Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Flights, Airlines and Airports => Flights to Dalaman and Turkey, Airlines and Airports => Topic started by: gizziegill on August 11, 2012, 16:34:18 PM
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Hi can anyone tell me the difference between A2B Shuttle Bus and A2B Shuttle Bus Express? Does Express mean what it says with very little drop offs? Also if you have a flight and there are only a few people to drop off at Dalaman one day would they pick you up hours before the required time to be at the airport because they had people who were flying much earlier. Would like to book with them but would like a little reasurrence first? We have a really good company but their prices are quite expensive compared to A2B. Sorry if this is in the wrong place but couldn't find the answer to this question in Search.
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This tells you what you want to know:
http://www.a2btransfers.com/transferunits.asp#7
I always use A2B and have never had a problem. Also , they have an office in Calis near the hospital if you need to speak to them face to face.
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My experience was that my pick up was about half an hour before I would have arranged a private transfer & that , although they do say you could wait up to an hour at Dalaman, it was only 20 - 30 mins. One pick up after me & one drop off before me, At the price, no complaints here
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Just as a matter of interest Travel Republic are using A2B as their carrier for my next visit at the end of August.
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How much do they charge from Dalaman for a return trip?
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We're using TR at the end of September and its just under £27 for three , but its with a company called Yesil Dalyan .
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How much do they charge from Dalaman for a return trip?
IRO £12 / person, but unlike a lot of the shared transfer companies, they do drop off & pick up from private addresses
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We used A2B yesterday Calis/Dalaman, pick up was due at 10.30 and they came at 10.35. Only 3 pick ups on the transfer and we were the 2nd one. It was a company called Sarpedon Travel in Fethiye
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I've used A2B a few times, (the last time in July) and not had any problems. They have arrived at the hotel when they say they will. I've never had too long to wait before my flight at Dalaman, and they've usually had 2 or 3 drop offs/pick ups on the bus. I plan on using them again in October.
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Thank you for all your replies they were most informative and helpful and we think we will give them a try this time?
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Never had a problem, apart from them being too prompt on a couple of occasions! I find the number you have to dial to confirm your return pick up time can be difficult to get through now and again. But the actual service at Dalaman and pick ups to return are excellent. It wasn't so long ago that if I came to Turkey alone it would cost £65 return and now about £11? That's £54 extra for ice cream and vino collapso funds :)
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I always book through Travel Republic via there website Never had any problems Somtimes you are with A2B ,Resort Hoppa Traveling today and i,m with Yesil Dalyan £7.82p return
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We used A2B yesterday. A pick up time of 8.10 pm was agreed, so we waited outside our apartment at 8 pm. The transfer bus did not turn up until 8.50p.m. By this time, we were feeling quite frantic, and in the process of phoning up a taxi to take us to the airport, when the bus turned up. We tried the emergency number, but no answer, which at the time added to the stress.
We possibly think that maybe the pick up time was stated wrong to us over the phone. From talking to the lady on the transfer, it sounded as if they had just set out on the journey for pick up. Anyway, the drive to the airport was perfect, and gave us chance to calm down!
Again, a reasonable price to pay...but at the time, not worth the angst it caused! We must just be unlucky!!!
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Have often used A2B, rarely a problem, except once they
forgot a Fethiye pick up and had to turn round at Gocek.
Last month I decided to use Shuttle Direct for a change,
think it was £5 one way shuttle. I can only say I must
have been lucky, as I was the only customer, I had a private
car from Dalaman to my apt here, door to door for a fiver.
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Has anyone booked A2B for the journey travelling Turkey to UK and then UK to Turkey. A couple of days ago I was looking on Travel Republics website but it would appear that you could only book UK to Turkey and Turkey to UK.
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We've done Turkey to UK and back no problems.
My brother in law went back with A2b tonight, they were 15 mins early and he was picked up 7.45 for a midnight flight, which is a fair old time to be at Dalaman
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If you do Turkey - UK - Turkey, you need to book as 2 seperate transfers, as the website assumes that you will be holidaying in Turkey!
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Last Friday some friends, who's tranfer was booked with H4U (Yesil Dalyan) called as requested to confirm their pick up time, the guy on the phone spoke hardly any English, but should not have been much of a problem as you give a booking number, they should be able to say time and place, no he hung up on them, we were having a meal with them and they asked if we could try, knowing slightly more Turkish than they did, same thing happened he hung up on us. We then asked the restaurant owner (Dogan at Mosaic Bahce) if he could try, and he had a hard time talking to the guy in Turkish but eventually got the information.
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Well I a little nervous as I have booked with A2B for first time arriving 7th September and have always collected / dropped a hire car at the Airport previously except once when I booked a private transfer. Not so bothered about the Airport - Calis trip but the return one is the one that bothers me a bit.
Well at least if they bugger it up it gives me a nother subject for my Grumpy Old Men posts :D
By the way Keith, I must say that Vino Collapso really is excellent stuff!
