Antalya Airport to Özdilek Park Antalya transfer
Özdilek Park is the Kepez centre that residents use rather than merely visit. It stands in the Fabrikalar quarter and is stacked vertically, with the shops and the entertainment floors sitting above enclosed parking. The anchor is Özdilek itself, a department store with a large home-textile section, alongside a hypermarket — which is why people come for towels, bed linen and a week of groceries as readily as for a pair of jeans. Add a cinema and a games floor and an evening fills itself. The airport lies 18 km away, about 25 minutes, on the eastern edge of the city.
This is the rainy-day answer for the Belek and Kadriye hotels: about forty minutes each way, everything under one roof, and enclosed parking, so the walk from the car is indoors. From Lara it is twenty minutes or so; from Side a little over an hour, long enough that most people attach the linen shop to a wider city day rather than driving over for towels alone. Kemer and Konyaaltı guests have nearer centres on their own side of Antalya, and from Alanya this stops being a shopping trip and becomes a drive. A group excursion gives you the hour it chose; here you want the hour the weather chose.
Eighteen kilometres from the terminal, a transfer from Antalya Airport to Özdilek Park Antalya is mostly booked by people heading for a rented flat: the hypermarket fills the fridge before check-in and the covered car park keeps the shopping out of the sun. For a hotel guest on arrival day there is little reason to come — the centres nearer the airport cover the waiting hours better.
Visiting Özdilek Park Antalya
The visit has a natural order and it is worth following. Textiles first, while you can still be bothered to compare two towels; the games floor in the middle if there are children, because that hour is what buys you the other two; and the hypermarket at the end, which is where the list gets heavy. A household list takes about two hours at that pace. Add a screen and a table and the same building holds a whole evening, which is a different trip with a different shape to it.
Both versions are indoor answers to an outdoor problem, and heat is the version people underestimate. From late June the hours between eleven and four are not usable on a beach with small children, and here the walk from the car is under cover, so nobody arrives already too hot to shop. The other case is more prosaic: a long rental runs out of towels, sheets and kitchen things in the first week, and this is the address where that list is filled in one trip rather than three. Neither case suits the hours before a flight, since the road back crosses the city's working traffic and an hour of slack is not enough of one.
So: come for the list and the driver waits; come for the evening and the driver returns at an hour you set before you go in. The part that deserves more attention is what you leave with. Turkish cotton is heavy and a week of groceries takes the same room as a suitcase, so a family that arrived in a full car ends up standing in a covered car park with nowhere to put any of it. Say at booking what the trip is for and the vehicle that turns up will have the space; the fare is settled per car at that point, so the size is a question to ask then.
- With children, spend the middle hour on the entertainment floor rather than the last one, because tired is the wrong state to start a supermarket in.
- A department store and a hypermarket in one building means two sets of bags, so agree one door with the driver and carry everything to it once.
- If the point of the trip is to escape the heat, arrive before noon: the hours you are trying to lose are the ones everybody else is losing too.
- Write the household list before you set out, because a building with a department store and a hypermarket in it is where unwritten lists get expensive.