Old Istanbul Tour

Turkey Gay Tours offers this walking tour that you can go through the best of Old Istanbul in one day with the company of a gay or LGBT friendly tour guide. That is a tour of the city’s top sites and attractions. Pamper yourself with the flexibility of a private tour and adjust your own pace, choose the sites to visit that appeals to you more. See the Unique Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, be familiar with the stories of the Sultans, and hear some mysteries about concubines in Topkapi Palace, witness the architecture of the Byzantine Empire in Basilica Cistern and Hippodrome, and haggle like a local in Grand Bazaar!

Tour Details

Duration: Half Day (4 Hrs.) or Full Day (6-7 Hrs) depending on your preference.

Departure Point: Port, your hotel, airbnb ( in the old city, Taksim, Sirkeci, Karakoy, Galata, Besiktas )

Finishing Point: At your hotel or port

Sites included:

• Hagia Sophia, ( it is mosque now and none has right to skip the lines )
• Blue Mosque,
• Basilica Cistern,
• Hippodrome,
• Topkapi Palace ( you may replace it with a Bosphorus Cruise or visit to the Dolmabahce Palace )
• Grand Bazaar

IMPORTANT: Our tours’ being full day or half day depend on your choice of visiting Topkapi Palace! If you like to visit the palace, the tour would be a full day otherwise half day!

Please note:

• Topkapi Palace also can be replaced with Bosphorus Cruise or visit to the Dolmabahce Palace.
• Harem Section is not included in the price, you may visit during the tour if you like. You just need to pay the fee of the entrance and we do not charge anything for guiding.

Itinerary:

Your guide can meet you at your hotel or port where they will confirm the itinerary with you. You will then travel to the first attraction by public transportation or taxi. Upon arriving to the Old Town, the tour will be mostly by walking. ( No motored vehicles are allowed in the Old Town) At the end of your tour, you would be free to visit other sites of interest or your guide can accompany you back to your hotel.

Tour Highlights

• Full or Half day tour of Istanbul’s top sites with an expert tour guide
• Skip the lines at Basilica Cistern
• Get a deeper understanding of Islam in Blue Mosque
• Try your bargaining talent in the first shopping mall in the world, Grand Bazaar

Top Sites of Istanbul Half-day Tour

1 person 150 $

2 people 180 $

3 people 210 $

Full-day Tour with the Topkapi Palace

1 person 180 $

2 people 220 $

3 people 260 $

• For a group size of more than three people, please ask for a quote by an email.
• You can have half day; Hagia Sophia, Basilica Cistern, Blue Mosque, Hippodrome and Grand Bazaar
• You can have full day: Half Day + Topkapi Palace or Bosphorus boat tour with public one or private Yacht

What is included

• Professional Licensed Guiding Service in English by Gay or Gay Friendly tour guide ( Only official tour guides are allowed to provide guiding services and they all complete study for 4 years to be a guide,
• Taxi or public transportation during the tour, ferry, tram…
• Entrance Fees
• Private Tour

What is not included

• Food and drinks
• Personal Expenses
• Tipping tour guide.