Het beste van Istanbul: Basilica Cisterne - Blauwe Moskee - Grote Bazaar
Beschrijving
Verken de levendige en legendarische "oude stad" van Istanbul tijdens deze tour, waar je de kans krijgt om ongelooflijke foto's te maken bij beroemde bezienswaardigheden zoals de ondergrondse Basilica Cisterne en de Blauwe Moskee in Sultanahmet. Geniet van de aromatische geneugten van de kruidenmarkten en duik in het rijke Byzantijnse erfgoed van de Hippodrome. Laat u inspireren door de lokale kunst- en handwerkscene en ontdek de geheimen van het traditionele tapijtweven tijdens een bezoek aan een historische tapijtwerkplaats. • Profiteer van voorrangstoegang en sla de wachtrijen bij de Basilica Cisterne over • Geniet van Turkse lekkernijen op de bruisende Grand Bazaar • Probeer eens een weefgetouw als je avontuurlijk bent ingesteld. • Profiteer van een kleinere reisgroep die kan worden aangepast aan uw interesses
Rondreisopties
Reisroute
Deze ruime, door Rome gebouwde stortbak pronkt met indrukwekkende Romeinse bouwkunde en werd gebouwd in opdracht van keizer Justinianus, de grootste nog bestaande Byzantijnse stortbak in Istanbul en is in de loop van de tijd het decor geweest voor vele films.
Sultan Ahmed Mosque, bij veel toeristen bekend als de Blauwe Moskee vanwege de blauwachtige interieurdecoratie (blauwe tegels rond de muren van het interieur), is de belangrijkste moskee van Istanbul die naast de Byzantijnse Hippodrome in het oude stadscentrum staat ..
De Hippodroom van Constantinopel was een circus dat het sportieve en sociale centrum van Constantinopel was. Tegenwoordig is het een plein met een paar overgebleven fragmenten van de oorspronkelijke structuur. Monumenten die het Hippodrome sieren zijn onder andere de 3500 jaar oude Egyptische Obelisk, de Serpentine Column...
De Grote Bazaar van Istanbul staat hoog op de meeste toeristenroutes, en met een goede reden. Deze enorme site is de grootste overdekte markt ter wereld met 61 overdekte straten en meer dan 4.000 winkels op een totale oppervlakte van 30.700 m² en trekt dagelijks tussen de 250.000 en 400.000 bezoekers ...
"Sultan Ahmet Center", het hart van de "Oude Stad" van waaruit de Byzantijnse en Ottomaanse rijken werden geregeerd
Een vijftienhonderd jaar oud prachtig monument, is een must see in Istanbul, gebouwd om 's werelds grootste plaats van aanbidding te zijn door keizer Justinianus in 532 na Christus.
Dit prachtige plein en een geweldige plek om te stoppen, te ontspannen en foto's te maken van de Hagia Sophia en de Blauwe Moskee.
Hoogtepunten
Wat is inbegrepen
Beoordelingen van reizigers
Belangrijke informatie
- Opties voor openbaar vervoer zijn in de buurt aanwezig
- Kinderen moeten bij een volwassene op schoot zitten
- Geschikt voor alle condities
- Bescheiden kleding verdient de voorkeur bij een bezoek aan de Sultanahmet Blauwe Moskee. Shorts voor mannen of vrouwen moeten tot onder de knie vallen. Vrouwen bedekken hun hoofd en blootgestelde schouders met een sjaal of sjaal, rok moet tot onder de knie.
- Het kan een uitdaging zijn om de tour met een kinderwagen te doen, niet aanbevolen
- Grand Bazaar is gesloten op zondag
- ALS “All Inclusive Option” niet is geselecteerd : Basilica Cisterne (1.500TL per persoon) is niet inbegrepen in de tourprijs. Zodra u uw toegangsprijs heeft betaald aan uw Gids, heeft u het voorrecht om de wachtrij voor tickets over te slaan. U kunt de Gids bij voorkeur contant betalen in TRY (of in het equivalent van USD of EURO).
Beoordelingen(54)
Ezgi was charming and took care of us on a hot day. We got to see things that we wouldn’t have necessarily planned to do like the basilica cistern, which was a wonderful surprise.
Thank you for your lovely feedback! We’re so happy to hear that your first visit to Istanbul was made even more special with Ezgi’s care and guidance. The Basilica Cistern is indeed a magical surprise, and we’re glad you enjoyed discovering it along with the other highlights. We truly appreciate your kind words and hope to welcome you back to explore even more of Istanbul with us!
Our guide Kim was friendly and informative. We enjoyed the overview of Istanbul. Unfortunately the line to get into the Blue Mosque was so long that we opted out….next time. I highly recommend this highlights tour.
Thank you for your feedback! We’re glad to hear that Kim’s friendly and informative guidance made your highlights tour enjoyable. We completely understand how long lines can be frustrating, and we hope next time you’ll have the chance to experience the Blue Mosque as well. Your recommendation means a lot to us, and we’d love to welcome you back for another wonderful Istanbul adventure!
A fantastic experience one we will never forget. Our Guide was fantastic and very informative. It was a little challenging with all the walking would not suggest this for someone with any soreness that managed to make it through the day.
Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We are thrilled to hear that you had a fantastic and unforgettable experience on our Istanbul tour, and that our guide was so informative. Your feedback about the amount of walking is very valuable. We appreciate you mentioning this for future guests. We will be sure to add more detailed information about the walking intensity to our tour descriptions to help guests with mobility issues or soreness plan accordingly. We are so glad you managed to make it through and had such a memorable day. We hope to welcome you back again soon!
