Antalya, where the river drops straight into the sea.
The boat out to Suluada’s white sand, a raft down the Köprülü, the Roman harbour inside the old walls, Pamukkale before the coaches arrive. Every tour you can book from Antalya, with what it costs.
01The island boatSuluada Island Small-Group Boat Tour w/ Lunchfrom $21
02The old harbourOld City, Waterfalls, Olympos Cable Car, Boatfrom $29
03The canyon riverKöprülü Canyon Antalya: Whitewater Rafting Tripfrom $19
04The white terracesPamukkale Hierapolis and Cleopatra’s Pool Tour with lunch from Antalyafrom $84
Suluada, a pirate deck, or the sunken streets of Kekova. Choose your water.
Most Antalya days end up on a boat. The question is which coast: the white-sand island past Adrasan, the party ships out of Kemer, the Lycian ruins under the shallows at Kekova, or the jade lake behind the Oymapınar dam.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · Suluada Boat Tour From Antalya (Maldives of Turkey) with Lunch & Hotel Transfer · from $23
Suluada islandShallow turquoise, a white-sand spit, lunch on deck.
Pirate shipsFoam parties and swim stops for families out of Kemer.
Kekova sunken cityLycian walls and stairways just under the surface.
Green CanyonA quiet run up the gorge on a dammed jade lake.
Dive daysTwo boat dives with an instructor, no licence needed.
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Antalya city, Kemer, Belek or Side: each coast books a different day.
Most tours collect from the hotel, so the resort you pick sets the drive. Kemer sits under the mountains to the west, Belek is all golf and theme park, Side and Manavgat keep the ruins and the river to the east.
Best ofAntalya cityThe walled harbour, Düden and Lara beachfrom $3
Best ofKemerPine coves, pirate ships, the Tahtalı cable carfrom $13
Best ofBelekLand of Legends and the long sandy shorefrom $19
Best ofManavgat & SideA river, a waterfall and a Roman temple by the seafrom $14
Best ofDemre & KekovaMyra’s rock tombs and the sunken cityfrom $45 
Old Antalya: Hadrian’s Gate, the Roman harbour, the falls on the edge of town.
The walled quarter is small enough to walk in a morning: Ottoman houses with timber bay windows, the fluted Yivli minaret, the harbour where the boats leave for the Düden falls. The city tours below join it to the waterfalls and a cruise along the cliffs.
- 1Antalya Luxury Old Town Tour with Cable Car & Boat Tripfrom $32
- 2Guided City Tour with Top 2 Waterfalls incl. Lunchfrom $31
- 3City Tour w/Olympos Cable Car, Boat & Lunchfrom $25
Raft the Köprülü in the morning, take a quad up the dust tracks after lunch.
Behind the resort strip the mountains start fast. Combo days stack rafting, buggies, jeeps and a zipline into one pickup, and they are the cheapest adrenaline on this coast.
The Antalya days out more travellers book than any other.
The rest of the Antalya list →Island boats, the Pamukkale run and the canyon combos lead the coast, and most of them cost less than a hotel dinner.
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Ziplining, Rafting, Jeep Tour & Quad Safari w/Lunch
Spend 5 to 10 hours around Köprülü Canyon, rafting 14 km through about 10 rapid sections, swimming, ziplining and adding a Jeep, buggy or quad option. Lunch and equipment are included. Guides such as Muke, Nabi and Hajjar have been praised for bringing energy to the day. Bring old clothes and closed-toe shoes.
From · $26
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Suluada Boat Tour From Antalya (Maldives of Turkey) with Lunch & Hotel Transfer
from $23
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Antalya Luxury Old Town Tour with Cable Car & Boat Trip
from $32
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Suluada Island Boat Trip with Lunch & Hotel Pickup
from $18
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Pamukkale and Hierapolis Tour with Lunch
from $41
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Rafting & Buggy, Quad Safari & Zipline Adventure
from $14
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Pamukkale & Hierapolis Day Trip w/Meals
from $41
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Guided City Tour with Top 2 Waterfalls incl. Lunch
from $31
How far each Antalya day trip really drives.
