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

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Turkish Delight 4 Day Trip to Cappadocia Pamukkale Ephesus

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4 days
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Offered in: English

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Overview

Going to Turkey and hitting up its most important attractions and popular areas takes more than just a day, but planning out a long trip can be daunting. Skip the hassle of booking things individually and prebook this Turkey 4-Day Tour. You’ll go to Pamukkale, Ephesus, Cappadocia, and Hierapolis with three nights of accommodations and some meals included.

Enjoy four days and three night exploring Turkey
Pack in visits to Pamukkale, Ephesus, Cappadocia, and Hierapolis
Choose to upgrade to add a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia
Tour of Turkey has two tour languages to pick from—English and Spanish

What's Included

3 nights hotel accommodation including breakfast
Domestic Flight Tickets : Istanbul to Denizli - Izmir to Cappadocia - Cappadocia to Istanbul
Hotel Pick-up & Drop-off Services in Istanbul, Cappadocia, Kusadasi, Bodrum, Antalya
4 Guided Tours in Pamukkale, Ephesus, Cappadocia
Outdoor Tour : Hot Air Balloon Ride (Optional - You can add that tour while booking)
Professional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Entrance fees of museums, national parks, ruins mentioned in the itinerary
Transfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
Breakfast (3)
Lunch (4)

Dinner
Drinks
Entrance fee of Ancient Pool (Cleopatra's Pool) in Pamukkale

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to your preferred meeting point, or request pickup.

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Start time

04:00 AM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Day 1

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

10 Stops

Istanbul

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Denizli Çardak Airport

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Pamukkale Natural Park

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Hierapolis & Pamukkale

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Pamukkale Thermal Pools

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Pamukkale

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Laodicea

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Kusadasi

2 hours 45 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Kusadasi Castle

Admission Ticket Free

Okuz Mehmet Pasa KervansarayI

Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: INCLUDED - You can choose your hotel category and budget. There are different hotel variations at the booking options.

Meals: Lunch

Day 2

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

8 Stops

Kusadasi Gazi Begendi Park

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Meryemana (The Virgin Mary's House)

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Ancient City of Ephesus

1 hour 45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Ephesus Terrace Houses

Admission Ticket Free

Selçuk

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

The Temple of Artemis

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Kayseri Erkilet Airport (ASR)

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: INCLUDED - You can choose your hotel category and budget. There are different hotel variations at the booking options.

Meals: BreakfastLunch

Day 3

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

8 Stops

Cappadocia Tours & Hot Air Balloons

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Keslik Monastery

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Taşkınpaşa Medresesi

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Sobesos Ancient City

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Kaymakli Underground City

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Mustafapasa

1 hour 15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Pigeon Valley

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Cappadocia

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: INCLUDED - You can choose your hotel category and budget. There are different hotel variations at the booking options.

Meals: BreakfastLunch

Day 4

Full-day Cappadocia Tour - Flight Back to Istanbul

10 Stops

Urgup

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Goreme Open-Air Museum

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Ortahisar Panorama

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Uchisar Castle

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Goreme

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Avanos Oren Yeri

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Devrent Valley

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Fairy Chimneys

Admission Ticket Free

Cappadocia

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

İstanbul

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: BreakfastLunch

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not wheelchair accessible
Infants must sit on laps
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
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 travelers. They will already accommodate at single room(s).
The pre-planned hotels are "Charisma De Luxe Hotel (5stars)" and "Efe Boutique Hotel" in Kusadasi / "Exedra Hotel (De Luxe Cave Boutique)" and "1811 Cave Boutique Hotel (Cave Boutique)" in Cappadocia for your accommodation on this travel. You can choose your hotels while booking. If these hotels (which you preferred) are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, the tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel.
The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm, and you can not start use your room before this time. This is about the check-in & check-out policies of the hotels.
The differences between the package options are about the hotel categories. Tour(s), airport transfer(s) and flight ticket levels will be same for all options.
The 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.

The tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details which requested by the tour operator, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
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 tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg. This is exactly about the policies of airline companies.
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 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 tour operator do not accept this last minute amending and drop you to your pick-up hotel.
If your pick-up / drop-off hotels are inside of airports (IST and SAW airports) the tour operator do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service.
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 "included balloon ride" and "excluded balloon ride" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
The Standard Balloon 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.
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, the tour operator can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 6 days in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 6 full days before the experience’s start time.
Any changes made less than 6 full days before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
For a 50% refund, you must cancel 2–6 full days before the experience’s start time.

If you cancel less than 2 full days before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 2 full days before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Reviews

4.0

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Exceeded our expectations!

John_Z, Oct 2023

Where to start? Communication with the tour provider was amazing. WhatsApp phone app makes it easier. Guides and drivers were professional, knowledgeable and and passionate about Turkey and its history. Do a little historical research before you go. Hotels were terrific and the meals were delicious. Ballon ride - a must do. I’d go again. Highly recommend!

