Outstanding tour - A must see Istanbul highlight. The Harem and it’s place in Ottoman history is a really interesting tour. Don’t miss the Relics Room. Artefacts of people you read about at junior school. World class collection. Relics of John the Baptist and Mohammed and David’s sword amongst many more. Truly fascinating - whether you have a faith or not! Book a fast-track entry, or you’ll be waiting hours in a queue!

Great value and easy to use! - This is an excellent service. It is easy to find the meeting point (cafe) if you have access to a cellphone map. When you arrive at the cafe, they give you a receipt and you go with a guide and large group who takes you through security and then spends a few minutes at the map to help with orientation. Be sure to ask about the app if you would like to use it. BUY the version that includes harem and the tour guide will take you without line to the harem and then you can see the rest of the palace. Solid value. You may be able to go with an earlier group if you arrive early!

Pros and cons of this tour - It was ok. The tour guide was fine, for hos short time with us. It was a BIG group of people. No tea offerred to us at the cafe. You don't get to keep your admissions ticket, once you get onto the Harem part of the museum. . lMy wifi wasn't able to pick up the tour there, brcsuse it daid it didn't recognize my phone number.

Easy Access - Topkapi Palace - Easy way to go to the head of the line. Convenient meeting location. Efficient and knowledgeable entrance guide. Go early. It gets VERY crowded.

Not Sure It's Worth It. - This review is about the Skip The Line ticket and not the Topkapi Palace which is worth visiting - see my separate review. The email I received said to meet at the Topkapi Cafe so we made our way to the entrance, went through airport style security and lingered by the cafe nearest the entrance. Despite asking a great many people with lanyards, no one was able to help. Finally a cafe worker told us that the Topkapi Cafe was outside the palace walls. We found the meeting place next to the Hagia Sofia and got our tickets. We then had to join a long queue to get back through security and walk back up to the palace entrance. We then joined the Skip The Line queue which, although long, was fast moving. I would caution anyone thinking about a Skip The Line ticket that you do in fact have to join two long queues.

Poo - Not worth the money, it’s just to skip the line which is not there as there are ticket kiosks where you can buy in no time, plus she just left us without any instructions

Too many people for a guide not able to ask questions for Audio guide poor communication for the rest - The guide did not warn us that the Audio guide left from the main entrance and we arrived from the harem side and the Audio guide worked very poorly, bad unified experience

Don’t bother. - Don’t bother. Just a ticket in. Very rushed. No one told me I had to download an information app. The app doesn’t work inside most of the site because of bad internet. Poor guides coped with pressure from a huge group of people trying to get the information. Just get there at 9. Buy a ticket and get the free audio guide on site. You will need 4+ hours. Huge site and so much to see and long queues for major parts. Don’t booked anything afterwards. Well worth the visit.

Dont waste your money and time - Awful. Could not hear the guide. App failed to work. Wanted 6.99 and was free tour! It was not faster our skip the line was a giant line and slower than any other regular line. really felt like a waste and f time and money

Skip the one us disappointing - This was a waste of time. Our guide was ordinary and the whole process took longer than the general queue. We would have been into the palace an hour earlier with free English headphones if we had joined the regular queue when we arrived at 9am. Everyone is doing ‘skip the line’ and no one is in ‘the line.’ A waste of money and as a result we had no guide, and no headphones. Disappointing. We weren’t the only people who were disappointed.