Belek has quietly become one of Europe's leading winter football training bases, and every year from December to March its resort strip fills with squads, coaching staff and travelling supporters. The draw is simple: mild Mediterranean winters, manicured pitches beside five-star hotels, and Antalya Airport barely half an hour away. We move whole teams, backroom staff, media and directors between the airport, training grounds and friendly-match venues on fixed per-vehicle prices. This guide explains how we handle squads and kit, from a single scout car to a full midibus for the travelling group.
Getting a training camp moving smoothly is a logistics job, not a taxi ride. Flights land at different times, kit skips and medical bags need proper load space, and pitch bookings do not wait for a delayed coach. We track every arriving flight, meet groups with a name-board, and give sixty minutes of free waiting time so late baggage or a delayed squad never costs the transfer. There is no night surcharge and no per-person pricing — you pay one agreed price per vehicle in cash, in euros, dollars or lira, arranged in advance over WhatsApp.
Table of Contents
- Why Belek for Winter Training Camps
- Airport Transfers for Squads and Kit
- Training-Ground and Friendly-Match Shuttles
- Vehicle Sizes for Teams, Staff and Media
- Coordinating Multiple Arrivals and Departures
- VIP Cars for Directors, Agents and Scouts
- How to Book and Get a Group Quote
Why Belek for Winter Training Camps
Belek sits on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, thirty-three kilometres south of Antalya Airport, and its combination of climate and facilities is hard to beat in the European off-season. While pitches in the north freeze, Belek stays mild through December, January and February, so clubs can train outdoors twice a day on grass rather than in a snow dome. The real advantage is proximity: many camp hotels — Gloria, Regnum, Kaya, Cornelia, Titanic and Maxx Royal among them — sit on or beside golf and training complexes, with full-size pitches, gyms and recovery pools a short walk from the rooms. Squads can eat, sleep, train and recover on one site, and a friendly against another visiting club is often just a few kilometres down the road. That density of teams and pitches is why agents and tour operators route so many winter camps through Belek.
Airport Transfers for Squads and Kit
The journey almost always begins at Antalya Airport (AYT), a thirty-five to forty-five minute run of roughly thirty-three kilometres to the Belek hotels. For small groups — a scout, an agent or two coaches — a sedan from €25 or a Mercedes Vito seating up to six from €35 does the job. For a first-team squad arriving together with holdalls, kit skips, medical bags and gym equipment, we run larger minibuses, Sprinters and midibuses of sixteen to thirty-plus seats, with dedicated luggage and kit space, arranged on request against a quote. Every driver tracks the inbound flight, waits with a name-board at arrivals, and holds for sixty minutes free of charge, so a squad clearing passport control and reclaiming a mountain of bags is never rushed. Prices are per vehicle, never per person, and there is no night surcharge on late landings.
Training-Ground and Friendly-Match Shuttles
Once the camp is under way, most of the driving is short and repetitive: hotel to pitch, pitch to hotel, twice a day. Where the training ground sits inside the resort complex the walk is minimal, but many sessions use a shared academy pitch or a neighbouring club's facility, and that is where a booked shuttle earns its place. We run squads to morning and afternoon sessions on a set timetable so the coach's schedule drives ours, not the other way round. Friendly matches are the same principle over a longer distance: we take the group to venues around Belek, Kadriye, Bogazkent and further along the coast, wait through the fixture, and bring everyone back. Tell us the week's session and match plan and we will hold the right vehicles for each slot.
Vehicle Sizes for Teams, Staff and Media
Camp parties are rarely one uniform group, so we match vehicles to how the travelling squad splits. A first team of twenty-five players plus staff usually needs a midibus, or a pair of minibuses running in convoy, with a separate car for late-arriving directors. Coaching and medical staff often move on a different timetable to the players, so a Vito or minivan can shadow the main group. Media crews and analysts travelling with cameras, tripods and edit kit are better in their own van where the equipment rides safely. For everyday errands — a physio to a clinic, a scout to another fixture — the sedan is quick and economical. We will map your numbers to a fleet plan before you commit, so nobody is left standing at the kerb and no vehicle travels half empty.
