مسار الريفيرا التركية 2027: 5 أو 7 أو 10 أيام، من أنطاليا إلى بودروم

Seven days is the right length for a Turkish Riviera itinerary from Antalya to Bodrum: two nights in Antalya, one in Kaş, two in Fethiye and one in Bodrum, with about 550 km of driving over three driving days. With five days, stop at Fethiye and fly home from Dalaman. With ten days or two weeks, add a boat day at Kekova, a gulet cruise or Ephesus. If you would rather not drive, our Turkey coast tour covers Bodrum, Fethiye and Antalya in six days with a guide and both domestic flights from Istanbul, from $1,935 per person.

Here the Turkish Riviera means the coast from Antalya west to Bodrum; distances and drive times are from OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM), without stops.

Turkish Riviera itinerary at a glance: 5, 7 or 10 days

All prices are per person. Our coast packages start and end in Istanbul, with the domestic flights in the itinerary, hotels with breakfast, a guide and the entrance fees in the programme included; lunches and dinners are extra, apart from the meals listed on board the gulet.

Turkish Riviera route: where to start, finish and fly

Fly into Antalya and out of Milas-Bodrum, or out of Dalaman if you stop at Fethiye, so you never drive back the way you came. Antalya Airport is about 18 km from the old town by road. Dalaman Airport is about 55 km from Fethiye, roughly an hour, and 30 km from Dalyan. Bodrum Cruise Port, in the middle of the town, puts Milas-Bodrum Airport about 36 km away, 35 to 40 minutes by taxi. Our transfer pages for Antalya, Dalaman and Bodrum airports compare shuttles and private cars.

Our 3-, 4- and 6-day coast packages run the same open-jaw route from the other end: a flight from Istanbul to Bodrum, the coast by road, and a flight back to Istanbul from Antalya. Either direction works; we start in Antalya.

If you rent a car, ask what the company charges to return it in another city; speed limits, licence rules and tolls are on our Turkey road trip page. To stay in one beach town instead, see our tour and beach holiday page.

Turkish Riviera itinerary 5 days: Antalya, Kaş and Fethiye

Five days covers the Lycian half of the coast, with the rock tombs and the sunken city.

• Day 1: Antalya. Land at Antalya and spend the afternoon in Kaleiçi, the walled old town around the old harbour, and at Hadrian's Gate, the Roman gateway into it.
• Day 2: one day trip from Antalya. From April to October, take our Kekova Sunken City, Demre and Myra day trip: a full day with a guide, lunch, a boat ride over the sunken city, a swim stop and the tickets for Myra and the Church of St Nicholas, from $120 per person. In other months (ask us to confirm your date), or if you prefer Roman ruins, take Perge, Aspendos and Side with lunch, from $90 per person; the site tickets are extra, and muze.gov.tr listed the theatre at Side as closed for restoration in November 2026.
• Day 3: Antalya to Kaş, 182 km, about 2½ hours. If you took the Perge day, stop at Demre on the way, 140 km from Antalya, for the rock-cut tombs of Myra and the Church of St Nicholas; Kaş is another 44 km. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism lists Myra among the six leading Lycian cities, famous in the Middle Ages for its bishop, St Nicholas.
• Day 4: Kaş to Fethiye. The direct road is 107 km, about 1¾ hours. Take the longer way via Kalkan, 27 km from Kaş, and Patara, 14 km beyond it. The Ministry calls Patara the capital of the Lycian League and the birthplace of St Nicholas. From Patara it is 73 km to Fethiye, and Xanthos and Letoon, which share a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List, stand near the same road.
• Day 5: Ölüdeniz and Kayaköy, then fly. Ölüdeniz, with its long beach and the Blue Lagoon, is about 15 km from Fethiye. Kayaköy, a stone village the Ministry says was emptied in the population exchange of the early Republic years, lies 8 km south of Fethiye.

As a tour package: our Mediterranean Coast Tour does Bodrum, Fethiye and Antalya in three days from Istanbul, with both flights, two hotel nights, a guide and the entrance fees, from $1,110 per person; add two nights in Antalya at the end to make it five days. The 5-day coast and ruins tour, from $1,595 per person, starts with Troy, Ephesus and Pamukkale and then follows the coast from Bodrum to Antalya.

Self-drive with our day tours: the plan above, with the Kekova or the Perge day; both collect you from hotels in selected parts of Antalya.

Turkish Riviera itinerary 7 days: Antalya to Bodrum by road

Seven days covers the whole coast with one free day in Fethiye.

• Days 1 and 2: Antalya, as in the five-day plan, with one day trip.
• Day 3: Antalya to Kaş via Demre, about 183 km with the stop at Myra.
• Day 4: Kaş to Fethiye via Kalkan and Patara, about 113 km.
• Day 5: Fethiye. Ölüdeniz and the Blue Lagoon in the morning and Kayaköy in the afternoon, or a day on the water.
• Day 6: Fethiye to Bodrum via Dalyan. Dalyan is 63 km from Fethiye, about an hour. The rock tombs of Kaunos, cut in the 4th century BC, can be seen from Dalyan, according to the Ministry. From there it is about 193 km to Bodrum, some 2¾ hours.
• Day 7: Bodrum. Bodrum Castle, home to the Museum of Underwater Archaeology, and the Mausoleum, the tomb whose name gave us the word "mausoleum". The Mausoleum is closed on Mondays. Then fly out of Milas-Bodrum.

In total that is about 550 km and some eight hours at the wheel without stops, over days 3, 4 and 6.

