Antalya Airport to Olympos Transfer

The drive leaves the terminal on the D400, the coast road that also carries traffic to Kemer, Kumluca, Finike and beyond. Past Kemer, the road runs through Ulupınar, a shaded roadside village known for its trout-farm restaurants, before a signed turning drops off the D400 and winds down through pine forest into the Olympos valley — a separate turn-off from the one used for neighbouring Çıralı, even though the two sit on the same stretch of coast. The last stretch runs alongside a riverbed, past the treehouse pensions that line the single road down to the ruins and the beach.

Olympos has been a fixture on the backpacker trail for decades, and it still feels that way: rustic treehouse cabins on stilts, communal dinners, and a scattered ancient Lycian-Roman city half-swallowed by fig trees and laurel along the valley floor — a theatre, old baths, a necropolis, sarcophagi worn soft by two thousand years of weather. Past the ruins, the valley opens onto a quiet pebble beach on the Lycian Way. It's a slower, greener stay than a resort, and many guests stay a few nights rather than passing straight through.

Your driver meets you in arrivals with a name board, helps with the luggage, and tracks your flight number from booking — a late landing costs nothing extra. Pensions in the Olympos valley sit along one narrow access road without conventional street numbers, so it helps to have the pension's name ready, or a map pin if you have one, so the driver can drop you as close as possible to the door. Baby, child and booster seats are fitted free on request, and if you'd like a short stop for coffee or a photo on the way down, just ask the driver.