Booked from Evrenseki: who it suits, and who should skip it
It suits anyone who would rather choose the tour than be handed one. There are two machines and two ride lengths here, which makes four prices, and all of it is settled before you book: a quad (ATV) or a two-seater buggy, a short tour with 1.5-2 hours of riding or a long one with 2.5-3. Nothing about that choice waits until you are standing at the base with a group forming around you.
It suits two people travelling together, because only the person at the wheel pays the full fare and whoever rides along pays exactly half of it. It suits a sixteen-year-old, who drives their own machine rather than sitting behind a parent. And it suits somebody who has never touched a quad, because the machines are not handed over on trust: every driver rides a compulsory test lap at the base first, and anyone who does not pass it, or who decides they would rather not steer, rides as a half-price passenger and keeps their place in the group.
It does not suit you if the shortest possible transfer is the thing that matters most. Evrenseki sits at the Side end of the coast we cover, west of Side centre and Kumköy along the same hotel strip, and the safari runs inland in the Aspendos area, so the van points west and away from the resorts. Nobody has measured that run, which is why you will not find a figure for it anywhere on this page. We would rather say that here than have you work it out on the morning of the tour.
- Quad safari: €30 per driver for the short tour, €38 for the long one
- Buggy safari: €35 short and €43 long, per driver, and every buggy seats two
- Whoever rides along instead of driving pays half: €15, €19, €17.50 or €21.50
- Round-trip hotel transfer from Evrenseki is already inside those prices
- Two departures a day, morning and afternoon, about 4-4.5 hours door to door
- Everyone taking part pays, driver or passenger, and one passenger rides with each driver
The four prices, and the half-price seat
The figure you see is per driver and it is the whole tour: the machine and its fuel, the guide and the safety briefing, a helmet, liability insurance for the activity, and the round-trip transfer from your Evrenseki hotel. There is no pickup surcharge waiting at the end of it and no transfer line to negotiate separately.
There is no child fare on this tour, and that is a decision rather than an oversight. Whoever drives pays the driver price and whoever rides along pays half of it, at any age. There is no free place on this tour: everyone who joins the transfer and the safari pays, including someone who comes only to watch. Half means half, so the passenger seat on a short buggy tour is €17.50 and not a tidied-up €18. Our price page sets the same four fares out side by side if you want to compare them in one view.
- Quad, short tour with 1.5-2 hours of riding: €30 driver, €15 passenger
- Quad, long tour with 2.5-3 hours of riding: €38 driver, €19 passenger
- Buggy, short tour: €35 driver, €17.50 for the seat beside them
- Buggy, long tour: €43 driver, €21.50 for the seat beside them
- Two of you on one short quad: €45. A quad each, both driving: €60
- Two of you sharing a short buggy: €52.50. A buggy each: €70
- Every figure is per person, in euros, paid on the day of the tour
The time budget from an Evrenseki hotel
Set aside roughly four to four and a half hours from the moment you leave your hotel to the moment you are back at it. That window holds the drive out, the safety briefing, the compulsory test ride, the safari itself, a stop out on the route and the journey home. The short and the long tour share the same window; the long one simply spends more of it in the saddle, 2.5-3 hours of riding against 1.5-2.
We run two sessions a day, a morning one and an afternoon one, and both are bookable from Evrenseki. The choice is really about the shape of your day. The afternoon session leaves the whole morning at the beach and the pool untouched, and the morning session hands you the rest of the day back, showered and in time for a late lunch. Exactly where your hotel falls in that day's transfer run decides the finer timing, which is why the clock belongs in your confirmation rather than on this page.
The transfer from Evrenseki: in the price, and the time that follows it
Round-trip hotel pickup and drop-off from Evrenseki is included in the fares above. It is the same included transfer we run from Belek, Kadriye and Boğazkent, from Lara, Kundu, Antalya, Muratpaşa and Konyaaltı, and along the Side coast through Side, Manavgat, Kumköy, Çolaklı, Gündoğdu and Kızılot. Sitting at the far end of that list costs an Evrenseki guest nothing extra, and there is no surcharge to discover later.
What we will not do is print a departure time for Evrenseki. Average pickup times exist for six resort areas, the ones this operation has actually recorded, and Evrenseki is not one of them. Borrowing the average from the next town along and setting your hotel name beside it would look helpful on a web page and would be fiction. Your own time is confirmed with you after booking, by a person who knows which hotels are on the run that day.
