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Jewels of Turkey - 4 Day Trip to Pamukkale Ephesus Cappadocia with Balloon Ride

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7.4 out of 10
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Free cancellation available
Price is €2,459 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 4d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

If you would like discover the main destinations of Turkey, this travel pakage is one of the best Turkey travel itineraries. The services of travel package is starting from your hotel in Istanbul. The connection between the destinations will be with the domestic flights and those flights included. You can update your reservation with a hot air balloon tour for a fantastic experience over fairy chimneys of Cappadocia.

Activity location

  • Istanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Kuşadası
    • Kuşadası, Aydın, Turkiye

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Standard Package
  • Activity duration is 4 days4d
    4d
  • English

Accommodation: Efe Boutique Hotel in Kusadasi - Misty Cave Hotel in Cappadocia
Hot Air Balloon Ride: EXCLUDED
Tour Level: The guided tours of this trip package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Language: English
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 04:00
Price details
€2,354.00 x 1 Adult€2,354.00
Paid at activity€105.00
Total
Price is €2,459.00
Optimal Package
  • Activity duration is 4 days4d
    4d
  • English

Accommodation: Efe Boutique Hotel in Kusadasi - Misty Cave Hotel in Cappadocia
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Tour Level: The guided tours of this trip package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Language: English
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 04:00
Price details
€2,675.00 x 1 Adult€2,675.00
Paid at activity€105.00
Total
Price is €2,780.00
Superior Package
  • Activity duration is 4 days4d
    4d
  • English

Accommodation: Carina Boutique Hotel in Kusadasi - Zeydem Suites Hotel in Cappadocia
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Tour Level: The guided tours of this trip package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Language: English, Spanish - Each language is assigned its own car and guide, separate from the others.
Pickup included

Starting time: 04:00
Price details
€2,838.00 x 1 Adult€2,838.00
Paid at activity€105.00
Total
Price is €2,943.00
Premium Package
  • Activity duration is 4 days4d
    4d
  • English

Accommodation: Charisma De Luxe Hotel in Kusadasi - Yunak Evleri Hotel in Cappadocia
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Tour Level: The guided tours of this trip package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Languages: English, Spanish - Each language is assigned its own car and guide, separate from the others.
Pickup included

Starting time: 04:00
Price details
€3,210.00 x 1 Adult€3,210.00
Paid at activity€105.00
Total
Price is €3,315.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    4 Local lunches (including traditional Testi Kebab)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    3 nights hotel accommodation with breakfast
  • What's includedWhat's included
    All entrance fees for museums and ruins listed in itinerary
  • What's includedWhat's included
    4 Semi-private guided tours (Max 10 guests)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Hot Air Balloon ride (if 'Optimal' or 'Superior' or 'Premium' package selected)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    All airport transfers in Istanbul, Denizli, Izmir, and Cappadocia
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Return domestic flights (Istanbul-Denizli, Izmir-Cappadocia, Cappadocia-Istanbul)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Professional licensed tour guide (Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    International airfare to/from Turkey
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Dinners and all drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Ancient Pool (Cleopatra's Pool)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Optional Paragliding experience in Pamukkale
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge for guides and drivers
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Personal expenses

