One machine or two: what actually changes
The day itself is identical either way. You are both collected from your hotel and brought back, both take the information and safety briefings, both wear a helmet the whole way, and both cover the same 18 km off-road route inside approximately 4–4.5 hours door to door.
What differs is where your attention goes. Driving is work: holding the guide in sight, picking your line over forest tracks and uneven ground, easing off before a water-splash stop. Riding along is the opposite — hands free, eyes on the route rather than the ground in front of the wheels. Dust treats you both the same; the showers at the base are included.
One asymmetry is easy to miss: the vehicle briefing and the practice drive belong to whoever drives, and so does the guide's assessment. Take one machine each and you both go through that.
Why two on one machine is not half price
The assumption that catches couples out is that one machine means one fare. It does not. The fare is per person, not per vehicle: everyone aged 11 and over pays the adult fare, whether they steer or sit beside the person steering. Two adults on one quad pay €25 each — exactly what two adults on two quads pay. On the Buggy Safari it is €30 each.
Sharing is a decision about how you want to ride, not a way to halve the bill. There is no cheaper seat for the partner who does not drive, and no reduced fare for booking together. Each fare carries the same:
- Round-trip hotel transfer
- The buggy or quad for the safari
- Helmet
- Information and safety briefings
- The vehicle briefing and practice drive for whoever drives, and the guide on the route
- Insurance, where applicable under the operating policy
- Changing cabins and showers at the base
Which of the three safaris suits two of you
All three safaris leave from the same base, a private off-road course inland from the Side coast, and cross the same ground. Past the fare, what separates the quad from the buggy is what your hands are on — handlebars and a thumb throttle, or a wheel and pedals — so quad or buggy is a question about the drive itself, and we compare the two machines properly on their own page. Two of the three are open to two adults:
- Buggy Safari — €30 per person, adult seats only, from 11.
- Quad Safari — €25 per adult, driving or riding along.
- Family Buggy Safari — €30 per adult and €18 per child aged 6–10; it needs a child of that age in the booking, so two adults cannot book it.
When only one of you wants to drive
Common, and no obstacle to booking. Driving starts at 16, and the base checks ID as proof of age — not as a licence. No driving licence is required, because the safari runs on a private off-road course and not on public roads. What is required instead: 16 or older with ID, the three briefings, the practice drive, and the guide's assessment.
The guide has the final say on the day. If one of you is not cleared to drive, that person rides the same route as a passenger at the adult fare, in the same helmet — nobody's day ends at the base.
What we will not tell you about sharing a machine
We do not publish how many seats a buggy or a quad has: that number is not in the operator's own records. A couple who turn up expecting one shared machine, because a website guessed the seat count for them, have been badly served. If riding together on one vehicle is a condition of your booking, ask on WhatsApp before you book.
Swapping over halfway is the same kind of question. The guide decides what is possible on the day, and whoever drives has taken the practice drive first.
Booking for two: times, pickup and paying
Departures are 08:00, 11:00 and 13:00, and the calendar offers only the ones running on your date. Your hotel pickup is earlier than your departure time and is confirmed with your booking. The transfer is included from Side, Kumköy, Evrenseki, Çolaklı, Titreyengöl, Sorgun, Kızılağaç, Gündoğdu and Kızılot. One booking covers you both, you pay on the day of the tour, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before departure.