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Cappadocia Trip Package
Horseback Ride
Pottery Workshop Cappadocia
2-Day Cappadocia Trip Including Balloon Ride & Horseback Ride
2-Day Cappadocia Trip Including Balloon Ride & Horseback Ride

2-Day Cappadocia Trip Including Balloon Ride & Horseback Ride

By Turkey Experiences
Free cancellation available
Price is S$1,602 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

This trip package is offering a full-day tour to best sites of Cappadocia, and the most popular event - hot air balloon ride. Get bird's eye views of the lovely landscapes of Cappadocia on a 60-minute hot air balloon flight. Watch the sunrise over the amazing rock formations and get a personalised flight certificate as a keepsake souvenir. Explore the unique places in Cappadocia that interest you with professional licenced guides. Return flight tickets (Istanbul to Cappadocia), hot air balloon ride, one night accommodation at cave hotel, one full day guided tour and airport transfers are included.

Activity location

  • Istanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Uçhisar
    • Uçhisar, Nevşehir, Turkiye

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Silver Package: Max 10 Guests
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d
    2d
  • English

Accommodation: Misty Cave Hotel - Stay at Standard Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Horseback Ride: INCLUDED - If your Horseback Ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of this activity.
Tour Level: The guided tours on this travel package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Language: English
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 4:00
Price details
S$1,601.80 x 1 AdultS$1,601.80

Total
Price is S$1,601.80
Gold Package: Max 10 Guests
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d
    2d
  • English

Accommodation: Zeydem Suites Hotel - Stay at Superior Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Horseback Ride: INCLUDED - If your Horseback Ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of this activity.
Tour Level: The guided tours on this travel package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Language: English
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 4:00
Price details
S$1,684.55 x 1 AdultS$1,684.55

Total
Price is S$1,684.55
Diamond Package: Max 10 Guests
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d
    2d
  • English

Accommodation: Yunak Evleri Hotel - Stay at Superior Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Horseback Ride: INCLUDED - If your Horseback Ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of this activity.
Tour Level: The guided tours on this travel package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese - Each languages are conducted using separate cars and guides from the others.
Pickup included

Starting time: 4:00
Price details
S$1,881.08 x 1 AdultS$1,881.08

Total
Price is S$1,881.08

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedHot Air Balloon Ride, Horseback Ride
  • What's includedWhat's includedTransfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
  • What's includedWhat's includedFull-day tour by professional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance fees (Tour guide will have pre-paid tickets to skip lines at museums mentioned itinerary)
  • What's includedWhat's includedBreakfast
  • What's includedWhat's includedReturn flight tickets from Istanbul to Cappadocia and back
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel / Airport pick-up & drop-off services mentioned in itinerary
  • What's includedWhat's includedOne-night stay with breakfast at cave boutique hotel
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedDinner & Drinks

