Seven areas with the transfer in the fare
All seven of these areas are on the list of 15 from which the buggy safari collects you at your hotel and takes you back afterwards. Nothing extra is charged for that leg of the day:
Which of the seven areas you stay in makes no difference to the price. At the wheel of a buggy you pay €35 for the 18 km short route or €43 for the 28 km long route, and the person in the seat beside you pays half of that, €17.50 or €21.50. Apart from this halving, prices are not reduced, and children have no separate rate.
- Side and Manavgat
- Evrenseki and Kumköy
- Çolaklı, Gündoğdu and Kızılot
No average pickup time on this stretch
The owner has given average pickup times for six areas, and none of the six is here. For Side, Manavgat, Evrenseki, Kumköy, Çolaklı, Gündoğdu and Kızılot there is no recorded average, and we would rather leave the gap open than fill it with an estimate.
So the time works differently for you. Once your booking is in, the exact pickup time for your hotel is confirmed the day before the safari, for whichever session you picked, morning or afternoon.
Keep your phone or WhatsApp within reach on the day before, and when the time comes, wait at your hotel's main entrance rather than at a side gate or out on the road.
Where the buggies run
The safari does not happen in Side or Manavgat, nor in any of the other resorts on this page. The course lies in the Aspendos countryside on the land along the Köprüçay river: forest tracks, dusty open ground and shallow river sections, with mud when conditions allow but never promised.
No drive time has been measured from this stretch to the course, so we do not quote one. What is on record is the shape of the whole programme: about 4–4.5 hours from hotel to hotel, with the transfer, the safety briefing and the test ride inside it. Exact timings vary with where your hotel is.
Hotel not in one of the seven areas?
Some hotels lie outside the seven areas named here and outside the rest of the list of 15 as well. If yours is one of them, or you are unsure which area it belongs to, send the hotel's name to our WhatsApp before booking, and you will get a straight answer on whether a pickup is possible. A transfer nobody has checked is never promised.
The chat is handled in English, German, Russian or Polish, whichever suits you best.
Booking from the Side coast
Online reservations run from tomorrow onwards; a same-day ride can only be requested over WhatsApp. You reserve without paying anything and without giving a card, the fare is paid in euros when you ride, and cancelling is free of charge until 48 hours before the safari.
Drivers must be at least 16, carry ID that shows their age, and take a compulsory test ride before the start. If the test does not go well, or you would simply rather not take the wheel, you join at half price in the passenger seat.