After spending the last seven days traveling across Turkey in a rental car,
I put together a guide that has everything you should know if you're planning a road trip across Turkey.
Good afternoon guys and welcome to Pamukkale, so today is our seventh day
traveling across Turkey in a rental car and because today is our very last day with it,
I wanted to share my experiences what it's been like getting a rental car and traveling across the country with it.
So that you guys have an idea of what to expect.
So eventually you guys are gonna have to fill up at a gas station, if you guys are renting a car here in Turkey.
Typically it's full service but as you just saw, he just filled up the gas tank for us.
Usually they clean your windshield and whatnot,
you tell the guy how much you want to fill up and you go pay inside, usually.
and then you bring the receipt back to the gas attendant
and you give them the receipt to show that you paid for the gasoline.
That's typically how it works here in Turkey,
gasoline will cost you roughly about like 7 lira to 10 lira per liter
and we just filled up a full gas up tank here it cost me 330 lira when I picked it up from the airport.
Now your next question you're gonna be asking is
how do you rent a car here in Turkey and what is the experience like.
Well, it's actually pretty simple.
There are many rental car companies in Turkey
and you can absolutely rent a car online.
However, we actually flew into Antalya and we literally just showed up at the airport
and picked the very first rental car company we saw and rented with them.
The company that we chose was Cizgi, I believe is the name of it and how you pronounce it
and we rented it for roughly about 61 US dollars a day
and that was with full insurance.
It came out to roughly about 430 US dollars total for one week
and so far it's been absolutely amazing experience.
The car is great it's very new it's very modern
and it's getting us where we need to go and it's very good on fuel, actually.
Now the only requirements that you need in order to rent the car at least through the company that we went through
was a driver's license from whatever country you're from.
You need to be over 25 years old and just a copy of your passport as well and payment that's really it.
We didn't even get asked if we had international driver's license
but I did have it on hand just in case they did ask.
Now when you guys are driving in Turkey, you should be really careful and cautious with your speed.
Typically the speed limits are about 70 km/h to 110 km/h if you're driving a regular car.
There are multiple checkpoints in out of each cities,
so if you plan on doing a cross-country road trip do expect some checkpoints along the way.
We never got pulled over, but we saw quite a few on the other side of the road.
However a sneaky little trick that the police do like to pull is
to put up these cardboard cutouts of police cars out on the middle of a highway.
So, be on the lookout for them
because sometimes they could be fake police cars and sometimes it could be real ones.
One thing I love to do when I'm visiting a new country is to learn the local laws.
So for example in Indonesia, if you plan on going straight,
you use your hazard lights to indicate to other drivers that you plan on going straight through an intersection.
And one thing I learned driving here in Turkey for passing on the highways
is that slower cars will typically pull off to the shoulder actually to indicate the cars behind it they can pass.
If you want to do the same for the car behind you,
you can just pull off to the shoulder to give room for the car behind
so that they can pass you if they're literally riding your bumper.
So I've had to do that quite a few times on the highway because the cars here go pretty quick.
By the way guys this is our hotel here in Pamukkale, it's really beautiful and it only cost us like I believe 40 dollars a night.
Now one thing we quickly learned as we were driving from city to city here around Turkey,
is that parking can be quite a bit of an issue,
especially if you're visiting small little cities or here around Turkey.
So our trip originally started in Antalya and luckily we didn't have any issues with parking,
until we got into the city center that is; with it being so busy, it's summertime here, it's peak season,
so there's many tourists visiting many different cities here around Turkey.
and that was very very apparent when we were visiting a city called I believe Kaş,
I've been saying kas for the last couple of videos
but I think it's pronounced Kash.. and Bodrum as well.
Those little harbor towns.. harbor cities have a lot of boats coming in and they're very very tiny,
like when you arrive into the city, it almost gives you a feel like you're arriving in Monaco, it feels that small!
and because of that there is quite a lot of congestion a lot of traffic in this in this little tiny city
and there is not a lot of room for parking even if you have a hotel booked in the city
sometimes the hotels didn't even have parking in front of their hotel either.
So you got to be really careful with the cities that you're visiting,
make sure that the hotel that you've chosen has parking.
Now the biggest road hazard you guys are going to encounter
while you're here in Turkey road tripping or driving around the cities
is going to be the taxis.
Quite literally nothing is going to beat the taxis as your road hazard,
the taxis here just drive crazy I cannot just.. I cannot explain it,
they are.. they are fast they will cut you off.
When we were in Antalya, oh my god..
we had a culture shock with the taxis because
they were just flying by everywhere whichever way they wanted to go..
and a few times cutting us off as well.
So yeah just be really careful when you're driving around the taxis because
they need to get somewhere, obviously.
Now if you guys do plan on doing a long distance road trip like we did,
you're probably going to encounter a few tolls along the way.
We did encounter one toll the entire seven day trip that we did
and that entire cost of that single toll was only 11 lira ..that's like 1.25 US dollars.
It's ridiculously cheap and passing the toll was really simple, really easy.
There was an attendant there at the toll and we gave her 11 lira in cash
and that was literally it and very simple very easy,
so just have cash on hand guys.. it's very simple.
All right guys and one last thing before my camera dies,
that I have encountered here in Turkey that's different from when I drive back home is that
when you pull up to a traffic light, it feels like you are about to race somebody..
because the light doesn't turn from red to green, it goes red yellow green
and sometimes even the traffic lights themselves have a countdown timer
so you know when it's going to turn red yellow green.
So sometimes it feels like when you pull up to a traffic light,
the car next to you you're about to start racing them.
So that was really the only other difference
I have encountered here in Turkey driving, renting a car.
Overall the experience has been very simple, very easy renting a car here
just make sure you guys use a reputable company, just search for the reviews.
I will leave the information for the company that we used,
It was our very first time using them here in Turkey
Overall I think we had a much more enjoyable trip, I think here in Turkey, because we were able to use a rental car.
It was on the more expensive side though because I think it's peak season here in Turkey, it's a little more expensive..
because we did rent it for 60 dollars a day
and that was returning it to the same location.
They sometimes even have a one-way fee where you drop it off in another city
and that costs an extra 2000 lira
which I don't even remember the conversion for that, I'll put it down below.. but yeah.
So this is where I'm going to leave it off guys,
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