• Private İstanbul Tour From Airport;
• If you have layover in the airport and limited time. This tour is for you. We meet and greet you in the airport with our private van and, transfer you to the Old City, where the most important sights are.
• What is really amazing about the city is that, the all beautiful historical monuments are located in the same area.
• During this tour you will be covering most important places such as Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Topkapı Palace, The Hippodrome, German Fountain and Grand Bazaar so on.Family friendly professional tour guides will ccompany you which will make things easier and comfortable in most of the touristic places, museums and palaces the tour guides have the priority can skip the lines.
• The best part is the tour is customizable for so you can add new places you would like to see or remove the places you don’t want to see. You can choose start time and finishing time as well.
• Once the tour finished our private van will take you back to the airport.
• What's Included
• Air-conditioned vehicle
• Private transportation
• WiFi on board
• Private Professional Tour Guide
• Greet And Meet Service
• Free Istanbul city map
• Pick-up with a sign
• 1-Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya, Santa Sofia) Built in 6th century by Emperor Justinian. It plays a very important role in Christian and Islamic World. After the Ottoman conquest the bells, altar, and sacrificial vessels were removed, and many mosaics were covered to convert church into a mosque.
• 2-Blue Mosque; Built in the early 1600s for Sultan Ahmet I of the Ottoman Empire. Blue Mosque is truly a magnificent masterpiece of architecture, with amazingly delicate proportions for a building of such massive scale. Very intresting fact that locals never calls Blue Mosque, we as locals call it Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Camii). There is a lot of intresting information that i would be sharing with you about this beautiful mosque.
• 3-Topkapi Palace is one of the world’s largest surviving palaces and was built between 1460 and 1478 under the orders of Sultan Mehmed II a few years after he conquered Constantinople. The palace served as the home of the Ottoman Sultans for almost four centuries. It was also the state’s administrative and educational headquarters. The Topkapi Palace complex consists of four main courtyards and many smaller buildings. Female members of the Sultan's family lived in the harem, and leading state officials, including the Grand Vizier, held meetings in the Imperial Council building. The Topkapi Palace is huge place and it needs few hours to discover it. İts just like small village and there are alot of stories and intrigues to tell :) We private tour guides have priority to skip the lonq lines at the museums and Topkapi Palace is museum as well.
• 4-Basilica Cistern There is a very mysterious place in Sultanahmet, the heart of Istanbul: Basilica Cistern. The Cistern was also used as a venue in many movies and series. Did you watch Inferno, the movie starring Tom Hanks? It was shot in 2016, adopted by Dan Brown’s book. One of the main venues of that movie was Basilica. Basilica Cistern İstanbul or Basilica Palace is one of the most important structures in the history of Istanbul. The features of the columns inside, and the Medusa head, which is especially inverted, attract a lot of attention. There was a basilica where this cistern was built. For this reason, the cistern is called the Cisterna Basilica. Would you like to have some more detailed information about this place, please book our private guided tour to join me to discover... Remember Private guide can skip the lines, handdle your tickets and make your limited time worthile.
• 5-Byzantine Hippodrome / Sultanahmet Square; where chariot races were held back in Roman Empire times, Egyptian Column from Byzantine Empire era. German Fountain.
• 6-Grand Bazaar (Kapali Carsi) The largest and oldest covered markets in the world with over 4,000 shops. You can find colorful products of ceramic, leather, rugs, carpets, handicrafts, clothes, silver, and gold.
• 7-German Fountain The fountain built in Germany, then transported piece by piece and assembled in its current site in 1900 to commemorate the second anniversary of German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898 during the reign of Abdülhamid II. Inside the dome you can notice clearly the logos of the Ottoman and German Empires.
• 8-Arasta Bazaar;
• Thanks to its historical connection to the Blue Mosque, the Arasta Bazaar—locally known as the Arasta Carsisi—is centrally located in Sultanahmet. A lively open-air café serving tea, water pipes, and Turkish food is just next to the bazaar. In addition to myriad vendors selling various items and souvenirs worth hauling home, the bazaar houses the Great Palace Mosaic Museum, which contains ancient mosaics that have been unearthed all over Istanbul.
• Pickup details We pick you up from any airport in İstanbul. (İncludes Greet And Meet Service) From İstanbul International Airport (İST) or Sabiha Gökçen Airport (SAW) to the city center and once the tour is finished, then we take you back to the airport.
