Kemer → Kaleiçi Transfer

Kemer to Kaleiçi private transfer

Kemer has its marina, its beach clubs and a high street of bars, but nothing in the resort is old the way Antalya's walled quarter is old. Kaleiçi grew around a harbour that Romans, Seljuks and Ottomans all used, and it is still packed into the curve of that bay: old houses with timber bay windows leaning over narrow lanes, the fluted Seljuk minaret above the roofs, the clock tower marking the point where the modern city takes over. From Kemer it suits an evening better than a morning of sightseeing. You wander while the stone cools, eat by the water or in a courtyard, and from the harbour wall look back west across the gulf at the dark mountains your own resort sits beneath.

The leg is 45 km, about 45 minutes. Heading north from Kemer, the D400 is pressed between the Beydağları and the sea, swinging round one headland after another or boring straight through it, with pine slopes above the road and the water glinting below. When the range finally lets go, the road reaches Konyaaltı, a long pebble beach with a promenade, and runs behind the beach into the city; the last stretch rises onto the cliff and follows the boulevards to the walls, where you are set down at a gate. Coming home is a different drive. Late at night the avenues are quiet, the tunnels follow each other between unlit capes, and the hotel strip is asleep when you arrive.

• Set off while it is still light if you can, because the cliff section is the scenic half of the journey and after dark it shrinks to bends and tunnel lamps.
• Since the lanes are walked rather than driven, choose a return pickup spot outside the walls, such as the clock tower square, and an approximate hour when you book.
• Hotels counted as Kemer stretch from Beldibi in the north to Tekirova in the south, so give the hotel's own name, as the southern end lengthens both legs.
• If you would like an hour on Konyaaltı beach before the old town, mention it at booking and the stop and the wait can be arranged.