Free Antalya Walking Tours: Your Questions
Five free walking tours cover Antalya, all run by independent local guides: four listed on GuruWalk and one, the Hidden Antalya City Center Free Tour by Deniz Akgun, listed on freetour.com. This page answers the practical questions that come up most often, from how pay what you want actually works to which museums in the city are free and which ancient sites charge entry.
How does pay what you want work on these walks?
Every walk here is free to join and pay what you want at the end. You reserve a place, walk with the guide, and then give what you feel the walk was worth. There is no official figure, and neither GuruWalk nor freetour.com sets one. If a walk does not suit you, a small amount is acceptable; if it does, guides rely on generous payments to keep the walks running.
Is anything on this site paid?
The walks themselves cost nothing to join. Around them, Antalya splits into two camps. The Mevlevihane, Ethnography and Ataturk House museums are free, while Ministry of Culture and Tourism sites such as Perge and Aspendos charge foreign adults EUR 11 and EUR 15. This site sells nothing either way: it only points to the guides' own pages on GuruWalk and freetour.com.
How do I reserve a place on a walk?
Each guide takes reservations on their own platform page. For the four GuruWalk walks, you book a free spot on the guide's GuruWalk page and the meeting point and departure time are shown there. The Hidden Antalya City Center Free Tour by Deniz Akgun works the same way through its freetour.com page. Nothing is paid at the time of booking on either platform.
Why does no card on this site show a price?
Because there is no price to show. Pay what you want is the whole model: the walk is free to reserve and free to join, and any payment happens at the end, in person, at whatever level you choose. That is true of every GuruWalk walk in this directory and of the one freetour.com walk as well, so a price field on any card would be misleading rather than helpful.
What should I wear in Kaleici and in mosques?
For the walking tours, ordinary city clothes are fine. Working mosques ask for more: shoulders and knees covered, and a scarf for women to cover the head. Mosques close to visitors at prayer times, so a walk that passes one may not enter during those windows. The guide's own page on GuruWalk or freetour.com states the meeting point for each walk.
Which Antalya free walking tour should you start with?
That depends on how long you want to walk and who you want to walk with. Mehmet's Kaleici tour runs 1 hour and 30 minutes and holds a 4.99 rating across 134 reviews. Onur's Oldtown tour runs 2 hours at 4.71 across 399 reviews, Hakan's runs 2 hours and 30 minutes at 4.78 across 73, and Onder's runs 2 hours at 4.94 across 83. Deniz Akgun's 3-hour freetour.com walk has no reviews published yet. Meeting points are stated on each walk's own page.
Is the Antalya Museum open?
No. The Antalya Museum is closed to visitors and no reopening date has been stated. The city's other state museums fill the gap and cost nothing: the Mevlevihane, the Ethnography Museum and the Ataturk House Museum are all free on the Ministry's schedule. The Kaleici Museum run by Koc University AKMED is separate, charges TRY 80 for adults and does not accept MuseumPass.
Are Perge and Aspendos free to visit?
No, both are paid sites on the Ministry of Culture and Tourism schedule. Perge charges foreign adults EUR 11 and Aspendos EUR 15, and MuseumPass is accepted at both. Foreign children aged 8 and under enter free. Termessos, at EUR 3, is the cheapest of the Ministry's ancient sites around Antalya, with Phaselis and Olympos at EUR 10 each.