Popular Airport | Thessaloniki - Makedonia Airport |
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Approximate Flight Duration | 1 hour 50 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 593 Miles |
There are many alternatives you can prefer such as HAVAŞ shuttle buses, airport or city taxis and car rental services, which will take a maximum of 1 hour to reach Gazipaşa Airport from Alanya center.
HAVAŞ Shuttle Buses
HAVAŞ shuttle buses are the easiest way to go directly to Gazipaşa Airport that is located in Alanya center. HAVAŞ shuttle services are arranged at certain hours of the day from Alanya Bus Terminal. The shuttle service departing from Alanya Bus Terminal passes through Tosmur Municipality and picks the airport passengers up at the stops on a route consisting of Kargıcak Dinler Otel, Tosmur Kavşağı, Metro Kavşağı, Tespo Önü, Ticaret Odası Önü and Mahmutlar Belediye Kavşağı and arrives at Gazipaşa Airport.
HAVAŞ shuttle buses, which serve 7 day a week, reach the airport in 60 minutes and the fare you need to pay for shuttle service is 17TL according to 2016 tariff. You can pay the fare to the HAVAŞ bus assistant when you board the bus.
Taxi
If you prefer to take a taxi to get to Gazipaşa Airport quickly from Alanya city center, you will probably get a city taxi. The city taxi drivers may sometimes claim high amounts of money from the tourists. For this reason, you can prefer the airport taxi services provided by the Gazipaşa Airport Taxi Drivers' Cooperative in order to avoid this confusion.
The taxi fare to reach Gazipaşa Airport by an airport taxi is 120TL based on the fixed price tariff. However, you can hardly get an airport taxi in the city. For this reason, it is a good idea to get detailed information from the cooperative's website (www.gazipasahavalimanitaxi.com). In addition, the airport taxi service is offered at the same fare 24 hours a day.
Rent a car
Compared to Gazipaşa Airport, there are many car rental companies in Alanya city center and in Antalya. When you are in Alanya city center, it would be quite convenient to get information about the car rental services provided by Rent Go (+902425827399), Garenta Rent a Car (4445478) and Aytucar (+902422470377) companies both at the airport and in the city center and to choose from these companies. It takes about 1 hour from Alanya city center to Gazipaşa Airport by car.
Airport Information
Gazipaşa Airport, also known as Alanya Gazipaşa, is 40 kilometers away from Alanya. Gazipaşa Airport, which is an international airport, also hosts the famous ATU duty free store. In addition, there are the places where you can eat snacks at the airport and they are the Canteen Cafe Bar and the Canteen Buffet run by the BTA Company. The facilities such as currency exchange, ATM machines, health center and free internet access are also available in Domestic and International terminals at Gazipaşa Airport.
Thessaloniki, which has the most crowded population after the capital Athens in Greece, bears the traces of hosting three great civilizations throughout the history. It is possible to come across the traces the Roman Era on a street and see the magnificent Byzantine churches on another street as well as you can come across the historical artifacts of the Ottoman period in the city.
The city, which has become one of the most important attraction centers of the world today with the historical heritage, attracts people with its nightlife as well. The airport of the city was named as Macedonia Airport since the city is known as "Macedonia of Greece". Located in the southern part of the city, this international airport is only 14 kilometers away from the city center. In addition, compared to other airports, Thessaloniki Airport is preferred by many passengers since affordable flight tickets are available for transportation to Europe from the airport. Thessaloniki offers very limited alternatives in terms of public transportation options. You can reach nearly 80 points in the city only by bus.
In addition to the regular bus services, a bus allocated to tourists offers one-hour free sightseeing. Apart from the bus option, another transportation option in the city is to take a taxi. Other than the buses that depart in front of the terminal buildings of the airport, you can go on your journey by taking a taxi or renting a car from the offices in the terminal building.
You can prefer to take a taxi if you don’t want to lose time and enjoy a comfortable journey in Thessaloniki that has limited transportation options. You can reach the city center after a taxi journey that takes about half an hour. It is also possible to book a taxi in advance through the website of Yattaxi, which is the contracted taxi company that provides taxi services at the airport.
Macedonia (Thessaloniki) Airport provides 24-hour uninterrupted bus services every day for the passengers it hosts at the airport. The buses 78, 78A and 78N, which you can take to reach the city center, run at different departure times. The bus number 78A departs once a day at 5 a.m.
The bus number 78 departs every 45 minutes between 5 am and 10 pm. The bus number 78N provides transportation to the city center between 22:30 and 04:30 from the night until the morning. Your journey by these bus lines that allow you to get to the city center and the railway station directly takes about 45 minutes.
The car rental option, which is not preferred so frequently compared to other options for transportation from Macedonia (Thessaloniki) Airport to the city center, is provided inside the terminal buildings. The car rental companies providing this service are Sixt, Europcar, Hertz, Cardelmar and Figame.