Basilica Cistern (Private Guide & No waiting) Ticket not included

The guide was awesome and very informative thank you Nuri for the opportunity to share this experience. Really appreciate the detailed explanation and the care of all the details during the visit.

Nuri gave my husband and I an absolutely amazing tour of the Basilica Cistern! It was truly one of the most incredible experiences of our trip. The Basilica Cistern is breathtaking and filled with so much history, and having Nuri as our guide made the experience even more special. Nuri was incredibly knowledgeable and shared so much fascinating information about the history, architecture, and stories behind what we were seeing. He made everything interesting, easy to understand, and brought the history to life for us. We are so grateful we had Nuri as our guide and would highly recommend him to anyone visiting Istanbul. If you have the opportunity to take a tour with Nuri, do it—you won’t regret it! It was an unforgettable experience!

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Having Nüri with us as our guide was extremely helpful and made our experience even more enjoyable. He is incredibly knowledgeable, and you can genuinely see the passion he has for what he does. He was very accommodating, patient, and happy to answer all of our questions. He also went above and beyond to make sure we got that perfect picture! We truly appreciated his expertise and the personal touch he brought to our experience.

Nuri was very friendly and very informative. He even had a fun fact about Albania! Thank you Nuri :)

Great experience and great communication from before meeting until the end. Interesting stories and nice time!

Nuri was a great guide to this amazing location. We learnt a lot about the cistern’s history and importance and enjoyed the experience much more than if we had gone alone. Highly Recommend.

I cannot say enough about how excellent Nuri was! He is very knowledgeable about the cistern (and Istanbul), very kind, and insists that you not feel rushed. He took several photos of me (traveling solo), pointed out countless cool things I would have missed, and made me so happy that I took this tour. There wasn’t a long line to get in, but even with no line at all, I recommend everyone book a time with Nuri. Thank you so much, Nuri!

Seeing the Basilica Cistern without a tour guide would be good but having a knowledgeable guide like Nuri made this visit exceptional. We bought our tickets, met up at the agreed meeting place and skipped the queue to enter. Nuri was quite exceptional....great knowledge, good historical background, his torch was used to highlight key features for us and his photos enhanced his explanations.There were 4 of us and this was a perfect group size. He took as much time as we needed and even took our photos. He also was very flexible in changing our tour date and time as I had double booked by mistake. Highly recommend Nuri for this tour.

The private tour was very interesting. It's really nice we didn't have to wait in line. Our guide Nuri Erbay had a lot of knowledge and spoke good English. He answered all our questions. Definitely worth it.

The experience was good. The basilica was impressive. Although there is no line, there are a lot of people. For peace of mind, it is preferable to reserve the monuments you want to visit. Be cautious with taxis in the afternoon and at night. They do not use a meter and can charge whatever they want. Be careful when loading the Istanbul card. If someone approaches you, make sure they are from the company, otherwise, you will surely be scammed. It happened to us. It is a shame that a city with so many thousands of visitors does not take better care of these details.