ALL INCLUSIVE Privé Efeze, Terrashuizen tour met LUNCH

Dudu our guide was very knowledgeable and friendly. It felt as if we were getting to know the place with a long time friend.

Amazing experience, Dudu was great. Super kowledgable and friendly. We will be back in Turkey thanks to the great time we had.

This tour was excellent and worth the money. Our guide Aleyna was a very professional and kind person. The Turkish lunch was really tasty, and they noticed my special diet. Also, the carpet presentation was impressive.

Aleyna was our tour guide and was amazing! She was very knowledgeable, pleasant, and open to all of our questions! We were able to customize our tour easily!

Wonderful excursion with Gem via Viator. His knowledge of history, culture, cuisine added so much to the experience. We really enjoyed seeing all of the historical sights of Ephesus. Definitely a must when in Turkey.

Cem was the BEST tour guide! He was so knowledgeable and had a great personality. He was also so patient with my husband who walked with a cane. Thanks to Cem we had an awesome experience in Turkey!

Cem was fantastic your guide. He was well informed on Turkish culture, history, cuisine. We enjoyed our time with him. He was also very patient and accommodating as we had one member with walking challenges.

Great guide, Orkan was friendly, well versed in his knowledge, and a delight to chat with! Adjusted to get us out of traffic but still showed us everything. Driver was great, vehicle was clean and spacious.

We took the All inclusive private Ephesus, Terrace houses tour with Curio Travels. Our guide NEJDET KAHRAMAN was very knowledgeable and informative, and we had a wonderful time. I would recommend this tour company.

The driver got us to and from Ephesus safely, so I'll give two stars for that. Otherwise, I wish we hadn't booked this tour. The tour's itinerary is clear and touches only on historical areas, which is the reason we booked this specific Ephesus tour. Our guide told us that the stop for lunch was to be at a "quiet cooperative" because regular cafes are "too busy." Apparently, this is code for stopping for lunch inside a notorious tourist trap rug store. The guide herself shared the fairy tale about government sponsored rug-making to preserve Turkish culture and support women. She even begged us not to turn down the refreshments they offered us because it would be "inhospitable," when that's clearly just designed to make tourists feel obligated to buy. Once we got through the elaborate rug sales pitch -- over 30 minutes I can never get back -- and gave a firm 'no' on purchasing a rug, we were thankfully released to lunch and then back to the van. Then, our guide immediately tells us that the next stop is a pottery making facility -- another tourist trap not on the itinerary. When we told our guide that we didn't want to go there and would prefer to move along with our scheduled itinerary to the temple of Artemis, I was shocked at how she shut down. After seeing the Temple from afar, we took the 30 minute drive back to the port town. For those 30 minutes, our guide was on her phone the entire time, even while she was sitting in a van essentially face to face with us. At one point, she made an actual phone call and talked on the phone. I've never been on a tour where the guide didn't maximize even the transportation time by telling us interesting information about what we were seeing or the area in general. We resorted to looking up the information about the area around us on Google maps and asking Gemini. Otherwise, in Ephesis, our guide recited a well-prepared speech about the historical sights. Unfortunately, her actual knowledge of the history seemed limited. She seemed to struggle to answer questions, especially when the question touched on other related historical events. I wish my family had saved money and just taken a taxi to Ephesis and done the historical site on our own.