Pickups run in order of distance. Kemer and the cable car are an easy morning; Pamukkale means a coach before sunrise and back after dark; Cappadocia only works as an overnight.
Kemer
Tahtalı cable car
Side & Manavgat
Köprülü Canyon
Alanya
Pamukkale
CappadociaThree Antalya days you will not find anywhere else on the Mediterranean.
Beaches and boat trips run the length of the Turkish coast. A Lycian town under the water, a Roman theatre still in use, and a ten-minute ride from the pines to a 2,365-metre summit are Antalya’s own.
The sunken city at Kekova
An earthquake in the second century dropped part of ancient Simena into the bay, and the foundations, stairways and doorways now sit a metre or two under clear water. Swimming over them is not allowed, so the boats glide along the line instead, then stop at Kaleköy below a castle with Lycian tombs scattered in the village gardens.
- 1Kekova Sunken City, Demre & Lycia Day Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 680 reviews
- 2Sunken City Kekova, Demre, and Myra Day Tour from Antalya★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 97 reviews
- 3Kekova Sunken City Boat Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 73 reviews
Aspendos, Perge and Side
Aspendos keeps the best preserved Roman theatre anywhere, stage wall and all, and still fills its seats for summer performances. Perge, closer to the airport, has a colonnaded street with the water channel still running down its middle. Most tours pair the two with Side and the Manavgat falls.
- 1Perge, Aspendos, City of Side, and Waterfalls Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 691 reviews
- 2Ancient Perge, Aspendos Amphitheater and City of Side Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 644 reviews
- 3Perge Aspendos Side and Manavgat Waterfall Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 470 reviews
The Tahtalı cable car
From the pines above Tekirova a cabin climbs to the top of Tahtalı at 2,365 metres, one of the longest single cable car runs in Europe. Snow can sit on the summit into May while people swim on the beaches below. On a clear morning the whole Gulf of Antalya is laid out below.
- 1Old City, Waterfalls, Olympos Cable Car, Boat★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 2,896 reviews
- 2Antalya Luxury Old Town Tour with Cable Car & Boat Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,880 reviews
- 3City Tour w/Olympos Cable Car, Boat & Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 1,116 reviews
What a day on the Antalya coast costs, from harbour walk to balloon.
This is one of the cheapest coasts in the Mediterranean to book a guided day on. A boat day with lunch often costs less than dinner at a resort restaurant.
Island boats with lunch, old-town walks, rafting runs and the hamam with a scrub.
Combo adventure days, Perge and Aspendos by coach, the cable car and the Green Canyon.
Kekova and the Lycian coast, most Pamukkale days, Cappadocia overnight, private cars.
Four Antalya bookings that run on someone else’s clock.
Most of the coast can be fixed at the hotel desk the night before. These four depend on dawn starts, wind and long transfers, so the date you pick matters more than the price.
- 012-Day Cappadocia, Cave Hotel, & Balloon TourBalloons lift at dawn and only when the wind allows. A two-day trip gives you one launch window, so a cancelled morning is gone.
- 02Pamukkale Hierapolis and Cleopatra’s Pool Tour with lunch from AntalyaThe coach leaves before sunrise and the road is about four hours each way. Choose the day with nothing else planned the morning after.
- 03Kekova Sunken City, Demre & Lycia Day TourBoats leave from Üçağız, a long drive west, and the sea crossing depends on the swell. Calm early-summer days book out first.
- 04Olympos Cable Car TicketThe cabin to Tahtalı stops in strong wind. A morning slot leaves room for the clouds that build over the summit by afternoon.
When Antalya hits forty degrees, go under the water or under a dome.
High summer on this coast is hot enough to empty the old town by noon. The answer is the river, which comes down cold out of the Taurus, the sea at ten metres, or a marble hamam where the heat is the point.
By place — from Kemer to Demre
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