Antalya Airport to Demre Transfer

From Antalya Airport the D400 runs west along the coast through Kemer, tracking the pine-covered slopes below the Beydağları mountains before the road opens onto the greenhouse plain around Kumluca. It's a mostly gentle, well-surfaced road, with the sea visible for long stretches and the glasshouses glinting on the inland side. Past Kumluca the road reaches Finike, the marina town wrapped in orange groves, then climbs into a stretch of tight curves cut into the cliff face, sea on one side and pine forest on the other, before dropping into the Demre valley.

Demre is built around ancient Myra, where Lycian rock tombs are cut straight into the cliff above a well-preserved Roman theatre. The Church of St Nicholas marks where the 4th-century bishop who inspired Santa Claus once served, before his relics were later taken to Bari. A few kilometres away at Çayağzı, the ruins of Andriake — Myra's Roman harbour — sit beside a quiet beach, overlooked by most day-trippers who stop only for the church and the tombs. Around it all stretches the greenhouse plain that now carries the town's economy. Visitors often combine the church and the tombs into a single half-day stop before continuing along the coast.

Your driver waits in the arrivals hall with a name board and tracks your flight number, so a delay on the Antalya side costs you nothing extra. The transfer is private throughout, with bottled water on board, and the drive continues door-to-door to your hotel or villa address — useful here, since many Demre addresses sit down a farm track between the greenhouses rather than on a named street, so sharing a map pin at booking helps the driver find you first time. Child, baby and booster seats are ready on request, and a short stop for coffee, a photo or the church itself can usually be arranged if you mention it to the driver.