Very informative and interesting history. Our small group tour turned out to be a private tour and our guide was a Turkish historian and really knew his stuff. The Blue Mosque was easy to get in and around and the history of the hippodrome was interesting. Basilca Cistern was really cool!!
Thank you for this excellent review! We are so glad to hear that you had an informative and interesting Istanbul tour and that your small group turned into a private one. It sounds like our guide's expertise as a Turkish historian truly made the experience special. We're thrilled that you enjoyed the Blue Mosque, learned about the Hippodrome, and found the Basilica Cistern to be so cool. Our goal is to provide deep, meaningful experiences, and your feedback shows we succeeded. We hope to welcome you on another tour soon!
This turned out to be a private tour for just my husband and me. Our guide seemed very knowledgeable and we enjoyed our time with him.
Thank you for sharing your experience! We're so glad that you had a private Istanbul tour and that your guide's knowledge made the experience so enjoyable for you and your husband. It sounds like a fantastic way to explore the city! We hope to welcome you back again soon.
A very informative introduction to some of the most beautiful iconic sites. Erol’s commentary was full of detail about the history and he also gave us a sense of life as a modern day Turk. Highly recommended!
Thank you for the wonderful review! We're so glad you had such a great experience and found the tour to be a very informative introduction to **Istanbul's** iconic sites. It's fantastic to hear that **Erol**'s commentary was not only rich with historical detail but also gave you a sense of what life is like for a modern-day Turk. We believe that blend of past and present is what makes a tour truly special. Your high recommendation means a lot to us!
Wish there was better audio with tour hard to keep with with him or find him if he had mike would have neen better
Thank you for your feedback. We're glad you had a chance to explore some of the best sites in **Istanbul**, and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention. We are always looking for ways to improve our tours, and your comments about the audio and staying with the guide are very helpful. We will take your suggestions into consideration to ensure a better experience for all our guests.
This is a scam. They only run tours as per their convenience and not as per the scheduled times shown while making the booking. Although the money got refunded, they were extremely rude, and the entire experience left a very bad flavour. I lost the opportunity to see the sights since I had a very short time in Istanbul, and was unnecessarily made to come to the meeting point. I had booked a tour for 8:30 in the morning. Less than 12 hours before the tour, when the tour was no longer cancellable from my end, I got a message on my phone directly from the tour operator that my tour has been postponed to 1:00 pm. As this new time did not suit me, I asked them to allocate another guide. They said they are searching for one but never replied back. When I told them I have found something else, and to cancel my tour, the operator came back saying that the tour is operational, and if i do not show up the tour will be a no show and hence no refund. I kept requesting for the details of the guide, which they didn't share, stating privacy, all the while messaging me directly and not through Viator. The next day I was at the meeting point 5 mins before the tour was to start, which was the suggested time. However there was no one at the meeting point. When I reached out to the tour operator, I was told to prove that I am at the pick-up point, and then told that the tour had already started (before the start time). They said I was free to join the tour at 1:00 since I'd missed this one. Eventually I raised a request through viator and was refunded my booking amount, however despite not running the tour, the tour operator did not initial the cancellation from their end. Although the money got refunded, they were extremely rude, and the entire experience left a very bad flavour. I lost the opportunity to see the sights and was unnecessarily made to come to the meeting point.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am deeply sorry for the unacceptable experience you had. This is not the standard of service we strive for, and I want to sincerely apologize for the frustration, inconvenience, and disappointment this caused. Your feedback highlights several serious issues that we need to address immediately with our tour operators. The behavior you described—canceling a tour on short notice, rudeness from staff, and failing to provide clear communication—is completely unacceptable. Making you come to the meeting point for a tour that had already "started" is also a breach of our trust and commitment to our customers. I want to assure you that we are taking this matter very seriously. We will be investigating this specific incident thoroughly and working with our partners to ensure this never happens again. We understand that a refund, while important, does not make up for a ruined experience or lost time during your short visit to Istanbul. We hope you can find it in your heart to give us another chance in the future. In the meantime, thank you for your honesty and for helping us to improve.
It was a great experience in Instambul with our great guide Huseyin. He gave us a great and colorful historical review in perfect English. It was very interesting also to find out architectural and archeological details. We also had an Excursion to the Turkish rug factory, where we could see handmade silk and wool rug production from a silk cocoon to a weaving by hands beautiful patterns genuine only for Turkish rugs. The guide was very friendly and knowledgeable.
Thank you for your wonderful review! We are so glad you had such a great experience in **Istanbul** with our guide, **Huseyin**. It's fantastic to hear that he provided a "colorful historical review" in perfect English and that you found the architectural and archaeological details so interesting. We're also happy that you enjoyed the excursion to the Turkish rug factory and got to see the fascinating process of handmade silk and wool rug production. We'll be sure to pass on your kind words to Huseyin.
The tour guide never showed up! We were at meeting site will before meeting time and waited 25 minutes for tour guide who never appeared. When tour provider was contacted we were told that the tour happened and that this was not their problem. Do not reserve this tour!!!
I am so sorry to hear about your experience. This is completely unacceptable, and I want to extend my sincerest apologies for the tour guide not showing up and for the lack of support you received when you contacted the tour provider. What you described is not how we operate, and we take this feedback very seriously. The provider's response that "the tour happened" and that it was "not their problem" is unprofessional and completely wrong. We are investigating this incident immediately with the tour operator and will be taking action to ensure this never happens again. A full refund for your booking has been processed, and you should see it reflected on your credit card statement within 5-10 business days. While we know a refund doesn't make up for the disappointment and wasted time, we hope you'll allow us to regain your trust in the future.
