Cappadocia Magic: 2-Day Cultural Discovery with Hot Air Balloon Experience
4.5
8 Ratings
İstanbul
Embark on a 2-day cultural discovery in Cappadocia, Turkey. Experience a breathtaking hot air balloon ride, explore UNESCO World Heritage sites, and stay at a charming cave hotel.
Duration: 2 days
Cancellation: 3 days learn more
Highlights

Flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia - Overnight at Cappadocia\n\nIstanbul - The travel services will start with a departure transfer from your hotel to airport. Our driver will meet you at the reception of your hotel (or your AirBnb address if the street of it is available for car parking) and then transfer to airport for your flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia. The pick-up time of this airport transfer depends your prefer which you chose while booking. The pick up time could be +/- 30 minutes difference than departure time option of your booking. That depends the daily flight schedules of airline companies.\n\nCappadocia - Upon your arrival Cappadocia airport, you will be met by your driver and driven to your hotel in Cappadocia - approx 1 hour from airport. The driver will be waiting you at the exit gate of arrival terminal in airport, and holding a signboard written your name on it.

What's Included
  • Transfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
  • Lunch
  • 1 night hotel accommodation including breakfast
  • Breakfast
  • Entrance fees of museums, national parks, ruins mentioned in the itinerary
  • Guided Tour: Northern Cappadocia Tour (Red Tour)
  • Outdoor Tour: Hot Air Balloon Ride
  • Domestic Flight Tickets: Istanbul to Cappadocia to Istanbul
  • Professional tour guide licensed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  • Hotel Pick-up & Drop-off Services in Istanbul & Cappadocia
What's Not Included
  • Dinner
  • Drinks
Additional Information

Explore Turkey’s top attraction with this two-day travel package from Istanbul. Hop on a hot air balloon for a sunrise tour over Cappadocia’s distinctive rock landscapes and explore the Goreme Open-air Museum, the various valleys, Devrent Valley, and the pottery village of Avanos – all part of UNESCO World Heritage sites. The package covers round-rip flights between Istanbul and Cappadocia, hot air balloon ride, a stay at a boutique cave hotel, a full-day guided excursion, and airport transfers.

  • 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(s).
  • The pre-planned hotels are “1811 Cave Boutique Hotel” - “Zeydem Suites Cave Hotel” for your accommodation on this travel package. You can choose one of them during reservation. If these hotels (which you preferred) are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, service provider (tour operator) can replace it with an equivalent hotel. IMPORTANT NOTE (SUGGESTION) 1811 Cave Hotel is a historical building and it doesn’t have AC in rooms because of that. If you travel in July-August, we highly suggest you make booking to option of Premium Package.
  • The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm, and you can not start use your room before this time. This is about the check-in & check-out policies of the hotels.
  • The differences between the package options are about the hotel categories. Tour(s), airport transfer(s) and flight ticket levels will be same for all options.
  • 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 get your boarding cards from the desks of airline companies.
  • Service provider (tour operator) can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details which requested by service provider (tour operator), 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 service provider (tour operator). There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg. This is exactly about the policies of airline companies.
  • 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, 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), 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) service provider (tour operator) do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • This tour is not available for the bookings to children who are 5 years old and under.
Location
İstanbul
Cancellation Policy

If you cancel at least 4 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.

Customer Ratings
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Monica_c
Dec 14, 2023
Tour guide and driver was... - Tour guide and driver was excellent. Sleeping at the cave hotel was an experiene I never expected. Hands down a great experience!
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Reza
Nov 15, 2022
Awesome - Well organized trip with family both from and to our hotel in Istanbul. Highly recommended. Keep it up and a big thanks to the team.
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Fatima_k
Jul 24, 2022
Long day, but overall great experience - The Cave hotel was a unique experience. Enjoyed our stay there. The employees treated us like family. The balloon ride was amazing. I would just allow participants to have a break period to recover from the early 4 am balloon ride and tour.
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Javier_n
Oct 5, 2021
Cappadocia tour - The tour was amazing . everything very well coordinated. The only thing I didn't like was that we stopped to some places that only wants to sell thing to us. That is a waste of time. The rest amazing.
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Phillip_a
May 6, 2022
Better instructions... - Better instructions needed when meeting the shuttle at Istanbul airport upon return from Cappadocia. Once we finally met the driver he didn’t speak English and could not understand we needed the heat in the shuttle turned off. We roasted all the way back to our hotel
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Jamesw12
Apr 28, 2022
Spectacular trip. - Cappadocia is a must see trip. The hot air balloon ride was amazing and should not be missed. Even if you are afraid of heights, you do not feel scared. The gondola is large solid and secure. The ride is smooth, they will not launch if the weather is not good. The day tour was beautiful and interesting. Our guide was knowledgeable and accommodating. The Hotel Cappadocia was very nice and the breakfast was a feast. The staff were very kind and attentive. The only complaint was the transportation back to our Istanbul hotel. After being up for 19 hours it took to long for the transportation company they booked us with to get our van to pick us up. Then he was smoking while driving the crazy streets of Istanbul. A few of our group was already feeling ill from being up so long and the driving. Add in the smell of cigarettes after all that and he almost had a van to clean. Then he tried to get to our hotel by going past the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia during Ramadan. He dropped us off 500m from our hotel when he's wrong route took him to a dead end road. I would suggest booking 2 nights to avoid being overly tired on the return trip. The balloon ride on the first morning with a little touring after. Then the balance of the sites on the second day.
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Farheen_g
Feb 23, 2022
The guide was awesome!... - The guide was awesome! Cella was his name and he was awesome and knowledgeable. But our ballon ride was cancel and when I booked the tour they should have mentioned that.
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