Airport Transfers in Turkey

You've checked Opodo and Kayak and the other sites listed on TTP's Cheap Airfares page, you've found a wonderfully cheap flight to Turkey, and you're ready to go.

...but where? And what's the full cost of getting to your final destination?

Consider this: if you fly into Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport, Turkey's busiest, you can get into the city center by Metro and tram for less than TL3.

But if you fly to Dalaman on your way to Bodrum, getting from the airport to your hotel may cost you more than you just paid for your cheap flight from Europe! Not only that, it may cost you more than flying to Bodrum-Mugla Airport directly.

And if you fly to Dalaman to get to Istanbul, it may take you a day to get to Istanbul by bus, and then a day back to Dalaman to catch your return flight and, again, it may end up costing more than you spent for your "cheap" flight in the first place.

If you're unlucky, you may end up spending more on this roundabout route than you would have spent to fly directly to Istanbul.

Why? In a country such as Turkey with good, comfortable, frequent, ubiquitous bus service, why don't convenient buses serve all airports?

There are some airport bus services by an airport-services company named Havas Ground Handling, but they do not always go where or when foreign visitors want them to go.

Even Antalya Airport, one of Turkey's busiest, has few buses, and you end up taking a taxi from the airport to your hotel. On one recent trip, the taxi fare for me was TL45 one-way—not much less than the same as a cheap flight by Onur Air or AtlasJet from Istanbul to Antalya!

What to do? Look carefully at the transfer situation and calculate all trip costs—transfers as well as airfares—before making your reservations so that you don't suffer a rude surprise.

If you'd like to reserve a taxi for your airport transfer, contact Taxi Reservations.

Source : http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/trans/Air/transfers.html