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  • Europe,Istanbul
  • 5 days (approx.)

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  • Offered in: English

Istanbul 5-Day City Package with Hotel, City Tours and Airport Transfers

If this is your first time to Istanbul and you want to see all the highlights of this amazing city at a leisurely pace, this is the tour for you. This five-day stay will take you to the palaces of Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Bosphorus, Dolmabahce Palace, Pierre Loti Hill, Asian side and there's even time for shopping in the Grand Bazaar to pickup a souvenir or two. A stroll down Istiklal Street connects the city's modern culture, architecture and theatres with quirky art and craft shopping. Istanbul city break is a gift for art lovers with a visit to Istanbul Modern Art, just one of many fine museums as well as other art galleries . Some of the world's best restaurants are located in the city making a break to Istanbul essential travel planning. Come and enjoy Istanbul in a 5-Days Istanbul City Break.

What's Included

  • Two full day guided Istanbul tour and Boshorus cruise
  • Lunch (2)
  • Two ways airport transfers
  • Museum entrance tickets
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Breakfast (4)
  • Four nights accommodation at 4-star hotels
  • Drinks at lunch

Meeting And Pickup

Start time:

12:00 AM

What To Expect

    Day 1: Arrival to airport. Meeting our driver, transfer to your hotel.Free day at lesuire by on your own.Overnight in Istanbul
  • Airport Pickup Istanbul

    Arrival to Istanbul Airport and meeting by our English speaking assistant and transfer to your hotel. Check in process at the hotel. Free day at lesuire by on your own.Overnight in Istanbul

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Day 2: Full Day Istanbul Classics and Highlights Tour
  • Sultanahmet Square

    The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet MeydanÄą in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving.

    Duration: 15 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • Serpent Column

    The Serpent Column, also known as the Serpentine Column, Plataean Tripod or Delphi Tripod, is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople in what is now Istanbul, Turkey.

    Duration: 5 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • Obelisk of Theodosius

    The Obelisk of Theodosius is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD.

    Duration: 5 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • Walled Obelisk

    The Walled Obelisk, Constantine Obelisk or Masonry Obelisk is situated near the Serpentine Column at the southern side of the Hippodrome of Constantinople in Istanbul, Turkey. Its original construction date is unknown, but it is named after Constantine VII, who repaired it in the tenth century.

    Duration: 5 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • German Fountain

    The German Fountain is a gazebo styled fountain in the northern end of old hippodrome, Istanbul, Turkey and across from the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed I. It was constructed to commemorate the second anniversary of German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898.

    Duration: 5 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • Blue Mosque

    Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. It remains a functioning mosque, while also attracting large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its KĂźlliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice.

    Duration: 1 hour

    Admission Included: NO

  • Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque

    Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Built in AD 360 at the beginning of the Middle Ages, it was famous in particular for its massive dome.

    Duration: 1 hour

    Admission Included: YES

  • TopkapI Palace

    The TopkapÄą Palace, or the Seraglio, is a large museum in Istanbul, Turkey. In the 15th century, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans. Construction began in 1459, ordered by Mehmed the Conqueror, six years after the conquest of Constantinople.

    Duration: 2 hours

    Admission Included: YES

  • Little Hagia Sophia Mosque, formerly the Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus, is a former Greek Eastern Orthodox church dedicated to Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople, converted into a mosque during the Ottoman Empire.

    Duration: 30 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • Grand Bazaar

    Historic sprawling network of indoor souks & market streets peddling leather, jewelry & gifts.

    Duration: 1 hour

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Day 3: Full-Day Tour and Cruise of Istanbul and the Bosphorus with Dolmabahce Palace, Cable Car
  • Pierre Loti Tepesi

    While Pierre Loti Hill is well-known for its spectacular views, the EyĂźp Sultan complex located below is a place to experience Istanbul's holiest scene.

    Duration: 30 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • Istanbul Cable Car

    Golden Horn with Cable Car to Pierre Loti HilThe Holiest place for Islamic community after Mecca and Jerusalem; Eyup Sultan Mosque. Visiting Pierre Lotti Hill by cable car. Watching the Golden Horn view.

