Car rental for foreigners

135 cars for rent in Antalya for foreigners, from ₺1,456 a day, delivered to any address in the city and to Antalya Airport (AYT) or Gazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP). We bring the car with a full tank, and the delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Documents a foreign driver needs for car rental in Antalya

For car rental for foreigners in Antalya, the core document list is agreed when booking: your passport, the entry stamp in it, and your home driving licence. Add an IDP if the licence is not in Latin script and a credit card in the main driver's name; this applies to every one of the 135 cars on this page, from an Economy hatchback to a Luxury SUV.

Passport, entry stamp and home licence

We ask for a passport, an entry stamp and a home driving licence — nothing more exotic. The six-month clock runs from the day you entered the country, not from the day you booked the vehicle: Turkish rules let a foreigner drive on a licence issued abroad for at most six months from the entry date, after which it has to be exchanged for a Turkish one at any nüfus müdürlüğü. The stamp in your passport is what proves that date, so keep the stamp legible and check the date before you book. In our practice, a fresh entry stamp shows the date clearly; if yours is older or unclear, raise it with the manager when booking. Count your window from the stamp, then book the class you actually want while the licence is still valid here.

When an International Driving Permit is required

An International Driving Permit is required when your licence is not in Latin script — a Cyrillic, Arabic or CJK licence needs the IDP alongside it. Turkish companies read that rule in different ways, and some ask for an IDP more broadly than the law does, so check the terms of the specific offer rather than assuming. The permit is a translation booklet, not a licence: it never replaces the plastic card, and the two travel together. If your home licence is already printed in Latin characters, the permit is usually optional here, but carrying one costs little and removes a conversation at the roadside. Order it at home before departure — issuing authorities abroad take days, and the timing of your arrival is agreed when booking.

Age, experience and the credit card hold

• Age minimum: the required age rises with the class of car, so a Luxury or Premium model carries a higher threshold than an Economy hatchback.
• Driving experience: a minimum period since the licence was first issued applies, and it too grows with the class you book.
• Credit card: a card in the main driver's name is required for the security hold, and the name on it must match the licence.
• Debit cards: the accepted payment methods are set out in the rental agreement, so confirm when booking.
• The hold itself: the amount and the insurance excess are set out in the rental agreement, never quoted in advance on this page.

Rent-Trip confirms the exact age and experience thresholds for your chosen model with a manager before the booking is fixed — that is also the moment to ask what the hold will be, because it is agreed then and not at the kerb.

How car rental for foreigners in Antalya works from booking to hand-over

Car rental for foreigners in Antalya starts with a conversation, not a form. You tell us where you will be staying, on what date and at what time you want the car, and a manager confirms the address and the schedule with you before the booking is fixed. Only after that confirmation does the car go on the delivery list.

Delivery to any address, with no counter

We have no office, no desk and no rental counter — the car comes to you. Rent-Trip delivers to any address in Antalya and to Antalya Airport (AYT) and Gazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP), and the hand-over happens where you are: at your hotel, at an apartment, at the terminal exit. There is no queue to stand in and no shuttle to a depot, because there is no depot to reach. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so the car arrives at the hour you named rather than a window you have to wait out.

Airports, districts and the edge of the delivery zone

Our pages cover Kaleiçi, Lara, Konyaaltı, the bus station, Belek, Kemer and Side, and all of them sit inside the delivery area. A request from further out is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site — ask the manager before you count on it.

Full-to-full fuel and returning to a different point

The car comes clean with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank — full-to-full, with no pre-paid tank and no full-to-empty option on the site. If the tank comes back short, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. Return is made to the same delivery point at the date and time in the contract; a different drop-off point may carry an additional fee, also set out in the rental agreement. In our practice the fuel rule is where most disagreements would start, so plan the last refuel before the agreed return time.

Choosing a class for car rental for foreigners in Antalya

Nine classes of car sit on this page, and the right one depends less on budget than on how many people travel with you and how much luggage comes along. We keep 135 cars here, from an Economy hatchback to a seven-seat hybrid SUV, and every one of them is delivered to your address rather than collected from a counter.

Classes and what each one suits

The cheapest car on the page is the Citroën C-Elysée; the most expensive is the Volvo XC90. In our experience the Economy class covers most foreign visitors, because a five-seat hatchback with a 1.0-litre engine handles the old-town lanes and the coastal road equally well.

