Antalya Airport to Titreyengöl taxi transfer

The name translates roughly as “the trembling lake”, after the small lake that gives the place its character. It sits a short distance back from the shore, held apart from the Mediterranean by a band of dunes, and the hotels are arranged along the strip between the two. From some rooms you look out over still fresh water at breakfast and over the open sea from the sunbed an hour later.

Titreyengöl has no old town and very little nightlife of its own. That is precisely why people book it: big hotels with space around them, a long beach, and evenings that end in quiet rather than with music from a bar. When you want more, Side and Manavgat are both close by car.

• Setting — Sorgun’s hotels stand among pine trees; Titreyengöl’s are more open, between the lake and the dunes.
• Distance to Side — Sorgun is next to the old town’s east beach; Titreyengöl is a few kilometres further east, too far for most people to walk comfortably.
• From the airport — about one kilometre further for Titreyengöl, which makes no real difference to the drive time and none at all to the €50 fare.
• The road in — the same: off the D400 at the Side turn, east through the edge of the Sorgun forest, and on to the lake.

Hotel websites and tour operators sometimes file Titreyengöl hotels under “Side” or under “Manavgat”. Either way, the driver goes to the same gate, as long as you give us the hotel’s name.

The first hour is the D400 coast road from the airport, with Aksu, Serik and the Aspendos junction on the way. After the Side turn, the car swings east before the old town and follows the road out past the Sorgun hotels until the forest ends and the lake comes into view. Every hotel has its own entrance with a barrier; the driver announces you and pulls up at reception.

Compared with a hotel in Side, the extra minutes are all at the very end. The D400 part is identical; it is the slower, smaller road from the Side turn out past the forest that adds a little time. In practice that means about 65 minutes from the terminal on a normal day, and the driver will usually tell you when you are ten minutes away, which is roughly when you leave the main road.

The drive back is about 65 minutes. Add the time airlines expect you to be inside the terminal before an international flight, plus Antalya’s security scan at the entrance, and the rule of thumb is to leave Titreyengöl around three and a half hours before departure. Some typical examples:

• Flight at 06:00 — pickup around 02:30
• Flight at 10:00 — pickup around 06:30
• Flight at 14:00 — pickup around 10:30, or 10:10 on a summer Saturday
• Flight at 19:00 — pickup around 15:30
• Flight at 23:00 — pickup around 19:30

Tell us your flight number and we confirm the time with you; if you prefer more slack, we simply come earlier. For pre-dawn pickups, ask reception the night before whether they can prepare a breakfast box to take with you.

The lake itself is the first thing to explore, especially in the cool of early morning when the water is flat and the light is low. For anything more, you will want wheels. Side old town is a short ride west — the car leaves you at the car park by the ancient walls, a few minutes on foot from the harbour and the Temple of Apollo. Manavgat is a similar distance inland, with its riverside, the boat trips down the river to the sea and the Monday market.

“Titreyengöl is for people who want quiet nights and easy days — and a phone number for the evenings when they don’t.

We also drive guests from here to the Manavgat waterfall, to Aspendos, to Antalya’s Kaleiçi quarter and east to Alanya. Every trip is priced before you set off, and the driver waits or returns at the time you choose.