Booking fee
The booking fee includes the costs of booking your tickets such as charges for payment processing. It also covers the provision of our customer care center for processing your order, and all charges imposed by our suppliers.
* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
Although many cross-country tours in Turkey only allocate a day to Cappadocia’s preternatural landscape and innovative architecture, most travelers find that a two-day tour strikes the right balance between seeing the region’s highlights and sacrificing time elsewhere in the country. See all of the highlights of Cappadocia comfortably during this two-day tour departing from Istanbul. Don’t risk running out of time to see all of the region’s unique natural heritage; instead, make sure you get to experience all of Cappadocia’s surreal landscapes, its cave churches, and the underground city.
Hot Air Balloon Ride (Optional - You can add that tour while booking)
Semi-Private day trips (Max 10 guests guarantee for each guided tour)
Pick-up & drop-off services for airport / hotels in Istanbul and Cappadocia
Breakfast
Entrance fees of museums, national parks, ruins mentioned in the itinerary
Roundtrip domestic flight tickets (Istanbul to Cappadocia to Istanbul)
Professional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
One night accommodation at cave boutique hotel including breakfast
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Not recommended for travelers who has claustrophobia
The local tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
The local tour operator will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at three days before your departure date. You will not need the print out copies of the tickets for domestic flights. Your passport and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for check-in to plane. Please note that, the local tour operator will not do check-in because of the personal preferences of the guests.
You will have 15kg luggage + 8kg hand bag quota per person for each domestic flight. If you will need more luggage capacity, please inform that to the local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg.
If you do connect any flight which arranged by your own to departure/return flight of this travel package, you may have a risk about miss one of them. This risk is about the delay/cancellation by airlines companies. We do not suggest that to safety of your booking. If there is any glitch because of this type arrangments by you, the local tour operator is not going to be responsible.
The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm. If hotel rooms will be available for early check-in on first day of your trip, hotel managment and the local tour operator will provide early check-in to room for you.
The prices of package are valid for accommodation at the double or triple room. If you would like add accommodation on single room(s) to your booking, there could be supplement cost. There are not going to be any extra cost for bookings of single / solo travelers. They will already accommodate at single room.
CAVE HOTEL ACCOMMODATION EXPERIENCES : The pre-planned hotels are "Yunak Evleri Hotel", "Zeydem Suites Cave Hotel" and "Misty Cave Hotel" for your accommodation on this travel package. You may choose one of them while booking. If these hotels (which you preferred) are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, the local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel.
SEMI-PRIVATE TOURS : The guided daily tours of this trip package, limited to a maximum of 10 guests per group, provide an in-depth exploration of Cappadocia’s ancient sites and breathtaking landscapes.
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE ! : Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip. Your refund rate will be the difference between options of "Standard Package" and "Optimal Package" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
Hot Air Balloon Ride will be in “Standard Category”. This category ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing, and pilots are decide to that within the safety rules of Civil Aviation Authority. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
If you did not add Hot Air Balloon Ride to your booking for this trip package, you can not get any service for hot air balloon ride which advertised/offered at the paragpraph of the descriptions.
If your return hotel is different than pick-up hotel, please inform that detail immediately. If you inform that detail after organised your flight tickets, the local tour operator can request extra cost because of the distances between the airports and some hotels. If you inform this type changes on service day (last day of your trip), the local tour operator do not confirm this last minute amending and drop you to your pick-up hotel.
If your pick-up / drop-off hotels are inside of airports (IST and SAW airports) the local tour operator do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service in Istanbul.
If you do not use any service or give up join to activities / tours / airport transfers, that's meaning is going to be last minute cancellation. Because of that, there is not going to be any refund for that.
If you would like change your scheduled domestic flight(s) after organised them, the local tour operator can request new flight ticket cost. The flight tickets can not refundable after organized.
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, the local tour operator can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.
The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
Beatriz_Q
19 Apr 2023
Most pleasant and knowledgeable guide.
Made every stop very interesting with his
Vast knowledge.
I would highly recommend this guide .
NishaanN2
18 Apr 2023
The experience was awful and a complete waste of time and money. Our guide was always playing games on his phone or talking to the driver. He gave us no information about the sights and instead sat at a coffee shop or in the vehicle while we walked around just looking at places having no information about it. He would constantly take us to overpriced stores selling leather jackets rugs or ceramics. He was visibly upset when we didn’t buy anything. Going to these stores was such a waste of time because we made it clear that we were not looking to do shopping. The owners of the stores were pushy and annoying forcing us to try out stuff and going on and on showing us rugs and ceramics despite advising that we didn’t need anything. Not sure if he earns a commission…On the second day we visited yet another tourist attraction where we were dropped off and asked to walk around while our “guide” sat at a coffee shop. I was annoyed that all the other guides were accompanying their customers and giving them information and history about the attraction. I decided to discuss this with our guide and his response was that the other guides were simply giving their opinions and that these were not facts and he would rather say nothing than give his opinions! This is definitely not the right job for this person. I was incredibly disappointed as this was expensive
Our hot air balloon experience was equally disappointing there was no organisation we were waiting in line patiently when suddenly everyone ran towards the basket and got in. Absolutely chaotic we ended up being crammed in the centre with 4 adults and had our jackets ruined by the liquid that was leaking from the balloon as we were directly under the contraption that was leaking liquid. Our pictures are all obstructed by other people or the pilot we could barely move
The hotel we were booked at did not offer dinner or room service
All in all I would certainly recommend ANY other operator. We had an amazing experience in Antalya and Istanbul although those tours were far cheaper
Kirsty_H
17 Apr 2023
The 1811 cave hotel was exceptional. Our guide was very knowledgeable as well as passionate about everything. The balloon ride was definitely one off the bucket list. Will be back.
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We always double-check the availability with our local partners for each booking. Even though this is usually a swift process, it can take up to 24 hours. Once this process is completed you will receive your voucher or ticket by email. If our local partner is not able to confirm your booking we will offer you the best possible alternative. If the new date and/or time doesn’t fit your itinerary, we will reimburse the full amount paid.
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