Transfers across the Kemer area

Kemer is the coast southwest of Antalya, where the Beydağları mountains come down to the water and the beaches are grey pebble rather than sand. Beldibi and Göynük are the first villages past the city, Kemer town with its marina sits in the middle of the strip, and Kiriş, Çamyuva and Tekirova follow one after another, each a little quieter than the last. South of Tekirova the resort coast stops: Olimpos, Çıralı and Adrasan are single valleys and bays reached by their own roads, with small pensions instead of hotel blocks. Pine forest, cool clear water and walking country draw a different holiday crowd than the flat sand east of the airport.

Every transfer from Antalya Airport to this coast crosses the city first, on the ring road north of the centre, then drops past Konyaaltı onto the D400 running southwest. From there the highway is cut into the mountainside above the sea, curving through short tunnels with the water appearing and vanishing on the right. Beldibi, the nearest address, is 45 km and about 45 minutes; Kemer itself is 61 km and roughly 55 minutes; Adrasan, the farthest, is 108 km and around 90 minutes. Summer afternoons cost time around the city rather than on the coast road, and night arrivals run clear, though the unlit bends are taken more slowly.

The differences within the region are real ones. Beldibi and Göynük are quiet pebble coves close to Antalya; Kemer town has the marina, the restaurants and enough to walk to after dinner; Kiriş and Çamyuva are hotel strips along the highway where the evening ends at the hotel; Tekirova is large resorts set well back in the forest. Olimpos, Çıralı and Adrasan are small, seasonal and reached by long descending side roads that add twenty minutes at either end. That matters most going home: for a morning departure from the southern bays a pick-up three and a half hours before the flight is normal, rather less from Beldibi.