So the useful thing to send us is short: the name of your hotel in Evrenseki, the date, how many of you are coming, and how many of those want to drive. If your hotel sits outside the coast list above, write to us on WhatsApp before you book and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach it. Our hotel pickup page explains how the coast run is put together.
The ground you actually ride: Aspendos and the Köprüçay
The safari runs inland in the Aspendos area, on the open natural land along the Köprüçay, the river the ancient world knew as the Eurymedon, with the Taurus Mountains standing behind it. It is a private off-road course: forest tracks under the pines, dirt and rutted trails, shallow river ground and open terrain where a machine can stretch its legs. None of it is resort, none of it is asphalt, and none of it is on the shore your hotel stands on.
Two honest notes about the surface. Dust is a certainty in season, which is why we ask you to wear clothes you genuinely do not care about. Mud and water are not a promise: the river sections belong to the route, but how wet and how deep they run on your day is the weather's decision rather than ours, and we would rather under-promise than show you a photograph we cannot reproduce for you.
There is a rest stop out on the route where drinks and snacks can be bought and paid for on the spot. No meal is part of this tour. We would rather write that plainly than let an all-inclusive habit assume one.
Who gets behind the wheel, and the lap that decides it
You do not need a driving licence for this, and the reason has to travel with the fact: the route is a private off-road course rather than a public road, so it is not driven or judged the way road traffic is. Anyone driving must be 16 or over and should carry ID, which is an age check and nothing more than that.
Every driver takes a compulsory test ride at the base before the tour begins, after the briefing, on the machine they would be driving and in front of the guides. It is not a formality. Whoever completes it drives. Whoever does not, or who decides on the spot that steering is not for them, rides along at half the driver price without losing a place in the group, and that is a normal outcome rather than a wasted booking.
Both machines carry a driver and one other person, so the rule is one passenger per driver: in a buggy they sit beside you, on a quad behind you. The passenger fare has no lower age limit, but we do not recommend the tour for children under four, who can find it hard to hold on safely on a moving machine; if a younger child does come along, the passenger fare applies to them as well. The safari is not recommended if you are pregnant or have back or neck trouble, because the terrain is rough on purpose.
Inside the fare, and outside it
Everything in this list is already inside the driver and passenger prices, transfer included:
- Round-trip hotel transfer from Evrenseki, with no surcharge
- An instructor and guide, and the full safety briefing
- The quad or the buggy for the safari, fuelled and ready
- A helmet, which is the one piece of protective kit that comes with the ride
- Liability insurance for the activity
The things the fare does not cover, and what to wear
Here is the part a lot of sites blur. A dust mask is not included. Protective goggles are not included either; they are sold at the base as an optional extra, and we do not publish the amount because it is set there rather than here. A bandana is not included. If you want a mask or a bandana for a dusty track, pack one from home before you fly, which is packing advice and not a promise that we produce one.
Also outside the price: photo and video, the drinks and snacks at the rest stop, tips for the guide and the crew, and the supplement if you ask to have a machine to yourself, an amount we do not publish either because it is arranged at the base.
As for clothes, dress for dust rather than for the pool deck. The dustier you expect to get, the happier you will be with what you chose that morning.
- Old or comfortable clothes you truly do not mind covering in dust
- Proper closed shoes; flip-flops and hotel slippers do not belong on pegs or pedals
- Sunglasses, sunscreen and a change of clothes for the ride back
- Goggles if you want them: buy a pair at the base, or bring your own
- A bandana of your own if you like one on a dusty track
How the reservation works from here
The reservation itself costs nothing and takes no card. Nothing is charged online, there is no deposit, and you pay in euros at the tour on the day. Free cancellation stands until 24 hours before departure, so booking early from a sun lounger in Evrenseki costs you nothing if your week rearranges itself.
It is a real reservation but it is not an instant confirmation, and we will not pretend otherwise: the request is recorded, then a person comes back to you to confirm the pickup for your hotel and your date. The earliest date bookable online is tomorrow. If you want to ride today, WhatsApp is the way to do it, on +90 536 603 75 84.
You will not find a star rating, a review count or an award anywhere on this site, because none of them would be real. What an Evrenseki guest can check instead is all on this page: where the course actually is, four prices instead of one, the half-price passenger rule, the driving rule with its reason attached, what the fare covers, and a transfer that is included rather than discussed. The quad safari and the buggy safari take the booking directly, in English, German, Russian and Polish.