As a tour package: the 6-day Turkey coast tour covers the same coast from the other end. After a guided day in Istanbul, you fly to Bodrum, drive to Fethiye for Ölüdeniz and Kayaköy, then to Antalya for Kaleiçi and the Düden waterfalls, and fly back to Istanbul, from $1,935 per person as a group tour, with a private upgrade on request. It sleeps one night each in Bodrum and Fethiye and none in Antalya, so it moves faster than the self-drive plan; the Bodrum to Fethiye leg alone is about 237 km. The 4-day version, from $1,455 per person, is faster still.

Self-drive with our day tours: the Kekova or Perge day from Antalya on day 2.

Turkish Riviera itinerary 10 days or 2 weeks: a boat, a gulet or Ephesus

Use the extra days in one of three ways:

1. Slow the 7-day route down. A second night in Kaş gives you a morning at Kekova: boats leave from Üçağız, about 32 km away, and swimming over the ruins is not allowed (our Kekova boat trip guide has the rules). A third Fethiye night frees a beach day, and a second Bodrum night adds the peninsula villages.
2. Go by gulet. Our 7-day tour with a Fethiye gulet covers Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus and Pamukkale in four days, then sails a wooden gulet from Fethiye to Demre for three, past Butterfly Valley, Kaş and the sunken city of Kekova, from $2,660 per person. For the coast west of Fethiye, our 8-day gulet cruise from Fethiye to Bodrum calls at Marmaris, Datça and Knidos, with the price quoted for your dates. Our Turkey tour with a gulet cruise page compares seven packages.
3. Add Ephesus and Pamukkale. The 8-day Western Turkey tour runs from Istanbul to Troy, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Bodrum, Fethiye and Antalya, from $2,620 per person. Add two nights in Antalya at the end for a boat day.

For two weeks by car, our Turkey road trip itinerary has a 14-day route along the Lycian coast, leg by leg.

Turkish Riviera boat tours and sea temperature: which months work

Our boat days follow the warm season:

• Kekova boat and Myra from Antalya: the tour page recommends April to October, when the sea is calm and warm enough to swim.
• Suluada by boat from Adrasan: boats run from late spring until autumn, and every trip depends on the sea; the day from Antalya costs from $50 per person with lunch on board.
• Gulet cruises: cabin cruises on this coast generally run from about May to October. None of our package pages fixes the 2027 sailing dates, so we confirm that the boat sails in your week before you pay anything.

We do not sell the Kekova or Suluada boat days as winter trips.

For swimming, the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM) gives these sea-wide averages for 1970 to 2025. The Mediterranean, the sea from Fethiye to Antalya, averages 20.8°C in May, 23.9°C in June, 26.7°C in July, 28.1°C in August, 27.0°C in September and 24.6°C in October. The Aegean, the sea at the Bodrum end, is about 2 to 4 degrees cooler on MGM's average for the whole Aegean, with 18.8°C in May, 22.1°C in June, 24.6°C in August and 20.8°C in October. June and September give you water above 22°C at both ends of the route. From November to March the coast is for sightseeing rather than swimming, with the Mediterranean averaging 21.4°C in November and 16.0°C in February; see our winter holidays in Turkey page for that season.

One 2027 date to plan around: Kurban Bayramı (Eid al-Adha) falls on 16 to 19 May 2027, according to the Presidency of Religious Affairs, as listed on our Turkey public holidays 2027 page. It is a four-day public holiday, so book flights and coastal hotels for that week early.

Entrance fees on the Turkish Riviera, now and from April 2027

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism prices its sites in euros for foreign visitors. Current prices are as listed on muze.gov.tr on 13 November 2026; the 2027 prices are from the Ministry's tariff valid from 1 April 2027 (see our Turkey museum prices 2027 update for other regions).

Three things follow from the table:

• Single tickets beat the passes on this route. From April 2027, the MuseumPass Mediterranean (Akdeniz) costs €100 and covers Antalya, Mersin, Adana and Denizli provinces for 7 days, and the MuseumPass Aegean (Ege) costs €105 and covers İzmir, Aydın, Muğla and Denizli for 7 days. The Antalya-province sites in the table add up to €83 at 2027 prices and the Muğla sites to €37, so neither pass pays off unless you add more sites.
• Some tours include the tickets. The Kekova day trip includes Myra and the Church of St Nicholas, and our packages include entrance fees except optional sights; on the Perge day you pay at each site.
• Check the closures. The Mausoleum is closed on Mondays, and muze.gov.tr listed the Fethiye Museum, a stop on our coast packages, as closed when we checked, so we confirm that stop for your date.

Tours that cover this

• Turkey Coast Tour 6 Days: Istanbul, Bodrum, Fethiye & Antalya: from $1,935 per person; group tour with both domestic flights, hotels with breakfast, a guide and entrance fees except optional sights.
• Mediterranean Coast Tour: Bodrum, Fethiye & Antalya in 3 Days: from $1,110 per person; the flights from and back to Istanbul are included.
• 7-Day Turkey Highlights Tour with Fethiye Gulet Cruise & Flights: from $2,660 per person; three days on a gulet from Fethiye to Demre in the gulet season.
• Kekova Sunken City, Demre & Myra Day Trip from Antalya with Lunch: from $120 per person, April to October, with the Myra and St Nicholas tickets.

No prepayment needed: pay on the tour day.

Send us your dates on WhatsApp, tell us how many days you have and whether you want to drive or be driven, and we will send you a written plan for the 6-day coast tour or for the day tours that fit your route.

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