Coordinating Multiple Arrivals and Departures
Squads seldom land on one flight. Players join from international duty, staff fly in early to prepare, and loan or trial players arrive separately, so a camp can have half a dozen inbound flights across two or three days. We build a single arrivals sheet from your flight list, track each one independently, and have a vehicle and a name-board waiting for every landing, whatever the hour. Departures work the same way in reverse: staggered check-outs, an early group to the airport and a later one after a final session, all planned so nobody misses a gate. One point of contact on WhatsApp coordinates the lot, and because there is no night surcharge, a 3am arrival costs the same per vehicle as a midday one. Send the full schedule and we handle the sequencing.
VIP Cars for Directors, Agents and Scouts
Not everyone at a training camp travels with the squad bus. Club directors, sporting directors, agents and visiting scouts often want a discreet car on their own schedule, ready to move between the hotel, the training ground, a lunch meeting or another club's fixture at short notice. We provide private cars and the Mercedes Vito for these VIP movements, with the same fixed per-vehicle pricing and no night surcharge, so a director flying in for a single day gets a driver who tracks the flight, meets them by name and stays available. Confidentiality is straightforward: we do not discuss who we carry. If you need a car on standby through the camp rather than for a single run, tell us the dates and we will quote a plan.
How to Book and Get a Group Quote
Booking a camp is a conversation, not a checkout. Message us on WhatsApp with your dates, hotel, the size of the travelling party and your rough flight and session plan, and we will build a vehicle plan and a single group quote covering airport runs, daily training shuttles and any friendly-match trips. Small movements use the published fixed prices — €25 in a sedan, €35 in a Vito for up to six, €45 in a minivan for up to eight — while full-squad minibuses, Sprinters and midibuses are quoted on request according to seats and kit space. You pay per vehicle in cash, in euros, dollars or lira, with no prepayment and no per-person charges. Clubs needing an invoice for their accounts should say so when booking and we will prepare the paperwork.
Practical Information
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. A first-team squad of twenty-five players plus staff is best carried in a midibus of sixteen to thirty-plus seats, or a pair of minibuses running in convoy with a car alongside for staff. All of these come with proper luggage and kit space and are quoted on request. Send us the exact head count and we will confirm the vehicle plan and a single per-vehicle price before you travel.
There is. Our minibuses, Sprinters and midibuses are chosen for their load space as much as their seats, so holdalls, kit skips, medical bags, gym gear and ball bags travel with the squad rather than being left behind. For media crews we can provide a separate van so cameras and edit kit ride safely. Tell us roughly how much equipment is coming and we will size the vehicles accordingly.
Yes. Friendly fixtures against other visiting clubs are a normal part of a Belek camp, and we run squads to venues around Belek, Kadriye, Bogazkent and further along the coast. The driver takes the group out, waits through the match, and brings everyone back to the hotel. Give us the fixture list with kick-off times and we will hold the right vehicles for each match day.
That is routine for training camps. We build one arrivals sheet from your flight list, track each flight independently, and have a vehicle and a name-board waiting for every landing, day or night. There is no night surcharge, so an early-hours arrival costs the same per vehicle as a daytime one. One WhatsApp contact coordinates every pickup and drop-off across the camp.
Yes. Clubs and organisations that need an invoice for their accounts should mention it when booking, and we will prepare the paperwork to match the agreed per-vehicle quote. Payment is normally in cash — euros, dollars or lira — to the driver, with no prepayment required. Let us know the billing details in advance so everything is ready on arrival.
Yes. Two-a-day sessions often mean an early-morning collection and a late return, and we build the shuttle timetable around the coaching staff's schedule rather than our own. Because there is no night surcharge, early and late runs are priced the same per vehicle. Send us the week's session times and we will schedule every pickup and drop-off in advance.