Bosporus Cruise & Spice Market & Rustem Pasa Mosque & Beylerbeyi Palace

6 Hour

Duration

Istanbul

Location

Duration of the tour: Approximately 6 hours.
Departing from: Port of Istanbul
Service level: Private Tour

Departure/Return Location

Istanbul / Istanbul

Service Level

Private Tour

Tour Included

Pick up and drop off at port of Istanbul

Transportation in a fully air-conditioned, luxury, non-smoking, private vehicle

Private proffesional tour guide with official licence

Enterence fees to the sites which are indicated in the tour programs

Tour Not Included

Lunch is not included if it is not indicated in the tour program that you selected. But according to your demand, you may ask your guide to add lunch according to your timing.

If the lunch is included in the tour program that you selected, the drinks during the lunch will be extra.

In Turkey after having a service leaving some tips is a custom like the other countries. Any tips to your guide and your driver is not included.

Tips to staff.

After your cruise docked to Istanbul port, on your meeting time, your guide will be waiting you in the arrival guest terminal with a sign that your booking name indicated. After he/she welcomes you and after getting on your luxury private van, your unforgettable day in Turkey stop starts.

In this tour, the sites where you are going to be guided are kindly indicated below ;
Rustem Pasa Mosque ; This is the mosque with a central dome and a single minaret that arises amidst the rows of shops and storehouses near the Spice Bazaar. It creates a beautiful sight in the busiest commercial center in the city, together with the Suleymaniye Mosque on the slope behind. The architect Sinan built the mosque in 1561 for the Grand Vizier Rüstem Pasa. Spiraling staircases go up to the structure that is set above a row of shops. The interesting courtyard is actually a small terrace covered by five small domes. The facade and the small, but attractive interior are decorated with the finest examples of Iznik tiles.

Spice Market; still in use as one of the world’s largest spice bazaars since 1665. It gains its Turkish name, Mısır Çarşısı (Egyptian Bazaar), from the fact that it once received income from taxes levied on Egypt. The English name hails from the days when the Bazaar specialized in the sale of herbs and spices, medicinal plants, and drugs. Nowadays it hosts 85 shops in the market.

Bosphorus Cruise ; After seeing Istanbul from the land you continue for a 1,5h trip by public TurYol boat on the Bosphorus. No other city in the world is located on two continents that you will have the chance to enjoy its natural beauty and to admire marvelous views over the skyline with its kiosks, gardens, pavilions, Imperial palaces, mosques and mansions. Impressive sights along the shores of the Bosphorus including Dolmabahce Palace, Ciragan Palace, Maiden´s Tower, Bosphorus bridges, Rumeli and Anadolu fortresses and Ottoman Residences.

Beylerbeyi Palace ; Beylerbeyi Palace, summer residence of the sultans, is located at Beylerbeyi neighborhood on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus. Important foreign guests visiting the Ottoman Empire were accommodated in this palace during the summer months such as; Prince of Serbia, King Nicholas of Montenegro, Emperor Joseph of Austro-Hungary, Shah Nasireddin of Iran, Prince Oscar of Sweden, and Empress Eugenie of France were some of them. Sultan Abdulhamid II spent the last 6 years of his life and died here in 1918, meanwhile other sultans ruled in the Dolmabahce Palace during winter months and came here only for the summer for a nice climate.

During your visits in the sites highly recommanded to wear comfortable shoes because there going to be cobblestone and slippery surfaces, inclines and sometimes steps.
If you prefer another Language speaking guide please let us know awhile you make your reservation.
Sultanahmet area is historical area. It is closed to traffic becasue of that mostly all attractions are in walking distance so at the tour a moderate amount of walking is involved
Some historical places, museums are closed on spesific days could be replaced with some others such as.

Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays so can be replaced with the Archeological Museum.

Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays can be replaced with the Spice Market.

Blue Mosque closed on Friday Mornings because of Friday Pray so the visit to the mosque can be in the afternoon.

During the tours having a hat and putting your sunscreens on highly recommended to avoid the problems in the hot temperatures.
Unless it is not indicated in your itinerary, The Treasury and Harem sections are not included in the programs and are due to extra entrance fees.
According to your request, we can skip some of the sights from the program.
According to the crowds on the busy days, your experienced tour guide could change the rotation of the places to visit in your program to organise a much easier day for your comfort.
Local currency is Turkish Liras(TL) but around the places where you visit, generally they do accept euros and dollars.
0-6 ages of children are free of charge as long as you bring the copies of their passports to show the officials at the enterances of each site.
If there is a mosque visit in your program, you should bring a scarf to wear before you enter.