Avsallar to Antalya Airport Transfer

Avsallar is really two places joined by one junction on the D400. The beach strip lies below the road; the town sits behind and above it. Every departure starts by getting back to that same point on the highway from whichever half you have been staying in. From the beach road it is a short climb. From the upper streets it is a few minutes of narrow, parked-up grid before the main road opens out.

After that comes 103 km of coast road taken westward. The first half hour runs past Incekum and Okurcalar and behind the Kizilot greenhouses; the Manavgat crossing and the Side junction follow and are the only genuinely urban part of the drive. From there the road is clear across the plain until Aksu, where Antalya's own traffic joins for the final approach to the terminal.

Reckon on 1 hour 35 to 1 hour 50 from door to door. A departure that leaves before six keeps to the shorter end, with the town quiet and the highway empty. Between mid-July and the end of August an afternoon flight is the harder job, because the Manavgat and Side sections and the airport approach happen to be slow at the same hours.

The pickup time is planned around the flight time you give us, using the day of the week and the month rather than a single average for the route.

Which half of Avsallar you are in changes how the collection works. Hotels on the beach strip have a forecourt or a wide kerb, so the vehicle waits at the entrance and the cases go straight in. The town grid is different: the streets are short, they climb, and overnight both sides are lined with parked cars. A minibus can usually get in but cannot always turn, so where that applies we agree a corner within sight of your door and the driver walks up for the luggage.

Send the street name as well as the name of the hotel or apartment block. Buildings on opposite sides of the junction sometimes share the first half of a name, and apartment bookings tend to name the complex rather than the address. If you are leaving before the desk opens, mention it: the driver will ring the mobile number on the booking rather than the building's bell, and the night man at most properties here will have the gate open if he was told the day before.

Avsallar has a taxi rank and in the middle of the day it works perfectly well. The difficulty is that few flights leave Antalya in the middle of the day. Departures bunch into the early morning and the late evening, and a rank with four cars on it at noon can be a single car at five, with the hotel telephoning around while you watch the clock.

The fare is the other half. A meter running over 103 km produces a number you only see at the end, and there is no way to weigh it up while standing in the road beside your cases. A booked transfer is quoted once, for the vehicle, and it stays at that figure whether the road runs freely or crawls.

There is also the small matter of cash. A metered ride wants paying at the end in whatever the meter says, and the last morning of a holiday is exactly when the wallet has been deliberately emptied. With the fare agreed weeks earlier you know the precise amount to keep back.

If the holiday is still ahead of you rather than behind, the identical arrangement works inbound and both legs can go on a single booking — the arrival journey is set out on Antalya Airport to Avsallar. Booked as a pair, the return pickup already has your street and your building on file, so the only thing left to confirm nearer the time is the flight.