Bogazkent to Antalya Airport Transfer

The 41 km back to Antalya Airport splits into two unequal halves, and they behave nothing alike. The first is the local one: residential streets and compound access roads east of the main resort strip, narrow, largely unmarked, and slow by design. The second is the highway, fast and continuous all the way west. Together they take between 43 and 56 minutes.

Almost all of the variation belongs to the first half. In the morning those lanes carry service vans, farm traffic coming off the fields inland and tour coaches picking up from the same complexes as you. Meeting one of them on a single-track section costs a couple of minutes each time, and there is no way round. At four or five in the morning it costs nothing at all, which is one reason so many departures here are booked early.

On the highway the pattern is the reverse of the one you met coming in. From about seven on weekday mornings the westbound carriageway carries commuter traffic towards Antalya, and through July and August the resort junctions between here and Belek thicken the near section on top of that. Later in the day it thins out again.

So the band runs from 43 minutes on a clear road to 56 when the lanes and the highway are both working against you. Tell us your flight departure time and we plan the pickup around it, rather than around an average.

The compounds here take their names from the developers who built them, and several near-identical ones sit within a couple of streets of each other. Some entrances are set well back from the lane and a few share an access track with a neighbour. Give the property in full when you book - the complex, the block, the villa or apartment number - and add a landmark on the lane if you have one. That description is what the driver drives to.

A departure from Bogazkent is often made in the dark, and the lanes are unlit with turnings that are hard to tell apart at that hour. If your gate is locked overnight, or the lane is too tight to turn a minibus around in, pick a spot on the wider road when you book: the driver stops there, calls you, and the walk with the cases is short. Hotels with an overnight desk can usually take the luggage down to the lobby the evening before. Self-catering compounds generally cannot, so plan on bringing it out yourselves.

There is no rank here that stays staffed through the night. Out of season there may be no car in the village at all at the hour you need one, and the vehicle that eventually comes has been called across from Belek or Serik - so the waiting happens at your end of the phone, with the bags already outside.

Cost behaves differently in this direction too. A metered fare over 41 km keeps counting through the lanes, and the lanes are precisely the part of the route that varies. Agreeing an amount in advance takes that away entirely: the figure quoted when you book is the figure paid when you arrive, whatever the approach did that morning.

The last difference is who has to explain the address. A dispatcher taking a call at five in the morning has to find a compound that maps do not resolve cleanly, from a description given over a phone. On a booked transfer that work is done days earlier, in writing, when there is time to get it right.

Travelling the other way, or want the pair handled together? The Antalya Airport to Bogazkent transfer page covers the inbound journey on the same terms. Booked as a round trip, the gate used on the way in becomes the gate we come back to at the end of the week, so the lane description only has to be given once.