Alanya to Antalya Airport Transfer

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Leave-by times for every resort on the strip

The distances are fixed and so, near enough, are the driving times: Okurcalar 94 km and about 80 minutes, İncekum 100 km and 85, Avsallar 103 km and 85, Türkler 110 km and 95, Konaklı 115 km and 95, Alanya centre 125 km and 105, Kestel 135 km and 110, Mahmutlar 140 km and 115, Kargıcak 145 km and 120. Add the terminal time your own airline asks for and a short buffer for the town section, and the pickup times below follow. They are written for a summer departure; outside the season it is the queues that ease, so read the check-in deadline off your booking rather than trimming a set amount.

Two of those lines have consequences people do not always think through before they book the flight. A departure from Antalya at six in the morning means a pickup from Mahmutlar shortly after midnight, which is not an early start but a night without sleep, and your reception has to be told in advance so the door and the lift are not a problem. A pickup at that hour also comes before breakfast, so ask your hotel about a packed box when you settle the bill. Some will do it, some will not, and it is not something we can promise on their behalf.

• Okurcalar, Avsallar and İncekum, 80 to 85 minutes of driving: leave about four and a half hours before take-off.
• Türkler and Konaklı, 95 minutes: leave about four hours forty-five before take-off.
• Alanya centre and the harbour side, 105 minutes: leave about five hours before take-off.
• Kestel, Mahmutlar and Kargıcak, 110 to 120 minutes: leave about five hours fifteen before take-off.
• Winter and the shoulder season, or any departure before about seven in the morning: the queues are shorter, so read the check-in deadline off your booking before trimming anything.
• Domestic flight rather than international: ask when you book, because the airport time is shorter and the pickup moves accordingly.

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Antalya or Gazipaşa: the real choice for this coast

Gazipaşa-Alanya (GZP) sits roughly 45 km east of Alanya centre, which is a transfer of well under an hour from the town and less again from Kargıcak, against two hours to Antalya. On distance alone it wins outright for everyone east of the castle rock. But distance is rarely what decides it. GZP is a small airport with a modest route network, weighted heavily towards domestic connections through Istanbul alongside a seasonal set of northern European and CIS services, and what it offers changes between summer and winter and from one year to the next.

The honest test is therefore not which airport is nearer but whether a flight you actually want exists. If your airline serves Gazipaşa on the day you travel, at a fare and a departure time you would accept anyway, take it: the two hours saved in each direction are real, and on a short break they are a meaningful share of the holiday. If it means an awkward hour, a connection through Istanbul or a noticeably higher fare, Antalya's far larger choice is usually worth the drive. Check the current schedules yourself before booking either the flight or the transfer, because this is the part of the page that dates fastest.

One practical point on top of that. Read the three-letter code on your ticket rather than the word Alanya, because Gazipaşa is marketed as Alanya's airport and a fair number of people book a transfer to the wrong one. If the code says GZP, tell us: it is a different run in a different direction at a different price, and it is far easier to change a week before than at the kerb. It is also a single small terminal whose arrangements can change, so check how it is set up shortly before you fly.

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The slow part of the journey is Alanya itself

Nothing about the first ninety minutes is difficult. West of Alanya the D400 is flat, fast dual carriageway running past Konaklı, Avsallar and Okurcalar and on through Manavgat, and it holds its speed. The complication is at the eastern end. Coming from Kestel, Mahmutlar or Kargıcak the road first narrows and bends along the cliffs above the water, then drops into central Alanya, passes under the castle rock and along the harbour side, and only then rejoins the highway heading west. On an August evening those two or three urban kilometres can cost more time than twenty kilometres of open road.

That is why the eastern resorts are quoted a quarter of an hour more than the figure given for Alanya itself, and why summer weekends, the end of a public holiday and market days in the coastal towns matter more to your timing than the raw distance does. Early morning is the mirror image. Between roughly one and six the town is empty, the cliff road is clear and a run that takes two full hours at six in the evening takes noticeably less. Most departure transfers from this coast are early ones, which for once works in your favour.

