Antalya, Turkey
| Old harbour | Kaleici, a semicircular Hellenistic-era basin about 100 m long, worked as Antalya's main trade harbour from the 2nd century BCE to the late 20th century |
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| Setur Antalya Marina | 198 berths at sea, 150 on the hard, maximum LOA 90 m, maximum depth 5.50 m |
| Location | Buyuk Liman Mevkii, Konyaalti, Antalya 07130; coordinates 36 50 05.1 N 30 36 53.2 E |
| VHF | channel 72, callsign Setur Marina Antalya; phone +90 242 259 32 59 |
| Operating since 1991; Five Gold Anchors (Yacht Harbour Association) and Blue Flag certified | |
| 2025 TYHA International Marina of the Year, announced at the Southampton Boat Show | |
| Travel lifts | 75 and 200 tonnes; boatyard quoted at 30,000 sq m plus a 900 sq m paint hangar |
| Distances | 10 km to Antalya city centre, 30 km to Antalya Airport, 15 km to the bus terminal |
| Prevailing wind | southwest |
| Bering Yachts runs its production shipyard in Antalya: steel-hull, aluminium-superstructure explorer yachts from 65 to 145 ft (20 to 44.2 m), including the delivered B77, B121 (37 m) and B145 (44.2 m) | |
| Lycian coast round trip from Antalya to the Kalkan, Kas and Kekova roads and back: a reported 135 to 175 nautical miles | |
| Kekova | a partially sunken Lycian city, submerged by an earthquake roughly 2,000 years ago, visible through the water from a tender |
| Cruising season | late April to October; May, June, September and October rated the best combination of weather and lighter wind |
| Transitlog | mandatory for every foreign-flagged yacht at first Turkish port of entry, valid one year, document fee about EUR 70 as of 2025 |
| Blue Card | mandatory electronic tracking of bilge, black and grey water delivered to shore reception facilities |
| Antalya Airport | 39.16 million passengers in 2025, Turkey's third busiest; FBOs include Bilen Air Antalya, Celebi Antalya and Fly Service Antalya |
| No berth tariff for Setur Antalya Marina is published anywhere; large-yacht rates are quoted on application | |
| Kaleici's own harbour | about 100 berths, 6 to 7 m depth, operated by Antalya Municipality, with a fuel station and waste water reception on site |
Two harbours, two centuries apart
Antalya's old harbour at Kaleici is a semicircular basin about 100 metres long, cut into the cliff below the old town during the Hellenistic period and worked as the city's main trade artery from the second century BCE until the late twentieth century. It once sheltered pirates as readily as merchants. Today the boats tied up there are gulets and small wooden excursion craft, and they leave most mornings on trips ranging from a two-hour drift along the coast to a full day out and back.
The working yacht harbour is a different place entirely. Setur Antalya Marina sits at Konyaalti, about 10 km from the city centre, and takes vessels to 90 metres on a maximum depth of 5.50 metres, with 198 berths at sea and a further 150 on the hard. It has operated since 1991, holds the Yacht Harbour Association's Five Gold Anchors and Blue Flag status, and in 2025 the TYHA named it International Marina of the Year at the Southampton Boat Show. A visiting owner books Setur for the boat and takes a taxi or tender-adjacent transfer into Kaleici for the old-town evening.
What Setur Antalya Marina actually offers
The marina answers on VHF channel 72 as Setur Marina Antalya, at coordinates 36 50 05.1 N 30 36 53.2 E, address Buyuk Liman Mevkii, Konyaalti, Antalya 07130. The yard side runs two travel lifts, at 75 and 200 tonnes, into a boatyard Setur quotes at 30,000 square metres, with a further 900 square metre paint hangar. Setur's own site does not publish a berthing tariff for any length class, so a quote for a large yacht is a direct enquiry to the marina office, not a rate card lookup.
Facilities read like the rest of the Setur group's flagship sites: uninterrupted shore power and water, 24 hour security with a mooring boat on call, a diving service for hull inspections and line clearing, free wifi and modern sanitary blocks. The prevailing wind is southwesterly, which sets the swell direction on the open frontage outside the breakwater rather than inside the basin itself. The airport is 30 km away and the intercity bus terminal 15 km, both a fixed-price taxi from the marina gate.
