Included on almost everything we sell
Round-trip hotel transfer sits inside the price on 31 of the 34 boat days in this catalogue — not a discount or a seasonal offer, but part of what the fare covers, along with the boat and, on most days, lunch. Vehicles are air-conditioned, which stops being a marketing word around mid-July.
Three products are the exception, all of them private boats hired whole: on the VIP boat from Side, the gulet charter and the luxury motor yacht, hotel transfer is arranged on request rather than folded into the fare. Worth knowing before you weigh a charter against a seat on a shared boat.
Everything else is genuinely return. You are collected before the boat leaves and brought back to the same hotel; the pirate boat day from Side times its transfers around the ship rather than the other way round.
The belts we actually collect from
Each departure serves the resorts near its own harbour, so the honest answer to which hotels get collected differs by day out. These are the areas our records name:
- Side and the surrounding area — the standard sea day, the island tour, the pirate ship, the relax boat, the dolphin trip, the fishing morning and the Suluada day
- Kumköy and nearby resorts — the Kumköy sea day and the Green Canyon departure from there; the private yacht from Kumköy also covers the Side side of that belt
- Evrenseki — the catamaran that runs up to the Oymapınar Dam
- Belek and nearby resorts — the Alibaba pirate galleon, the Green Canyon day and the Manavgat market trip, collected door to door from your resort
- Central Alanya — the pirate boat, the private yacht, the party boat and the fishing day; the Green Canyon run adds Avsallar, the night disco yacht adds Mahmutlar and Kestel
- Central Antalya — the Green Canyon boat from the city; the Suluada island day also serves Kemer and Beldibi
- Kemer and nearby resorts — the Kemer boat trip along the turquoise coast
What happens at your hotel door
An air-conditioned vehicle comes to the hotel, takes you to the boat and brings you back the same way — door to pier and back is how one of our Side departures words it. Nothing is asked of you except being ready.
One vehicle usually collects from several hotels along its route, which is why pickup times shift depending on where your hotel sits in that run, and why your collection is earlier than the moment the boat casts off. The Suluada crossing runs eleven hours and starts with an early pickup.
Good to know
- Return transfer sits in the fare on 31 of our 34 boat days
- Air-conditioned vehicles, which matters more in August than it reads
- No car, no parking, no hunting for the right harbour
- You are returned to the hotel you were collected from
Worth considering
- The vehicle serves several hotels, so you are collected before the boat leaves
- You cannot pick your slot in the run — it follows that day's hotel list
- The longest routes start early and end late
- The three private charters arrange transfer on request instead
When your hotel sits outside the belt
Some departures say plainly where they stop. The Kemer boat trip does not collect from hotels far outside the Kemer area. In Alanya, the party boat excludes distant outlying resorts and the night yacht excludes hotels outside its standard zone, while the Alanya pirate boat considers resorts beyond the centre on request.
Two Side departures — the relax trip with the waterfall view and the Starcraft day — collect from selected hotels only, and we would rather write that here than let you find out on the morning. The private VIP boat is the reverse: its transfer is optional, offered from Kumköy, Evrenseki, Kızılağaç and nearby areas.
If your resort is not named above, ask before planning a day around a boat. A straight no when we confirm costs you nothing; an assumption costs you a morning.
The one thing we will not print: a clock
You will not find an exact pickup time on any tour page here, and that is deliberate. The order of a hotel run depends on which hotels are on that day's list, so a time published in advance would be wrong for almost everyone reading it.
Instead your collection time is confirmed personally after you book, in writing, for your hotel and your date. The reasoning, and everything else between reserving and sailing, is set out in what happens after you book.
Three days that show how it works
The pirate boat day from Side is the clearest example of transfer built around a boat: the ship leaves in the morning, the hotel runs are timed to it, and the whole family is collected together from the Side belt.
From the golf resorts, the Alibaba pirate galleon from Belek includes return transfer from Belek and nearby hotels, then cruises the Belek and Antalya coastline. Further west, the Kemer boat trip collects from Kemer and its neighbouring resorts — with the caveat above about hotels well outside that area.
Whichever you pick, pack for the vehicle as well as the boat — a dry layer for the ride home is on our list of what to bring on a boat trip.
