One-Way Car Hire Between Nevsehir and Kayseri Airports

NAV in, ASR out

The five ways a hire here starts and finishes

Two airports serve Cappadocia and they are roughly 75 km apart, with the whole of the region sitting between them. That single fact produces five sensible arrangements, and only one of them carries a drop fee worth planning around.

Land at Nevşehir, fly home from Kayseri

This is the case worth writing about. Nevşehir Kapadokya is the near airport, roughly 30 km and about forty minutes from Göreme, so a morning landing has you at the hotel before lunch. Kayseri Erkilet is roughly 75 km out, about an hour, and it carries more flights and more competition on fares, which is usually where the sensible connection home sits. Nobody actually drives from one airport to the other. You drive Nevşehir to your hotel on the first day, keep the car for the week, and drive Göreme to Kayseri on the last morning. The one-way is not an extra journey. It replaces two transfers you would otherwise have paid for.

ASR

to NAV, the same thing backwards

Less common, priced the same way. It suits a cheap inbound into Kayseri followed by a domestic hop out of Nevşehir. Direction does not change what the supplier has to do with the car afterwards.

Kayseri at both ends

No fee at all, and the widest flight timetable of the two airports. The cost is the second hour on the road at the end of a holiday instead of the forty minutes you could have had.

Nevşehir at both ends

The least driving of any arrangement, around forty minutes each way, and the thinnest schedule. Decide this one by looking at flights first and the car second.

Hotel pickup, airport drop

A car brought to you in Göreme, Ürgüp or Uçhisar and left at an airport. Both points are inside the region, but most suppliers still treat it as a one-way, so ask for the figure rather than assuming there is none.

The one line that makes any of these work

Whichever arrangement you pick, the return point has to be written into the booking before you pay, named by airport code rather than by region. Cappadocia is not an address. It is a plateau with towns scattered across it and an airport at either end, and a supplier reading a voucher that says only the region will send somebody to whichever airport they normally use. That is the whole of the administration, and it is also the only part of a one-way that regularly goes wrong.

What the drop fee is actually buying

A one-way charge looks arbitrary until you see it from the supplier's side, at which point it becomes four quite ordinary costs added together.

Somebody drives it back

A car left at Kayseri Erkilet has to return to a base that sits near Nevşehir. That is one staff member, one outward journey of roughly 75 km, a wait, and the journey home. The charge you are quoted is mostly that half day of somebody else's time.

The empty leg is paid for

The return run earns nothing. Fuel here is sold in lira per litre and the price moves, which is one reason two suppliers quote different figures for exactly the same drop on exactly the same day.

Where the car is wanted next

If the next renter is landing at the airport you left it at, the car never moves and the fee reflects that. If it is wanted back at the other one, it does move. You cannot see that from outside, which is why the same route is not always the same price.

It is a price, not a penalty

Expect it to land in the region of one to two days of hire. On the current list for this area, where a day runs from EUR 34 to 69, that puts a cross-airport drop roughly in the EUR 35 to 140 range. Read the figure in the booking rather than trusting that estimate.

One airport, both airports, or out of the region

Read down the left column for the thing you care about, then across. Most travellers find their answer in one row and stop.

What you are weighing	Same airport both ends	In at one, out at the other	Drop outside the region
Extra charge	None	One cross-airport fee, in the order of a day or two of hire	Larger, and quoted per route
Flight choice	Limited to one timetable	Both timetables open to you	Usually the whole reason for doing it
Driving on the last day	A repeat of your first drive	About an hour from Göreme to Kayseri Erkilet	Half a day or a full day
Time you lose	Two transfers of the same length	Nothing doubled back on	The drive itself is the holiday that day
Cars to choose from	The whole regional pool, 493 listed	The same whole pool	Narrower, and some suppliers decline
What you must declare	Nothing beyond the dates	The drop airport, at booking	The destination in writing, at booking
Worth it when	Both flights suit the same airport	Your inbound and outbound suit different airports	You are continuing by road, not flying home

Distances, and the pool both airports draw on

approx 30 km

Nevşehir Kapadokya to Göreme, around forty minutes

approx 75 km

Göreme to Kayseri Erkilet, around an hour

493

cars listed for the region, 100 of them on page one

EUR 34 to 69

the daily band across that first page

Distances are approximate and measured to Göreme, which is where most visitors sleep. The car figures come from the live regional feed for a pickup two weeks out over seven days, and the same pool feeds both airports, so choosing the one-way does not shrink the list you are choosing from.