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • 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 travellers. They will already accommodate at single room(s).
  • The pre-planned hotels are "Sedirli Konak Hotel" - "1811 Cave Boutique Hotel" for your accommodation on this travel package. You can choose one of them during reservation. If these hotels (which you preferred) are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel. IMPORTANT NOTE (SUGGESTION) 1811 Cave Hotel is a historical building and it doesn't have AC in rooms because of that. If you travel in July-August, we highly suggest you make booking to option of Classic Package.
  • The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm, and you can not start use your room before this time. This is about the check-in & check-out policies of the hotels.
  • The differences between the package options are about the hotel categories. Tour(s), airport transfer(s) and flight ticket levels will be same for all options.
  • 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 get your boarding cards from the desks of airline companies.
  • Local tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details which requested by local tour operator, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
  • 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 local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg. This is exactly about the policies of airline companies.
  • 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, 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), local tour operator do not accept 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) local tour operator do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service.
  • 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.
  • The Standard Balloon 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 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.
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
  • This tour is not available for the bookings to children who are 5 years old and under.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Departure by Plane or by Private Car / Semi-Private Tour to Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Laodicea / Overnight at Kusadasi
  • 13 stops
  • Meals: lunch
  • Accommodation: INCLUDED - There are different hotel variations on this tour package. You can choose your hotel category while booking.
Istanbul
Departures from Istanbul (Available for all booking options except the Flexible Package) : The services of this travel package will begin with a transfer from your hotel (or at your Airbnb address if parking is available) to the airport. Your driver will meet you at your pick up place and then transfer to the airport for your flight from Istanbul to Denizli. Upon arrival Denizli Cardak airport, your tour guide and another driver will meet you at the exit gate of the arrival terminal, and then you will start today’s semi-private guided tour.
Pamukkale
Departures from Antalya, Fethiye, Marmaris, Bodrum (Available for all booking options except the Flexible Package) : The services of this travel package will begin with a private transfer from your hotel (or at your Airbnb address if parking is available) to the Pamukkale Natural Park. Upon arrival, your tour guide and another driver will meet you and then you will start today’s semi-private guided tour.
Denizli Çardak Airport
Departures from Denizli Cardak Airport (Available for only Flexible Package option): Your tour guide and another driver will meet you at the exit gate of the arrival terminal in Denizli Cardak airport, and then you will start today’s semi-private guided tour.
Pamukkale Natural Park
Pamukkale Natural Park, a must-visit destination for Nature and History lovers. For centuries, people have been coming here and going home restful. This natural park provide you experiences at the white travertenies of Pamukkale, Cleopatra Pools and ancient city of Hierapolis which are located in Pamukkale Natural Park.
Hierapolis & Pamukkale
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
The highlights of the Hierapolis Ancient City are Roman Baths, Domitian Gate, Latrina, Oil Factory, Frontinus Street, Agora, Byzantium Gate, Triton Fountain, Cathedral, Apollon Temple, Plutonium, Theatre and Antique Pool. During visits to these ancient ruins, you can take some photos from the nicest corners of the Pamukkale.
Pamukkale Thermal Pools
  • 1h
After visited the Hierapolis Ancient City, you will have free time for about 60-75 minutes to explore the natural beauties of the Pamukkale, and swim at white travertines - thermal pools (or antique pool - Cleopatra’s pool with extra fee). Then meet again with your guide, continue to the restaurant for lunch.
Cleopatra Pools
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Situated above the Pamukkale white travertine pools is one particularly spectacular location fed by the same hot springs. Here you can bath in the same waters in which Cleopatra once swam! A professionally run modern spa facility allows you to enjoy these historical healing waters. Unlike the white water of the lower pools the Antique Pool favoured by Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, is pure clear warm water. Once it was surmounted by a Roman Temple to Apollo with ornate roof held up with Doric columns. Imagine how Cleopatra must have experienced this when you imagine it in it's glory day.
Pamukkale
  • 1h
You will stop at a local restaurant for your lunch. Today’s lunch is included during guided tour. After the lunch, you will have experience traditional handcraft workshop for get lecture about the special stones/metals of Pamukkale.
Laodicea
