Overview:

This tour bursts with highlights, including Ephesus, Troy and Topkapi Palace. All the while, you are assured of a warm welcome and fantastic hospitality.

Countries Visited

Turkey

An expert Insight multilingual Tour Director, at the pinnacles of their careers, will smooth your way throughout your journey. They are your ‘travelling concierges’, expert guides, consummate organisers and friends in a foreign land.

Enjoy the unique comfort of Insight's luxury air-conditioned 40 seat coach with extended leg room and on-board restroom. It's business class comfort.

Personal radio headsets, gives you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights without missing any of your local expert's fascinating insights and commentaries.

Baggage handling everywhere, with seamless and prompt delivery to your door at every hotel. Hotel and restaurant tips included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. Plus we include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.

Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel WiFi.

Insight Flourishes - from time to time, your Tour Director will enchant you with local tidbits, each representing authentic food or beverages unique to the destination.

Included airport transfers to and from your Insight Vacations hotel.

Istanbul: Learn how to haggle in the Grand Bazaar; the technique, the pitfalls and how much to pay!
Cumalikizik: Visit this charming Village.
Bursa: Hunt for bargains in the bazaar and silk market.
Troy: See the ruins and reconstructed wooden horse.
Toast the culmination of your tour with a lively Celebration Dinner.
7 Buffet Breakfasts (BB), 4 three-course table d'hôte Dinners (D); 1 Welcome Dinner (WD) and 1 Celebration Dinner (CD) both with wine, plus tea or coffee.
Istanbul: Enjoy a relaxing cruise on the Bosphorus. With a Local Expert visit the Blue Mosque and St. Sophia museum. Gain an insight into the lives of the Ottoman sultans at the fabulous Topkapi palace.
Bursa: Visit the Grand Mosque.
Sardis: Under excavation for over one hundred years, where the temple of Artemis is the fourth largest in the ancient world, and one of the best preserved.
Pamukkale: See the cascading ‘Cotton Castles’ of milky white travertine pools.
Ephesus: Explore one of the world’s finest ancient sites and visit the House of the Virgin Mary.
Pergamon: Visit Asklepion, one of the most famous shrines and therapeutic centres in the ancient world.
Gallipoli: Pay your respects.
Istanbul: Offering stunning views, the magnificent towering Renaissance Istanbul Bosphorus Hotel is located on the European side of Istanbul, in Besiktas, midway between the areas of Taksim and Levent.
Bursa & Pumakkale: Both offer spas and thermal pools rich in curative minerals.
Izmir: Swissôtel Buyuk Efes, is a five-star deluxe hotel overlooking the spectacular Kordon Promenade on Turkey’s Aegean Sea.
Canakkale: The modern Kolin is located close to the city center and right on the shores of the Dardanelles Strait.