GUIDED ISTANBUL TOURS

  Wow! What an amazing experience. Ekrem, our tour guide, made everything special! The day was well planned (plus you can customize whatever you want to see). We... read more got to see all the top sights, and we learned so much during the tours. 5 star!

  A wonderful day in Istanbul! - Our guide, Ezgi, was absolutely delightful and very knowledgeable. We had a wonderful day. I highly recommend a day with Ezgi!

  Excellent walking tour of Istanbul - Excellent, informative walking tour covering most of the sights around the Sultanahmet Square. Our guide, Kemal, was really friendly and attentive - he also has a wealth of knowledge, not... read more only about Turkish history, but also about regional politics. Highly recommended!

  Great tour. Awesome guide! - What a great experience in Istanbul. I’ve had enough “just ok” guides to know it can make or break your tour. Tarik was very informative. He had an answer for... read more every question and covered so many topics. He was awesome! Definitely recommend

  Fabulous Istanbul with extended time at Topkapi Palace. - Highly recommend this phenomenon tour. Sema, our guide brought forward the history, magic and beauty of Istanbul!!!!

  Wonderful tour of Istanbul - Our tour guide, Tuba, was great! She reached out the day before to confirm pickup and was early to meet us. She was able to answer every question we had... read more and pointed out many details we would have missed. I highly recommend this excursion. We toured the old city - Topkapi Palace Museum, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, and the Grand Bazaar.

  We had the absolutely best experience we could image on our full day private tour of Istanbul. Tuğçe Uçar , our guide, contacted us thru What’s Ap the night before... read more to confirm our itinerary. After some discussion we did make a few adjustments. We were very happy that she was amendable to making changes.

Tuğçe with her easy to understand English, took us on a very informative and educational tour of the Topkapi Palace (including the most interesting Harem). We arrived when the palace first opened. As we had our museum passes already, after security she took us directly to the entrance as tour guides have this special privilege in museums.
After stopping to describe the overall layout of the palace grounds and purposes of the surrounding buildings we were expertly guided thru the crowds to begin our tour in the treasury building. This is the most exciting and of course most popular of all the buildings with its rich store of spectacular jewelry, swords /daggers, household items and much much more.

She explained so much of the history, the culture, the lifestyles, different religions and their practices & neighborhoods. We were able to get answers to all of our many questions as well.

During a fabulous lunch we discussed amending our schedule yet again due to the time. We prioritized the grand bazaar and visiting a wine tasting room near the Galata Tower.

We wanted to get Turkish lira and load money on the metro card our hotel gave us. We really didn’t feel comfortable doing this by ourselves the day before so were very happy to have Tuğçe help us do this. She also helped us in a bank to get smaller bills after the atm gave us some we felt were too large for our purposes.

We all took the tram to Karakoy,walked to the Galata tower and the wine tasting room.

My husband and I live in the heart of central California wine regions so were excited Tuğçe knew of this fabulous tasting room to take us to. The Turkish wines we tasted were interesting, unique and quite lovely. We walked out with 9 bottles, which was all we could carry (lol). We really enjoyed talking (thru Tuğçe as our interpreter) with the staff there about the regions the grapes come from, the flavor profiles of the wines and the processes used in making the wines.

  Istanbul highlights  - Sercan Kurt was our guide and he did amazing job showing us the highlights of Istanbul. We covered all that was listed on the itinerary. He was very knowledgeable and... read more answered all our queries. He patiently took our pictures and gave ample time to enjoy the sights that we visited. We did not feel rushed during the tour. He brought to a great restaurant and had us try an Ottoman dish which we enjoyed so much! He even took time listing good places to buy coffee, tea, etc. We definitely recommend his services.

T & R of Las Vegas

  Great guide - Kemal was a great guide, informative and patient. His knowledge of the city was extensive. Can’t recommend him enough!