Response from Host, Jan 2024

Dear Guest, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience!! The whole team puts a lot of work to make sure everything goes as smooth as possible :) They will love to know how much you enjoyed on our tour. Thank you so much for you recommendation! Kind Regards

Great Locations But Investigate Yourself

Jennifer_B, Sep 2023

Tour guides and local support of the regions were terrific and accommodating. However finer details not given til a few days before and found late flights and a hotel although beautiful was in wrong location. Too late to do anything as already overseas . Too much free time in Cappadocia when you needed transport as areas are fairly remote. Stayed in Upgurp when Goreme was more central.

Pleasantly surprised!!

Robin_W, Jan 2020

We hadn't looked into the details of this trip ahead of time, we wanted it to be a surprise... and it was a WONDERFUL one!!! We did a holy land tour with Maranatha tours and a Nile cruise with Viator before coming on this trip near that same region. I can't make up my mind which I liked best. Each was unique and AWESOME, truly!! WE LOVED Turkey!! We had shockingly great tour guides!! Viator had been great in Egypt and so far they were showing the same great colors even though they seemed to be using Lotus tours...not sure why, but they were good. The only problem we had was somehow there was a misunderstanding when picking us up from the airport in Kayseri and getting us to Cappadocia. We found an airport attendant that took up our cause and helped us with the language barrier and phone calls to our company. They made sure to pay us back for that expense when we booked the AMAZING hot air ballon ride. And, though I wasn't real happy with the airport stressor and the loss of a couple of hours, we arrived at our hotel safe and sound! (It was at this point that I wished I had pursued more information with Viator before leaving the states! Probably my bad, and, by the way, every other connection was good and clear and we felt cared for.) Arrival at Cappadocia from the airport was almost magical. The old man running our hotel was sweet. The food everywhere was pretty good. The stay at Lyadia hotel in Kusadasi was so cool as you could see out over the Aegean sea. Gorgeous pictures from their balcony. Ephesus and our tour guide, as well as the one for the travertine pools and Mustafa for underground caves were beautiful, balanced, fascinating and warm, making our trip SO meaningful in the midst of such amazing sights and learning. I LOVED them all!! Thank you guys! I am starting to pray for Turkey as I see what the common people are like as opposed to the government. They are just like us...normal people with needs... and hearts...beautiful ones! We felt safe and secure EVERYWHERE. You'd never know there were problems in Syria several hours away. Will definitely try for future bookings with Viator!!

Disappointing Tour

TuckYew_L, Nov 2019

We had used Viator Tours on many occasions in the past and had a positive experience on all of them. So this qualifies as our most disappointing experience with Viator. The Local contractor used by Viator was poor. For example, the two day tour in Cappadocia was further subcontracted out. It resulted in us being scheduled for the same Green tour on both days because there was no communication between the two sub-Contractors. Vehicles used were on varying standards and some were of distinctly poor quality; for example in Ephesus. The entire vehicle was fully packed, the seats were filthy, two of us had to squeeze in front with the driver, there were no seat belts and windows couldn’t be opened. Not surprisingly, this vehicle broke down halfway and had to be replaced. On another occasion, our ride was delayed because there were too many passengers allocated. A poor couple had to be bumped off after some argument. There are other instances of substandard performance and service, but this gives a flavour of what went wrong with this Viator tour.

Response from Host, Nov 2019

Dear T.Y Lui, We are sorry about your disappointment. We checked your feedback and understood something misunderstanding. About communication : Each day of your trip we contacted with you for give you information about the exact pick-up time of next day and you confirmed those emails. You can check them on your inbox. About tour vehicles : You are right. Our all vehicles are not same model. Some of them are 2015 model and some of them are 2018-2019 model. Right, windows can not open. Because each vehicle has air condition. The windows can not open if you are using air condition as you used your own car. Also you are right again. The tour vehicles are nearly full in group tours. Because, Ephesus, Pamukkale and Cappadocia are most popular destinations in Turkey and all the tours are fully booked on everyday. Our all the drivers are cleaning the vehicles after the tours and each cars are being ready and clean before the tour of next day. But we can not control passengers during the tour. If some passengers dirtied the seats, we are sorry for that. Kind Regards

Good organisation but need some improvements

mdmgreen2018, Sep 2019

Pamukkale, the tour was ok, but was not happy to walk the way back from an slippery path down to meet the guide at the bottom. That was the only path to go down or take a taxi down. Transfer to hotel was 3 hours in a hotel above a club which music was loud till 3.30 - 4 o clock. Transfer was not fully aircondioned. The view of the hotel was great though. We could not see the point of taking us all the way to the end of Kadashari arriving at 20.30 and be picked up again at 8.15. Also the guide was convinced in which hotel we were staying in and left us in the wrong one. Luckily the driver was still there and helped us out. Ephesus: tour was good. The logistics not so much. According to the itinerary we had a full day including lunch, however the flights were booked at 16.10. So half and a bit tour and no lunch. It takes an hour to get to the airport. So we flew from Izmer to Istanbul and there we had to wait for our next flight to Kayseri. So we left Ephesus at 14.00 and arrived at our hotel in Cappadocia at 23.30. I am not sure who did the planning for day 2 but that was definitely no fun ! Again not a fully aircondioned transfer. Cappadocia: Hotel was great and had a fantastic tour Got picked up from the hotel around 10. We had lovely tours and really enjoyed both days.