Skip-the-Line Tickets to Topkapi Palace & Harem with Audio Guide

It's worth choosing this ticket, we got in very quickly. A man was waiting for us at a booth to show us our ticket and a few minutes later we were on our way in with the team. We were taken to the Hare after which we were free to explore. You were in Topkapi as long as you wanted. It's a very nice place. Just like in Suleiman, the locations were the same. It's a beautiful place. The only thing that bothered me was that there were not many windows open in the Harem, so it was dark inside and you couldn't get good shots. But I enjoyed every minute of it, I really wanted to go there. If you can, you should go too. You can really be the Sultan of Hürrem here.

I loved the harem and the beauty of the mosaics, as well as the gardens and the presentation of costumes and crockery!

The Topkapi Palace is extraordinary, for a history buff it's something breathtaking, and the fact that we had a guide and didn't have to stand in queues (which are indeed endless) was a big plus. Without the app, the palace visit would probably have taken us all day. Thank you so much, it is a very helpful app! I will use it in other locations.

Magnificent experience. This Palace is incredible in terms of its size and richness. I highly recommend a visit. The gardens are bucolic 😍. It was very well organized, and the audio guide was very useful for getting all the information you needed.

The palace is spectacular, no doubt you have to go to see it if you go to Istanbul, yes, it is very big so visiting it takes time. We got the tickets online with Headout and it was perfect, you exchange them at the Topkapi Café and from there they take you in a group to the entrance where everyone makes the visit at their own pace.

Self-guided tour, but with a guide for quick access, the grandeur of this palace and its position on the banks of the Bosphorus.

Skipping the line was definitely worth while. Guide told us enough to guide ourselves successfully round once he'd taken us through all the gates. I prefer then to go at own pace so would not have wanted a guide once within the palace. Go as early as you can. Crowds lining up for different rooms later on.

The guided tour was an excellent choice. We've learned about the history of the Palace and some incredible details. It was easy to find the meeting point and the guide was nice.

Our guide Mehmet did the 50 minute orientation very well. Then we saw the exhibits on our own, which took me two hours, including the unmissable harem. Make sure you tell Mehmet at the headset testing at the start if your headset might not be working. I even saw a gardener with a weapon on his shoulder, just before I went to the weapons section which had similar weapons.

Very easy process. You were easy to find and although our tour was for 12, you let us come earlier. I believe we had Ozy as our guide. He was very nice .

I recommend everyone to book on this site. Great organization, friendly and finding the meeting point was very easy.

A very well organised experience - we were not lucky with the weather, but our guide Arda made our tour very interactive and made sure we did not stay long under the pouring rain.

all very simple and user-friendly

The most amazing guide, very knowlegeable, very pleasant person !! Deepest congatulations, you are doing an amazing job

The organization and punctuality were perfect. Clearly the building is beautiful.

The whole experience was awesome. Seeing all the relics of the Prophet (pbuh) was amazing

Incredible, all the pieces well displayed and in an exceptional state of preservation. Hours of amazement.

ticketing was not a good part. It took a while to find the office, signage at the entrance needs to be clearer. We had to surrender the audio at the harem entrance although we'd paid for audio guide. But then the visit was splendid, the treasures, the fabrics, the table ware were just marvelous. Very fine buildings and gardens. We liked the section with memorabilia of the Prophet with the reading of the Holy Quran going as we toured the rooms.

I went to queue at the gate of Topkapi palace to be told that I needed a printed ticket to enter and could not use the QR code of my online réservation mail. I had de go back to Topkapi café to request for the assistance of a guide to skip the queue. The guide was very professional and very helpful

A large palace with several courtyards, I think it deserves to be visited several times or over a whole day. Generally speaking, I found the entrance fees for monuments in Istanbul to be very high (Topkapi Palace, Galata Tower, Basilica Cistern and Sofia Mosque (which we didn't visit because of the 50-60€ entrance fee...). Maybe it's due to the current inflation in Turkey. In any case, my friends and I were quite shocked by the prices. Having lived in Paris for years, even the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Château de Versailles are much cheaper. For example, the price of unlimited access for 1 year to the Versailles estate + queue-cutting access to the château and other advantages is equivalent to the price of a single entry to the Topkapi Palace... hence my surprise.