HOW DO I GET TO TURKEY AND Pinara BOWER? Dalaman airport in Southwest Turkey is the closest to Pinara Bower. It is 1 hour and l5 mins by car from the airport to the apartment. Other airports are Antalya to the east over 3 hours by car on mountain roads or Bodrum to the west again some 5 hours by car. New Easyjet summer service from Gatwick,5 days per week.
Package holiday flight only deals to Dalaman are available from May to end of October, but some companies start flying late March, and some package flights run in winter to Antalya. Brochures available from your travel agent for Turkey usually show the flights in the back pages.
Package flights leave a number of UK airports: Birmingham, Belfast, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Durham Tees Valley, Doncaster, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gatwick, Glasgow, Humberside, Leeds - Bradford.
The alternative to package flights is daily scheduled flights.
lf you ring Hussein at Cyprus Gold 020 8291 0089 he will try to get you on a flight with a little known airline Cyprus Turkish Airlines is KTHY who have flights to Cyprus which have to land in Turkey briefly and sometimes its Dalaman before continuing to/from Northern Cyprus. These KTHY flights operate from Stansted and Manchester and occasionally Gatwick, there is a summer and winter timetable.
Turkish Airlines THY www.turkishairlines.co. You may like to take a stopover in Istanbul, but check both airlines prices. THY flys direct to Antalya from Stansted.
To rent a car it is cheaper if this is arranged in Ovacik village near the apartment or in Fethiye such as info@fethiyerentacar.com or pinara-rentacar@ttnet.com or aftercareturkey@yahoo.com. These companies can usually arrange transfers to and from the airport.
Also the international rent a car companies have bases at the airport eg. Europcar, Hertz, Avis.
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