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Camel Safari - Cappadocia Tours
Cappadocia Tours
Cappadocia Tours
Camel Safari - Cappadocia Tours
Hot Air Balloon Ride - Cappadocia Tours

For Cruisers: 5 Days Istanbul & Cappadocia Trip - Including Hot Air Balloon Ride

By Turkey Experiences
Free cancellation available
Price is $1,672 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Overview

This one-night two-days travel package will take you to fascinating Cappadocia. The package is including roundtrip domestic flight tickets, one night cave hotel accomodation, full-day guided tour, Camel safari and Hot Air Balloon Ride in Cappadocia, and airport transfers. Hotel pick-up & drop-off services in Istanbul are included.

Activity location

  • Istanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Cappadocia
    • Türkiye

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Silver Package
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d2d
  • English

Accommodation: Zeynep Sultan Hotel in Istanbul - Sedirli Konak Hotel in Cappadocia (Stay at Stone Room in Cappadocia)
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED
Money Back Guarantee: If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Tour Language: The daily tour(s) will be organised with professional licenced English-speaking guides.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$1,672.27 x 1 Adult$1,672.27
Total
Price is $1,672.27
Gold Package
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d2d
  • English

Accommodation: The Magnaura Palace Hotel in Istanbul - 1811 Cave Hotel in Cappadocia (Stay at Cave Room in Cappadocia)
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED
Money Back Guarantee: If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Tour Language: The daily tour(s) will be organised with professional licenced English-speaking guides.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$1,932.37 x 1 Adult$1,932.37
Total
Price is $1,932.37
Diamond Package
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d2d
  • English

Accommodation: Hagia Sofia Mansions in Istanbul - Exedra Hotel in Cappadocia (Stay at Cave Room in Cappadocia)
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED
Money Back Guarantee: If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Tour Language: The daily tour(s) will be organised with professional licenced English-speaking guides.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$2,453.67 x 1 Adult$2,453.67
Total
Price is $2,453.67

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTransfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
  • What's includedWhat's includedFlight Tickets : Istanbul to Denizli - Izmir to Istanbul or Izmir to Cappadocia
  • What's includedWhat's includedXX nights hotel accommodation including breakfast
  • What's includedWhat's includedBreakfast
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pick-up & drop-off services for each mentioned tours and transfers on itinerary
  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedDinner & Drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntrance fees of the museums (Your guide will have pre-paid tickets to skip the line.)

