Car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town)

Our fleet for car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town), Antalya holds 135 cars, from ₺1,456 a day for a Citroën C-Elysée up to ₺18,153 for a Volvo XC90. We deliver the car to any address in Antalya and to Antalya Airport (AYT) and Gazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP), with the address, date and time agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

What car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town) includes

Car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town), Antalya with Rent-Trip works without a rental counter: we bring the car to your address in the Old Town and collect it from the same point when you leave. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

How delivery to an Old Town address works

Rent-Trip brings the car to any address in Antalya, including the lanes of the Old Town, and hands it over where you are staying. Kaleiçi is a tight grid of stone lanes, and some stretches are pedestrian-only or closed to traffic at certain hours, so the exact hand-over point is agreed in advance rather than picked on the spot: a wider street at the edge of the quarter often works better than the door of a boutique hotel inside it. Our fleet on this page runs to 135 cars, from an Economy sedan at ₺1,456 a day to a Volvo XC90 at ₺18,153, so the size of the vehicle you choose affects where it can comfortably wait. Return goes to the same delivery point at the date and time set out in the rental agreement. If you are staying deep inside the Old Town, tell the manager which gate or square you can reach on foot — in our practice that single detail saves more time at hand-over than anything else.

Full-to-full fuel and a clean car

• Full tank on delivery: the car comes clean and with a full tank, and you return it full — the full-to-full rule on every booking.
• Refuelling if you return it short: the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement, never as a flat sum on this page.
• Fuel prices to budget for: petrol and diesel at Petrol Ofisi stations in the province move in jumps, so check the pump price on the day.
• Diesel costs more: 99.3 TL a litre against 78.6 TL for petrol at the end of October 2026, which matters on a week of day trips.
• No pre-paid tank option: a pre-paid tank or full-to-empty arrangement is not offered — the full-to-full rule is the only fuel option on the site.

Fuel in Turkey moves in jumps rather than smoothly, so the figure you see at the pump on the day may differ from the one above; fill up before a long run out of the city rather than hunting for a station on the way back.

Choosing a class for car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town)

Nine classes and 135 cars sit behind this page, from an Economy sedan at ₺1,456 a day to a Luxury SUV at ₺18,153. The right pick depends on two things only: how many people travel with you and where you plan to drive.

Classes side by side

Seats, fuel and gearbox across the fleet

• Five seats: 112 of the 135 cars carry five people, so Economy or Comfort covers most couples and families without paying for space nobody uses.
• Automatic: 119 cars have an automatic gearbox against 16 manual, which matters in the stop-start traffic of the Old Town lanes.
• Fuel: 80 cars run on petrol, 42 on diesel, 10 are hybrid and 3 electric — a diesel sedan suits long coastal runs, a hybrid suits city hopping.
• Groups: 13 cars have nine seats and one has fifteen, so a group of eight or more does not need two vehicles.
• Small bodies: 26 hatchbacks and 21 sedans are the easiest shapes to park inside the old walls, where a wide SUV turns into a liability.

A word from our side: in our practice, travellers who book a large SUV for the Old Town often find the narrow lanes hard going. The lanes are tight, and a Kia Picanto at ₺1,546 or a Hyundai i10 at ₺1,535 slips through gaps a seven-seater cannot. If you are staying outside the walls and driving to the coast each day, the picture flips — an SUV or Crossover earns its price on the road to Kemer and Side. Tell the manager where you will park overnight and the class choice becomes obvious.

Car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town) for short trips and long stays

Car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town), Antalya is priced straight from the daily rate: weekly from ₺8,736 and monthly from ₺30,576, which is the daily figure multiplied by six and by twenty-one respectively. That structure makes the longer booking the cheaper one per day, and it is the same for a Citroën C-Elysée as for a Volvo XC90.

Weekly and monthly rates explained

Our weekly rate is daily × 6 and our monthly rate is daily × 21 — those are the only multipliers we apply, and both are lower per day than the daily rate itself. A week in an Economy hatchback such as the Hyundai i10 at ₺1,535 a day works out at ₺9,210 for the seven days, while the cheapest car on the page, the Citroën C-Elysée at ₺1,456, comes to ₺8,736 weekly and ₺30,576 monthly. The same arithmetic holds at the top of the range: the Volvo XC90 at ₺18,153 a day is ₺108,918 weekly and ₺381,213 monthly. In our experience, travellers who plan a fortnight along the coast do better fixing two weekly rates from the start than extending a daily booking. Prices include VAT, so the figure you agree with the manager is the figure on the contract.

