Antalya Airport → Selectum Colours Side Transfer

Selectum Colours Side to Antalya Airport: return transfer & taxi

Ninety kilometres is a long way to cover before a flight, and from this end of the coast it is the airport run that sets the alarm clock. Count back from the departure time: the 80 minutes in the car, the check-in queue, the security line, and in July and August a cushion for Manavgat, where the D400 skirts the southern edge of the town and slows from mid-morning with coaches and delivery vans. Before dawn the same highway is close to empty and the timing holds with ease; it is the late-morning pickups that need the spare minutes.

The car leaves through Köysokağı Sokak and rejoins the D400 heading west. What makes the morning smooth is the name on the booking: the night desk knows the hotel as Selectum Colours, and the two Selectum hotels at Kızılağaç sit on the same road further west. Keep Colours and the Örenşehir address on the confirmation, and add the bag count as well, because a family with a fortnight's luggage fills more of a car than the number of seats suggests.

• A flight before eight in the morning means a pickup before dawn from this far east; fix it at booking and settle the hotel bill the evening before, so checking out takes a minute.
• Child seats are reserved leg by leg, so give the children's ages again for the ride back to the airport.
• The Manavgat bridge is the one point on the way where a queue tends to form; if the connection is tight, say so and the pickup can be set earlier.