Meldrew
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.............................. Not so bothered about the Airport - Calis trip but the return one is the one that bothers me a bit.
Meldrew
Meldrew
I have personally used them four times this year (return trips), and other family members a further six return trips, we have had the occasional wait at the airport end, but as you say we don't mind that too much, but the pick up to the airport as always been spot on, if not sometimes a little early. So have faith, but I do suggest you remember to contact them 48 hours prior to your departure date. :) In my humble opinion even with the occasional waits at the airport end still a good £12 worth !!! ;) :)
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us too have used them four times this year used them to go to Dalaman on Friday night 10mins early at the hotel we had requested and all went smoothly,as the other member said do make sure you do your confirmation 48 hours or there abouts, we did not do ours until the 24 hours before but that was fine, I think if you do not do the confirmation there could be a small possibility that they could think the transfer is no longer required :)
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We also used them for Portugal this year as we have been very happy with the service from/to Dalaman. We waited around 25 minutes in the airport before being taken to a minibus. The driver called our name and took our cases (being singled out to have your luggage put on first isn't ever good news, it means you are off last!). The minibus was quite full, and we dropped off in a resort soon into the journey - in fact, we dropped everyone off in that resort and there was just us left.
Heading back to the airport a driver turned up at the hotel right on time, in a VW people carrier and took us directly to the airport, just like a private transfer. Once again, great service and value for money. One difference, I do find the people on the confirmation phone number in Fethiye quite difficult to understand and often have to ask them to repeat what they are saying. No such problem in Portugal, the girl I spoke to was English.
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If you do Turkey - UK - Turkey, you need to book as 2 seperate transfers, as the website assumes that you will be holidaying in Turkey!
Thanks for that info.
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We have used A2B numerous times this year and they have been fine. They have been late a couple of times, which can be worrying (specially when the transfer is for your 17 year old daughter who's about to fly alone for the first time!!) You can go online to confirm your return flight which is much easier than ringing them, as their english is quite limited. The online details show an exact time for your pick up. However, if you do need to call them, when it comes to the "press 1 for ....., 2 for etc etc etc " press whatever number is required for Customer Services - it was a british woman who was superb! We will definitely use them again, and, as other people have said, we have often ended up being the only people in the transfer, so basically a private transfer for only £9 each return. One piece of advice - if your apartment/villa is difficult to find (as is ours), choose a local restaurant or hotel and get picked up from there! One of our return journeys was quite late as the driver couldn't find our apartment! All in all though a very good service.
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booked with them yesterday for our October trip we now do what you said Julie and say a hotel near to us it is much simpler all round, when I booked yesterday I noticed an option of express shuttle for a bit more money (I seem to recall another member mentioning this a while back) I wondered if anyone has used this service and how it wold work, it cant be a private transfer as it would not cover the cost of the fuel I would not have thought ;)
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Express shuttles with A2B have no more than 4 drop offs. They supposedly run separately to the normal ones but I doubt that. In fact, 4 drop offs is about the average I have found on the "normal" service" from Dalaman anyway. I wouldn't bother with it - you'd have to be pretty unlucky to be dropped off fifth or worse on the normal one anyway, and would it matter that much anyway :)
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My Mrs used A 2 B and they were very good and very cheap. The only thing stopping us using them again is that being in Ovacik she was on the bus yonks as it had drop offs to do in Calis etc en route. If your drop off is in Calis chaces are you are going to be one of the first ones off so it would not be a problem.
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Ah that is interesting to know Keith thanks for the info. No I won't bother as so far we have been really lucky first or second drop off, there was only one time we were last, we seemed to go all round Turkey (well not quite) :) but it was interesting to see some other places we dropped off at the Majesty Tuana resort I had always wondered about it so was good to have a peek.
Hubby had brilliant service in August I had gone on ahead by a few days and he travelled more or less straight from finishing a night shift knowing he would sleep while travelling.he had a lovely kip on the plane a mother was shush shushing her baby to sleep so that also put hubby to sleep, then the A2B driver did not speak much English so he went round to all the passengers and showed them the clip board with their name and destination on and the passengers had to point out their drop off points, this turned out to be a really good idea as Derek was fast a kip again and the driver had to wake him up at Nevada Su! dont know how he would remember everyone's drop off though if it was a full bus! ;)
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So what are you really saying guys, someone has to be first drop off. someone has to be last, i have used them in different euro countrys, no probs as scunner has said. reference portugal etc. i really rate them. never had a problem so far.
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We used Resort Hoppa (same buses) and did pay the extra few quid (£ I think) for the 4 max drop off. We were first (probably because we are Koca Calis). However I understand they have some larger buses so you might just end up waiting for a big party at the airport. We were sorted inside 20mins and dropped off right by our site gate.
Would use again but not sure about the extra max 4 drop off cost really.