Know before you book

  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Not recommended for travellers who has claustrophobia
  • The local tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
  • The local tour operator will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at six days before your departure date. You will not need the print out copies of the tickets for domestic flights. Your passport and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for check-in to plane. Please note that, the local tour operator will not do check-in because of the personal preferences of the guests.
  • You will have 15kg luggage + 8kg hand bag quota per person for each domestic flight. If you will need more luggage capacity, please inform that to the local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg.
  • If you do connect any flight which arranged by your own to departure/return flight of this travel package, you may have a risk about miss one of them. This risk is about the delay/cancellation by airlines companies. We do not suggest that to safety of your booking. If there is any glitch because of this type arrangements by you, the local tour operator is not going to be responsible.
  • If your return hotel is different than pick-up hotel, please inform that detail immediately. If you inform that detail after organised your flight tickets, the local tour operator can request extra cost because of the distances between the airports and some hotels. If you inform this type changes on service day (last day of your trip), the local tour operator do not confirm this last minute amending and drop you to your pick-up hotel.
  • The prices of package are valid for accommodation at the double or triple room. If you would like add accommodation on single room(s) to your booking, there could be supplement cost. There are not going to be any extra cost for bookings of single / solo travellers. They will already accommodate at single room.
  • ACCOMMODATION EXPERIENCES : The pre-planned hotels are "Yunak Evleri Hotel", "Zeydem Suites Cave Hotel", "1811 Cave Hotel" in Cappadocia and "Charisma De Luxe Hotel", "Carina Boutique Hotel", "Efe Boutique Hotel" for your accommodation on this travel package. You may choose your hotel category while booking. If these hotels (which you preferred) are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, the local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel.
  • SEMI-PRIVATE TOURS : The guided daily tours of this trip package, limited to a maximum of 10 guests per group, provide an in-depth exploration of Cappadocia’s ancient sites and breathtaking landscapes.
  • MONEY BACK GUARANTEE ! : Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip. Your refund rate will be the difference between options of "Standard Package" and "Optimal Package" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
  • Hot Air Balloon Ride will be in “Standard Category”. This category ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing, and pilots are decide to that within the safety rules of Civil Aviation Authority. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
  • If you did not add Hot Air Balloon Ride to your booking for this trip package, you can not get any service for hot air balloon ride which advertised/offered at the paragpraph of the descriptions.
  • If your pick-up / drop-off hotels are inside of airports (IST and SAW airports) the local tour operator do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service in Istanbul.
  • If you do not use any service or give up join to activities / tours / airport transfers, that's meaning is going to be last minute cancellation. Because of that, there is not going to be any refund for that.
  • If you would like change your scheduled domestic flight(s) after organised them, the local tour operator can request new flight ticket cost. The flight tickets can not refundable after organised.
  • Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, the local tour operator can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.
  • The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Flight from Istanbul to Denizli - Pamukkale, Hierapolis & Laodicea Tour - Transfer to Kusadasi - Overnight at Kusadasi

  • 12 stops
  • Meals: lunch
  • Accommodation: Included: When booking the tour, you have right to select your desired hotel category from a range of available choices.

Istanbul

  • 1h

Denizli Çardak Airport

  • 1h

Hierapolis & Pamukkale

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included

Pamukkale Thermal Pools

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included

Cleopatra Pools

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included

Pamukkale

  • 1h

Karahayit

  • 30m

Laodicea Ancient City

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included

pamukkale tandem paragliding

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included

Kusadasi

  • 2h 30m

Kusadasi Castle

Okuz Mehmet Pasa KervansarayI

Day 2: Ephesus & House of Virgin Mary Tour - Flight from Izmir to Cappadocia - Overnight at Cappadocia

  • 8 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Included: When booking the tour, you have right to select your desired hotel category from a range of available choices.

Kusadasi Gazi Begendi Park

  • 15m

Meryemana (The Virgin Mary's House)

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included

Ancient City of Ephesus

  • 1h 45m
  • Admission ticket included

Ephesus Terrace Houses

Selçuk

  • 1h

The Temple of Artemis

  • 15m

Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport

  • 1h

Kayseri Erkilet Airport (ASR)

  • 1h

Day 3: Hot Air Balloon Ride (Optional) - Full-day Cappadocia Tour - Overnight at Cappadocia

  • 11 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Included: When booking the tour, you have right to select your desired hotel category from a range of available choices.

Cappadocia Balloon Tour

  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included

Urgup

  • 10m

Goreme National Park

Goreme Open-Air Museum

  • 1h 15m
  • Admission ticket included

TokalI Church

  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included

Ortahisar

  • 40m

Avanos Oren Yeri

  • 1h

Uchisar Castle

  • 20m

Devrent Valley

  • 20m

Fairy Chimneys

Cappadocia

  • 30m

Day 4: Full-day Cappadocia Tour - Flight Back to Istanbul

  • 7 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Not included

Keslik Monastery

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included

Sobesos Ancient City

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included

Uchisar

  • 1h

Pigeon Valley

  • 20m

Kaymakli Underground City

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included

Cappadocia

  • 1h

Istanbul

  • 1h

Location

Activity location

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    Istanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Kuşadası
    • Kuşadası, Aydın, Turkiye
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    Selçuk
    • Selçuk, İzmir, Turkiye
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    Cappadocia
    • Turkiye
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    Uçhisar
    • Uçhisar, Nevşehir, Turkiye
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    Ürgüp
    • Ürgüp, Nevşehir, Turkiye
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    İzmir
    • İzmir, İzmir, Turkiye
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    Göreme
    • 50180, Göreme, Nevşehir, Turkiye
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    Kale Mahallesi
    • 20190, Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkiye
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    Istanbul
    • Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkiye

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