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

Simple, quick and efficient booking. Very useful to be able to avoid the queue to visit Topkapi Palace, which is well worth the detour.

We showed up 30 minutes ahead of an appointed time and greeter tried to get us to pay more and go immediately with a guide instead of waiting 30 minutes. We said no, we would wait. He didn't tell us we had to get a vocher from the kiosk for our online ticket and we only found out when we got to the palace gate with the guide and she started collecting them. She had to work hold everyone up and had to make numerous telephone calls in order to verify our online tickets. She did a good job. Second, it was a crazy day with Eid. There were many many people. The skip the line line was so long and people just buying tickets were cutting in line and the palace was not stopping them.

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.

Worked out well. Great palace! Only the audio guide is not so functional.

Simplified access to the facility, convenient audio guide

Audio guide not available for Italian and application unusable with non-existent wifi

The only flaw that to enter the harem we had to depend on the Guide to wait for his Pass.

Verry nice and good time was very simple to meet up

Excellent organization and explanation