Turkey: See & Experience Almost It All In 10 Days, 1St Class

Guide

Our tour guides/drivers are licensed, speak English and know how to bring excitement to your day. What we deliver is the complete opposite of the cookie-cutting tours the big corporations offer, leaving you in complete boredom. Although our tour guides/drivers are attentive, accommodating and engaged, they also know when to give you your private space and free time. It's a perfect balance. *Female guides are available upon request. Note that although about half of the activities on this multi-day tour are shared with other travelers, we can make the trip almost completely private, per your request, at an additional cost. Typically, the hot-air balloon ride, the daytrips from Goreme exploring the surreal nature of Cappadocia, the visit to the House of Virgin Mary, the ruins at a site called Ephesus, the Temple of Artemis, the ancient Greek city of Hierapolis and the hot springs and travertine limestone at a site called Pamukkale, swimming at the Cleopatra Pools, and the boat tour around Oludeniz Lagoon are shared with other tourists. The rest of the tour is exclusive to you and whomever else you may book on behalf of.

Meals

Dinner is included on Night 1. Lunch is included on Days 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9. We are very picky about food and refuse to accept anything short of quality. We do our best to ensure you are being offered healthy and tasty local cuisine. The very diverse cuisine alone is enough reason to visit Turkey and join our group tour. Turkey learned all the best recipes from the vast territories it occupied for hundreds of years and created its own incredibly diverse national cuisine. Personal favorites include: menemen (an egg dish), kofta (meatballs), kuzu tandir (a lamb dish), lahmacun (baked dough topped with minced meat and veggies), borek (a type of pastry), su boregi (another pastry), baklava (another pastry), pide (Turkish pizza), Gullac (a dessert), lokum (candy), kayisi tatlisi (apricot stuffed with cream and nuts), baklali enginar (artichokes), imam bayildı (stuffed eggplant), kunefe (dessert) and Turkish coffee.

Others

Lunches x 5 Dinner x 1 Air-Conditioned Vehicle All Entry Fees Private Transportation

Transport

We take care of almost all of your transportation needs once you are on the tour.

Accommodation

Below are the names of the hotels where we commonly have our customers stay. Note this is subject to availability. May through October: Nights 1-3: Goreme, Preferred Accommodation: Cappadocia Inn Hotel or Roma Cave Suite Hotel or Grand Cave Suites or Artemis Cave Suites Nights 4-6: Kusadasi, Preferred Accommodation: Charisma De Luxe Night 7: Bodrum, Preferred Accommodation: Salmakis Resort & Spa or Bodrium Otel & Spa or Ena Boutique Hotel Nights 8-9: Fethiye, Preferred Accommodation: Jiva Beach Resort or Tui Sensatori Resort Barut Fethiye November through April: Nights 1-3: Goreme, Preferred Accommodation: Cappadocia Inn Hotel or Roma Cave Suite Hotel or Grand Cave Suites or Artemis Cave Suites Nights 4-6: Kusadasi, Preferred Accommodation: Charisma De Luxe Nights 7-9: Istanbul, Preferred Accommodation: Radisson Blu Bosphorus Hotel or Sura Hagia Sophia Hotel or DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Istanbul Piyalepasa This tour includes lodging for 1 night, specifically in Kusadasi. However, upon request, we can book accommodation for you for all nights at establishments which meet your needs. For years, we automatically included 5-star hotels in our travel packages. In the interest of our customers, we ultimately decided to reduce the price of our tours and encourage specifically those with higher expectations to simply request room upgrades. Why? Some of our customers want simple and clean but ultimately cheap rooms. Some of our customers want 4-star hotels and are willing to pay more. Others want nothing short of 5-star extravagance. There isn’t a way to uphold ONE standard for hotels in our travel packages considering everyone has a different budget. What we CAN uphold are the standard and quality of our tours, all of which offer nothing short of a first-class experience. Again, upon request, we can upgrade your room type for the night included as well as book lodging for all nights on this tour. Let us know and we will provide you with pricing options.

Others

Paragliding Over Oludeniz Lagoon Alcohol Travel Visa (only applicable to citizens of certain countries)

Flights

Although airfare is not included in the price, we will find you the exact flights you need. Just ask. Below are the domestic flights needed for this tour: Day 1: Istanbul to Kayseri or Nevsehir (Cappadocia) Day 4: Kayseri or Nevsehir to Izmir Day 7 in the wintertime or Day 10 in the summertime: Dalaman to Istanbul

Insurance

All participants are required to book travel insurance within 72 hours of booking this tour. At a minimum, such insurance must cover cancellations, medical expenses, evacuations, flight loss or delays and 24/7 assistance.