Where the day starts: pickup across the Belek belt
The Belek departure covers the verified pickup belt of Belek, Kadriye, Boğazkent, İskele, Taşlıburun, Üçkumtepesi, Acısu, Denizyaka and İleribaşı. Whether your hotel sits on the golf coast between Kadriye and Boğazkent or in one of the quieter inland pockets such as Acısu and İleribaşı, the jeep convoy comes to you; you do not travel to a meeting point in town. The hotels at the Boğazkent end of the belt are listed area by area on their own page.
The meeting point is the main entrance gate of your hotel. Pickup is in the morning; the exact time is confirmed after booking and varies by hotel, because the convoy collects several hotels in sequence before it turns inland. Guests staying just outside the belt can use the full pickup list by region to check whether their resort belongs to the Belek run or to a neighbouring departure.
The shape of the day
The Belek jeep safari is a shared full-day departure of approximately 7 hours from pickup to drop-off. Once the convoy has collected its hotels, it leaves the golf-resort coast behind and climbs into the Taurus foothills past citrus groves, greenhouses and small streams. The asphalt gives way to red-dirt mountain tracks, and the open-top 4x4s roll through shallow river crossings.
The route is not a race from viewpoint to viewpoint. The drivers stop where the track meets water, at a mountain village and at the riverside restaurant, and there is time to get out, take photographs and dry off. At the end of the day the convoy descends out of the foothills and drops each group back at its own hotel gate.
Water, the village stop and lunch
Two things define a summer departure from Belek: water and dust. At the riverbank stop the photo pause turns into a water-pistol fight between the jeeps within minutes, so count on getting wet from head to toe. Bring a change of clothes, a towel and shoes you do not mind soaking.
The village stop is a pause in a mountain village with gözleme, the thin filled flatbread cooked on a hot plate, and village tea. Lunch follows at a riverside restaurant and is included in the fare; drinks are ordered and paid for separately. There is time after eating to paddle in the stream before the descent begins.
What is included and what you pay on site
The adult fare covers everything that happens on the day apart from drinks, personal spending and the photo service. Nothing extra is charged for the pickup, the driver or the guiding; you pay in euros on the day of the tour. For how the Belek fare sits next to the other four departures, see the price comparison across all five regions.
- Included: hotel pickup and drop-off across the Belek belt
- Included: a full day in the mountains with a professional driver
- Included: lunch at a riverside restaurant
- Included: guiding during the day
- Not included: drinks at the village stop and at lunch
- Not included: photos and videos taken by the tour team
- Not included: personal expenses
- Not included: optional stops that charge an entrance fee, paid on site
Who the Belek departure suits
The Belek jeep safari is a family departure. In the booking form adults are 13 and over, children aged 4-12 pay the child rate, and infants aged 0-3 travel free. Each open-top jeep carries 8-10 guests plus a professional driver; guests are passengers throughout and never take the wheel.
The tracks are rough and the jeeps bounce. The tour is not recommended for pregnant guests or for anyone with back or neck problems; if that applies to you, tell us before boarding rather than on the first stretch of dirt road. Guests who would rather stay dry can keep back from the riverbank during the water fight.
Season and vehicles
The Belek departure runs daily in season. Summer runs use open-top 4x4 jeeps, which is what makes the dust, the sun and the water fights part of the day; on winter runs the convoy uses covered jeeps. We cannot promise the weather on a given date; the mountains decide that.
Packing, clothing, cameras and what to bring for children are covered in the complete Antalya jeep safari guide, which applies to the Belek run as much as to any other departure.
Booking and cancellation
A booking is a reservation, not a payment. No prepayment is taken and no card is entered online: you reserve your places, we confirm the pickup time for your hotel, and you pay in euros on the day of the tour. Should plans change, calling it off costs nothing as long as we hear from you at least 24 hours before departure, so a rescheduled tee time or a late flight costs you nothing.
To reserve seats on the Belek jeep safari, choose your date and the number of adults and children in the booking form; the child rate for children aged 4-12 appears there. Questions about a hotel outside the belt or about a group that needs more than one jeep are quickest by WhatsApp on +90 536 603 75 84, and the tour is guided in English, German, Russian and Turkish.
Neighbouring departures on the Antalya coast
Belek sits between two other pickup belts. Guests staying in Lara or Kundu, a little way towards the city, are collected by the departure from Lara and Kundu, which runs to the same approximate day length and the same style of foothill route.
If you are still deciding which stretch of coast to base yourself on, or you are splitting a holiday between two resorts, it helps to compare the five departures side by side before you book: Side, Alanya, Belek, Antalya and Kemer each have their own belt, their own fare and their own route shape.
This page covers the Belek run only. The overview of the jeep safari across the Antalya coast explains how the five departures relate to each other and which one leaves from which resort belt.