Who actually needs the number
Most people book without checking the clock at all, and it works out, because the tour is built as a half day and a half day is what you get. The number starts to matter the moment something else in your day is already fixed — a table booked, a rep's excursion the day after, a partner staying behind with a small child.
These are the guests who ask us before they book, and every one of them is asking a fair question:
- You have dinner at a set sitting and want to know whether the afternoon session clears it.
- You are splitting the family: passengers ride from 8 years old, so anyone younger stays at the hotel with someone, and that someone wants a realistic number.
- You have exactly one free day and are trying to fit two things into it.
- You want the pool in the morning and the safari after lunch, or the other way round.
- You are reading listings that variously say two, three, three and a half and four hours, and you want to know which of those numbers is the ride and which is the day.
- You fly home soon and are wondering how close to the flight you can push it.
What the price buys you in hours
The difference between the two tours is a difference in riding time and nothing else. The transfer, the paperwork, the briefing, the compulsory test ride, the stop on the route and the drive home are identical whichever you choose, so the extra €8 does not buy a longer outing. It buys roughly another hour on the trail.
Per driver, with whoever rides along paying exactly half:
- Quad Short Tour — €30 per driver, 1.5 to 2 hours of riding.
- Quad Long Tour — €38 per driver, 2.5 to 3 hours of riding.
- Buggy Short Tour — €35 per driver, 1.5 to 2 hours of riding.
- Buggy Long Tour — €43 per driver, 2.5 to 3 hours of riding.
- Passenger fares are half the driver's: €15, €19, €17.50 or €21.50. Every person who comes along has a paid seat.
- One passenger per driver — both machines seat a driver and one other person.
The four hours, broken down honestly
Here is where the time actually goes, in the order it happens:
- Hotel pickup at your own entrance, included in the price with no transfer surcharge.
- The drive out to the riding area — the only leg with a published figure, and only from the Belek area.
- Registration and kit at the base, where the group sorts out who drives and who rides along.
- The safety briefing and the compulsory test ride, which is what decides who takes the wheel.
- The ride: 1.5 to 2 hours on the Short Tour, 2.5 to 3 hours on the Long Tour, over forest tracks, open terrain and, when conditions allow, sections along the river.
- A stop out on the route — long enough for photographs and for a drink you buy yourself.
- The drive back and the drop-off at your hotel.
Why we publish one figure and not seven
Add all of that up and you land at roughly four to four and a half hours, which is the number we stand behind. What we will not do is invent a breakdown for it. The only part of the day sold by length is the ride, because that is the part you are choosing between when you pick the Short Tour or the Long Tour. Nobody has ever timed the briefing, the test ride or the stop, so no figure for them appears here — a plausible-looking number is still a made-up number, and you would plan your evening around it.
From a Belek hotel the drive out to the riding area is around 35–40 minutes, and even that is approximate: your own pickup point moves it. For Lara, Kundu, Antalya, Konyaaltı, Boğazkent or the Side belt no drive time has ever been measured, so you will not find one on this page or anywhere else on this site. What you can rely on instead is the total, and the fact that the transfer is included from every region we serve, so no part of those hours arrives as a surcharge.
The other honest caveat is that this is a guided group activity, not a private hire. Your exact total depends on the group you are out with and on how the day's transfer runs, which is why the tour is published as a band rather than a timetable, and why the timing shifts with where your hotel sits.
Short Tour or Long Tour: what the extra hour changes
The Short Tour gives you 1.5 to 2 hours of riding and suits anyone finding out whether off-road riding is for them, anyone travelling with a passenger who may have had enough by the end, and anyone whose day has something else in it. The Long Tour gives you 2.5 to 3 hours, and that is the version people who already ride, or who came for this specifically, tend to want.
On the clock, the Long Tour sits at the top of the four-to-four-and-a-half-hour band rather than pushing past it, because the extra time is trail time while everything else stays the same length. Choosing a buggy instead of a quad changes nothing about the day either: same two ride lengths, same programme, same total. What it changes is the machine and the price, which is what the quad-versus-buggy page is for.
Morning or afternoon, and what each session does to your day
There are two departures a day. The pickup run works its way west to east along the coast, which is why the times differ by resort area — these are averages, not per-hotel promises:
- Konyaaltı — around 08:00 or 13:00.
- Lara — around 08:30 or 13:30.
- Kundu — around 08:45 or 13:45.
- Kadriye — around 09:00 or 14:00.
- Belek — around 09:20 or 14:20.
- Boğazkent — around 09:35 or 14:35.
Working out your own return time
Take your area's average, add about four to four and a half hours, and that is roughly when you are back. Beyond these area averages we do not publish a time for an individual hotel, because the average belongs to the area and your own time is confirmed by a person after you book. The nine remaining regions on our pickup list have no recorded average at all, so nothing is quoted for them here.
In practice, the morning session puts you back at the hotel somewhere around the middle of the day and the afternoon session gives you a slow morning first. Neither leaves you with a wasted day — that is the entire point of a half-day tour, and it is worth planning around rather than against.
The parts of the clock we will not shorten
No driving licence is required, because this is a private off-road course rather than a public road. Drivers are 16 or over and carry ID; passengers ride from 8. Before anyone sets off there is a safety briefing and a compulsory test ride, and passing that test ride is what allows you to drive. Anyone who does not pass it, or would simply rather not drive, rides along as a half-price passenger.
That part of the day is not padding and it is not shortened to save time, whichever tour you booked. The same goes for the kit stop at the base. The helmet comes with the ride. The dust mask, the goggles and the bandana do not — the goggles are on sale at the base itself, and if you want something over your face, bring your own. Give yourself a moment for that rather than assuming it happens on the move.
Booking around the clock, without risk
Reserving costs nothing and takes no card: booking creates a real reservation and you pay in euros on the tour day. It is not instant confirmation, though — a person confirms your pickup time with you afterwards, which is also when a vague area average becomes your actual time. Free cancellation stands up to 24 hours before departure, so if the timing turns out wrong for your day you are not stuck with it.
The earliest date you can take online is tomorrow. For a same-day place, write to us on WhatsApp instead and we will tell you straight away whether a session still has room. And if you are weighing the tour against a flight home, treat the departure day as a no: we publish no drive time to the airport and will not guess one, which makes it the wrong day to gamble on.