If anyone travelling is unsteady on bends, the stretch between Kargıcak and Alanya is the part to prepare for, not the highway. It is one long curve above the sea after another, and on the way out it comes at the beginning of the journey rather than the end, when nobody has properly woken up. A front seat and fresh air help, and so does not eating much beforehand. Say so when you book and the driver will take that section more gently.

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Long stays, winter residents and the run to the airport

East of Alanya the traveller changes. Kestel, Mahmutlar and Kargıcak are residential rather than touristic: apartment blocks with their balconies turned to the sea, shops stocked for households instead of holidays, and a population that includes a large number of foreign residents who spend the winter here and fly out in spring. For them the airport run is not part of a package. It happens once or twice a year, usually with far more luggage than a week's holiday produces, and often at an hour chosen by a cheap fare rather than by comfort.

That changes what we need to know before the vehicle is assigned. Tell us if you are travelling with a bicycle, golf clubs, a folded pushchair, an instrument or several months of belongings, because four suitcases already fill the Economy car and the step up to the Standard van, which takes seven passengers and seven bags, exists for exactly this. Tell us how high up the slope your building stands in Kargıcak, where the access lanes above the highway are steep and tight in places. And tell us whether keys, a meter reading or an agent visit have to be dealt with before you can leave.

Regular runs are worth mentioning too. If you make this journey on a fixed rhythm, out in April and back in October, say so and we will keep the details rather than start from scratch each time. Anything beyond that, including how far ahead a particular night slot can be confirmed, is a question to ask when you book. We would rather give you a straight answer for your own date than quote a policy that might not hold on a Saturday in August.

• The building name and floor, and whether you are on the shore road or the highway above it.
• Whether a key handover, meter reading or agent visit has to happen before the pickup.
• Oversized items named individually, not counted as suitcases: bicycles, golf bags, instruments, boxes.
• A phone number that will still be reachable in Turkey on the morning of the flight.
• The airport code on the ticket, AYT or GZP, rather than the city name printed next to it.

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If the flight moves, tell us early

Airlines rearrange summer schedules, and a departure that was at eleven when you booked in March can be at seven by June. Because the pickup time is calculated backwards from the departure time, a shift of even an hour moves everything else with it. Check your booking again a few days before you travel, since the flight number often stays the same while the time does not, and send us the new time as soon as you have it. Rewriting a pickup a week in advance costs nothing; rewriting it at midnight is a different conversation.

The same applies to anything else that changes shape. A room that has to be vacated earlier than the pickup, a group splitting across two flights, a switch from Antalya to Gazipaşa, one more passenger than planned: none of these are problems in themselves. They become problems when they arrive after the vehicle has been assigned and the driver's night has been planned around it. If you are not sure whether something matters, send it anyway. A message costs nothing and we will tell you whether it changes the plan.

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The vehicle, the price and how to book the departure

The price is per vehicle rather than per seat, quoted in euro and agreed when you book, so the same car costs the same whether two of you travel in it or four. The fleet runs from Economy, which takes four passengers and four bags, through the Standard van at seven and seven and First Class at six and six, up to the 12- and 16-seat minibuses that groups leaving Alanya together usually want. The difference between tiers is a fixed supplement rather than a per-kilometre rate, and the full list lives on the prices page.

What the price covers is the run itself: a named driver, the pickup from your address at the agreed time and the drive to the terminal you named. Anything around the edges is worth asking about rather than assuming. A child seat, a stop on the way for a group that has been in the car for an hour and a half, two pickups in different resorts on one run, extra minutes while keys are handed back: some of it is straightforward, some depends on the vehicle and the day, and none of it is something anyone wants to discover on the pavement at two in the morning.

Booking goes through the form on this site or through WhatsApp on +90 551 464 26 32, whichever suits you better. For a departure, send the pickup address and resort, the date, the flight number and its departure time, the number of passengers and bags, and the airport printed on the ticket. We will come back with a pickup time and a fixed price in euro, and you can settle the details from there long before the night of the flight.