Ten kilometres separate a Roman harbour from a 90 metre superyacht berth that just won a global award, and neither one is why most owners are actually here.
The explorer-yacht builder next door
Bering Yachts runs its production shipyard in Antalya, building the steel-hulled, aluminium-superstructure expedition yachts the brand is known for, from the 65 foot range up to the 145 foot B145. The company is based in North Carolina for sales and design, but every hull is fabricated, plated and fitted out here, and the yard has shipped a steady sequence of deliveries reported in the trade press: the B77, a 37 metre B121, a 39.5 metre B125 whose bare steel hull arrived in Antalya for outfitting, and the flagship 44.2 metre B145.
For an owner in build, Antalya is a working destination rather than a cruising one: site visits track steel fabrication and systems installation rather than sea trials, and Bering's own delivery announcements are the primary record of progress since the yard does not otherwise publish build logs. A buyer researching Bering should treat the builder's own press releases as exactly that - authoritative on dates and specification, silent on anything that went wrong along the way.
Why owners actually come here: the Lycian coast
Antalya is less a destination in itself than the eastern gateway to the Turkish Riviera, the Lycian coast that runs west through Kemer, Finike, Kas, Kalkan and Kekova towards Fethiye and Gocek. A round trip from Antalya out to the Kalkan, Kas and Kekova roads and back runs a reported 135 to 175 nautical miles depending on how many anchorages are worked in, which is a comfortable ten day to two week itinerary rather than a rushed passage.
Kekova is the set-piece: a partially sunken Lycian city, submerged by an earthquake roughly two thousand years ago, visible through clear water from a tender or a glass-bottomed boat, with the village of Kalekoy and its hilltop castle immediately behind it. The whole stretch mixes ancient ruins accessible directly from an anchorage with sheltered coves that keep a large yacht comfortable overnight, which is the actual sales pitch for basing a season out of Antalya rather than further west.
The season and the paperwork
The cruising season runs late April to October, with May, June, September and October rated as the best combination of warm water, comfortable ruin-walking temperatures and lighter wind; July and August are hot and busier. Every foreign-flagged yacht must obtain a Transitlog at its first Turkish port of entry, valid for one year, with a document fee of roughly EUR 70 as of 2025, and every yacht must also carry a Blue Card, the mandatory electronic system that records bilge, black and grey water discharged to shore reception facilities rather than the sea.
Neither document is optional and neither is a formality a captain can skip: operating in Turkish waters without a current Transitlog is an offence with real penalties attached, and Blue Card compliance is checked at marinas and by coast guard patrols. Chartered yachts usually have an agent handle both as part of the contract; an owner cruising privately on a foreign flag needs to budget the time for check-in at the first port, which is Antalya for anyone arriving from the east.
Getting there and getting around
Antalya Airport handled 39.16 million passengers in 2025, making it Turkey's third busiest and putting it among the busiest in the wider Middle East and eastern Mediterranean, though the great majority of that traffic is scheduled leisure flying rather than private aviation. Several fixed base operators handle general and business aviation, including Bilen Air Antalya, Celebi Antalya and Fly Service Antalya, and the aircraft trade press names the Embraer Legacy 600, Embraer Phenom 300 and Cessna Citation XLS as the most frequently seen private jets using the field.
On the water, the marina to old-town run is a short taxi rather than a tender leg, since Setur Antalya sits on the far side of Konyaalti bay from Kaleici rather than adjoining it. Owners cruising onward to the Lycian coast clear at Antalya and then run the coast under their own passage plan; there is no scheduled coastal ferry service aimed at yacht crews the way there is between, for instance, Bodrum and the Greek islands.
What is not published, and what that means for a first visit
Setur publishes almost everything about Antalya Marina except the number that decides whether an owner can afford to stay: no berth tariff, per metre or otherwise, appears anywhere on the marina's own site or in the trade directories that list its facilities. That is standard practice across most of Setur's Turkish network, where large-yacht rates are quoted on application rather than posted, but it means a buyer cannot compare Antalya against Gocek or Bodrum without picking up the phone.