What to fix in writing before you pay

A one-way has two handovers in two places, often with two different people. Everything below exists to make the second one as boring as the first.

In the booking

The drop point by code, not by region: A voucher that names only the region has not named anywhere. It needs to say NAV or ASR, and ideally which side of the terminal, because the two airports are roughly 75 km apart with the whole of the region between them.
The fee as a figure: Not a note saying a one-way charge may apply. A number, in the same currency as the daily rate, visible before you pay. If it is only quoted when you arrive, you have lost the ability to compare.
The hour you hand it back: Flights out of Kayseri Erkilet go at all hours, including very early. Agree the return time in writing and ask what happens if your flight is retimed, because a drop at 04:00 is a different arrangement from a drop at noon.

On the car

The condition sheet travels with it: The person who hands you the car at one airport is often not the person who takes it at the other. Your copy of the signed sheet, and your photographs from collection, are what connect the two ends.
The fuel policy across a one-way: Full to full is normal here, and the last filling station before either airport road is the one to use. Fuel inside an airport perimeter is a bad place to discover you are short.
The mileage allowance: A week in the valleys, with the underground cities and one long run out to Ihlara at roughly 85 km each way, adds up faster than people expect. Check the allowance before you add a cross-region drop to it.

At the far end

Who meets you, and where: Ask for the meeting point in the car park, not a phone number to ring from the kerb. There is no counter in an arrivals hall waiting for you, because this is a comparison site and the handover belongs to the supplier.
What happens if you are late: Delays on the road into Kayseri are ordinary. Agree at booking how long the supplier will wait and whether a late drop costs anything, rather than finding out on the morning.
Where the keys end up: Key drops into a box are common at quiet hours and are fine, provided the sheet is signed and you have photographs of the car as you left it, taken where it was parked.

Why this particular one-way is cheaper than it sounds

One-way hire has a reputation built on long routes, where you take a car several hundred kilometres away from the only place it is useful and the supplier charges you for solving that problem. The drop between these two airports is a different animal, and it is worth understanding why, because the reputation is what stops people booking it.

Both airports are served by the same operators. The rental base for Cappadocia sits in Nevşehir, the regional centre, and the suppliers working out of it are small firms competing with each other rather than with an international desk in an arrivals hall. A car left at Kayseri Erkilet is not stranded. It is sitting at the busier of the two airports, which is where the next arrival is statistically more likely to be landing. Quite often the car is wanted there anyway, and the repositioning you are being charged for does not happen at all.

Distance is the other half of it. Roughly 75 km in the open is an hour, not a day, and the roads between here and Kayseri are straight, well surfaced and empty for most of their length. There is no ferry, no mountain pass and no city to cross except at the very end. Compare that with the same request made on the coast, where a drop two provinces away involves a driver losing a full working day, and the difference in the quote stops looking unreasonable.

The practical upshot is simple. If your inbound and outbound flights genuinely suit different airports, price the one-way rather than assuming it is extravagant, and price it against what you would otherwise spend on two transfers and a wasted morning. For a week in the valleys that comparison usually comes out in favour of the drop fee, and it comes out in favour of it more strongly the larger your group is.

Before you accept a one-way quote

Five lines to check while the booking is still open.

The quote shows the drop fee as a separate line, before payment.
The airport is named by code, ASR or NAV, on the voucher itself.
The return time is written down, and a retimed flight has an answer.
Fuel policy and mileage are the same at both ends of the hire.
You know the meeting point in the car park, not just a phone number.

The rental agreement is with the supplier, not with Drive Cappadocia, so these are questions to put to them while you still have the choice of booking somebody else.

