Incekum to Antalya Airport Transfer

Incekum to Antalya Airport is about 99 km, and almost all of it belongs to a single road. The first few hundred metres matter more than that number suggests: the hotel lanes here thread back through the pine belt behind the beach, they are narrow, and most meet the coast road at a right angle with nowhere to pause. Once the vehicle is up on the highway and pointed west, the rest is uncomplicated.

Westbound the road passes the Okurcalar resort strip, crosses the Manavgat river and clears the Side junction. Then it opens out for the long, level section across the Belek plain towards Serik and Aksu. That middle third is where a departure keeps its time, because there is nothing on it to stop for and nothing beside it to slow the traffic down.

Allow 1 hour 30 to 1 hour 50. The lower figure belongs to the night and the early morning, when the only slow part of the trip is the lane out of the hotel. The upper figure belongs to July and August afternoons, when everything east of Side moves at the pace of the town it is passing through, and to the last few kilometres into the airport, which carry Antalya's own traffic in any month.

When you send the flight time we plan the pickup around it for the actual day of travel rather than for an average week, which for this corridor makes a noticeable difference between a Tuesday in May and a Saturday in August.

Properties in Incekum sit on either side of the pine strip. Road-side hotels have a forecourt a vehicle can enter and turn in. Beach-side ones are often reached down a narrow lane with a pedestrian gate at the sea end and no room to turn at all; where that is the case the driver waits at the top of the lane on the coast road side and walks down for the cases.

Those lanes are unlit. For a collection before first light the meeting point is agreed when the booking is confirmed — usually the hotel's own entrance lamp, or the last lit corner on the coast road — and the driver rings the number on the booking a few minutes out instead of sounding a horn along a sleeping strip. It is worth telling reception the night before as well: most desks along here are staffed overnight in season and will open the luggage room for an early start.

Arriving, you take whatever is at the head of the airport queue. Departing, you are standing in a small resort at a time you chose, and Incekum is small. The cars that serve it are shared with the villages on either side, and out of season there may be one or two working before dawn. The hotel will telephone for you, but the vehicle still has to come from wherever it is, and you learn how long that takes at the moment it is least useful.

Booking in advance removes the wait and the price conversation together. The fare is fixed when you reserve, it is quoted for the vehicle, and it does not change if the coast road is heavy that morning. Nothing is paid up front either — the driver takes cash when you reach the terminal.

The last hundred metres are the part a stranger gets wrong. A driver who has never been down your particular lane will reach the beach gate, find no turning space, and back out past you. On a booked job the lane and the meeting point are written down before the vehicle leaves.

Both directions can sit on one booking, which is what most people here do: the same fixed arrangement brings you in from the terminal at the start of the holiday and takes you back out at the end of it. The arrival leg is written up separately as Antalya Airport to Incekum, and when the two are booked together your hotel and lane details only have to be given once.