Automatic or manual, petrol or diesel

• Automatic gearbox: 119 of the 135 cars here are automatic, so most of the page suits drivers who need one.
• Manual gearbox: 16 cars come with a manual, mostly the cheapest Economy sedans and the smaller Commercial vans.
• Petrol: 80 cars run on petrol, including nearly every Economy hatchback and the Hyundai i10, Kia Picanto and Renault Clio.
• Diesel: 42 cars are diesel, among them the Citroën C-Elysée, Renault Symbol and Peugeot 301 sedans plus most Minivans.
• Hybrid and electric: the 3 electric cars, among them the Mercedes-Benz EQA and Volvo EX40, sit in Premium; the 10 hybrids span several classes.

Diesel costs more per litre than petrol at the pump, so on a short city booking a petrol Economy car usually works out cheaper to run, while on a long loop towards Alanya or Pamukkale the fuel bill depends on the model. If you plan to drive mostly in town and return the car with a full tank, ask the manager for a petrol model when you book.

Whatever class you pick, the delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. Tell us the number of passengers and suitcases at that point — a nine-seat Toyota Proace Verso and a five-seat Kia XCeed both look reasonable on a screen, and the difference only shows up when the bags are on the pavement.

Driving rules that matter on car rental in Antalya

Three rules shape most days behind the wheel here: insurance is already on the car, tolls barely apply, and the traffic code is enforced with real fines. Local drivers keep to the right, and every car in our fleet is left-hand drive.

Compulsory insurance and what it covers

Every car we hand over carries compulsory third-party insurance because Turkish law requires it on any registered vehicle. Under article 91 of law 2918, the operator must hold zorunlu mali sorumluluk sigortası, and a car without a valid policy is banned from traffic. Our Turkey line states it plainly: compulsory insurance included. Anything beyond that statutory cover — the excess, the damage terms, the extras — sits in the rental agreement agreed when booking, so read that page before you drive off. The compulsory policy is the legal minimum, and the rest of the cover is set out in the rental agreement.

Tolls, HGS and the 15-day window

There are no paid motorways (otoyol) in the province at present — KGM's inventory of completed otoyollar has no local row in any year, with the nearest in Denizli and Aydın. The Antalya–Alanya Otoyolu, 122 km from Serik to Konaklı, is under construction at roughly 30 % completion at present, and whether it will be tolled has not been announced. HGS remains the electronic payment tag for bridges and motorway gates elsewhere in Turkey. If a crossing is made without enough HGS balance, topping up the account or registering the plate within 15 days removes the penalty; after that, four times the section fee is added, and paying between day 15 and day 45 cuts the penalty to one times the fee. Who covers tolls and penalty notices on a hired car is agreed when booking.

Alcohol, speed and seat belts

• Alcohol: above 0.50 promille in a private car (hususi otomobil) means a heavy fine and a six-month licence withdrawal; the threshold for other vehicles is 0.21 promille.
• Speed: a passenger car (M1) is limited to 50 km/h in built-up areas, 90 on two-way intercity roads, 110 on divided roads, 130 on KGM motorways and 140 on YİD-built ones; signs on the spot always win.
• Phones: using a mobile phone while moving costs a fine, rising to a higher fine for a second offence within a year and a higher fine plus a 30-day withdrawal from the third.
• Seat belts: the driver and all passengers must wear one — a fine each; a child under 15 without the proper restraint system adds a higher fine to the driver's bill.

The fines above come from law 2918 as amended by law 7574 of 12.02.2026, and they are collected, not negotiated.

Longer bookings and what the rate includes in car rental for foreigners in Antalya

With car rental for foreigners in Antalya, a week or a month changes the arithmetic more than any single choice of model. The daily figure on the page is a starting point; the longer you keep the car, the lower the per-day cost becomes, and the conditions around that rate are fixed before the booking is confirmed.

VAT included and how weekly and monthly rates work

Every price on this page already includes VAT at 20%, which is what VAT included means on a Turkish invoice — the figure you see is the figure you pay in tax terms, with no separate VAT line added afterwards. Weekly and monthly rates are lower per day than the daily rate, and the multipliers we use are fixed: a week is the daily rate times six, a month is the daily rate times twenty-one. So a car at the bottom of our range, the Citroën C-Elysée, scales by the same multipliers for a week and for a month. The same rule applies at the top: the Volvo XC90 at ₺18,153 a day scales by the same multipliers. The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fee are not quoted here — they are set out in the rental agreement, and the manager confirms them before the booking is fixed.

