History based City Tour
Istanbul is one of the most beautiful city in the world. It has so many attractions, Bosphorus and Istanbul is the city connects Asia to Europe. There are so many buildings coming from past, reflects the whole history. You will be surprised when buildings start to talk to you and say their own stories in the exact place.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At the starting point
Hipodrome
This daily tour starts with the Hipodrome Square, including obelisks, mosques, Hagia Sophia, museums.
Grand Bazaar
Grand Bazaar is one of the oldest bazaar ever. Glassworks, jewelleries, spices and Turkish delights, clothes, souvenirs and Turkish coffee awaits you.
Bosphorus
Here comes the Bosphorus Tour that you will have a complete chance to see the beauties of the city on the boat.
Ending Point
At the last point / can be arranged
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
Guiding service
Museum entrance tickets
Transport
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
any kind of expenses or charges or fees, etc...
Tour Important Information
Starting or ending point can be changed. Time can be arranged according to the needs of the guests. If transportation service is required, it must be told before. According to the law, guides cannot act like tour agencies. Public transportation is always possible.
There are ticket and entrance queues for some attractions. The schedule is prepared in consideration with this. If guests do not want to be on the queues, we will go on to the next attraction, but all informations will be given with the related attraction outside. This will cause total tour duration to decrease. So, the tour guide won’t be responsible for shortened tour duration.
Important message from the supplier
As long as we communicate and agreed, any kind of tour plan in any time for anywhere is possible.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
About Tour Guide Semih B.
Hi there. My name is Semih. I live in İstanbul. I am professional licensed tourist guide. I would like to host my curious tourist guests as being their tour guide.
Reviews
Mark M.
“A poor experience”
Our group was very disappointed with Semih presentation. His English was hard to understand, we told him we could only do a four tour & when booking he said he could cover all the major sites, which we didn't. He walked ver y slowly & had to be prompted when ever we passed anything interesting. We ended the tour after 3 1/2 hr.
Felixberto generoso n M.
“Istanbul personalized tour”
It was great considering the short, short time. He showed me all the tourist places in Istanbul, at least the important ones due to time limitation. The Topkaki Palace was already closed by then so I did not get to see it. But got to see the beautiful mosques not only the Hagia. He is very knowledgeable of the history of, and proud of his city - Istanbul. Would have been great if this was a whole day tour, but time limitations due to flight arrivals late in the afternoon prevented that. Anyways, try him, you will not regret it. Thanks
$280/ per group
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