What 20 EUR actually buys
This whole page is about one product: the flagship Side Jeep Safari, the full-day drive into the Taurus Mountains that starts at your hotel gate and ends back at it. The 20 EUR adult price is not a base fare with the day sold back to you in pieces. It covers the seat in the jeep, the professional driver — guests never drive themselves — hotel pickup and drop-off from Side and the surrounding resort areas, lunch at a lakeside restaurant by Green Canyon, and guiding from the first stop to the last.
Children aged 4 to 12 pay 10 EUR and infants aged 0 to 3 travel free, so a family is not paying four adult fares for one day out. If you would rather judge the value by the route itself, what the whole day looks like stop by stop is laid out in the complete guide: the old Roman bridge where the asphalt ends, riverbed crossings on the off-road sections, orchards, the viewpoint over Green Lake, the swim stop with freshly made pancakes at Oymapınar village, the dam, and the viewpoint above Green Canyon.
The honest costs on top
No tour is worth it if the advertised price doubles once you are underway, so here is the complete list of what can cost extra — every item optional, every item decided on the day itself.
- The 1-hour Green Lake boat trip after lunch: 5 EUR per person, which takes an adult's day from 20 EUR to 25 EUR
- Manavgat Waterfall entrance — only where the programme includes that stop, paid on site
- Tickets for the mini zoo during the village break
- Drinks with lunch and personal spending
- Photos and videos taken by the tour team
Skip every extra and the day is still complete
Decline all of the above and the day still includes the driving, the lunch, the swim stop and the views, at exactly the price you reserved. Nothing on the included list is charged twice, and nothing essential hides on the optional list.
The only extra worth genuine deliberation is the boat — whether the boat trip is worth adding has a page of its own, because the answer depends on how you feel about an hour on the water after lunch rather than on the arithmetic.
Who gets the most out of this day
The day earns its price fastest for anyone who wants to see what inland Turkey looks like without hiring a car: orange, lemon and pomegranate orchards, cotton and sesame fields, ancient Roman aqueducts, a traditional village mosque visited with the guide — and a chance, never a promise, of seeing nomadic Yörük families in the foothills.
It also suits families unusually well. The child price is half the adult one, infants ride free, and the programme is built around things children actually enjoy: a swim stop, freshly made Turkish pancakes at Oymapınar, and in summer the water fights between the jeeps. There is a page of its own on how the day works for families with children if you are weighing it for a mixed-age group. And because professional drivers do all the driving, nobody in your party spends the day responsible for a vehicle.
Who should think twice
An honest worth-it page has to say who the day is not for. Parts of the route are genuinely bumpy — the tracks cross dry riverbeds and rough ground — so if you have a back or neck problem, mention it before boarding, and read how safe the jeep safari actually is before you decide; the full picture of the rough sections lives there rather than here.
If your idea of a great day out is being behind the wheel yourself, this is not that day: guests never drive, on any of our tours. And if what you are really after is adrenaline rather than scenery, the rafting and jeep combinations put white-water rafting in Köprülü Canyon at the centre of the day instead — from 28 EUR per adult and 17 EUR per child on the seven-hour departure from Side.
Summer day, winter day
The tour changes character with the season, and it is fair to know which version you are buying. In summer the jeeps run open-top, which means sun, wind, some dust — and the water fights between the jeeps. In winter the jeeps are covered and the water games stop, so the same route becomes a calmer sightseeing drive.
Neither version is a lesser product. If the water fights are the part your group is most excited about, book a summer date; if you would rather stay dry and look at the mountains, the covered-jeep season delivers exactly that.
How it compares with our other days out
Value is easiest to judge next to the alternatives, so here is the whole shelf. The flagship's 20 EUR per adult is the lowest adult price on this site, and it is the only tour here with the lakeside lunch by Green Canyon and the full Taurus village route.
- Side Jeep Safari, 8 hours — 20 EUR per adult, 10 EUR per child aged 4-12, infants aged 0-3 free, lunch included
- Night jeep safari with dinner and catamaran cruise, 5 hours — 35 EUR per adult, for guests aged 12 and over, early June to mid-November
- Side rafting and jeep combo, 7 hours — 28 EUR per adult, 17 EUR per child
- Rafting and jeep combos from Evrenseki, Kumköy or Manavgat, 9 hours — 40 EUR per adult, 24 EUR per child
- Alanya jeep safari to the Dim River, 8 hours — 30 EUR per adult, 17 EUR per child, April to November
The zero-risk way to answer the question
Here is the part that settles the doubt: you do not have to be sure. The reservation is free, no card is taken online, nothing is charged in advance, and you pay in euros on the day of the tour. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before departure. If you want the same figures with the reasoning behind them first, the full price breakdown for every tour is on the price page.
That means booking a date is not a commitment — it is a way of holding your answer open while you decide. Reserve the day you want, and if the holiday takes a different shape, one message cancels it and no money ever moved. The details of how the reservation works step by step are set out separately, or ask us directly on WhatsApp +90 536 603 75 84 in English, German or Russian.