The other gap is independent, English-language owner reporting on the marina itself. Setur's Five Gold Anchors and its 2025 International Marina of the Year title are both third-party assessments from the Yacht Harbour Association, which is real evidence of facility quality, but neither is a substitute for a logged owner account of a season based there. Anyone planning a first visit should treat the marina's own description as accurate on the numbers and silent on the texture of actually staying.
Kaleici's own harbour is a working marina, not just a backdrop
The old Roman harbour is more capable than its postcard reputation suggests. Operated by Antalya Municipality rather than Setur, it holds about 100 berths with 6 to 7 metres of depth inside the basin, deeper than the historic setting implies, though the starboard side of the entrance channel is shallow and reserved for small boats. A fuel station and a waste water reception unit both operate inside the harbour, so a modest yacht can genuinely provision and moor here rather than only pass through by tender.
What the old harbour cannot do is take a large yacht: the basin is about 100 metres end to end and was built for oar and sail-era trade, not a modern superyacht turning circle, so its 100 berths suit day boats, gulets and smaller private craft rather than anything Setur Antalya Marina is built for. The two harbours therefore split the city's yachting entirely by size rather than by function, and an owner choosing between them is really choosing a boat length, not a preference.
En tierra, accesos y reservas
| Getting there | Antalya Airport (AYT) took 39.16 million passengers in 2025, Turkey's third busiest field, with scheduled connections across Europe and the Gulf plus a working general aviation apron. Bilen Air Antalya, Celebi Antalya and Fly Service Antalya handle FBO services for private arrivals; the aircraft most often reported using the field are the Embraer Legacy 600, Embraer Phenom 300 and Cessna Citation XLS. The marina is 30 km by road, a fixed-price taxi of roughly 30 to 40 minutes depending on traffic through the city. |
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| Arriving by sea | Setur Antalya Marina answers on VHF channel 72 as Setur Marina Antalya. Maximum LOA is 90 m on a maximum depth of 5.50 m. The marina sits at Konyaalti, on the western side of Antalya bay, separate from and about 10 km from the old Roman harbour at Kaleici, so arriving yachts do not pass through the historic basin on the way in. |
| How you actually reserve | Setur Marinas takes bookings through its own reservation contact for the Antalya property ([email protected], +90 242 259 32 59) or through the group's central booking channel; third-party berth agents including Gala Yachting and marina booking platforms also carry the property. No online instant-book tariff calculator is published for large yachts; a length and date enquiry goes to the marina office directly. |
| What it costs | Not published. Setur's own site, the Yacht Harbour Association listing and every trade directory checked in 2026 give facility specifications and awards but no berth rate, per metre or per night, for any length class. Quotes are given on direct enquiry only. |
| Fuel, power and the yard | The marina supplies uninterrupted shore power and water to every berth. Two travel lifts, at 75 and 200 tonnes, serve a boatyard quoted at 30,000 sq m with a 900 sq m paint hangar, so major yard work and a large-yacht haul-out are both handled on site rather than requiring a tow to a second facility. |
| Regulatory paperwork before you cruise on | A foreign-flagged yacht clearing in at Antalya needs a Transitlog, issued at first port of entry and valid one year, document fee about EUR 70 as of 2025, plus a Blue Card for tracked waste discharge to shore facilities. Both are checked at other Turkish marinas and by coast guard patrols further down the coast, so clearing them at Antalya rather than skipping the formality matters for the rest of the season. |
| Eating and the evening within reach | The old harbour at Kaleici and the old town immediately above it hold Antalya's real restaurant and bar concentration, a short taxi from the marina rather than a walk. The harbour itself runs on gulet and excursion-boat traffic by day; by evening the waterfront terraces above the basin, looking down over the moored wooden fleet, are the reason to make the trip in from Konyaalti. |
| What is NOT published | Setur Antalya Marina's own berth tariff, at any length. Bering Yachts' build costs and any build-quality issues on specific hulls; the builder's delivery announcements are the only public record of progress. Independent, logged owner accounts of a season based at the marina, as distinct from the Yacht Harbour Association's facility inspection awards. |
Lo que cuentan armadores y tripulaciones
The marina's rating comes from in-person facility inspection, not a self-declared badge
The Yacht Harbour Association's Five Gold Anchors scheme and its 2025 International Marina of the Year award, announced at the Southampton Boat Show, are both based on assessor visits against a published set of facility and service criteria, which is a stronger signal than a marina's own marketing copy.
