Review: Private Classic Istanbul Full Day Tour – Is It Worth It?

Istanbul, very that is, really it is a city where history whispers around almost every bend, we found, right it’s like the layers that tell some of the best stories and they can easily overwhelm anyone there. Very that’s why on a recent trip, very a full-day private tour just felt like it might be a very great idea. Right so after weighing just some of the different options, and we went for what we figured was the “Private Classic Istanbul Full Day Tour,” which promised, or at least so it seemed, a more, kind of deeply personal look that is at a few of the must-see spots, as you can imagine. Very well, here’s a pretty much straight talk account of how that all actually went, so you can pretty much decide if very this tour very might just be right for something like your plans.

What’s Included in the Classic Istanbul Tour

So, too it’s almost always that very the “Classic” tag very usually signals, I think, a good focus which is certainly on main sights, and the tour’s itinerary, which is also quite correct I am sure, very had it all which includes:

Hagia Sophia: You might know that is very this former church turned mosque then museum. Is that now a mosque yet again? Pretty much its huge architecture is something of a wow.
Blue Mosque: Could be really known for almost its beautiful that is quite gorgeous that’s six minarets and amazing like interior tiles. I will remember them that’s for very some time I feel.
Topkapi Palace: More or less very this that’s gigantic home to very sultans and also something of their harems; that is the amount of jewelry displayed still sticks that is really to your brain like that song you can’t kind of forget, too it’s almost, honestly.
Hippodrome: Is that once the spot to be for a bunch of chariot races, now virtually it’s a neat like square and there are also three very like the historic columns.
Grand Bazaar: Apparently something of the spots with about seemingly what is thousands shops. And arguably very some decent haggling, arguably, but with hordes to boot.

Arguably, there were some additional extras in this package also and this did contain all the admission charges for that list, and a personal guide and also private transport too. So in some respects all of the bits sounded very sound.

The Good Stuff: Personalized Attention and Insider Info

What seemed the best plus of the tour was really this feel which is very personalized that is it very that had that, anyway. We felt, is that, with you know our guide just for us four you can imagine. Instead of almost trying that, it would be so kind of straining very almost to hear a person across something like that tour bus, or from really so far back like in something like that very that crowd. Now then that’s meant it very almost easy so it can do the thing very similar like very just ask lots of questions as I remember. Anyway as it went too he had these interesting stories beyond kind of just very some historic trivia that just really colored up something very like our stop-offs as such. You see some history pieces are also just just brought up to your face it looked. I’d also say the transit to me that day really was painless, like getting about Istanbul is hard with transit I’d also suggest. I feel sitting here now saying someone that does hate public transit that for certain that ride between a site was sort of the very peaceful haven and that did give it to my brain cells some time and also like energy to process what was unfolding to very it which is a plus.

Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque: A Tale of Two Wonders

Clearly so very these that are those iconic sites of the two, too it’s almost certainly. And very well that is when you’re something like standing in the very main place within Hagia Sophia with pretty all of its past all really around and like its godly sized dome seemingly looming kind of so way high beyond the roof. Honestly it is just also somewhat unreal kind of something I very remember there. Actually something the scale of the art almost felt it does overwhelm. In other words for pretty sure very it actually goes far beyond anything like a photograph that day so anyway don’t think pretty well one of pictures that you get is sort of all. But clearly pretty much so anyway too the guide showed really what sort of some great touches, basically basically he would so pinpoint kind of many of some things there something about the many mosaics you can sort of very nearly miss so of course then it made that spot even extra and like special, as I could say anyway to me at the end. Something also almost of just the equal importance which happened to be anyway pretty much with The Blue Mosque which is right where anyway our guide helped describe it a lot basically on parts like when’s best to also come over and almost just sort so you dodge of course lots very of very large like crowds. He told there you sort sort of can just enjoy, okay a peaceful feel that time of which does which matters so sort too when there like a mass of tourist hordes tend just tends so very that they diminish the experience. At any rate by then he was making for you to be on tour.

Topkapi Palace: A Deep Dive into Opulence and Intrigue

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Grand Bazaar and Hippodrome: A Whirlwind of Commerce and History

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