The prices
Fire of Anatolia at Aspendos is €65 per adult and €30 per child, with infants under three free. You can take a ticket-only reservation and travel independently, or take the option that adds round-trip hotel transfer from the Antalya, Side, Belek, Kemer and Alanya areas.
The two other evenings at the same theatre:
- Troy Dance Show — €68 adult, €31 child (from age 7), infants under 3 free. Round-trip hotel transfer in an air-conditioned coach is included as standard, along with guide assistance and local travel insurance.
- Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival — €45 adult, €30 child (ages 8–12). Includes the Category 2 festival ticket and return coach transfer from your hotel. The cheapest seat in this theatre all season, and bookings are taken from age eight.
Nothing is paid in advance on any of them. Reservation is free, you pay on the day of the show, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the performance.
What the fare covers
- Your reserved admission. Standard seating is on the theatre's original stone tiers, unnumbered and first-come.
- Return hotel transfer — included as standard on Troy and on the festival, and on the Fire of Anatolia transfer options. Pickup is in the early evening, timed to how far your resort sits from the theatre.
- Insurance and host or guide service on the coach options.
What it does not cover
- Food and drink. Excluded from all three. None of these is a dinner show, whatever the phrase "show ticket" suggests elsewhere.
- Better seats. Fire of Anatolia and Troy both offer a VIP seating upgrade, charged per person; the festival sells a Category 1 upgrade for the section closer to the stage. Category 2 — the free, unnumbered stone tiers — is what your festival ticket buys.
- Photography services, and note that camera rules are enforced at the gate. Flash and professional equipment may be refused.
- Tips and personal expenses.
Reading the child rates properly
The three shows draw their age lines in different places, and it changes what a family pays.
- Fire of Anatolia: children €30, infants under three free. Children's entry to the arena itself is free — but on a transfer option a child still needs a paid seat in the vehicle, and security may ask for ID to confirm a child's age. That is the detail most families miss.
- Troy: the child rate of €31 applies from age seven; infants under three travel free.
- Festival: child €30 for ages eight to twelve, and no bookings below age eight at all.
For two adults and two children, that puts Fire of Anatolia at €190, Troy at €198 and the festival at €150.
Why the ticket is the cheap part of the evening
The theatre sits east of Antalya, well outside every resort strip on this coast. If you are not on a transfer option you are arranging a return journey that lands you back at your hotel late at night, and doing it yourself rarely comes out cheaper than the coach once you have paid both ways. That is the whole argument for the transfer options: not comfort, arithmetic.
The ticket-only reservation makes sense in one situation — you have a hire car, you would rather arrive early and pick your own spot on the tiers, and you are happy driving back at night.
Small costs worth budgeting for
- A cushion. The seating is bare stone and marble. Buy one on the way if you have not brought one; two hours on ancient stone is a long time.
- A light jacket. The venue is open-air and evenings turn cool even in high summer.
- Cash for drinks at the interval, since none is included.
Who should not buy a ticket
Anyone with real mobility difficulties should speak to us first. The theatre is described as wheelchair friendly and the transfer vehicles are accessible, but the ancient stone stairs are uneven and that is not something a booking form can solve. Families with under-sixes should think hard about a 21:00 curtain followed by a late drive back. And if you are sensitive to loud sound and strong stage lighting, both dance productions are built on exactly that.
Dates are the other constraint: performances run on selected evenings each week during the season rather than nightly, and the 2026 opera and ballet festival is confined to 12–26 September. Tell us your dates early and we will confirm what is playing.
All three sit on our shows, parks and tickets page. To choose between the two dance productions, read Fire of Anatolia or the Troy Dance Show. For other ticketed evenings, what a Land of Legends ticket includes, and for daytime alternatives, which day trip to choose from Antalya.