Day 1 - Arrive in Istanbul & Transfer to Hotel
Upon arrival in Istanbul, our representative will wait at the airport with a name sign, your name is written on it. Once you see your name is handling someone just say hello and your name. After meeting short wait for the vehicle and then you will get on the vehicle. One of our drivers will transfer you to the hotel.
Generally, hotels check-in times are afternoon, if you arrive at your hotel before the afternoon, you may wait. After checking into the hotel, you will have your leisure day and relax in the hotel or just go to the Turkish Bath. Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 2 - Istanbul City Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
08:30 – Our tour shuttle service will come to your hotel to pick you up and takes you the meeting point. You will meet with other tour participants and tour guide then start the tour. We will visit the Sultanahmet region, which is regarded as the heart of old Istanbul by UNESCO, is the destination of our unforgettable Istanbul tour. Our first visit will be Hagia Sophia is the title of the world’s largest cathedral for 1,000 years after its completion and had been transformed into a mosque by adding Islamic elements immediately after the conquest of Istanbul. Then we will walk in the old city and visit Sultanahmet Mosque is known as Blue Mosque by tourist because of interior decoration with blue Iznik Tiles After that we will visit Ancient Hippodrome where you will see the Obelisks then we will walk to Grand Bazaar is the biggest covered bazaar in Istanbul. You will be able to hop in the bazaar and have free time then we go to a restaurant.
In the afternoon, after having lunch we will visit Topkapi Palace which was used as the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire for 4 centuries. You will be able to see collections including imperial and religious artifacts, treasures and more. Our last visit will be Sultans Tomb then you will be transferred back to the hotel around 17:00 / 17:30. Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 3 - Leisure Day & Airport Transfer
Meal: Breakfast
After having your breakfast in your hotel you need to check out before 11:30. Today is your last day and you will be free until your departure time. You can stroll the city or if your flight is late afternoon or evening you may join some half day Istanbul Tour like Bosphorus Cruise.
One of our drivers will pick you up according to your flight departure time and take you the airport to catch your return flight. We will be glad to see you again in our another tour.
Closed Days
– Due to Friday prayer, Blue Mosque, and Hagia Sophia are closed on Friday.
– Grand Covered Bazaar is closed on Sunday. Replaced with Handicraft Store
– Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays.
Sarah –
Before we went to Los Angeles, we arranged a short stay in Istanbul and we took the flight from Istanbul for our Los Angeles. We arranged our stay and tour with the Toursce. Everything was smooth from beginning to end. Pick-ups were on time and the hotel was great. By the way, we stayed at Sura Hagia Sophia Hotel, which has very good service and location. It was in the center, so close to Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia Mosque, Topkapi Palace, and we prayed our Jumu’ah in Blue Mosque. We had a very good knowledgeable tour guide Ugur for history and Islam. Thanks to Toursce office team and Ugur.
Petra –
Amazing worth, I strongly recommend Toursce Turkey for your vacation in Turkey value. We felt the incomparable Turkish hospitality from the moment the friendly and professional Toursce Turkey staff greet us at the airport with a smile. Even if it was five in the morning they arranged especially for us an early smooth check-in so we did not have to wait at all. Later on, we had a delectable Bosphorus Cruise and Istanbul city tour with Mr. Tuna, a professional local tour consultant who arrange everything on time in our tailor-made program and did his best to show us around even more than we had in the itinerary. Superb service we have got for our stopover in Istanbul. In our next visit, we want to see the living spaces of the local people, not the tourist sights. Can we visit the local street markets and visit one of the local’s houses in Istanbul? I like to see their normal family life with their children. Are 5 days enough in Istanbul? Thank you very much for all.
Tasnem Barkat –
Emel from Toursce organized the perfect tours of Istanbul for our party of 9. We wanted for a combination of fun and educational tours, and she assigned Ms. Gul (Rose) to be our tour guide and Ahmet to be our driver. We have learned a lot on the tours and laughed so much. We are still quoting Gul’s jokes back home. we had been talking to a couple of other travel companies before deciding to book the tours in Turkey. I felt like they would say yes to anything that I asked without really thinking about. The hotel location, traffic, visiting sights, the time frame of the tours. I thought they just like to book the tour. But Emel made a great holiday program for our group. Toursce.com guided tours included just the right amount of sights and information to keep us all our interest in Istanbul. I highly recommend Emel and ToursCE.com for a private customized tour of Istanbul. Emel is meticulous about the details and she has such great her job. Thank you very much for Emel and your team at toursce.com
Marcio –
It was special. Many people has insufficient information about Bosphorus. Theres much more than you see from centrum or on tv. Goes up till the black see and every centimeter has unique points to to discover. Thats why i choose this tour. And ofcourse lunch on boat was a plus. If you are looking for a Bosphorus cruise this is your tour.
Cia Ju –
I joined the cruise in my travel to Turkey. There were many option for Bosphorus Cruise but I decided Bosphorus Cruise & Black Sea. Because I saw all bosphorus in this tour also also included lunch. There was open buffet with rich menu on the boat. Boat stop Anadolu Kavagı and There was a small fish town there. I visited there almost 1 hour. Boat waited us and then we come to istanbul same route. They dropped to hotel us. I spend enjoy time really. Thank you very much for everything.