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Suluada is why half of Antalya books a boat.
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Three different days on the same turquoise water: the long run down the coast to Suluada, the loud and cheap pirate ship out of Kemer harbour, and the flat cold water of the dam lake behind Green Canyon.
Suluada, the coast’s own Maldives
Two hours down the coast to Adrasan, then a slow anchor-hop round an uninhabited island with sand the colour of bone and water clear enough to count your toes in.
Pirate ship out of Kemer harbour
Music on the top deck, a foam party after lunch and three stops along the Kemer shore. Nobody is pretending it is refined; families and stag groups both come back happy.
Green Canyon, up behind the dam
Oymapınar’s reservoir sits between pine walls with no wind and no waves. The water stays cold right through August, which is the entire point of going.
Antalya stays cheap until you leave the coast.
Every tour on the site sorted by what it actually costs. On this coast a full day on a boat can come in under the airport taxi.
Hamam sessions, waterfall stops, cable-car tickets and the short boat runs out of Kemer harbour.
The standard Antalya day: Suluada, the rafting combos, the old-town circuit, Pamukkale with lunch thrown in.
Private cars, Cappadocia overnights, chartered boats and the small-group days that actually stay small.
The Antalya tours that never stop selling.
Every review →Ranked by how many travellers have been and left a review afterwards. The order shifts; the top of it rarely does.
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Ziplining, Rafting, Jeep Tour & Quad Safari w/Lunch
Antalya adventure with 14 km whitewater rafting, zipline, and optional Jeep, buggy, or quad safari plus picnic lunch by the river.
From · $26
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Suluada Island Boat Trip with Lunch & Hotel Pickup
from $20
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Old City, Waterfalls, Olympos Cable Car, Boat
from $29
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Suluada Boat Tour From Antalya (Maldives of Turkey) with Lunch & Hotel Transfer
from $23.34
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Pamukkale & Hierapolis Day Trip w/Meals
from $35
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Pamukkale Hierapolis and Cleopatra’s Pool Tour with lunch from Antalya
from $84.64
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Antalya Luxury Old Town Tour with Cable Car & Boat Trip
from $32.36
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Pamukkale and Hierapolis Tour with Lunch
from $41
Kaleiçi is small. The circuit around it is not.
Hadrian’s Gate, the fluted minaret and about four streets of Ottoman houses — Kaleiçi takes a morning. The tours worth paying for pin it to the rest of the city: Düden’s water going over the cliff, the car up Tünektepe ridge, and a boat that noses in under the falls.
The Taurus starts twenty minutes inland, and that is where Antalya gets loud.
Köprülü Canyon’s rafting run, jeep tracks up through the pines, buggies and quads on the same dust, zip lines strung over the gorge. Most of it sells as a combo day with lunch by the river.
The days most Antalya trips get built around.
Six choices cover most of a week on this coast. Each one opens onto the full ranked list underneath it.
Aspendos, Düden and Kekova: Antalya’s three unrepeatables.
Beaches and boat days run the whole length of the Turkish coast. A Roman theatre that still stages opera, a waterfall that drops straight into the sea and a city lying under clear water belong to this stretch alone.
The Aspendos Theatre
Built around AD 155 and the best-preserved Roman theatre anywhere, Aspendos still seats about twelve thousand and still stages opera and ballet through the summer. The acoustics are why guides make everyone stop talking halfway through: a coin dropped on the stage carries to the back row. Most tours pair it with Perge and the Kurşunlu falls.
- 1Ancient Perge, Aspendos Theater & City of Side Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,237 reviews
- 2Ancient Perge, Aspendos Amphitheater and City of Side Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 644 reviews
- 3Perge Aspendos Side and Manavgat Waterfall Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 470 reviews
Lower Düden Falls
The Düden river crosses the north of the city, vanishes underground, then reappears over a forty-metre cliff directly into the Mediterranean. There is a clifftop park to look down from, but the boats that pull up underneath get the version worth paying for, and a soaking with it.
- 1Kaleici, Duden Waterfalls And Boat Tour With Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 55 reviews
- 2Antalya City Tour With Duden Waterfalls & Old Town Small Group★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 44 reviews
- 3Antalya Waterfall Boat Trip (Lower Duden Falls)★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 31 reviews
The Sunken City
A second-century earthquake dropped half of ancient Simena into the sea off Kekova island. Staircases and doorways still run down under clear water; swimming over the ruins is banned, so the boats glide across the glass-bottom sections instead. The same day usually takes in Demre, where St Nicholas was bishop.
- 1Kekova Sunken City, Demre & Lycia Day Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 680 reviews
- 2Sunken City Kekova, Demre, and Myra Day Tour from Antalya★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 97 reviews
- 3Kekova Sunken City, Glass-Bottom Boat, Demre & Lycian Ruins★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 59 reviews
Antalya’s biggest day trips start before sunrise.
Several of the best-known tours on this site are not in Antalya at all. They are three, four and nine hours away, and the road is most of what you are buying. Worth doing — as long as you book them knowing.
- 01Pamukkale & Hierapolis Day Trip w/MealsRoughly four hours each way through the mountains. Leave around five, back near midnight, and you get about three hours on the terraces.
- 022-Day Cappadocia, Cave Hotel, & Balloon TourAn overnight rather than a day trip: nine hours of road each way, or a domestic flight. The balloons launch at dawn, which is the only reason to go.
- 03Kekova Sunken City, Demre & Lycia Day TourThree hours west along the Lycian coast. The boat section is short, the drive is long, and the drive is the beautiful part.
- 04Old City, Waterfalls, Olympos Cable Car, BoatThis one runs backwards. The flames on the hillside only read as flames after dark, so it leaves late afternoon and walks up in the dusk.
In an Antalya August the plan is water or shade.
July and August sit in the high thirties with a sea breeze and effectively no rain. Anything outdoors moves to the early morning or on to a boat, and the rest of the day belongs to the aquarium tunnel, a marble hamam, or the cable car up Tahtalı, where two thousand metres buys you fifteen degrees.
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On the water202 tours
Rafting & the canyon104 tours
Waterfalls86 tours
The old quarter52 tours
Pamukkale66 tours
The hamam38 tours
Roman ruins31 tours- Every tour on the coast →
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