Payallar to Antalya Airport Transfer

Payallar sits on the western approach to Alanya, and the run to the terminal measures roughly 112 km, which gives the drive an unusual shape. It begins in traffic, ends in traffic, and has the better part of an hour of open road in between.

Leaving the village you join a road already carrying Alanya's westbound traffic, and on a summer morning that is the slowest section of the whole journey even though it comes first. Past Turkler and Avsallar the volume thins out. From Okurcalar as far as the Manavgat crossing the coast road does what it was built to do, and it stays clear until the Aksu junction, where the airport approach picks up city traffic again.

Plan on 1 hour 40 to two hours. The shorter end belongs to a night or pre-dawn departure with an empty road ahead. The longer end belongs to July and August, and above all to the weekend changeover days, when the whole coast is travelling in the same direction as you are.

We set the pickup time against the flight time you give us. For Payallar that calculation has to carry both of those congested ends and not just the open middle, which is the main reason the departure here is worth arranging rather than improvising.

The hotels here are mostly small, and the beach-side ones are reached by short turn-offs that look identical from the coast road in the dark. Several share the first word of a name with a building two streets away. So we ask for the property exactly as written on your reservation and the street it stands on, and for an apartment booking the block and the floor as well, because there is no lit forecourt to check against at five in the morning.

The collection itself is at the door. The driver parks on the turn-off rather than out on the coast road, telephones the number on the booking, and helps the cases out; in the village core, where the lanes are narrow and everyone is asleep, that is done without a horn. If you are going before the desk opens, say so at booking — properties of this size run a single night porter, and it works far better when he has been told the day before.

Payallar keeps no rank of waiting taxis, and for most of the day it has no need of one. It needs one at precisely the hour flights leave, which is the hour it is least likely to have a car sitting idle. Out of season the hotel calls one in from further along the coast, and you find out how long that takes while standing in the lane with the room key already handed back.

Distance sharpens the second argument. A meter left running across 112 km of coast road climbs for the better part of two hours, and there is nothing to check it against while it does. Booked ahead it is a single figure for the vehicle, settled weeks earlier, unaffected by the traffic on the day or by how many of you are travelling.

Luggage is the third. People tend to leave this coast carrying more than they arrived with, and golf clubs are common on the run out of Payallar. Declaring the load when you book puts a van on the job instead of a standard car, and that decision gets made in an office rather than in a dark lane with a boot lid open.

Guests who are still on their way to Payallar rather than leaving it can put both journeys on one booking; the inbound leg has its own page at Antalya Airport to Payallar. Arranging the two together means the village address only gets checked once, and the departure stays on file from the moment the pair is confirmed until the morning of the flight.