Antalya Airport → Saphir Resort & Spa Transfer

Saphir Resort & Spa to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

The way out reverses the way in: up 1009 Sokak to the D400, then west for 94 km and around 80 minutes, which assumes the ordinary flow through Manavgat. That town is the stretch to judge by the hour. Before six the highway through it is close to empty; from about eight, the school traffic, buses and delivery vans gather at its junctions, and on a summer changeover day the queues for the Side turn-off add their share. Over a route this long the first half hour decides whether the plan holds.

On İlifos Caddesi the car pulls up at the hotel entrance itself, and because Sealife Buket stands on the same street, the house number does the work in the dark: Saphir Resort & Spa, İlifos Caddesi 28. A cove hotel invites one more swim on the last morning, but sand in the cases and wet swimwear are easier to deal with the evening before. Leave the morning for checkout, breakfast if the hour allows, and the walk to the entrance.

• Take the flight time, subtract 80 minutes of road, then subtract your airline's check-in window and a margin for Antalya's summer queues; that is the hour to book.
• The car is assigned to the number of cases you give at booking, so if the last week brought extra bags, send the new count a day ahead.
• Check the airport code on the ticket: AYT is Antalya, behind you to the west; if it reads GZP the flight leaves from Gazipaşa, east beyond Alanya, and the transfer is a different one.