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Hotel drop-off (return to Istanbul) timing : The departure time of return flight is between 08.00pm and 09.00pm from Cappadocia. That's meaning, your return flight will be landing Istanbul airport or Istanbul SAW airport between 09.30pm and 10.30pm. After you arrived Istanbul, local tour operator will transfer you to your drop-opff point. If you will do this tour post-cruise, the drop-off point will be your hotel in Istanbul center for this transfer. If you will do this tour pre-cruise, the drop-off point will be Istanbul Galataport (Cruise Port) for this transfer.
  • The prices of package are valid for accommodation at the double or triple room. If you would like make reservation for single room(s), there could be supplement cost. There are not going to be any extra cost for single / solo travelers. This cost already accounted on price of these travelers.
  • The pre-planned hotels are "Hagia Sophia Mansions in Istanbul" - "The Magnaura Palace in Istanbul" - "Zeynep Sultan Hotel in Istanbul" - "Exedra Hotel in Cappadocia" - "1811 Cave Boutique Hotel in Cappadocia" - "Sedirli Konak Boutique Hotel in Cappadocia" for your accommodation on this travel. You can choose any of them while booking. If preferred hotel by you is not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel.
  • The check-in time of hotels is 02.00pm, and you can not start use your room before this time. This is about the check-in & check-out policies of hotels. If your arrival flight will be landing to Istanbul-Turkey before that time , you have to add one night more hotel reservation to package, or wait at the reception of your hotel until 02.00pm for check-in to hotel.
  • The differences between the package options are about the hotel categories. Tour(s), airport transfer(s) and flight ticket levels will be same for all options.
  • The local tour operator will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at six days before your departure date. You will not need print out copies of the tickets for domestic flights. Your passport and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for check-in to plane.
  • The local tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets.
  • You will have 15kg luggage + 8kg hand bag quota per person for each domestic flight. If you will need more luggage capacity, please inform that to local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg. This is exactly about the policies of airline companies.
  • If your pick-up or drop-off hotel is inside of airports (IST and SAW airports) local tour operator do not provide any pick-up / drop-off service on this trip package.
  • Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip.
  • The Standard Balloon Ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing, and pilots are decide to that within the safety rules of Civil Aviation Authority. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
  • This tour is not available for the bookings to children who are 5 years old and under.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Flight from Istanbul to Denizli – Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Aphrodisias Tour - Overnight at Kusadasi
  • 11 stops
  • Meals: lunch
  • Accommodation: INCLUDED - There are different hotel variations. You can choose your hotel category while booking to this tour package.
Istanbul
  • 1h
The travel services will start with a departure transfer. Your driver will pick you up from your hotel in Istanbul and then transfer to airport for your flight from Istanbul to Denizli.
Denizli Çardak Airport
  • 1h
Upon arrival Denizli Cardak airport, your tour guide and another driver will meet you at the exit gate of the arrival terminal. After you met with your guide, you will start the full-day tour to Pamukkale, Hierapolis Ancient City, Aphrodisias Ancient City.
Hierapolis & Pamukkale
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
The highlights of Hierapolis are Necropolis, Roman Baths, Domitian Gate, Latrina, Oil Factory, Frontinus Street, Agora, Byzantium Gate, Triton Fountain, Cathedral, Apollon Temple, Plutonium, Theater and Antique Pool. During visits to these ancient ruins, you can take some photos from the nicest corners of the Pamukkale.
Pamukkale Thermal Pools
  • 1h
After visited the Hierapolis Ancient City, you will have free time for about 60-75 minutes to explore the natural beauties of the Pamukkale, and swim at white travertines - thermal pools (or antique pool - Cleopatra’s pool with extra fee). Then meet again with your guide, start walking in the middle of travertines from up to down without shoes and socks.
Cleopatra Pools
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Situated above the Pamukkale white travertine pools is one particularly spectacular location fed by the same hot springs. Here you can bath in the same waters in which Cleopatra once swam! A professionally run modern spa facility allows you to enjoy these historical healing waters. Unlike the white water of the lower pools the Antique Pool favored by Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, is pure clear warm water. Once it was surmounted by a Roman Temple to Apollo with ornate roof held up with Doric columns. Imagine how Cleopatra must have experienced this when you imagine it in it's glory day.
Kale
  • 1h
You will stop at a local restaurant for your lunch. Today’s lunch is included during guided tour.
Karahayıt
  • 30m
After the lunch, you will have experience traditional handcraft workshop for get lecture about the special stones/metals of Pamukkale.
Aphrodisias Ancient City
  • 1h 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
This is ancient city located in southwestern Turkey, in the upper valley of the Morsynus River, the site consists of two components: the archaeological site of Aphrodisias and the marble quarries northeast of the city. The temple of Aphrodite dates from the 3rd century BC and the city was built one century later. The wealth of Aphrodisias came from the marble quarries and the art produced by its sculptors. The city streets are arranged around several large civic structures, which include temples, a theatre, an agora and two bath complexes.
Kusadasi
  • 2h
After your Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Aphrodisias Tour, you will be transferred to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Kusadasi Castle
This small castle is picturesque Byzantine fortress stands on the causeway-connected Guvercin Adasi (Pigeon Island) and has recently been renovated. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Okuz Mehmet Pasa KervansarayI
This caravanserai was built by the Grand Vizier Okuz Mehmed Pasha to support maritime trade in the region. This historical building is opposite to Kusadasi cruise port. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Day 2: Birgi Village, Odemis City, Tire City Tour - Overnight at Kusadasi
  • 7 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: INCLUDED - There are different hotel variations. You can choose your hotel category while booking to this tour package.
Kusadasi
  • 1h 15m
After having breakfastat at your hotel, the tour guide will pick you up on 08.30am (Approx) and depart for your full-day tour to Birgi Village, Odemis City, Tire City. Today you will have experiences for test the local tastes of district. Also you will have experiences about the Ottoman and Seljuks village life, and see the many manuscript books which are more than 200 years old which saving in Historical Necib Pasha Library.
Töngül Pide Fırını
  • 45m
Continuing its 127-year-old family tradition and labor for 4 generations, Töngül Pide Bakery continues to offer Ödemiş's signature flavor, Töngül pita, to its customers with the same recipe, sincerity and family warmth. The famous one-of-a-kind pita made with the Töngül family's special pita dough; It is combined with plenty of parsley, village butter and minced meat and cooked in a bottom-burning oven with oak wood. The historical flavor, served by smearing olive oil on the warm pita taken out of the oven and grating Ödemiş's tulum cheese on top, has been passed down from grandfather to son and has been offering real wood-fired pitas to its customers for more than a century.
Birgi
  • 1h
The village, which attracts attention with its rich culture, lush nature, and natural beauty, offers visitors an opportunity to observe rare examples of traditional residential texture dating back to the 18th century. With over 200 registered cultural assets, Birgi was placed on the Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2012. In addition, it is also involved in international organisations such as the Cittaslow Slow Cities network.
Birgi Cakiraga Mansion
  • 45m
The 18th-century Çakırağa Mansion is a stellar reflection of the architectural and decorative style specific to the region at the time. There is a general belief that Çakırağa Mansion was built by Şerif Aliağa. It is one of the few mansions whose architectural style was preserved just as it was in the first construction and settlement period in the Aegean region. The building is an important source in Turkish architecture for understanding the daily life of the Ottoman Empire. The Mansion, which is one of the most beautiful examples of wooden Turkish houses, stands at the end of a garden adorned with flowers.
Tire
  • 1h
Tire köftesi (Tire Meatball) refers to a special type of ground meat dish that originates from the Tire district of İzmir, Türkiye. Tire köftesi (Tire Meatball) consists of minced meat (often lamb or a mix of beef and lamb), breadcrumbs or stale bread soaked in milk or water, onions, garlic, and various spices. One distinguishing feature is its soft and juicy texture, which is achieved through its specific mixture of ingredients and cooking method: they are often shallow-fried until they have a crispy exterior, then they might be simmered in a sauce or served directly. Tire köftesi is often served with sides like, grilled vegetables, or fresh salads.
Necippaşa Kütüphanesi
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Off the beaten track of researchers and scholars of the Ottoman Empire, Tire Necip Paşa Library is an endowment (Tr. vakıf, Ar. waqf) library dating back to the early-nineteenth century located in the Turkish town of Tire in Izmir province. Established in 1827-28 by the Ottoman statesman Mehmed Necib Paşa, the library boasts 5156 titles that include 1754 manuscripts and 3402 print books in modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian. The library continues to serve researchers through digitization services and limited capacity in-person viewings in its original location today.
Kusadasi
  • 45m
At the end of the tour, you will be transfered back to your hotel in Kusadasi.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESIstanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLECappadocia
    • Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEUçhisar
    • Uçhisar, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEÜrgüp
    • Ürgüp, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEİstanbul
    • İstanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEAvanos
    • Avanos, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEOrtahisar
    • 50650, Ortahisar, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEGöreme
    • 50180, Göreme, Nevşehir, Türkiye

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