One-way return and the additional driver

Returning the vehicle to a different point from the one where it was handed over, and adding a second driver to the agreement, are both arranged at booking rather than assumed. An additional fee may apply for a one-way return, and that fee is set out in the rental agreement. Our delivery area covers the city and both airports, so one possible pattern is collection at Antalya Airport and return to an address in Kaleiçi or Lara at the end of a longer stay — the manager confirms whether that routing carries a charge before anything is fixed. Documents for an additional driver are not listed on this page; ask when you book and the manager will tell you what the agreement requires. In our practice, the drivers who run into trouble are the ones who add a second name after the car has already been delivered — settle it at booking and the hand-over stays simple.

Day trips that make car rental for foreigners in Antalya worth it

A car turns the coast into a base rather than a destination — the ruins at Aspendos, the canyon at Köprülü and the travertines at Pamukkale all sit outside the city, and buses run to them on their own schedule. With 135 cars on this page and a delivery address agreed when you book, the vehicle is waiting where you sleep, not where a depot happens to be.

Routes from the coast inland and along it

• Alanya: about two hours east along the D400, with the castle and the harbour below it; a comfortable day out in a Comfort or SUV class.
• Aspendos: the Roman theatre, about 48 km east of the city by road on the road toward Serik — an easy half-day.
• Termessos: a Pisidian city high in the Güllük mountains, reached by a winding approach road; plan the climb and the return before dark.
• Köprülü Canyon: rafting and pine forest about 117 km by road, so the drive alone takes over two and a half hours each way.
• Pamukkale: the white travertine terraces and Hierapolis, a long full-day run inland — leave early and plan the fuel stops for about 235 km each way.

Winter tyres are compulsory between 15 November and 15 April for vehicles used in intercity passenger and goods transport, including foreign-registered ones; a private car is not named in that list, and the provincial governor decides whether the rule applies inside the province. Ask us before a winter mountain route and we will tell you what the agreement says.

Fuel budget on the road

Petrol sat around 79 TL a litre and diesel at 99.3 TL a litre in Antalya at the end of October 2026, with LPG at 41.4 TL — so a 400 km loop on a 5-seat Economy hatchback is a modest line in the holiday budget, while a larger minivan on the same route is worth budgeting separately. Prices in Turkey move in jumps rather than smoothly: one supplier's own figures shifted by several lira within a single week that month. Fill up before leaving the city rather than on a mountain road, and plan the next fuel stop before a long rural stretch. Our cars go out full and come back full, and anything else is settled as the rental agreement sets out.

Why foreigners choose our car rental in Antalya

Rent-Trip keeps 135 cars on this page across nine classes, from Economy at the bottom of the range to Luxury at the top, and delivers every one of them to the address you give us. That single arrangement — no counter, no queue, no shuttle to a depot — is what sets our service apart from picking a car up at a desk.

135 cars, 28 brands, one delivery promise

Our fleet here runs to 135 vehicles from 28 brands, so the choice is not a token three or four models. Economy alone accounts for 23 cars, Premium another 23, Minivans and SUV 17 each, Comfort 16, Crossover 15, Commercial 13, Luxury 6 and Sedan 5. Body styles stretch from 26 hatchbacks and 31 SUVs down to a single 15-seat van, and the engine bay is just as varied: 80 petrol cars, 42 diesel, 10 hybrid and 3 electric. Seat counts run 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 15, which means a couple on a week's break and a family of nine arriving together are both served from the same page. We quote these numbers as the fleet on this page, not as a company-wide total — the count changes as cars move in and out.

What is agreed when booking

• Delivery address: the exact street, hotel or terminal is fixed with a manager before the booking is confirmed, and the same point is where the car comes back.
• Date and time: both are set in the same conversation, so the hand-over happens when your flight actually lands rather than on a fixed depot schedule.
• Deposit and excess: the security hold and the insurance excess sit in the rental agreement, and a credit card in the main driver's name is what the hold is taken against.
• Fees and fuel: delivery charges, a return to a different point and the full-to-full fuel rule are all written into the same agreement, so nothing arrives as a surprise at the end.

Why the paperwork matters more than the price tag

Every car we hand over carries the compulsory third-party cover that Turkish law requires on any registered vehicle — a car without a valid policy is taken off the road, so this is not an optional extra you can decline. Prices on the site are VAT included, with the 20% VAT already inside the figure, and weekly and monthly rates come out lower per day than the daily rate. In our experience the questions that decide a booking are rarely about the headline number: they are about whether the car turns up at the right door at the right hour, and whether the driver's licence is accepted without argument. Ask both before you pay, and the rest of the booking tends to run quietly.