Büyükada Full-Day Tour: Experiencing Serenity on Princes’ Island from Istanbul

Experience the serenity of Büyükada, the largest Princes’ Island in Turkey, on a full-day guided tour from Istanbul. Marvel at Istanbul’s top sights, learn about the island’s history, and embrace the laid-back island life. Hotel pickup and drop-off included.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Dentur Avrasya Kabataş İskelesi - Meet your guide at your central Istanbul hotel and travel by air-conditioned coach to Kabatas port for your full-day Princes’ Island tour. Hop aboard your boat and cruise to the biggest and most popular Princes Island, Büyükada.
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Round-trip boat crossing
  • Lunch
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Enjoy a relaxing Experience the serenity of the biggest Princes’ Island in Turkey, Büyükada, on this full-day guided tour from Istanbul. After traversing the Sea of Marmara by boat. On Büyükada, learn about the island’s history from your guide.

See all Princes’s Island Kınalı Island, Heybeli Island, Burgaz Island,

Full-day trip from Istanbul to Princes Iland (Heybeliada and Büyükada) by boat

Marvel at top Istanbul sights like Topkapi Palace and Kiz Kulesi

Spend time at leisure on the largest of the Princes’ Islands and embrace laid-back island life

Hear the island’s history from your guide and learn of its role as a place of exile for banished Turkish aristocrats

Hotel pickup and drop-off by air-conditioned coach included

Location
Dentur Avrasya Kabataş İskelesi
Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Coastal10057969269
Jul 21, 2024
loved Islands - Best tour guide and Beautiful Islands. food was good and all service was wonderful thank for all your service. i am grateful from your hospitality
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Mohammad_n
Jul 9, 2024
A great value for the money - They were very accurate on timings; the trip was very enjoyable and exceeded my expectations. The staff was very friendly and professional with the service.
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Rick_m
Jun 10, 2024
Great tour in Istanbul - Great experience, guide was very helpful and informative. Cost is very reasonable and well worth it, would book this tour again.
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Habibo996
Apr 6, 2024
Lovely İsland - The Island was lovely we had great time our tour guide Suleyman was very good and friendly food and shopping was nice recommended.
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Karl_p
Jun 17, 2024
It was worth it. The value is good. - It was nice experience. The pick up was timely. The transport was comfortable. The boat was nice. The island trips were good. (1st island stop could have been a little longer.) The final visit to the leather shop could be expedited. ☺️
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Marco_p
Jun 15, 2024
Nice, did it once, but not a do again for me. - Our tour guide was wonderful, the boat ride was beautiful seeing amazing sites. But from pickup to boat took an hour and 20 minutes with lots of stops and sitting around. Islands were pretty but not much to see but vendors selling their items.
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Moulid
Jul 10, 2024
Turkey unpleasant people and too much scam - No made one of a day to this island the scenery is beautiful typical houses but food restaurants is null Award too expensive for that's who gives on the plate it has no taste too thankful the staff it's unpleasant he refuses to talk other Long than theirs what he's interested in is just the money you eat and get out as quickly as possible. Also the tourist transport barely get on their buses you don't even pay 1km you have to get off again saying he already made you do a tour
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S1961gkpaulm
Apr 3, 2024
Plan the visit yourself - Our guide for the day was a lovely guy but there wasn’t much guiding to do. It’s mostly a glorified taxi service from the hotel to the ferry(s) with lunch included. If I was to do it again, I’d organise it and visit the islands my own way. You sit on the bus during the pickups for like 45 mins to an hour. The islands themselves are beautiful. We got approx one hour on the smaller island and approx 2 hours on the larger island. The lunch was pretty good to be fair. I do have one serious gripe about the whole experience tho. It’s not on the schedule but they bring you to a leather store where you sit through a catwalk show, then given the hard sell by some slick salesman and then ushered up to store itself where your followed by some “helpful” sales merchants. I felt extremely awkward and uncontrollable throughout and left and made my own way back to the hotel. You pay for a tour, not a sales pitch.
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Dansz2680wg
Jun 24, 2024
Awful experience regarding trip organization. DO NOT RECOMMEND - Main idea : if you want to visit the islands, please plan your trip by yourself...lots of ferry boats are travelling over there. Resons: 1. The trip by boat was planned to start around 08:30. We were picked up from our hotel at 08:00 and until 09:30 we lost time picking up so many other tourists...driving from hotel to hotel. Finally we have arrived at the boat and we started the actual trip around 10:00. 2. Our ticket was advertising one tour guide, but we never heard a word from him about anything during our trip to the islands - no description for any touristic objectives. 3. The trip supposed to start from a port inside Bosphorus strait and we supposed to pass under the Istanbul bridge, Topkagi palace...this never happened. Instead the boat left the port from South of Bosphorus strait, never passing under the bridge - nothing from trip description from Tripadvisor 🤔. 4. Once arrived in the first Island we were instructed that we can stay only 40-45 min to visit (not 1 hour as advertised) - for obvious reasons (we were late due to late departure) 5. After 45 minutes we came back, as instructed... And we were schocked to see that so called LUNCH was served INSIDE THE BOAT. This was an unbelieveble feeling...never in my life saw so much disrespect for custumers...people staying in line of 30-40 m and wait to get a plate of food...(mix of some pasta, some chicken and rice...all in the same plate)...all eaten from normal plates and forkes (not even bothered to serve by paper plates, plastic forks - for obvious igienic reasons). ABSOLUT DISASTER. After complained to the guide, he promised private meal...which we politely refused from obvious reasons. OFCOURSE, we had to pay our selfes for own lunch while we have arrived in the next island. 6. We have arrived at the second island: advertised 3 hours stay; we have stayed only 2 hours on the island. Not enough time to do anything for this short time. 7. Finally we have arrived back to the Istanbul port - instead of taking all the tourists back to the hotel or ciry, the guide started pressing the people that we have to visit some leather shop ( not mentioned anywhere in the presentation). We have politelly refused, as in the mean time we have read lots of reviews from other tourists complaining about this visit to this kind of shop. If you are interested, look for 1 star review and you will see more details, as we did not go there. We left the bus at the port and went in the city by our selfes. Finally, if you want to visit the islands (which are very nice and unique), you should plan your visit by your self using local ferry transport. Maybe Tripadvisor should take more attention when they advertise trips under their name, as for sure we were not expecting to such awful experience...
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665fergusq
Apr 23, 2024
Not worth it - make your own way there - There was no tour element to it at all - no information about anything was provided - only thing that was said was the name of the islands - spent the first two hours driving around Istanbul picking up people in hotels - much less time that they say on the description - 40 minutes at first island, 2 hr at second island - played very loud dance/club music the whole way out there - 2 Turkish coffee cost me 200 lira? At the end they tried to make us go to a ‘fashion show’ - where they try and pressure you into buying clothing in warehouse Looked online and can get ferry yourself there for a fraction of the cost/ spend way longer there
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