The Yacht Harbour Association (TYHA), reported by Marine Industry News and MarinaWorldBering's explorer yachts are built and inspected by owners in stages, not delivered as a surprise
Trade coverage of the B77, B121 and B125 programmes each reported a hull arriving in or being fabricated at Antalya ahead of outfitting and delivery, the pattern explorer-yacht owners commissioning a semi-custom steel build are reported to follow with site visits through the build.
Boat International, BoatTEST and Superyachts.com build reportsPhinisi and gulet-style commissioning elsewhere in the region carries real quality-control caveats that apply to any hand-built wooden or semi-custom hull
Forum discussion among builders and prospective owners of wooden vessels built without formal blueprints describes real headaches in getting the finished product to match expectations, and more recent operators now describe assigning a dedicated on-site project manager specifically to guard against that gap - a caution worth carrying into any custom build inspection, Bering's included, even though Bering's is a steel yard rather than a wooden one.
Boat Design Net forum discussion, and Ria Ra Marine's builder commentaryKaleici's gulets run to a fixed daily rhythm, not an on-demand charter
The old harbour's excursion fleet departs on a set morning schedule for trips from a two-hour coastal drift to a full day out, a pattern crew guides to the city describe as effectively fixed rather than something a visiting yacht's guests can rebook at short notice.
Turkey Travel Planner and regional gulet-charter operators
Lo bueno y lo que conviene vigilar
Puntos fuertes
- A genuinely large-yacht marina, independently rated the world's best in 202590 m maximum LOA, 5.50 m depth, 198 sea berths and the Yacht Harbour Association's Five Gold Anchors, capped by the TYHA's 2025 International Marina of the Year title, awarded at the Southampton Boat Show against a global field.
- A working yard on site, not a tow away75 and 200 tonne travel lifts into a 30,000 sq m boatyard mean a large-yacht haul-out and refit both happen at the same address as the berth.
- The real gateway to the Lycian coastA 135 to 175 nautical mile round trip reaches Kalkan, Kas and the sunken city at Kekova, one of the Eastern Mediterranean's strongest combinations of ancient ruins and sheltered anchorages.
- A serious explorer-yacht builder in residenceBering Yachts fabricates its steel-hulled 65 to 145 foot range in Antalya, giving an owner in build a genuine reason to combine a site visit with time on the water.
- Major scheduled air access39.16 million passengers in 2025 and three FBOs handling business aviation mean Antalya is never the hard leg of a crew or guest change, unlike some of the smaller Lycian ports further west.
A tener en cuenta
- No published berth tariff anywhereEvery source checked in 2026, including Setur's own site, gives facility specifications and awards but not a rate for any length class, so a buyer cannot compare Antalya against Gocek or Bodrum without a direct enquiry.
- The two harbours do not connectSetur Antalya Marina and the historic Kaleici harbour sit about 10 km apart across the city, so the old-town evening that is much of the point of visiting Antalya is a taxi ride, not a stroll from the boat.
- Kaleici itself cannot take a modern yachtThe old Roman harbour holds about 100 berths at 6 to 7 m depth and is a working, municipally run marina with its own fuel station, but its 100 m basin length was built for small craft, so it takes gulets and modest private boats rather than anything Setur Antalya Marina is built for.
- No independent owner reporting on the marinaThe available record is Setur's own description plus third-party facility awards; there is no logged, English-language account of what a season based at Antalya Marina is actually like day to day.
- Mandatory paperwork adds friction for a private foreign flagThe Transitlog and Blue Card are not difficult, but they are compulsory, checked, and penalised if skipped, which is a heavier compliance load than clearing into a Schengen Mediterranean port on a leisure passage.
Para quién es: An owner heading for the Lycian coast who wants a modern, award-winning marina to start or finish the season from, and an explorer-yacht buyer with a Bering hull in build who needs a reason to be in Antalya between site visits.