    Duration: 15 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • Halic

    The Golden Horn, also known by its modern Turkish name, Haliç, is a major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Bosphorus Bridge

    The Bosphorus Bridge, known officially as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge and unofficially as the First Bridge, is one of the three suspension bridges spanning the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey, thus connecting Europe and Asia. The bridge extends between OrtakĂśy and Beylerbeyi.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Camlica Hill

    Çamlıca Hill, aka Big Çamlıca Hill to differentiate from the nearby Little Çamlıca Hill, is a hill in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. Situated on the Asian part of the city at 268 m above sea level, Çamlıca Hill has a panoramic view of the southern part of Bosphorus and the mouth of Golden Horn.

    Duration: 30 minutes

    Admission Included: NO

  • The Walls of Istanbul

    The Walls of Constantinople are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople since its founding as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine the Great.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Galata Tower

    The Galata Tower — called Christea Turris by the Genoese — is a medieval stone tower in the Galata/Karaköy quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, just to the north of the Golden Horn's junction with the Bosphorus

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Dolmabahce Palace

    Dolmabahçe Palace located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coast of the Strait of Istanbul, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and 1909 to 1922.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • The story of the CÄąragan Palace Kempinski Istanbul begins over three hundred years ago when the area that now surrounds the present day hotel was known as the "KazancÄąoğlu Gardens” at the beginning of the 17th century. The first known structure was a mansion that belonged to Admiral KÄąlĹç Ali Pasha. A hundred years later, in 1719, Damat İbrahim Pasha of Nevşehir, the Grand Vezir built a summer mansion here for his wife, the daughter of Sultan Ahmet III.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Ortakoy

    Ortaköy Mosque, officially the Büyük Mecidiye Camii in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, is situated at the waterside of the Ortaköy pier square, one of the most popular locations on the Bosphorus.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Rumeli Fortress

    Rumelihisarı or Boğazkesen Castle is a medieval fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey, on a series of hills on the European banks of the Bosphorus. The fortress also lends its name to the immediate neighborhood around it in the city's Sarıyer district.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge

    The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, also known as the Second Bosphorus Bridge, is a bridge in Istanbul, Turkey spanning the Bosphorus strait. When completed in 1988, it was the 5th-longest suspension bridge span in the world; today it is the 24th.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Beylerbeyi Palace

    The Beylerbeyi Palace, Beylerbeyi meaning "Lord of Lords", is located in the Beylerbeyi neighbourhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey at the Asian side of the Bosphorus. An Imperial Ottoman summer residence built in the 1860s, it is now situated immediately north of the 1973 Bosphorus Bridge.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Anadolu Hisari Fort

    AnadoluhisarÄą, known historically as GĂźzelce Hisar is a medieval fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian side of the Bosporus. The complex is the oldest surviving Turkish architectural structure built in Istanbul, and further gives its name to the neighborhood around it in the city's Beykoz district.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Kucuksu Pavilion

    Kßçßksu Palace or Kßçßksu Pavilion, a.k.a. GÜksu Pavilion, is a summer palace in Istanbul, Turkey, situated in the Kßçßksu neighborhood of Beykoz district on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus between AnadoluhisarĹ and the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • KIz Kulesi

    The Maiden's Tower, also known as Leander's Tower since the medieval Byzantine period, is a tower lying on a small islet located at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait 200 m from the coast of Üsküdar in Istanbul, Turkey.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Day 4: Free day - Optional tours can be booked seperately.
  • Istanbul

    Breakfast at the hotel,free day at lesuire on your own. Overnight in Istanbul (Breakfast) (We have optional day trips that you can take with discounted price on that day, our day trips for today; Princes’ Islands, Bursa City, Sapanca & Masukiye, Edirne City. You can take one of these day trips with 25% discount.

    Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

  • Day 5: Departure date - We are going to drop you to airport prior to your flight departure.

Additional Info

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

    You can cancel up to 24 Hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

    • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 Hours before the experience’s start time.
    • If you cancel less than 24 Hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
    • Any changes made less than 24 Hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
    • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
    • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
    • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

Starting from

$1,500.00

Price varies by group size