Day trips a car opens up

• Aspendos: the Roman theatre and aqueduct sit east of the city and are an easy morning out on the D400, back before the afternoon heat.
• Termessos: the mountain city above the pine forest rewards an early start, and the drive out is about 33.6 km and 42 minutes, and a Hyundai i10 at ₺1,535 a day is the entry option.
• Köprülü Canyon: rafting country inland from Side, about 117 km and 2 hours 40 minutes each way from the city by road.
• Olympos: the Lycian ruins and the beach at the end of a long, winding descent — a 1.5 L diesel estate like the Renault Clio Sport Tourer at ₺2,526 a day covers the distance comfortably.
• Pamukkale: the travertines are a full day out, so leave before dawn and take the inland route rather than the coast road.

Toll motorways are not a factor around here: the province has no otoyol in the KGM inventory, so there are no HGS gates to budget for on these routes, though HGS is still needed on bridges and motorway gates elsewhere. The Antalya–Alanya Otoyolu is under construction at around 30 % completion and has not been announced as tolled. On a longer stay, plan the far trips for the shoulder months — the canyon and Olympos roads are far more pleasant in spring than in August, and the car's air conditioning earns its keep either way.

Documents for car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town)

Every driver picking up a car in the Old Town needs the same short set: passport, entry stamp, home driving licence, and an International Driving Permit if that licence is not in Latin script. The six-month rule catches people out more often than any other part of the paperwork. Foreign licences are valid in Turkey for no more than six months from the date you entered the country; after that the licence must be exchanged for a Turkish one at any nüfus müdürlüğü. Rent-Trip asks for the entry stamp precisely because the clock starts there, not on the day you collect the car. If you arrived in spring and are still here in autumn, the rental agreement is the document that decides what we can hand you.

Passport, licence and the six-month rule

• Passport: the document the booking is made in, with the name that goes into the rental agreement.
• Entry stamp: the six-month window runs from the date of entry, so the stamp is what dates it.
• Home driving licence: the licence you normally drive on, valid and not expired, held by the main driver named in the booking.
• International Driving Permit: required when your licence is not in Latin script; some rental companies ask for one more broadly, so check the offer's terms before you travel.
• Age and experience: the requirements rise with the class of car, and the exact thresholds are set out in the rental agreement.

The six-month rule comes from Turkish driving regulations and applies to private cars as well as rentals, so it is worth counting the months before you choose a long stay over a short one.

Credit card and insurance cover

A credit card in the main driver's name is required for the security hold. That is the one payment detail we can state plainly: the card must belong to the person named as main driver, and the hold itself is set out in the rental agreement rather than quoted here. Beyond that, every registered vehicle in Turkey carries compulsory third-party insurance by law, so the car you collect in the Old Town is covered for damage caused to other people and their property from the moment it is on the road. What sits on top of that compulsory layer, and what excess applies if the car comes back damaged, belongs in the agreement you sign, not in a website paragraph. In our practice, the drivers who end up happiest are the ones who read that section before the trip rather than at the hand-over.

What we agree before the car arrives

The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — and the documents are part of that same conversation. If your licence is not in Latin script, say so early: an IDP takes time to arrange at home and cannot be produced on the spot. If you entered Turkey close to six months ago, tell us the date, because that single number decides whether we can put you in a car at all. We would rather sort that out over the phone than send a vehicle to a lane in Kaleiçi that has to turn around.

Driving rules that matter for car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town)

Traffic in Turkey keeps to the right and every car in our fleet is left-hand drive, so a driver coming from a left-hand-traffic country needs a few hours of adjustment rather than a new licence. The rules below are the ones that catch visitors out on the coast road and inside the old town lanes.

Speed limits and the alcohol threshold

• In town: 50 km/h applies to a passenger car (M1) inside built-up areas, and Kaleiçi lanes are walking pace in practice.
• Between towns: 90 km/h on two-way intercity roads, 110 km/h on divided roads (bölünmüş yol).
• Motorways: 130 km/h on KGM motorways and 140 km/h on YİD-built motorways, raised for cars by a Ministry of the Interior letter of 02.06.2022.
• Signs win: local signs override the table, and the limits are enforced on the coast road.
• Alcohol: above 0.50 promille in a hususi otomobil means a six-month licence withdrawal under Article 48 of law 2918, as amended by law 7574 of 12.02.2026.

