Awesome guided tour to Sapanca - Professional crew with English speaking guide. They guided us to all the various stops on the way to the lake. The bus was very comfortable with AC. The zoo was very well manicured with great landscaping anr animals of all types. The telefrik was also awesome. Amazing views of Sapanca lake. Lunch was also decent. Overall great value for the money. Highly recommend it.

Awesome trip - My sister and I took this trip. The trip was well organized, many stops and activities to do. Our guide Apo and the driver Nedim did an excellent job. Apo was very informative and Nedim driving was impeccable. Will definitely recommend this tour to our friends

Awesome Trip - The trip was well organized, many stops and activities to do. Our guide Apo and the driver Nedim did an excellent job. Apo was very informative and Nedim driving was impeccable. Will definitely recommend this tour to our friends

Wonderful experience - What a wonderful experience, so thankful to our very kind tour guide made our day more special. We are free to do whatever we want. The meal is so sumptous! Highly recommended

Very good - It was a great experience last Thursday! Very good team, Mr Apo was very professional and enthusiastic! In short, it was a trip full of positive energy ☀️ thank you for everything

Excellent would book again! - We really enjoyed the safari and the cable cars. Watching the lions close up was amazing too however you dont get enough time for this activity due to busy schedule for the day. When you book this you will be travelling with other people on a coach which means you have to wait for everyone until they have got back to the meeting point. Apart from this the whole day was fantastic!

Wonderful Experience!! - Everything about this trip is so out of the world. From start to finish it was an extremely pleasant experience. I would recommend it to everyone visiting Istanbul. It’s highly economical, luxurious, plus the staff was highly accommodating. We had a baby with us, and everyone made sure that we feel comfortable. They are highly respectful, responsible, punctual, and made us feel like a family. We enjoyed the company of Bulunt, Ahmed and Abdullah. Extremely wonderful and entertaining people!!

The best experience in Sapanca - Team was very organized. They picked me on time. Tour was as described on schedule. i enjoyed very much. Thank you

Our Travel Guide APO - I had the opportunity to travel with nehir travel in Turkey. in our trip to sapanca and masukiya lake our travel guide named APO was with us. he had arranged the trip in an excellent manner. he knows english' arabic' Turkish and some other languages. his explanation in english was very good. we didnt havd any problem in understanding his english. he was extremely caring and nice to all the tourists. he guided them to the best of his knowledge. everyone in the vain kept asking him about the tourists cites and he tried to give satisfactory answers to all. he was very cooperative. I wish him success in future and would love to travel with him again

Nothing but a lengthy tourist trap - An activity is not "optional" if it is effectively the only thing available other than waiting around! This tour was basically a long (13 hour) and unsatisfying round trip between Sapanca Lake and Istanbul with all the stops being solely at restricted areas with specific paid activities and nothing else available. Coupling this with an unenthusiastic guide that just phones it in, makes for an abysmal experience. TL;DR: Avoid and don't waste a day on this. The first stop was at a zoo, which is not mentioned at all in the description of this tour but is instead part of a similar but more expensive tour that we specifically avoided as we did not want to go to a zoo. This just goes to show that you might as well always pick the cheapest option since you'll end up in the same places anyway! So, after 90 minutes of cooling our heels, off to the next stop. Next was an "optional" zip line experience in Mahmudiye which has nothing else except a cafe with inflated 'tourist' prices and a pitiful excuse of a waterfall. Did I mention that the only shade to be had in scorching June weather was at said cafe, and you guessed it you can't use it without being an unwilling customer. Where to next? Ah yes, a store selling Turkish delights, honey, candles and soaps etc. no different to what you find in many stores in Istanbul...pointless! Next stop? Sapanca Telefrik...see above Mahmudiye stop but replace zip line with cable car! Then, it's Masukiye Selale, where the 'highlight' is the ATV tour but at least here you have some actual alternatives/options, maybe things are looking ahead of the final stop... Sapanca Lake, finally the centrepiece, but guess what the location you are taken to is a waterfront overtaken by extortionate cafes and cycle-boat operator and you're left with 45 minutes, but that's OK it's not like you can walk along the waterfront...might as well just hang it all and go back to Istanbul. It's sad to say but the only bright spot was actually the bus driver who was kind enough to drop us off closer to our stay after a long and unsatisfying day.