Karaöz Gelidonya Pansiyon Taxi Transfer from Antalya Airport

Antalya Airport to Karaöz Gelidonya Pansiyon private transfer

Karaöz sits at the southern end of the Kumluca coast, nearer on the map than it is by road, because the way down has to work round a good many headlands first. The meeting is indoors, at a board carrying your name, and the trolley is taken off you before the car pulls out of the airport. After that the route is the coast road signed Kumluca-Kemer, which runs south-west through Kemer and Tekirova and on towards Kumluca. Mavikent is where it leaves the highway for Karaöz Caddesi, and Bağlıdere Caddesi is the final turn before the pension gate. On a road with nothing blocking it that comes to 115 km and 110 to 130 minutes.

Across a distance like this, a figure written down beforehand is worth more than a meter on the dashboard. The Mercedes Vito holds up to six people with their cases and is from €95; the eight-seat minivan, for groups of as many as eight, is €100. Whichever you take, you are hiring the vehicle rather than buying seats in it, and the amount goes into the booking confirmation. It is not revisited afterwards: a crawl through Kemer, a lane closed for resurfacing or a drive that works out nearer 130 minutes than 110 all leave it where it is. No deposit is asked for. Nothing is due until the drive is over, and then it is cash, EUR, USD or TRY, whichever you happen to have; calling the car off costs nothing so long as word reaches us more than 4 hours before the agreed pickup.

What stands at the end of that road is a family pension, not a resort. The room list runs from economic and standard through standard double to deluxe double, deluxe family and family with bathroom, and there are sea-view singles and doubles among them; air conditioning, non-smoking rooms and free Wi-Fi in the rooms and the common areas are on the facility list. The board is bed and breakfast or room only, with an indoor breakfast room and an open-air restaurant, and there is a common kitchen for anyone who would rather cook. The rest of the building amounts to a terrace, a lounge and a TV room. There is no pool, no spa and no children's club here. Instead there is Karaöz beach, public, a mix of sand and shingle, shallow at the shore and laid out with sunbeds and umbrellas, and there is the Lycian Way, which the pension stands on; Korsan Bay, the Gelidonya lighthouse, Adrasan and Olympos are all named among its surroundings. Pets are not accepted.

On 110 to 130 minutes of road a break is a fair thing to want, and asking is the whole procedure. Raise it when the booking goes in, or say so from the back seat, and the driver finds somewhere for the lavatories, a cold drink or a few minutes standing up; no charge follows and the agreed price is untouched. Nothing is charged for children's seats, in any size; tell us the ages and the right carrier or booster is in place before the car leaves. The inbound aircraft is watched, so one that lands behind schedule is met late rather than missed, and free waiting covers the 60 minutes that follow the landing. Cars are arranged 24/7, which makes the hour of your landing a detail.

Plenty of flights into Antalya arrive in the evening, and the last stretch here is village street rather than highway, so the address earns its place in the booking message. Reception at the pension is attended around the clock, which means a late arrival is dealt with at a desk and not at a locked door. Parking on site is private and free, so the vehicle stops at the building itself and the bags go in from there. Write Bağlıdere Caddesi into that message, because Gelidonia Villas and Gelidonia Fenerium are separate properties and this one turns up in listings both with and without the Karaöz prefix. Going home, the same allowance is made and the same price applies.

Finding your driver at the airport

There is no rank to join here and no numbered meeting point to hunt for. Your driver waits on the public side of the doors with a board, whichever exit your flight is given, while you work through passport control and the baggage belt. Waiting is free for 60 minutes from the landing, which is what absorbs a slow carousel or an immigration hall that has stopped moving. He lifts the heavier cases, loads them, and the car then leaves for Karaöz with nobody aboard but your own party. If the trip falls through before the day, nothing is owed, provided the cancellation comes in more than 4 hours ahead of the pickup time.

The 115 km down to Karaöz

The distance divides into three stretches that drive quite differently. Out of Antalya it is quick dual carriageway; from Kemer onwards the coast road bends and climbs between the headlands; and the final part, off the highway at Mavikent and down through Karaöz, is narrow village road. That is why 110 to 130 minutes is an honest allowance rather than a padded one. Keep water, a charged phone and any travel sickness tablets where you can reach them, not in a case that goes in the boot. A stop can be had for the asking, and it makes no difference to the sum due, because that sum was pinned down at the time of booking.

The drop at the pension, and the run back

Bağlıdere Caddesi runs down to the water below Mavikent, and the pension keeps free private parking of its own, so the vehicle turns in off the street and the luggage comes out at the building. Arriving after dark changes nothing about the drop, and the terrace is somewhere to sit while the room is sorted out. For the return, send the departure time over WhatsApp the night before: 115 km and 110 to 130 minutes are blocked out for the road, with check-in time added on top of that. The car is at the gate at the hour agreed, for the figure already quoted, and the money changes hands at the airport end.

Good to know for Karaöz Gelidonya Pansiyon

• Send the flight number with the booking, because the landing is what sets the pickup hour rather than the printed timetable.
• Give Bağlıdere Caddesi in the booking message as well as the name, so the car is steered to the right gate and not to a similarly named neighbour.
• Children's ages are worth putting in the booking, so the free carrier or booster that suits them is already fitted when the car arrives.
• If the drive begins to feel long, ask the driver to pull in; the stop costs nothing and the price does not move for it.
• Arrange the return leg the evening beforehand and set aside cash in EUR, USD or TRY, since cards cannot be used and nothing at all is taken up front.

Fixed fares from Karaöz Gelidonya Pansiyon

Both figures are for the whole vehicle, one way, agreed on WhatsApp before pickup. The return leg costs the same as the outbound one.

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