Belek Golf Holiday Planning: Courses, Resorts and Transfers

Belek is Turkey's golf capital, a pine-fringed stretch of the Antalya coast where championship layouts sit within minutes of five-star resorts. Since the first courses opened in the 1990s the town has drawn golfers from across Europe with warm autumn and spring weather, true bentgrass greens and generous package deals. Planning a golf holiday here comes down to three things: choosing your courses, picking a resort with the right access, and sorting reliable transfers for early tee times and bulky golf bags that a shared shuttle cannot handle.

Antalya Airport (AYT) is only 33 km away, a 35 to 45 minute drive, so you can land and be on the practice range the same afternoon. The catch is logistics: dawn tee times, heavy golf travel bags and groups of four rarely suit a small sedan boot. A fixed-price private transfer in a Mercedes Vito solves both, and this guide walks through the courses, the golf-package resorts and the door-to-door detail that keeps a Belek golf trip running smoothly from arrivals hall to first tee.

Belek's championship courses

Belek packs around ten championship courses into a compact coastal plain, most within ten minutes of each other. The Montgomerie Maxx Royal, Carya and the National are long-standing favourites, while Antalya Golf Club fields the Sultan and Pasha layouts side by side. Gloria offers the Old, New and Verde nines, Cornelia has its Nick Faldo signature course, and Sueno spreads across Dunes and Pines. Kaya Palazzo, Titanic and Robinson complete the roster. Several have hosted European Tour events, so you play the same fairways as the professionals. Fairways are lined with umbrella pines and eucalyptus, greens run true from October, and floodlit practice areas let you warm up before an early start. Booking tee times well ahead is essential in the peak spring and autumn windows, when the courses fill with touring groups.

Where the courses sit

Most Belek courses cluster around the Kadriye and Bogazkent villages, a short hop from the beachfront hotel belt. Distances between clubhouses are small, often three to eight kilometres, so a car and driver lets a group play two different courses in one day without hauling clubs on foot. If your group is playing the Sultan in the morning and Carya after lunch, a waiting driver moves everyone and their clubs between the two without a scramble for taxis. From your resort a transfer to a Kadriye course runs from €15 per vehicle. Antalya city, handy for a shopping or sightseeing rest day, is a transfer from €40. Because the courses share access roads that clog with resort traffic at breakfast and check-out, a driver who knows the shortcuts saves precious minutes before a booked tee slot.

Golf-package resorts

Belek's resorts built the town's reputation on all-in golf packages that bundle rooms, green fees, buggies and transfers to affiliated courses. Many five-star properties own or partner with a course next door, so you can walk or ride a buggy to the first tee. Others sit on the beach a few kilometres from their contracted club and run a hotel shuttle on a fixed timetable, which is fine until your tee time falls outside it. If you are mixing courses across different clubs, an independent private transfer gives you full control over departure times. See our Belek hotels directory to match a property to the courses you most want to play.

Early tee-time transfers

Peak-season tee sheets open from first light, and many golfers want to be putting on the practice green forty minutes before the off. Standard hotel shuttles rarely run that early. A private transfer books to your exact time, and there is no night surcharge on standard transfers, so a 5.30 am pick-up costs the same as a midday one. Pay the driver in cash on the day in euros, dollars or lira. Arrange it the evening before over WhatsApp with your tee time and bag count, and the vehicle is waiting outside reception in the dark, engine warm and boot open, ready to leave the moment you are.

The Mercedes Vito advantage

A tour golf bag with a travel cover is long and heavy, and four of them plus trolleys and cabin bags will not fit a standard sedan boot. The Mercedes Vito is the workhorse of Belek golf transfers: a van body with a tall rear load space that swallows four full sets laid flat, seats up to seven or eight passengers, and keeps clubs out of the cabin. For a single golfer or a pair with slim carry bags a sedan from €25 does the job, but a four-ball should book the Vito from €35 airport-to-resort, or a minivan from €45 for larger groups travelling with extra luggage.

Airport to Belek logistics

Antalya Airport is 33 km from Belek, a 35 to 45 minute run on the D400 coastal road and the resort access lanes. Book a private transfer and your driver tracks the flight, so an early or delayed landing is covered, with 60 minutes of free waiting time built in. A name-board meet and greet brings you together in the arrivals hall, and free child seats are available on request for family golf trips. Fares are per vehicle, not per head: a sedan from €25, a Mercedes Vito from €35, a minivan from €45. That fixed price beats a metered taxi and removes the airport-rank haggle after a long flight.

Rest-day trips and excursions

Golf holidays leave gaps, and Belek is well placed for a non-golf day. The Roman theatre at Aspendos, the ruins of Perge and the town of Side pair into a culture tour from £60 per person. Families splitting off from the fairways head to Land of Legends theme park, about 6 km away with transfers from €15 per vehicle and park tickets from £65 per person. On the water, a boat trip runs from £13, a sunset cruise from £25 and mountain rafting from £14. Thrill-seekers can book a jeep safari into the Taurus foothills from £28 per person, while the Antalya Aquarium, with one of the world's longest tunnel tanks, makes an easy half-day from £40 per person. For a longer excursion, the Pamukkale travertines are a day tour from £25 per person.

Booking and what's included

Everything runs on WhatsApp. Send your arrival flight, resort name, tee times and the number of golf bags, and you get a fixed per-vehicle quote back with no card required. You pay the driver in cash on arrival in euros, dollars or lira. Every standard transfer includes flight tracking, 60 minutes of free wait, a name-board meet and greet, free child seats and no night surcharge, so those pre-dawn course runs cost no more than a daytime hop. For a Monday visit to the Manavgat market, the run is from €40 per vehicle. The same number handles onward trips too, from Side at €35 to Kemer at €45, Lara at €30 or Alanya at €75 per vehicle.

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