Belek to Antalya Airport Transfer

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How much time to allow: the 35 to 45 minute band

Work backwards, and start from the check-in and bag-drop deadline printed on your own booking rather than from the departure time on the board. Add the drive. Then add a fixed allowance for the resort itself: getting the cases down, settling the account, and reaching the highway from the gate. That last allowance is the one nobody budgets for, and in the golf belt it is worth more than the difference between the nearest and the furthest address in the whole region.

The figures below are the ones this page works from. They are measured from Antalya Airport, they match the numbers used everywhere else on the site, and they describe a road that stays flat dual carriageway for almost its whole length, with no mountain section and no hairpins to slow a loaded van. What they are not is a promise. They describe normal traffic: a summer morning heading west towards Antalya runs heavier than a February one, and an evening departure runs lighter than both. Read them as the middle of a range, and keep your own margin on top of them:

• Belek — 35 km, about 35 minutes
• Kadriye — 30 km, about 35 minutes
• Serik — 32 km, about 35 minutes
• Boğazkent — 45 km, about 45 minutes
• Resorts at the eastern edge of the belt — up to 46 km, still around 45 minutes

03

Golf bags and what they do to vehicle choice

Count the sets that are actually going home, which is not always the number that arrived: clubs get bought at the pro shop, a hire set goes back to the club, a friend's bag travels back with you. A travel bag is long and rigid and will not squeeze into a gap the way a soft holdall does, so it counts as a whole piece of luggage rather than as an extra you can mention on the day. The same applies to a pushcart, a child's buggy, a bicycle box or a cool box that lived on the balcony all week. Four golfers travelling home with four sets and four suitcases are eight pieces of luggage, which is a van rather than a car.

Choose the vehicle when you book, not at the kerb at five in the morning. A car that arrives one size too small cannot be fixed in a hotel driveway with a flight to catch, and the fixed price you agreed is for that vehicle. The step up from Standard to First Class or to a minibus is a set amount added to the standard fare, and the tier logic is laid out in full on the prices page rather than repeated per route here.

The capacities below are what the fleet is actually built around, and they are counts rather than suggestions: a seat is a seat and a piece is a piece, whatever shape the bag happens to be. Add up the party and the luggage before you choose, and remember that both numbers have to work at the same time — five adults with seven pieces between them need the van for the luggage, not for the seats. If your count lands exactly on a limit, say so when you book and we will tell you honestly whether it fits:

• Economy Van — 4 passengers, 4 pieces of luggage
• Standard Van — 7 passengers, 7 pieces
• First Class Van — 6 passengers, 6 pieces
• Minibus 12 — 12 passengers, 12 pieces
• Minibus 16 — 16 passengers, 16 pieces
• Every golf travel bag counts as one of those pieces.

04

Late checkout and a night flight

The most common Belek departure pattern is a room that has to be vacated around midday and a flight that does not leave until the evening. That gap is a hotel question before it is a transfer question, so ask reception early in your stay rather than on the morning itself: late checkout is usually chargeable and depends on the night's occupancy, and whether you keep pool, beach or restaurant access after handing back the key varies from property to property.

Once you know how the afternoon will be spent, set the pickup for the time you actually want to leave, not for checkout time. Tell us that time when you book and the car comes then. An evening run is genuinely easier than a morning one — the westbound highway towards Antalya is at its busiest in the morning and quietest late at night — but treat that as a bonus rather than as your safety margin. Weather, a road closure or a slow gatehouse will not care what time it is.

One thing worth settling before you leave the hotel: which terminal you are flying from. Antalya Airport is not a single building, the terminals are not next door to one another, and airlines are not all handled in the same one. Your terminal is on your booking confirmation and on the airport's own departures information. Check it again in the days before you travel, because allocations do change, and give it to us with the booking so the car goes to the right door first time.

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Golf-belt resorts and the village addresses

Inside the golf belt the pickup is a resort procedure. Hotels sit at the end of long private drives, often behind a gatehouse, with several properties sharing the same approach road and names that look alike on a sign at dawn. Give the full property name when you book, not just Belek or Kadriye, and if the site is a large one add the block or the entrance you will be waiting at. Where a gate keeps a list, the booking name being the same as the name on your room helps everyone.

The village addresses behave differently. Kadriye has a real centre of its own, Boğazkent is low-rise and quiet, and in both of them a lot of guests stay in apartments and small hotels on ordinary residential streets. Those streets are narrower, some of the side lanes are unsurfaced, and a building is identified by its name rather than by a lit sign visible from the road. The car takes the main street and turns off at your address, so a street name plus a landmark is worth more than a map pin dropped on a roof. Serik is different again: it is a working district town, and on a weekday morning the market and school traffic in the centre are part of your journey time.

• Golf-belt resort: the full property name, plus the block or entrance on a large site.
• Village apartment: street name, building name and a landmark the driver can find.
• Serik: allow for market and school traffic in the centre on a weekday morning.
• A phone number that works on WhatsApp on the morning itself, not only at home.

06

Booking the leg home

Send the pickup address, the date and the pickup time — or your flight number and departure time, and we will work the pickup back from it — plus the number of passengers, the number of bags including every golf set, the terminal if you already know it, and a phone number that is reachable on the morning. Send it through the form on this site, or put the same list in a WhatsApp message to +90 551 464 26 32. The price is fixed for the vehicle, agreed in euro when you book, and quoted per car rather than per person, so it does not move because the traffic did.

If you are booking the arrival and the departure together, the inbound leg is the mirror image of this one: your driver waits in the arrivals hall with a name sign, and the flight is tracked, so a late landing does not need a phone call from the aircraft. Booking both at once also means the same details are only given once, and one message holds the whole picture — which resort, how many golf bags, how many people — instead of two sent a week apart that have to be matched up afterwards.

Anything not described on this page — a child seat, an extra stop on the way, how the fare is settled, a vehicle requirement someone in the party depends on — ask when you book. We would rather answer it honestly in a message the week before than have it become a problem in a hotel driveway at dawn. That is also the moment to flag whatever is unusual about your own departure: a very early pickup, a group splitting across two flights, or an address the map is vague about.