Cappadocia Gems: 3 Days Trip Package with Balloon Ride Option | 72 hours

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Premium Package: Max 10 Guest
2 Adults x $970.82
$1,941.64
Approx Total
$1,941.64
Accommodation: Zeydem Suites Cave Hotel - Stay at Superior Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: EXCLUDED
Domestic Flights: INCLUDED - Round Trip flight tickets between Istanbul and Cappadocia.
Day Trips Quality: The guided day trips will be organized as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guiding & Tour Language: English
Starting point:
İstanbul, Türkiye
Pickup included
Standard Package: Max 10 Guest
2 Adults x $864.72
$1,729.44
Approx Total
$1,729.44
Accommodation: 1811 Cave Boutique Hotel - Stay at Standard Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: EXCLUDED
Domestic Flights: INCLUDED - Round Trip flight tickets between Istanbul and Cappadocia.
Day Trips Quality: The guided day trips will be organized as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guiding & Tour Language: English
Starting point:
İstanbul, Türkiye
Pickup included
Flexible Package: Max 10 Guest
2 Adults x $508.22
$1,016.44
Approx Total
$1,016.44
Accommodation: 1811 Cave Boutique Hotel - Stay at Standard Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: EXCLUDED
Domestic Flights: EXCLUDED - With this option, You can purchase your own flight tickets for combine this trip from - to any city in Turkey.
Guiding & Tour Language: English
Day Trips Quality: The guided day trips will be organized as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Starting points:
Avis Nevşehir Havalimanı, Nevşehir Kapadokya Havalimanı Gelen Yolcu Terminali İçinde, Tuzköyü, 50940 Gülşehir/Nevşehir, Türkiye
Kayseri Erkilet Airport (ASR), Hilal, Mustafa Kemal Paşa Blv., 38090 Kocasinan/Kayseri, Türkiye
Pickup included
Ultimate Package: Max 10 Guest
2 Adults x $1,220.16
$2,440.32
Approx Total
$2,440.32
Accommodation: Zeydem Suites Cave Hotel - Stay at Superior Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Domestic Flights: INCLUDED - Round Trip flight tickets between Istanbul and Cappadocia.
Day Trips Quality: The guided day trips will be organized as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guiding & Tour Language: English & Spanish - Spanish tours organise with different car and guide than English tours.
Starting point:
İstanbul, Türkiye
Pickup included

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English, Spanish
  • Hotel pick-up & drop-off services in Cappadocia (Included on All Options)
  • 2 nights accommodation at boutique / special class hotel including breakfast
  • Hotel pick-up & drop-off services in Istanbul (Excluded on option of Flexible Package)
  • Entrance fees of museums, national parks, ruins mentioned in the itinerary
  • Roundtrip flight tickets from Istanbul (Excluded on option of Flexible Package)
  • Hot air balloon ride (Included on option of Ultimate Package)
  • Professional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  • Semi-Private day trips - Max 10 guests guarantee for each guided day trips
  • Guided tour(s) : Northern Cappadocia Tour, Southern Cappadocia Tour
  • Dinner & Drinks

Overview

Maximize your time at the most popular destination in Turkey with a 3-day tour from Istanbul. Local guides share the spectacular scenery and rich history of Cappadocia as you see ancient rock-cut churches, fairy chimneys, traditional villages, and more. Includes hot air balloon tour, two nights accommodation, roundtrip flights between Istanbul and Cappadocia, guided day tours, and most meals.

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This tour is offer you start and return at hotels in Istanbul on the options of "Standard Package" - "Premium Package" - "Ultimate Package". The option of "Flexible Package" is not include any pick-up & drop-off transfer in Istanbul and domestic flight between Istanbul and Cappadocia. With the option of ... "Flexible Package", you can purchase your own flight tickets for combine this trip from - to any city in Turkey. Read more ▼

