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Bosphorus Cruise: Küçüksu Palace or Rumeli Fortress Tour
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97 Ratings
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Combine a Bosphorus Strait sightseeing cruise with a tour of Küçüksu Palace or Rumeli Fortress on this exciting 2.5-hour İstanbul experience! Learn about the city, enjoy water-side views, and explore hidden gems.
Combine a Bosphorus Strait sightseeing cruise with a tour of Küçüksu Palace or Rumeli Fortress on this exciting 2.5-hour İstanbul experience! Learn about the city, enjoy water-side views, and explore hidden gems.
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Dolmabahce Palace - Our tour guide will will inform the history of the Dolmabahçe Palace.
- Rumeli Fortress - Rumeli Fortress from 15th century.(The tour will visit here only on thursdays )(The fortress will be closed on mondays)
- Eminonu Pier - Historical Galata Bridge, between the Old and New city of Istanbul. Eminönü also famos with…
- Dolmabahce Palace - Our tour guide will will inform the history of the Dolmabahçe Palace.
- Rumeli Fortress - Rumeli Fortress from 15th century.(The tour will visit here only on thursdays )(The fortress will be closed on mondays)
- Eminonu Pier - Historical Galata Bridge, between the Old and New city of Istanbul. Eminönü also famos with fish, you can see fisher man every hour of the day.
- Bosphorus Bridge - The first Bridge of Istanbul “The Bosphorus Bridge”
- Kucuksu Pavilion - The hunting lodge of the Sultans from 19th century. (The tour will stop nearby there will be free time and garden tickets of the palace will be included)(The Palace will be clolsed on mondays and thursdays.)
- Beylerbeyi Palace - Summer palace of the Sultans from 19th century.
- KIz Kulesi - The legendary historical Maiden’s Tower
- Buyuk Mecidiye Cami - The baroque styled mosque of the Sultan Abdulmecid from 19th century.
- Çırağan Caddesi - Çırağan Palace the palace of Sultan Abdulaziz from 19th century
- Galata Tower - Up on the hill you will see the Galata tower from Eastern Roman period of the city.
- Suleymaniye Mosque - Mosque of the Suletman The Magneficent from 16th century. It will be seen up on the hill.
What's Included
- Local guide
- Breakfast
- Hotel pickup
- Local guide
- Breakfast
- Hotel pickup
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Combine a Bosphorus Strait sightseeing cruise with a tour of Küçüksu Palace or Rumeli Fortress on this exciting 2.5-hour İstanbul experience! With an onboard guide, learn all about the city and enjoy water-side views of Dolmabahçe Palace, Galata Tower, Bosphorus Bridge, and more. Help yourself to breakfast on board, and then hop on to dry land for a…
Combine a Bosphorus Strait sightseeing cruise with a tour of Küçüksu Palace or Rumeli Fortress on this exciting 2.5-hour İstanbul experience! With an onboard guide, learn all about the city and enjoy water-side views of Dolmabahçe Palace, Galata Tower, Bosphorus Bridge, and more. Help yourself to breakfast on board, and then hop on to dry land for a tour of the Asian side - Free time.
- We visit Rumeli Fortress only on Thursdays On Mondays Both Rumeli Fortress and Küçüksü Palace will be closed and visits replaced with freetime in Bebek neighborhood.
Location
IBO Cruise and Tours
Divan Yolu Caddesi
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(97 Ratings)
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Cannon996
Sep 20, 2024
A great way to see and feel the Bosphorous - We visited Istanbul for the first time and spent 4 wonderful days. First 3 of those were on land seeing the beautiful sites and enjoying the wonderful food and people. The last day of our trip we wanted to relax (not walk up and down too many hills) and experience the water/views and see the Asian side. We choose this tour as it was mentioned as a contributor to the most popular English Tour Book. Our only debate was the full day or the half day (where we would get a ride to the halfway point of the full day cruise). So glad we chose the full day as it allowed us to enjoy the boat longer (and with less people - there is 40 max, we had 15 at the beginning and another 15 joined us halfway). A quick pickup at our hotel (Marions Suites - highly recommended) and it was off to the port and a quick entry to the boat (Sunrise 1) and we were off, breeze was wonderful and you could choose sunny or shaded areas but there was room for everyone - 2 levels. Several stops (each about 30 minutes, small villages, forts, mosques, hunting mansion) on the European and Asian sides. One of the big highlight of our cruise was getting to know the guide - a young Turkish man who was energetic, enthusiastic and full of information - Emirhan Şanli - who shared with us details of the entire cruise - he did need to repeat some information for the half-day guests as we made it back to the port later in the day - but his information stayed consistent. We made it to the Black Sea - had a wonderful swim off the boat - about half the group took the plunge - some who didn't bring separate bathing suits simply made do :).
Overall a great way to spend the day relaxing - capturing great photos and memories and meeting new friends. Plenty of room to accommodate the 40 max that could attend and obviously the perfect weather helped everyone enjoy the trip. Thanks to IBO and Emirhan.
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Compass34314609218
Jul 2, 2024
Great experience. Will definitely do it again - Great tour. Our guide Emirhan Sanli was a young energetic man. He explained all there is to know about Istanbul, in a very friendly and informative way. I strongly recommend to take that tour.
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O6394vdmathildem
Jun 28, 2024
beautiful cruise - The visit was very nice. We saw lot of beautiful things, Emiran gave us lot of explanations about the visit and the monuments. We recommend this visit with him.
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Drmrk578
Jun 25, 2024
Well worth concidering this tour. Cruise was not over crowded and a very stable vessel under occasional wind and swells - Emirhan was our tour guide.
Provided excellent tour information, historical land marks and constant support for the group members be it on the cruise or at the royal palace stop
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Heather
May 31, 2024
Best way to see Istanbul is by sea - Very nice experience. Our tour guide was Emirhan; he had a lot of positive energy and true passion for Türkiye and its history. Everyone in our group had a wonderful time. Try memorable!
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Robbie
May 31, 2024
Great Tour of Istanbul - Had a great tour. Our tour guide Emirhan Şanli was super knowledgeable and sweet. I would 100% recommend this tour. To anyone visiting this city. Very reasonable prices and lovely guide
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964charlotteb
Jun 25, 2024
All right. - Very good boat trip.
Emirhan sanli, our guide was very professional, many explanations, very passionate.
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Bbbbbtsh
Jun 23, 2024
Nice relaxing trip. - My wife and I booked this trip through our hotel, we was picked up from our hotel and was met by our guide Emirhan he was very knowledgeable and always counted everybody to make sure he hadn't lost anyone. The trip was enjoyable and relaxing.
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John_b
May 28, 2024
Fabulous trip on the Bosphoros - A great way to see how Istanbul has developed over time with a knowledgeable guide to pick out palaces and mosques on both European and Asian shores. You will not get a better view and chance to study the architecture.
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Kieran_s
Jul 10, 2024
Cancelled at very short notice - Very disappointed that the operator cancelled this trip at 23:36 on the evening before the trip. They informed me that due to others cancelling they cancelled this excursion. The policy states that guests can cancel up to 24 hours before - so surprised that the trip did not go ahead as the operator would still have been paid for the trip. More surprised that they could do this so late despite a number of mails during the day arranging pick up times. May have been a one off or some facts I’m not aware off but was disappointing
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