The same article sets 0.21 promille for vehicles other than a private car, and refusing a breath test carries 150 000 TL and five years without a licence. Speeding penalties follow a scale set by Article 51 of law 2918, as amended by law 7574 of 12.02.2026, with a 30, 60 or 90-day withdrawal on the top three steps; how any penalty on a hired car is settled is agreed when booking.

Winter tyres, HGS and the paperwork you carry

Winter tyres are compulsory from 15 November to 15 April for vehicles used in intercity passenger and goods transport, including foreign-registered ones, under the Ministry of Transport tebliğ as amended on 04.10.2025. A private car is not named in that list, and whether the rule applies inside a province is decided by the valilik on average local temperatures, with the dates movable by a month either way. There are no toll motorways in Antalya province — the KGM inventory of completed otoyollar has no Antalya row in any year — so HGS matters mainly on bridges and on gates elsewhere in the country. HGS is the electronic tag for motorway and bridge payment; a crossing made without enough balance is not fined if the account is topped up or an HGS subscription is opened for the plate within 15 days, otherwise four times the section fee is added, and paying between day 15 and day 45 reduces that to one extra fee. Who settles road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a hired car is agreed when booking, not assumed. On the road, a phone in the hand is 5 000 TL under Article 73, a seat belt offence 2 500 TL, and a child under 15 without the proper restraint 5 000 TL to the driver.

Models you can book for car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town)

Citroën C-Elysée at ₺1,456 a day is the cheapest car on the page and Volvo XC90 at ₺18,153 the most expensive — a spread wide enough to cover a solo week in the Old Town and a family month on the coast road. Between those two ends sit 133 more vehicles across 28 brands, and every one of them is delivered to the address you give us rather than collected from a counter.

From Citroën C-Elysée to Volvo XC90

• Citroën C-Elysée: Economy sedan, 5 seats, 1.5 L diesel, manual, 100 hp — ₺1,456 a day, the cheapest way into the Old Town on four wheels.
• Hyundai i10 and Kia Picanto: automatic 1.0 L petrol hatchbacks at ₺1,535 and ₺1,546, 67 hp each, the pair we suggest for the lanes around the old harbour.
• Volkswagen Caddy: Commercial compact MPV, 2.0 L diesel automatic, 122 hp, ₺1,880 — the cheapest Commercial car.
• Toyota Proace Verso: 9-seat diesel minibus at ₺2,240, 2.0 L and 150 hp, for a group arriving together at Antalya Airport.
• MG HS: SUV at ₺2,523 with a 1.5 L 170 hp petrol engine, the entry point of the SUV class.
• Volvo XC90: Luxury 7-seat hybrid at ₺18,153 a day, 2.0 L and all-wheel drive, the top of this page's range.

Why the small automatics suit the Old Town best

In our practice the Hyundai i10 and Kia Picanto are the two models Rent-Trip suggests most often for Kaleiçi: 67 hp and 1.0 L are plenty for streets where the next junction is 40 metres away, and the automatic gearbox removes a hill start on the cobbles. Both are 5-seaters, petrol, front-wheel drive, and they sit within ₺11 a day of each other — so the choice usually comes down to whichever is free on your dates. The Citroën C3 at ₺1,886 and the Renault Clio at ₺1,841 give you the same footprint with a little more power, 83 hp and 90 hp respectively. If you want a manual for the mountain roads towards Termessos, the Renault Symbol at ₺1,974 or the Peugeot 301 at ₺2,116 both pair a 1.5 L diesel with a stick shift, at 90 hp and 100 hp.

Matching the model to the trip

The page carries 112 five-seat cars, so most bookings never leave that group. Thirteen 9-seat minibuses and a single 15-seat Ford Transit at ₺6,165 cover larger parties, while the 7-seat options — Dacia Jogger at ₺4,081, Peugeot 5008 at ₺4,690, Volvo XC90 at ₺18,153 — split the difference for two families travelling together. Electric is thin on the ground here: three cars only, the Mercedes-Benz EQA at ₺2,641 among them, so charge planning matters more than range on paper. For the coast road east towards Side, the 31 SUVs and 18 crossovers are the larger option next to a 1.0 L hatchback. Tell the manager which model you have in mind when you book — the class is confirmed then, and the exact car is matched to your delivery address and date.

