Collect in arrivals and the whole Turquoise Coast opens from the terminal exit: Kaleiçi and the old harbour twenty minutes west, the Roman city of Perge fifteen minutes north, and the D400 running east to Belek, Side and Alanya. One road does most of the work here, and it starts at the airport slip road.
Collect in arrivals and the whole Turquoise Coast opens from the terminal exit: Kaleiçi and the old harbour twenty minutes west, the Roman city of Perge fifteen minutes north, and the D400 running east to Belek, Side and Alanya. One road does most of the work here, and it starts at the airport slip road.
No deposit, no excess
Choose Premium Insurance and the partner waives the security deposit entirely – nothing is blocked on your card while you are on the coast.
No airport surcharge
Direct prices from Turkish partners. What you book is what you pay in arrivals, with no desk fee bolted on at the terminal.
Built for a late landing
Antalya runs charter traffic around the clock through the summer. Add your flight number at booking and the desk tracks it, so a delay does not cost you the car.
Unlimited mileage
The coast road runs more than 300 kilometres from Kaş to Alanya, and most visitors drive far more of it than they planned. No rental we offer charges by the kilometre.
Nothing to pay on the road
Turkey collects motorway tolls through the HGS transponder. The D400 is a state highway, so every road you drive out of the terminal is free.
The terminal sits on the D400 between the city and the eastern resorts, so the old town one way and the Roman ruins the other are both inside half an hour.
The Ottoman quarter inside the Roman walls, wrapped around a horseshoe harbour under the cliffs. Enter through Hadrian's Gate and leave the car outside – the lanes barely take two people abreast.
A Hellenistic and Roman city five minutes off the airport road, with the water channel running down the middle of its main street again and a stadium that seated twelve thousand.
The lower falls drop off the cliff straight into the sea at Lara, fifteen minutes from the terminal. The upper falls are a separate site inland at Kepez, another half hour across the city, where you can walk behind the water.
The best-preserved Roman theatre of antiquity, its stage wall still standing to full height and still used for performances. The aqueduct arches in the fields behind it are worth the extra ten minutes.
Almost everything runs along one road. East on the D400 for the Roman cities and the resorts, west for the Lycian coast, and inland from either for the mountains.
1h one way
A temple of Apollo on the tip of a headland, with the town built through the ruins around it. Carry on to Manavgat for the waterfall and the river boats, or turn inland for the Green Canyon reservoir.
2h to the flames
West on the D400 under the Taurus. Phaselis is three ancient harbours in a pine wood at 1h20; Çıralı and the Chimaera vents are another forty minutes on, plus a half-hour walk up. Go after dark and take a torch.
50 min one way
One of only two cities in Asia Minor Alexander failed to take, at 1,050 metres off the Korkuteli road and then a climb on foot. The theatre hangs over a gorge with no railing anywhere.
1h30 to the bridge
A Roman bridge over a green river, with rafting all summer. Selge is eleven kilometres further up a single-track road that limits vehicles to 2.5 metres wide – another forty minutes, and the reason to come.
The D400 is the whole network
One coastal road carries almost everything: west to Kemer and Kaş, east to Belek, Side and Alanya. Learn which way you are turning out of the terminal and the rest follows.
Ask for motorin, not diesel
Turkish pumps read benzin for petrol and motorin for diesel – dizel describes the engine, not the fuel. Stations are full service, so say the word and the amount and stay in the car.
No tolls on this coast
Turkey's HGS transponder covers the motorway network. The D400 is a state highway and the mountain roads inland are ordinary provincial ones, so nothing you drive here is tolled.
Cameras, not patrol cars
The D400 is watched by fixed EDS cameras rather than traffic police. Limits are 50 in built-up areas, 90 on open road and 110 where it is divided, and the fine follows the plate.
Park outside Kaleiçi
The old town's lanes are Ottoman width and one-way where they are passable at all. Use the multi-storey opposite Hadrian's Gate, or Kalekapısı at the top of the quarter by the clock tower.
The mountains have a winter
The coast stays mild all year, but the Saklıkent ski road above Antalya and the passes towards Isparta climb high enough to hold snow and ice from December to March.
Yes. Pick Premium Insurance with zero excess when you book and the partner waives the security deposit, so you settle in arrivals with a debit card or cash. Nothing is blocked on a card, and you never pay out and claim it back.
Antalya Airport has three separate terminals – two international and one domestic. Your voucher names the one to go to and follows the flight number you give us at booking, so check it matches your ticket before you travel rather than after you land.
The car is held for an hour past your booked pick-up time, within the station's opening hours. Give us your flight number so the desk can track the arrival; landing after closing can mean an out-of-hours fee, so book a later pick-up if the schedule is tight.
From the UK, yes – a 1968 IDP, or a notarised Turkish translation of your licence. You cannot buy one abroad, so arrange it before you fly. An EU licence is accepted on its own for a tourist stay, and the counter wants it alongside your passport.
Lara is 15 minutes, Belek 30, Side about an hour and Alanya close to two, all east on the D400. Kemer is 50 minutes west and Kaş around three hours. The terminal sits between the city and the eastern resorts, so neither direction is a detour.
No. Turkey collects motorway tolls through the HGS transponder system, and the roads here are not motorways: the D400 along the shore is a state highway and the mountain roads inland are provincial. There is nothing to register and no bill afterwards.
A compact is enough for the coast road and the resorts, and air conditioning is not optional between May and October. Something with a little more engine helps on the Taurus passes to Termessos and Selge, where the climbs are long rather than steep.
Twenty-one, with at least a year of driving behind you. A few vehicle categories ask for more, and the minimum is shown on each car before you book, so you will not find out at the counter.
Arrivals hall – Antalya Airport (AYT)
Book in minutes, choose your insurance tier, and collect at the terminal the moment you land in Antalya.