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  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • The prices of package are valid for accommodation at the double or triple room. If you would like add accommodation on single room(s) to your booking, there could be supplement cost. There are not going to be any extra cost for bookings of single / solo travelers. They will already accommodate at single room.
  • The pre-planned hotels are "Zeydem Suites Cave Hotel" and "1811 Cave Boutique Hotel" for your accommodation on this travel. You can choose one of them while booking. If these hotels (which you preferred) are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, the service provider (tour operator) can replace it with an equivalent hotel. IMPORTANT NOTE (SUGGESTION) 1811 Cave Hotel is a historical heritage building and it doesn't have AC in rooms because of that. If you travel in July-August, we highly suggest you upgrade your booking to option of "Premium Package" or "Ultimate Package".
  • The service provider (tour operator) will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at three days before your departure date. You will not need the print out copies of the tickets for domestic flights. Your passport and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for check-in to plane.
  • The service provider (tour operator) can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
  • You will have 15kg luggage + 8kg hand bag quota per person for each domestic flight. If you will need more luggage capacity, please inform that to the service provider (tour operator). There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg.
  • The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm. If hotel rooms will be available for early check-in on first day of your trip, hotel managment and the service provider (tour operator) will provide early check-in to room for you.
  • If your return hotel is different than pick-up hotel, please inform that detail immediately. If you inform that detail after organised your flight tickets, the service provider (tour operator) can request extra cost because of the distances between the airports and some hotels. If you inform this type changes on service day (last day of your trip), the service provider (tour operator) do not accept this last minute amending and drop you to your pick-up hotel.
  • If your pick-up / drop-off hotels are inside of airports (IST and SAW airports) the service provider (tour operator) do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service in Istanbul.
  • Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip. Your refund rate will be the difference between options of "Ultimate Package" and "Premium Package" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
  • The Standard Balloon Ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing, and pilots are decide to that within the safety rules of Civil Aviation Authority. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
  • If you did not book the option of "Ultimate Package", you can not get any service for hot air balloon ride which advertised/offered at the paragpraph of the descriptions about the Hot Air Balloon Ride.
  • If you do not use any service or give up join to activities / tours / airport transfers, that's meaning is going to be last minute cancellation. Because of that, there is not going to be any refund for that.
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
  • Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, the service provider (tour operator) can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.
  • The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours (option of Ultimate Package).

Partially Refundable

April 27100% refund
April 30No refund

You can cancel up to 3 days in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 3 full days before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 3 full days before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 3 full days before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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Incredible Experience

Published on Jun, 2024

We LOVED this experience! Our tour guide Yeshir was super knowledgeable and grew up in Cappadocia so it was nice to get a locals perspective. He usually gave us some info about the stop but also often let us wander around the sites on our own so we had some flexibility which was a perfect combination. There are a lot of logistics involved with traveling to Cappadocia (airport transfers, tickets for each museum site, meals, transportation around the city, etc.) so it was really nice to have all the pre-coordinated for us. The Viator support was AWESOME and available 24hrs even for our early morning 3am pickups. A month or so before we left for the trip we didn’t hear back when emailing through Viator but I called customer service and got their direct number through WhatsApp and after that it was perfect they were super helpful and quick to respond. The sunrise balloon ride was definitely a highlight, the pictures don’t even capture how breathtaking it was and our balloon company was definitely one of the best, they knew how to navigate it to make sure we had the best views! One of my friends is scared of heights but she loved the hot air balloon ride too, it’s very peaceful and moves slowly so it wasn’t a problem. Additionally, we upgraded to the Zeydem hotel & suites which we would HIGHLY recommend! It will give you the option to upgrade at check-out and it wasn’t even that much more expensive, but it was beautiful and they have a restaurant inside which the standard one doesn’t. It includes breakfast and you can get dinner and wine there too which was nice after a long day of activities. Lastly, the tour itself was a busy itinerary but it was great to get to see all the main sites of the city. You get to walk deep underground in the underground city and the views at Uchir castle were unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Some reviews didn’t like how they take you to some expensive “handicraft” shops like ceramics, Turkish rugs, etc. but we actually liked the variety and it was cool to meet the locals and hear about their craft. They didn’t pressure you to buy anything and it was also nice to be indoors during the hottest times of the day. Overall we felt it was planned and organized super well and we couldn’t be happier with our trip!

1811 Cave Hotel was top...

Published on Apr, 2023

1811 Cave Hotel was top quality. Staff was very friendly and nice. Solomon was a very good guide. We loved it. Viator (and the local company)was very professional. We did not get to go on the hot air balloon ride because of the weather, unfortunately.

Amazing experience

Published on Dec, 2022

It was amazing, doing it through viator was the best decision, we've met travellers not being able to fly. Really pleased

Ballon Ride is out of this world.

Published on Aug, 2022

From our hotel (Cappadocia Hotel) to the balloon ride experience, going to Cappadocia when you are in Turkey is must.

Greatest experience !!

Published on Nov, 2021

My first time with Viator and was the greatest experience. Very organized schedule, great locations selection and always supporting my trip via WhatsApp. Very very recommended !!

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