Beyond the region

Konya, the coast, and the two big cities

These are the longer drops people ask about after they have sorted out the airports. Each one is priced individually by the supplier, and one of the four is almost always a mistake.

The Mevlana museum is the reason this gets asked

Konya

Konya sits south west of the region across open steppe, and it is a long half day of driving rather than an afternoon out. As a day return from Göreme it swallows the whole day and most of the pleasure. As a one-way it makes real sense if you are carrying on west afterwards rather than flying home from here. Ask before you plan it: a supplier based around Nevşehir may serve Konya routinely, or may not serve it at all, and that answer is specific to the operator rather than to the region.

A full day on the road, over the mountains

The Mediterranean coast

Driving south to the coast means crossing the Taurus, and it is a full day whichever port you aim for. People do it, usually as the second half of a longer road trip rather than as a transfer. Two things decide whether it is sensible: the fee, which is priced per route and is in a different class from the cross-airport hop, and the season, because a mountain pass in February is not the same road it was in September.

The nearest very large airport

Ankara

Ankara is the onward drop that most often turns out cheaper than people assume, because it is the closest of the big-city options and it has a large airport with a wide timetable. If your flight home leaves from there, pricing an Ankara drop against a Kayseri drop plus a domestic connection is worth ten minutes of your time. Do it before you buy the flights, not after, since the flight is the expensive half of that decision.

Usually the one not to drive

Istanbul

This is the request suppliers are least keen on and the one travellers most often regret. The distance and the fee both jump, the last part of the drive is a very large city, and the alternative is a short domestic flight out of Kayseri Erkilet, which has the better schedule of the two regional airports. Leave the car in the region and fly. That is the answer in almost every case, and it is the cheaper one.

Price the drop before you book the flights

The search at the top of this page covers the whole regional pool, both airports included. Set your real dates, then decide which airport each end of the trip belongs to.

See one-way cars

Picking up here and dropping off there

Yes, with the right supplier, and no, not automatically. Both airports are served from the same regional pool of operators, so the cars are the same cars, but a cross-airport drop is an arrangement you select or request when you book rather than something you announce on the last morning. Make sure the drop airport appears on the voucher by its code, ASR for Kayseri Erkilet and NAV for Nevşehir Kapadokya. A booking that simply names the region has not named a place, and the person waiting for the car will be waiting at the wrong one.

There is no single published figure, because each supplier prices its own repositioning rather than reading off a tariff. The logic is easy to follow though. Somebody has to bring the car back across roughly 75 km, which costs a half day of their time plus fuel, and whether the car is wanted at the other airport anyway decides how much of that is passed on to you. In practice it tends to land in the order of one to two days of hire, and with the current list for this region running from EUR 34 to 69 a day, that puts most quotes somewhere around EUR 35 to 140. Treat that as the shape of the number, not the number. The figure you act on is the one shown in your booking before you pay, and anything asked for at the handover that was not quoted is worth questioning on the spot.

Usually yes, with permission agreed in advance and a fee priced for that specific route. It is a full day of driving south over the Taurus rather than a transfer, so it only makes sense as part of a longer road trip. Three things to settle first: whether the supplier serves your destination at all, what the mileage allowance does over a distance like that, and what the route looks like in the season you are travelling, since the mountain roads in deep winter are a different proposition from the same roads in autumn. The one thing never to do is drive a car out of the agreed area without telling anyone. An undeclared drop is the fastest way to turn a routine return into a dispute.

The drive from Göreme to Kayseri Erkilet is around an hour in normal conditions, and the honest advice is to treat that hour as the floor rather than the plan. Add a stop to fill the tank, because you want the last filling station before the airport road and not the one inside it. Add the final stretch into Kayseri, which is city traffic rather than open plain. From December to March add more again: this is high ground at roughly 1,000 to 1,200 metres and snow and ice here are real. One more thing people forget. If you are taking a balloon flight on your departure day you were collected from the hotel near 05:00, so you are driving tired, which is the real argument for leaving earlier than the arithmetic says.