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Topkapi Palace & Harem Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Tickets

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Elisabeth Gritzner-Schlug

Elisabeth

4/5

Nov, 2024

The quick admission. The handling in the Topkapi Café was a bit confusing and the employees were not very customer-oriented. There were very angry comments from some people around. The tour was ok
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Aakriti Saini

Aakriti

3/5

Oct, 2024

Our guide himself was amazing, no complaints. However we thought it was a guided tour of the palace but it ended up being a tour to the garden where he explained all the rooms and then left us after 45 mins to visit each attraction.
Brenda Mhic Ginneá

Brenda

3/5

Oct, 2024

I loved the building, the architecture, I would have liked to hear what the inscriptions said. I had hoped to see the harem, I'd been there long ago, and have forgotten it. The treasuru was excellent, that part was without a guide, but a guide could not have helped in the narrow corridors. I am so glad I went.
Pritesh Sheth

Pritesh

5/5

Oct, 2024

Overall it was quite informative and tour guide gave detailed explanation. I did not realize that the entrance ticket was not included in the tour, until the end.
Annette Stark

Annette

3/5

Oct, 2024

Our guide was for be but it was a very expensive place to visit & incredibly crowded. Definitely interesting & I'm glad we did it but the level of crowds really impacted the experience. Lots of parts we didn't see as the queues were horrendous.
barry mordsley

Barry

4/5

Sep, 2024

it was clear and all went well-guide very clear-i appreciate he did not really act as a guide but as a person who helped to plan the visit
J.B. de Neve

J.b.

3/5

Sep, 2024

it was sad to see the Aya Sofia under mosque police, who were very unfriendly, even forbidding me sit down on my folding stick. The security the entrance had allowed it in.Sadder still that the most beautiful mozaics were for the most part covered No more restauration by Unesco because it is no longer a museum. However, a good guide and the Hagia Sofia still rises partly above the pettines of the day.
Diyana Malakoti

Diyana

5/5

Aug, 2024

we did not know we had to meet outside the palace at the tour guide tent. Only realized this after entering the palace and had to return back outside. Lost about half hour this way. Otherwise a great experience. We ended up venturing off the tour and explore on our own just to be able to see everything in a decent time.
Cláudia Margarida Cruz

Cláudia

3/5

Jul, 2024

The guide was excelent and it was a very good visit. The problem was wandering around 30 min searching for the cafe (meeting point) and hearing everyone say they did have no idea of what we were looking for. We lost the guide for 3 minutes and had to wait for 1h for the next visit
Amanda Hickling

Amanda

5/5

Jul, 2024

Really great place, lots to see. Was there for over 4 hours. Only needed to cover head, shoulders and knees when we went on the holy relics room, but worth going in.
Waqar Hussain Khan Jafri

Waqar

3/5

Jul, 2024

The guide seemed in hurry. He didn't conduct the visit of Palace ( Sultan residential area) and after our entry he vanished without informing the group.
Saima Zulqarnain

Saima

3/5

Jul, 2024

Our guide was good but it was very diffcult to find the place to meet up with the team for registration. The whole site is was huge and we were going around and around in circles!
Marie-Pier Boyd

Marie-pier

5/5

Jul, 2024

The quality of service and the fact that the guide helped us organize our visit and return to port for the departure of our cruise ship.
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Christopher A Pike

Christopher

4/5

Jul, 2024

Ticketing was excellent and they even took us an hour early! Tour guide was very good, too. No complaints or suggestions for improvements except to maybe simplify the directions for finfding th meeting place. We found it but only after walking all around the Hagia--had you said "Look for us in the Southeast (or whatever is right direction) of the Hagia, it would have been clearer.
Amina Belkadi Dostart

Amina

3/5

Jun, 2024

The tour tickets required 15 Euros per child, including our three year old, when the intrance to Topkapi for kids 6 and under is free. The guide rushed through it and provided very generic information with no depth about the place. There is no skip-the-line option. We stood in the line for 20 minutes. The only positive is the guide was very friendly.
Katia Villeret

Katia

5/5

Jun, 2024

Our tour guide was absolutely fantastic! One of the best guide ever: positive, smiling, patient, knowledgeable, and great storyteller. I recommend 100%.
Danijela Zivkov

Danijela

5/5

Jun, 2024

We had the best time visiting Topkapi palace and harem! Our tour guide Deniz was very eloquent and interesting. He gave us all the important information about the palace and recommended what to do after the tour.
Philip Bloor

Philip

5/5

Jun, 2024

Guide was friendly, very knowledgeable and interesting. Our guide was engaging and very informative. I learnt a lot from the guide. I really enjoyed the whole tour. Getting through the ticket queue was quick and efficient. It was a great experience.
Eduardo Bustamante

Eduardo

3/5

Jun, 2024

I foldl that the guide was tired and he tried to close the visit quickly, the explanation was generic and not too much interesting.
Santanu Dasgupta

Santanu

4/5

Jun, 2024

All was good. Our guide Haluk was very entertaining and knowledgeable. We enjoyed our experience of hagia sophia but we thought he will take us to topkapi palace also. But there was another guide for the palace.
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