Marmaris → Antalya Transfer

Marmaris to Antalya private transfer

Eastbound, the booking is nearly always the end of something. A blue cruise has come back to its berth and the crew hands the boat over in the morning, leaving passengers with luggage, a quay and a flight from Antalya later that day. Others have finished a week in the bay and are carrying on east to Side, Belek or Alanya for the rest of the holiday. A third group has just come off the Rhodes catamaran and wants Antalya rather than the coast in between. Whatever the reason, the day is built around a distance most people underestimate until the car is loaded.

Leaving Marmaris means climbing straight away: the road winds up out of the bay to the Sakar pass within the first half hour, while the coffee is still warm. After that it settles — Köyceğiz and its lake, Ortaca, the Dalaman plain, the tunnel at Göcek — and reaches Fethiye about halfway. From there the second climb starts, up from Seydikemer onto the high country at Elmalı and Korkuteli, before the D350 brings you down the last hour into Antalya. 325 km and 4 hours 15 minutes, with the two ascents at either end and the easy ground in the middle, which is the wrong way round for an early start.

• When a boat is the starting point, set the pickup by the hour the crew hands it back and not by a hotel checkout you no longer have.
• Add the drive to the check-in window and a mid-morning flight from Antalya works out at a pickup between three and four in the morning — better known before the ticket is bought than after.
• The two passes come at the beginning and the end, with the flat Dalaman plain between them, so if a break is needed that middle stretch is where to take it.
• Say what is coming off the boat with you — soft bags, a cool box, damp kit — because a week aboard packs quite differently from a week in a hotel room.