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Excavations here have revealed artefacts dating from 3500 BC (Late Chalcolithic) to 3000 BC (Early Bronze Age). The city’s name comes from the Seleucid king Antiochus ii, who named it for his wife Laodike in the 3rd century BC when it was thriving. Later controlled by the kings of Pergamum, it was willed to the Roman Empire, and thrived again from the 4th to 6th centuries. Its importance then numbered it among the Seven Churches of Revelation.
pamukkale tandem paragliding
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
Pamukkale Paragliding Adventure (Optional Attraction – You can add this attraction to your experiences with extra cost.) : See Pamukkale’s glistening white travertine and ancient Hierapolis, including the enormous theatre, from the air on this short-but-sweet paragliding experience with a seasoned pilot. You will race off the edge of a slope about 1,300 feet (400 metres) up, then glide on the breezes over the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Kusadasi
  • 2h 30m
After today’s semi-private guided tour in Pamukkale district, you will be transferred to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Kusadasi Castle
This small castle is picturesque Byzantine fortress stands on the causeway-connected Guvercin Adasi (Pigeon Island) and has recently been renovated. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Okuz Mehmet Pasa KervansarayI
This caravanserai was built by the Grand Vizier Okuz Mehmed Pasha to support maritime trade in the region. This historical building is opposite to Kusadasi cruise port. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Day 2: Semi-Private Tour to Ephesus Ancient City
  • 11 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Not included
Kuşadası
  • 10m
After enjoying breakfast at your hotel, the tour guide will pick you up around 09:00 AM for a full-day tour to Ephesus and its surroundings. *** At the end of the tour, you will be directly transferred to Izmir Airport for your flight back to Istanbul (or a flight from Izmir to Cappadocia if you prefer connect this trip to Cappadocia. The flight ticket from Izmir to Cappadocia will be included for option of “Diamond Package”). Please remember to check out of your hotel and collect your luggage before heading out for the Ephesus tour.
Kusadasi Gazi Begendi Park
  • 10m
Before drive to Ephesus area, you will stop at the Gazi Begendi Park (Hill) for you can take photos of the amazing Kusadasi Bay.
Ancient City of Ephesus
  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Your first visit will be the Ephesus Ancient City. Ephesus was one of the most important harbour cities in antique world and also it is mentioned in the book of Revelations as one of the seven churches. Also Celsus Library and theatre in Ephesus are the other highlights. You will see the Celcus Library, Temple of Hadrian, Fountain of Trajan, Odeon, Agora, Fountain of Domitian, Hercule Gate, Grand Theatre, Nike, Ancient Toilets and more during tour in this ancient city.
Ephesus Experience Museum
  • 15m
The Ephesus Experience Museum provides an immersive journey into Turkey’s rich cultural and historical heritage. By leveraging cutting-edge display systems and advanced content technologies, it offers visitors a captivating time travel experience that brings the past to life in a profoundly engaging way.
Ephesus Terrace Houses
The terrace houses are located on the hill, opposite the Hadrian Temple. Also called as "the houses of rich", important for the reason give us information about family life during the Roman period. They were built according to the Hippodamian plan of the city in which roads transected each other at right angels. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. The tour guide will provide you information about the history of it and more while passing from in front of this place.
Meryemana (The Virgin Mary's House)
  • 45m
  • Admission ticket not included
Your next visit will be the pilgrimage point claimed to be the last home of the Virgin Mary. Once you arrive there you will be thrilled by the natural beauty that surrounds the monument.
Selcuk
  • 1h
You will stop at a traditional Turkish restaurant for your lunch. Today’s lunch is included during guided tour. After the lunch, you will have experience in a traditional handcraft co-operative for get lecture about the special arts of Turkish villagers.
The Temple of Artemis
  • 20m
The next stop of your tour will be at the Temple of Artemis which first built during the Archaic period, and one of the Seven Wonders of Ancient World.
Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport
  • 1h
At the end of the tour, you will be transferred to Izmir airport for your flight to back to Istanbul. (or flight to Kayseri if you preferred connect this trip to Cappadocia district.)
Istanbul
  • 1h
Upon your arrival Istanbul, we will meet you at the airport and then you will be transferred to your hotel in Istanbul.
Cappadocia
  • 1h
If you would like connect this trip to Cappadocia district by a flight, you have to book the option of "Diamond Package". The flight ticket from Izmir to Cappadocia, and transfer from Cappadocia airport to your hotel in Cappadocia dsitrict will be include. You will not have any right about the flight ticket for return to Istanbul after you preferred that flight.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESIstanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEUçhisar
    • Uçhisar, Nevşehir, Turkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEGöreme
    • 50180, Göreme, Nevşehir, Turkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEÜrgüp
    • Ürgüp, Nevşehir, Turkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEIstanbul
    • Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkiye

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