Golden Horn and Bosphorus Boat Tour in Istanbul

Meeting point stated on the app seems to be different to the actual meeting point, we arrived 15mins early to find no one there. We waited 10mins after stated time of meet up and left. We received a call after asking to come back to the meeting point stated on the app and were told we were late...the actual tour starting is a fair bit of a walk from the meeting point (we would have preferred to meet at the actual point where the tour started). The boat tour its self was scenic but the tour voice over could have been improved. The English translation was hard to listen to and did not have as much detail as other languages (bilingual so was listening in two languages). Overall I would not do this particular tour again.

I booked this becsue it included the Golden Horn. I have previously done a more expensive Bosphorus trip that did not include as much Golder Horn as I wanted. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with this experince. Boat was like a cattle car, very crowded. The price was cheap but they spent a lot time trying to worm more money from you. Would not repeat. Better to spend a bit more and get a more comfortable, persoanl experience.

I chose this tour because when I read the reviews I didn’t see a mention of people selling photos with Ottoman dressed people and parrots (like other tours), it was 1:30 hours, and up to 50 people. Well, there were the photos people and the parrot and the tour was longer than expected (we met at 12:15 to meet with other people, walked to another spot. By the time the tour ended it was 2:45.) We walked with a group of over a 100 people but we split into two groups so that was true. Other than that, it was fine. Just know before you go! ????????