Antalya Attraction Tours: Routes and Costs
Tours or your own wheels
The headline attractions around Antalya are state-run archaeological sites, and they sit in three directions from the city. You can join a coach tour, hire a driver for the day or drive yourself. Coach tours handle the roads but leave less time at each stop, while a car lets you be at the gate when it opens, which matters in summer. Tour prices usually leave out the entrance fees, so ask what is covered before you compare two offers.
Route one: east along the plain
Perge, Aspendos and Side all lie east of the city, so they group naturally.
- Perge, about 18 km away in Aksu, was a Pamphylian capital. The stadium, the two round Hellenistic gate towers and the colonnaded street with a water channel are the sights. The theatre is closed for restoration. Foreign adults pay €11.
- Aspendos, about 47 km away near Serik, has a Roman theatre with its stage wall still standing. Foreign adults pay €15, and the site is listed open daily 08:00 to 19:00, with winter hours unconfirmed. An opera and ballet festival uses the theatre each September.
- Side, about 76 km away, is a resort town built around ruins. The museum is €5, the archaeological site €7 and both together €10. Sources disagree on whether the Roman theatre is open, so check on arrival. The temple area on the headland is visible from the free zone.
Perge plus Aspendos costs €26 in tickets and fills a morning. Adding Side makes a full day and €36.
Route two: the mountain city
Termessos is about 38 km north-west, on a mountain saddle at roughly 1,000 m. Foreign adults pay €3. In summer the site opens 08:00 to 19:00 but the ticket office stops selling at 17:00, and in winter it closes at 17:00 with the office shutting at 15:30. Carry water, wear boots and allow time for a rocky climb. The turkishmuseums.com Termessos page lists hours and the fee.
Route three: the south-west coast
Phaselis (about 55 km, €10) and Olympos (about 80 km, €10) are coastal ruins, both listed 08:00 to 19:00 in summer and 08:00 to 17:00 from 1 November to 30 April, with the ticket desk closing 30 minutes earlier. Phaselis has three small harbours where people swim beside the ruins, and Olympos reaches a pebble beach. Yanartaş, the gas flames on a hillside near Çıralı, is a 30 to 45 minute climb that is best after dark with a torch; check the fee at the gate.
Beyond the plain
Karain Cave, a Paleolithic site, is €5. Myra costs €13 and Simena at Kekova €4. Pamukkale and Hierapolis are €30, but the distance (3 to 4 hours each way) turns that into a long tour day or, better, an overnight. A new tariff starts in April 2027 and raises several of these prices.
The old town indoors
The Mevlevihane Museum in the Yivli Minare complex and the Atatürk House on Işıklar Caddesi are both free. The Suna and İnan Kıraç Kaleiçi Museum, at Kocatepe Sokak 25, is the paid indoor stop in a restored house and former church, closed on Mondays according to listing sites. The Antalya Museum is closed to visitors, with no reopening date.
Does the pass pay?
MuseumPass The Mediterranean costs €90 for 7 days from first use, with one entry per site across more than 40 sites in Antalya, Mersin, Adana and Denizli. Aspendos, Perge, Side, Phaselis, Olympos and Termessos together come to €49 at the gate, which is well below €90. The pass makes sense only for a week of heavy sightseeing that adds Myra, Patara and Hierapolis. It does not cover the Hierapolis ancient pool. See the official pass page .
Read more: Day trips from Antalya and the 2-day Antalya itinerary .
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