Booking car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town) step by step

Car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town), Antalya is a two-step arrangement: you choose the car and the dates, then a manager confirms the delivery address and time with you before the booking is fixed. Nothing is charged against a car until that conversation happens, and the car you see on the page is the class you get.

What the manager agrees with you

The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. We bring the car to any address in Antalya, including the lanes of Kaleiçi, and return happens at the same delivery point at the date and time written into the contract; a different return point may carry a fee set out in the rental agreement. Because the Old Town has pedestrian stretches and streets a car cannot enter, the exact hand-over spot is settled in that same conversation rather than guessed from a map pin. Tell the manager the house number, the nearest gate or the hotel name you are staying at, and confirm whether you land at Antalya Airport (AYT) or Gazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP) first — both sit inside our delivery area, and the airport run is arranged the same way as a hotel drop.

What to have ready before the confirmation

• Passport and entry stamp: the six-month clock for a foreign licence runs from the day you entered Turkey, so the stamp is the document that dates it.
• Home driving licence: valid on its own for up to six months from entry; an International Driving Permit is needed if your licence is not in Latin script.
• Credit card in the main driver's name: required for the security hold; the amount is set out in the rental agreement.
• Return plan: the same delivery point and the contract's date and time, or a different point at a fee stated in the agreement.

Age and driving-experience requirements rise with the class of car, so a Luxury or Premium booking may need a longer record behind the wheel than an Economy hatchback — worth asking about when you name the model.

After the confirmation

The car arrives clean with a full tank and goes back full: anything missing at return is charged together with a refuelling service fee, as the rental agreement sets out. Fines and tolls are not something we quote in advance — who covers them is agreed when booking. It is worth settling the hand-over point precisely with the manager when the booking is fixed, because a wrong gate in the Old Town costs more time than a wrong terminal.

Practical tips for car rental in Kaleiçi (Old Town)

• Measure the lanes before you book: the Old Town's streets were laid out for carts, so check the turning circle of anything larger than a hatchback against your guesthouse address.
• Park outside the walls: Kaleiçi's lanes are narrow, so agree with the manager where the car can wait and walk the last few hundred metres.
• Keep the fuel receipt: the car goes out full and comes back full, and a receipt settles any question about what was in the tank at the start.
• Check the car's condition at hand-over: hand-over follows the rental agreement, so confirm what is checked and where before the car arrives.
• Plan the coast road for daylight: the run east towards Side and west towards Kemer is straightforward by day and slow after dark on unlit bends.

Fuel is the budget line travellers underestimate. Petrol and diesel prices at the pump move in jumps rather than drifts, so the figure you see on the day may differ from what you budgeted. A 1.0-litre hatchback such as the Hyundai i10 or Kia Picanto is the cheaper car to rent than a 2.0-litre minivan, which matters if your trip is a fortnight of short hops rather than one long loop. Fill up at a Petrol Ofisi station on the ring road before returning rather than hunting for a pump inside the old quarter, where access is limited.

Tolls barely apply here, but the HGS rule still does. There are no toll motorways in the province, so a card is not needed for local driving; the Antalya–Alanya Otoyolu between Serik and Konaklı is under construction at roughly 30% completion and no toll status has been announced. If a route does cross a gated section or a bridge, HGS is the payment system, and an unpaid crossing is settled without penalty if the balance is topped up or a subscription opened within 15 days — after that a penalty of four times the toll is added. Who covers road charges and any penalty notice is agreed when booking, so raise it with the manager rather than assuming.

Winter changes the car, not just the weather. From 15 November to 15 April winter tyres are compulsory for vehicles used in intercity passenger and freight transport, including foreign-registered ones; private cars are not named in that list, and the provincial governor decides whether to extend the rule locally. Ask what the car is fitted with if you plan mountain routes towards Termessos or the Köprülü Canyon in the colder months. Speed limits are enforced strictly — 50 km/h in town, 90 on two-way roads, 110 on divided roads — and a phone in the hand at the wheel costs ₺5,000 on a first offence.