Dolmabahce Palace, TR
Join a private guide and create a customized itinerary to experience the best of Istanbul such as Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, Bosphorus cruise, Dolmabahce Palace, and Fener-Balat area.
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Explore Istanbul according to your own interests on a tailor-made sightseeing tour. Meet your guide at your hotel or port and work together to create an itinerary that suits you best, leaving you satisfied that you have seen all of Istanbul.
On 1st day, marvel at monuments from the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, such as Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, Grand Bazaar, Hagia Sophia.
On 2nd day, take the public ferry to Bosphorus to see both Istanbul’s European and Asian sides. From here, visit Dolmabahce Palace, Taksim Square, Istiklal Street, Galata area and the Spice Market.
On 3rd day, guide takes you on a walk through the streets of Fener-Balat neighboorhood. Enjoy a cable car ride and soak up views of Pierre Loti Hill, then visit Iron Church, Chora Church and see the Suleymaniye Mosque.
You can create your own itinerary with your tour guide on tour day, to have an idea, here you can see our suggested tour itineraries are below;
Day 1 - Hagia Sophia, Hippodrome Square, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace Highlights, Grand Bazaar.
Day 2 - Spice Market, Bosphorus Cruise, Dolmabahce Palace, Taksim Square, Istiklal Street, Cicek Passage, Galata Tower (from outside)
Day 3 - Suleymaniye Mosque, Fener and Balat Districts, St. Stephen Church (Iron Church), Pierre Lotti Panoramic Hill, Chora Church (or alternative options)
Important Notes:
- Skip the line service is not available for active mosques - there is a queue for the entrance.
- On Fridays, Hagia Sophia or Blue Mosque will be visited from outside because of the worship.
- If one of the mosques is not visited, Basilica Cistern will be visited as a replacement.
- For the tours that start later than 11 am, kindly note that you may have to skip one/a couple of sites as the sites are closed by 7 pm. Your guide will adjust the program according to your priorities.
Private Tour
Multilingual tour guide
Pickup from your accommodation on foot
Transportation by van (if option chosen)
All entrance & attraction fees
Lunch
Hotel drop-off
Transportation (unless option booked)
Topkapi Palace and Hagia Irene Church are closed on Tuesdays
Hagia Sophia entrance will be restricted during praying time
Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays
Dolmabahce Palace is closed on Mondays. Due to regulations, a live guide service is not available at Dolmabahce Palace
Blue Mosque is closed until 2 pm on Fridays
Children aged 7 and under are free of charge. Please make sure that you have passport copies for children as you have to verify their ages at museums for free tickets
The skip-the-line service is not available for active mosques. There will be a queue at the entrance
On Fridays, Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque will only be seen from outside because of worship
If one of the mosques is not visited, Basilica Cistern will be visited as a replacement
For the tours that start later than 11 AM, you may have to skip one/a couple of sites as the sites are closed by 7 PM. Your guide will adjust the program according to your priorities
Our guide, Ezgi, was amazing! She was knowledgeable, personable and adapted the tour to fit our needs and wants. We saw so much, yet were not overwhelmed. I would definitely do another tour with her!!
Alles war perfekt.
Without a guide, you simply don't see that much in one day. Optimized routes, which is the right queue to get in. Or is the queue too long and you go to another place first. We wouldn't have managed half of it without a guide.
Hilal kept us well informed thanks to her excellent German skills and guided us safely and inexpensively (using public transportation) through the city. What would we improve? As a family with two children, we would have liked to have had a kebab or street food for lunch instead of going to restaurants. The restaurants she chose were very good. We can highly recommend her to anyone who values this. Thank you very much for the great time. It was a pleasure ☺️
We were able to see the main attractions that we want. Our tour guide, Sema, was very knowledgeable and communicates very well. She explained very well in detail the significance and highlights of each attractions we visited. She saved us a lot of time as she knows how to ‘skip the lines’. She’s a top notch tour guide and loves what she’s doing. Thanks Sema for a wonderful trip.
The tour hits all the main attractions when on a long weekend trip. Our guide Hazal was awesome. Very knowledgeable and super flexible.
Ayla guided us through our desired sights in German and also provided some historical information. Everything was great 👍🏻!
Very informative. Our guide, Ali, was very attentive and always friendly and accommodating.
We have chosen a 3-day tour with a guide and we are super pleased with our choice that allows us to see the best attractions of Istanbul. Volcan was our guide and he was simply amazing. Very knowledgeable, adaptive and patient. We thoroughly enjoyed having him as a our guide.