya, about 60 km east of the hotel by road and a different transfer altogether, while AYT means the 109 km run west to Antalya.
• Meet the car at the main entrance or in the hotel car park, not down by the beach: the sand is across the dual carriageway, where no car can pull in.
• Before a morning flight, take the last swim the afternoon before: the beach is through the tunnel on the far side of the road, and the walk back, the shower and the packing all have to fit in before the pickup.