Side-Turkey.

Guests staying in Sorgun are collected for the Green Canyon boat tour at around 08:50; the exact time is confirmed the day before and varies from hotel to hotel. The drive up to the Oymapinar marina takes roughly 30 to 45 minutes depending on traffic. We collect from twelve Sorgun resorts, all listed in the table below, and the catamaran day costs EUR 35 per adult, transfers included.

What time is pick-up in Sorgun?

We plan the Sorgun collection at around 08:50, and you should treat that as a working figure rather than a promise. One vehicle covers several resorts along the Sorgun beach road, so your slot depends on where your hotel falls in that morning's route. When you reserve the Green Canyon boat tour from Side, we send your hotel's confirmed pick-up time the day before, so nothing is left to guesswork by the time you go to bed.

The reason the run starts when it does is simple: the catamaran leaves the marina at 10:00, and Sorgun is the pine-forest end of the Side coast, a strip of large resorts spread along one long road. Collecting everyone in a sensible order takes time, and we would rather you had a calm breakfast than a sprint through the lobby.

The twelve Sorgun hotels we collect from

This table is the heart of this page. If your hotel appears in it, you are on our standard morning route and there is nothing further to arrange - no taxi, no meeting point in town, no extra fee. Free hotel pick-up and drop-off are part of the price for every property listed here.

If you are staying somewhere in Sorgun that is not in the table, do not assume you are out of luck. Write to us with your hotel name before booking and we will tell you honestly what is possible - in most cases a short walk to the entrance of a neighbouring resort solves it.

How the morning collection actually works

Sorgun's hotels are big, gated properties with long driveways, and that shapes how pick-up works in practice. Our driver comes to the main entrance of your hotel - the same doors you walked through on arrival day - not to a side gate or the beach path. Be in or near the lobby a few minutes before your confirmed time, know the name the booking was made under, and tell reception you are waiting for an excursion pick-up; front desks in Sorgun handle this every morning in season and will point the vehicle out to you. We run this route daily from our base in Side and Manavgat, so the drivers know every entrance on the list.

A few things worth having in your bag:

• Swimwear worn under your clothes, plus a towel - the swimming stops on the reservoir are the best part of the day.
• Sunscreen and a hat; the catamaran has shaded areas, but you will want time in the open.
• A little cash for extras: lunch at the platform and unlimited soft drinks on board are included, but restaurant drinks and alcohol are not.
• Your phone or camera - the water of the Oymapinar reservoir is a deep emerald green that photographs well without any filter.

How far is Green Canyon from Sorgun?

Allow roughly 30 to 45 minutes on the road, depending on traffic through Manavgat. A precise figure would be misleading, because the morning run threads through several hotels before it turns inland; what matters is that Sorgun is one of the closest resort areas to the canyon, so you spend less of your day in a seat than guests coming across from Belek, Antalya or Alanya.

The canyon itself is the Oymapinar reservoir, a sheet of calm freshwater about 12 km north of Manavgat town, held between steep, pine-covered ridges of the Taurus mountains. The change of scenery on the drive is quick: you leave the flat coastal pine forest behind Sorgun beach, skirt Manavgat, and after a short climb the sea is gone and you are looking at mountain slopes dropping into deep green water.

On the water: what the day looks like

The catamaran departs at 10:00 and spends approximately four and a half hours on the water. This is not a sea trip: the reservoir is flat, calm freshwater, so there is no swell and seasickness is not a realistic concern. The programme is unhurried - cruising between the canyon walls, swimming stops in water that keeps its emerald colour all day, and a longer break at the platform, where lunch and fishing equipment are included. Soft drinks on board are unlimited; anything from the restaurant menu and all alcohol are paid separately.

If loud onboard entertainment would spoil the canyon for you, ask about our music-free catamaran option when you book. It is the same route and the same water, minus the speakers, and guests from the quieter Sorgun resorts choose it for an obvious reason.

You can reserve your seats online without any prepayment, so a change of holiday plans costs you nothing.

Prices from Sorgun compared with other departure points

Sorgun guests join the Side departure at EUR 35 per adult and EUR 20 per child, transfers included. For the sake of honesty, here is the full 2026 price picture from our live listings, so you can see what staying in Sorgun saves you compared with joining from further along the coast:

Two of those rows deserve a closer look if you want a longer day out. The Green Canyon and Oymapinar Dam tour runs seven hours and adds the dam itself to the boat trip, at EUR 33 per adult and EUR 20 per child, while the nine-hour Mix combo at EUR 25 and EUR 15 is the budget full-day programme. Both depart from Evrenseki, so ask us when booking and we will tell you plainly how they work from a Sorgun hotel.

Worth leaving the all-inclusive for a day?

Most Sorgun guests are on all-inclusive terms at resorts they chose carefully, so this is a fair question - and the honest answer is yes, on this tour more than most. Lunch at the platform and unlimited soft drinks on the boat are already inside the EUR 35, so you are not paying twice for things your wristband covers; the only optional spending is restaurant drinks and alcohol. And the reservoir is a genuinely different landscape from Sorgun beach: still mountain freshwater between canyon walls instead of the open Mediterranean, with not a sunbed row in sight.

Booking takes two minutes: pick your date on the Green Canyon boat tour from Side page, pay on the day of the tour rather than in advance, and be in your lobby at the time we confirm the evening before. The pick-up, the boat, lunch and the ride back to Sorgun are all handled from there.

Frequently asked questions

What time will I be picked up from my hotel in Sorgun?

At around 08:50. The exact time is confirmed the day before and varies from hotel to hotel, because one vehicle collects guests from several Sorgun resorts in sequence before driving inland to the marina for the 10:00 departure.

My Sorgun hotel is not in your table. Can I still join?

Usually, yes. The table lists the twelve resorts on our standard route, but Sorgun is compact and a neighbouring hotel entrance often works as a collection point. Send us your hotel name before booking and we will confirm what is possible rather than promise something vague.

What is included in the EUR 35 price from Sorgun?

Return hotel transfers, the catamaran trip of approximately four and a half hours on the reservoir, lunch and fishing equipment at the platform, and unlimited soft drinks on board. Restaurant drinks and alcohol are excluded, so bring a little cash if you want either.

How long will I be away from my hotel?

The boat leaves at 10:00 and spends about four and a half hours on the water, and the transfer from Sorgun takes roughly 30 to 45 minutes each way. In practice that means a start at around 08:50 and a return in the afternoon, leaving the whole evening free at your resort.

Is there a boat without loud music?

Yes. We offer a music-free catamaran option on the same reservoir route, and it is worth requesting at booking if you prefer the canyon quiet. Everything else - lunch, soft drinks, swimming stops and hotel transfers - stays exactly the same.