Where the €20 sits among the five belt fares
Five resort belts, five separately priced departures. Side asks €20 per adult, Alanya €25, Kemer €30, and the Belek and Antalya city days €35 apiece. That makes the Side belt the lowest of the five, and at approximately 8 hours it is also the one that keeps you out longest, against approximately 7 hours on three of the other four. Whatever the fare is measuring, it is clearly not the clock.
The reason is neither generosity nor a shortened programme. Each departure is priced as its own product, by the belt of hotels it collects from, and that belt is settled by where you are sleeping rather than by which day you would rather buy. A guest already booked into Side therefore has one fare to weigh up and not five — although if the resort itself is still undecided, we keep all five belt fares gathered on one page.
- Side belt: €20 per adult, approximately 8 hours
- Alanya belt: €25 per adult, approximately 8 hours
- Kemer belt: €30 per adult, approximately 7 hours
- Belek belt: €35 per adult, approximately 7 hours
- Antalya city belt: €35 per adult, approximately 7 hours
What the €20 covers on this belt
You are buying a head, not a vehicle: the departure is shared. Inside the amount sit the run out from your hotel's main entrance gate and the run back to it, the entire climb inland behind Manavgat under a professional driver, someone guiding you through the hours in between, and the meal at the lake where the convoy pulls in. Dirt track, dry beds, crossings and the water flying between vehicles are not options to be bought up there — they are the day.
One consequence of a low figure is worth spelling out: it does not buy a smaller day. Approximately 8 hours pass between your hotel gate and your hotel gate, the same open-top 4x4 convoy runs it, and the halts — a swim, a viewpoint, a village, lunch — belong to every seat on board. In winter the fleet changes to covered jeeps and the water games are left out; the fare does not move for that either.
What you still pay for on the day
Drinks sit outside the fare on every belt, and on this one you meet them twice: at the village halt where Turkish pancakes are served, and at the lakeside restaurant at midday. Both are ordered and settled where you order them. Photographs and video taken by the tour team are a separate service, bought only if you want the pictures, and personal spending stays your own.
Two of this belt's halts can also cost something. An hour on the Green Lake by boat is offered to whoever wants it, is never part of the fare and is settled on the day; and where the programme reaches the Manavgat Waterfall, the entrance is handed over at the gate. Neither is promised in advance — the boat hour because it is optional, the waterfall because whether the convoy gets there depends on how the day is running.
- Not included: drinks at the village halt and at lunch
- Not included: photographs and video taken by the tour team
- Not included: personal expenses
- Not included: the optional boat hour on the lake, and any entrance handed over at a gate
The child rate, the infant band and who counts as an adult
€20 is the full rate and it applies from the thirteenth birthday to the ninety-ninth. Between four and twelve the figure is €10, always with an adult alongside. Under four, nothing. The form knows no fourth category, which is why the total it shows once a child is added is the total settled on the day — no bundle waits behind it and no second tariff surfaces at the gate.
Two adults with two children in the 4-12 band therefore settle two full fares and two half ones. Age is read on the day of the departure and not the day of the booking, so a child who turns 13 in between is entered as an adult. Whether a day of this length is the right one for them is a different question from what it costs, and it has a page of its own on whether this long day suits your children.
The only belt where the same day is also sold with white water
Side is the one belt of the five where the operator also sells a combined day: jeep hours plus a run on the mountain river. From hotels in Side itself that day is €28 per adult; from Evrenseki, Kumköy and Manavgat it is €40 per adult, because those are built as the longer version, approximately 9 hours against approximately 7. Nothing equivalent leaves from Belek, from the Antalya city belt, from Kemer or from Alanya.
Check the age bands before assuming they match. On the jeep day a child is 4 to 12 and an adult starts at 13; on the combined days a child is 4 to 11 and an adult starts at 12, which shifts one birthday's worth of guests across the line. What each version of the day contains is set out on the rafting and jeep day sold on this belt.
Every pickup area on this belt pays the same
Side, Manavgat, Evrenseki and Kumköy are the four areas the departure is scheduled for, and none of them carries a surcharge for sitting further along the collection run. Çolaklı, Gündoğdu, Sorgun, Titreyengöl and Kızılağaç are handled on request rather than as fixed stops — being on that second list decides whether we can come, never what you pay if we do.
Hotel names appear in our reservation directory as examples of what lies inside those areas, never as a promise attached to a name and never with a time beside it. Morning collection is from your hotel's main entrance gate and the precise time is confirmed once the booking is in, because it depends where the hotel falls along the run. Area by area, that is set out on the page about how the Side departure and its pickup belt work.
How the payment works, and when the figure was last checked
A date can be held for nothing. The Side jeep safari reservation form wants three things — when, how many adults and children, and which hotel — and there is nowhere in it to type a card number. Instead you pay in euros on the day of the tour, in cash, which is exactly why a sealed pouch heads the packing list for this belt: anything loose in a pocket meets the crossings.
Calling it off is free as long as we hear a full day ahead — 24 hours before the departure is the line — and there is no refund to arrange, because nothing was ever taken. The figures here were checked against the panel on 2 September 2026 and the reservation form reads that same panel live: if a fare moves, the form moves first and this page is corrected behind it. Where the two disagree, believe the form, or ask us on WhatsApp at +90 536 603 75 84.
What the fare buys, and where the route is written in full
A figure means more once the day behind it is visible. An old Roman bridge marks the end of the surfaced road; past it the convoy works dirt, dry beds and shallow crossings between fruit trees and planted fields, and Yörük families are met by luck rather than by arrangement. The upper half brings aqueducts left by the same Romans, the Green Lake seen from above, a swim and Turkish pancakes in the village of Oymapınar, the dam, the canyon rim, a village mosque, and a table beside the water at midday.
That sketch is deliberately short. Atalay Tour runs a second website devoted to Side alone, and the route is described there in the depth only a single-resort site can afford; our Side-only site prices the same departure, so a reader who wants fare and itinerary in one place has somewhere to go. This page exists for the question that site cannot answer: how the Side figure sits against the other four belts of the same operator.
And if money is not really the question — if what you want settled first is what the tracks under the wheels are actually like, and how much of approximately 8 hours is spent on them — that has a page of its own as well.