Skip the Line: Topkapi Palace Including Süleymaniye Mosque and Ceramics Workshop in Istanbul

Aykut Gonul is an excellent guide who has a lot of detailed knowledge and takes a lot of time for each station. It was the best tour of Istanbul with great fun factor.

Beautiful visit to the mosque süleymaniye and you palace Topkapı in duo with our excellent guide Baris who loves its city and monuments. Visit at your own pace and informative. I recommend!

Visit in duo not with a group so time to visit and enjoy the place. The guide was really Top!! Very nice and took the time to share with us the history of this beautiful city

We received a warm Welcoming from our guide Ufuk Tuna, the visit to the Suleymania mosque was most pleasant, we had the opportunity to take some pictures. The visit to the big bazaar was not planned yet our guide took us there, we thought he managed his time so we did not mind. The visit to Topkapi was most lamentable, our guide was present exclusively for the purchase of the ticket, the visit was botched. When he saw that there was no time, he offered to come back in 20 minutes, which we refused and reminded him that the visit to the earthenware workshop was included in the visit. The earthenware workshop is called Firca and at our insistence he took us there, our guide became "Passe-partout", he did not address us until we arrived in the workshop. To conclude, we do not recommend this guided tour, we felt like pigeons at the end of it.

Day 9 of December 2018. Time I find 9.30. He arrived late to the meeting point 9.40 am. and without identifying, it was just my wife and I, who asked almost all the guides who were waiting for the clients if it was them, finally arrives and when I address him he takes a folio with my name, identify and presented we go to the mosque, it is useless, it is free, he talks without desire, without motivation, said that he was grippy, between going, by train, and absurd visit says that we have consumed an hour and a half, because let's go back quickly I told him that there is much to see and the loose guy who at 13 hours has a group of 25 people, we walk as slow as possible and heading with a malicious or hesitant smile explaining history. We arrived in Topkapi and he says that many places can not enter the guide, total who explains it from the patios, I told him that we could have taken self-guide and we would find out the same or better, especially by the time he left us, that already 12.40 and had to eat to run to the other group. A little earlier I had told him that he would not give us time to go and see the ceramic workshop he told me, because we see the palace quickly and we go to the workshop, I said, man no matter how fast it is here for an hour or more, because we do not go to the workshop he answered, also today Sunday is closed. In short, I have considered myself stolen, since paying forty 40€, per person, that is eighty 80€, to act as escort or street guide to know where to go, that we already knew that, I repeat it seems barbaric, a theft. I'm sorry, but that's how I felt. I was such an asshole that we tipped him on top. I swear by God and by my honor to be true when I say and write, being able to be personally expanded by word to be more explicit, for which I send my phone. Manuel Arévalo 639293158

Amazing islamic history with artifacts from the Kaaba, Nabi Mohammed (SAW) and other prominent people. Wear comfy shoes and appropriate attire.

We had a nice guide who knew a lot, and these buildings are definitely worth seeing. What just annoyed me: The visit to the ceramic workshop, although it is on the program, did not take place, because unfortunately (probably some time ago) it has moved and the visit therefore cannot take place in the expected time. Very bad!!! Please promise nothing that cannot be kept afterwards!

The Topkapi Palace is one of the essential visits in Istanbul. Beautiful gardens, the palace facilities and the harem sharpen the feelings and feed the curiosity for the history of this strong and charming city. And the privileged location, on the edge of the Bosphorus Strait completes the envelope that provides us. We had lunch at the restaurant inside the Palace and on the waterfront. Perfect!

Undoubtedly, the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul is a trip to the scenery of 1000 and one nights, where you can tour, with an audio guide , in the native language of the traveler, each of the rooms of the palace, site the harem, the Sultan's library, the throne room, etc. For maintenance reasons the treasure room and bathrooms were not open to the public. Anyway, a fascinating experience!!

Most beutiful so romantic and estetic u will love it!! Better then everything else. Have alot of time, ear cake and watch the water from the castlecafe!