Antalya Airport → Liberty Hotels Lara Transfer

Liberty Hotels Lara to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

Antalya sends a great many aircraft out between five and seven in the morning, and from a gate seventeen kilometres away that means a car under the canopy at half past three or four. At that hour the strip has shut down: the barrier is manned, the boulevard carries nothing at all, and the run from the entrance out to the road is the darkest part of the trip. Tell reception the evening before what time you are leaving so the gatehouse expects a vehicle, and bring the cases down with you instead of going back up for them.

Once out, a pre-dawn departure is the quickest version of this journey by a clear margin. The D400 is empty, the Kundu junction has nobody on it, and the seventeen kilometres take less than the twenty-five minutes quoted. The catch waits at the other end: the first flights of the day fill the check-in hall all at once, and the queue at five in the morning is no shorter than the one at noon, because it is the same aeroplanes leaving, only earlier. The time saved on the road belongs to the terminal.

• Let reception know the night before what time the car is coming, so the barrier is expecting it rather than meeting it cold.
• Bring everything down in one go: at four in the morning a second trip back to the room costs the pickup the whole margin it was given.
• The driver waits at the entrance at the agreed minute rather than telephoning the room, so set an alarm ten minutes earlier than you think you need.