Jun 25, 2023
Great experience on Day tour to Pamukkale - Excellent experience overall!
Our tour with Excursion Market was well-organized and enjoyable.
The day started promptly with a pickup from our hotel in Antalya at 5:30 AM. We began our journey in a small tempo traveler and later transferred to a spacious bus that took us to our final destination, Pamukkale. Along the way, we made a stop for a delicious breakfast and visited several local attractions before enjoying a satisfying lunch. The highlight of the tour was undoubtedly the main attraction in Pamukkale.
I highly recommend using Excursion Market for their exceptional tours.
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May 23, 2023
Amazing - The experience was really good! The driver and the guide were both super sweet and energetic. Really enjoyed the tour! Would definitely recommend it
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May 21, 2023
Tour was very good - Views at Pamukkale were amazing. Lunch and dinner was good. Tour operator was very cooperative and helpful. Tour guide could have been a bit better.
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May 24, 2024
Took 7 hours to get there from Alanya! Don’t do it from Alanya. - If I knew what I now know then I wouldn’t have gone. This is ONLY cos of the getting there & back! They were supposed to pick us up at 4am according to the description of the advert but the night before they sent a message saying it’ll be 2.10am! They came at 1.50am! Well it was one non-English speaking person in a very old minibus. Another pick up passenger eventually told me that this minibus wasn’t our main mode of transport; we were just getting picked up & taken to a location for the main bigger minibus. Thank God! It was better but the journey was sooooo long. We spent 30min in Salt lake but we could have saved this time as there was absolutely nothing else there & time was too short for a swim. We spent 2.5hrs on Permukkale & there is no denying how lovely it is but for 14-hours worth of driving? NO definitely not.
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May 1, 2024
A long day ! - Very long trip. Lasted 22 hours not the advertised 15 hours.
Would have been better if there were fewer stops along the way. It became tiring being sold to constantly. Also better communication from the Russian guide that an English guide would be joining later into the trip would have been nice.
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Dec 22, 2023
Quite ok - The stay in Pamukkale was really, really nice. But unfortunately much too short. After a 10-hour bus ride, we were only there for 3 hours. And then 7 hours back. The journey took so long because we stopped a few times and were shown shops.
All in all, it was still OK - we got breakfast, lunch and dinner and the bus driver drove really well.
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Aug 19, 2023
Please be aware - This is marked as a 15 hour tour. Our tour was 23 hours
So it was beautiful but way too long
maybe 5- 6 hours was site seeing the rest was buses and driving
So i wouldnt recommend babies or young kids
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Aug 17, 2023
Too hot there in August - The bus was comfortable, the tour guide was OK, the tour was extremely cheap, the food was good and sufficient...It was just too hot at the destination. The Cleopatra Pool was unnecessary as the water was very warm and therefore not refreshing, only the cold showers there saved us. There are far too many people around for the photos you would like to take of the limestone pools, but that's just how it is in high season.
I would do the whole thing again in winter!!
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Jul 18, 2023
Overall good - Overall the trip was good.
Pamukkale and it's surroundings was so beautiful and magnificent.
3 stars is because of the extra stops and sudden New sightseeings. Ofcourse this was free. But the trip just got soooo long because of this.
Guide was funny and good
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Jul 14, 2023
We would have known, we would never have. - A terribly difficult and long trip that lasted exactly 24 hours, no sleep. It's completely unclear why you would do that on holiday. Instead of talking to my family, I spent almost 24 hours on the bus.
What's most annoying is that it's completely unwarned in the description of this trip. The tour duration is stated to be 15 hours, which I agreed to. The tour ended up lasting 24 hours! Along the way, there were some additional stops at stone production, wine tastings, not written in the description of the tour, the aim of which was to get tourists to buy more. You're brought into the store, you're given 10 minutes of explanations, and you're taken into the store, where you walk for 20 or 30 minutes, and each guest has a "chaperone" who follows them and makes them taste everything they see and asks why you don't want to taste and buy anything.
I'm not sure if there were any stops on the way. I feel like I didn't, which is why it took me so long.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner were included in the tour price. The food was terrible. Nikonda wasn't in prison or the army, but I think that's how they feed her. My mother caught a hair, and then none of us ate anything else, because it was disgusting.
At the main stop - Pamukkale - we arrived at 14 hours (and left the hotel at 01:30 am!). Not to mention the super long road, we've come to the hottest place, from 14 to 16, a place where you should walk and there's no shade.
Yes, the tour is cheap, but the description is the same as the other tours, which are more expensive. You'd know what it'd look like if you paid twice as much for another tour or rented a car and drove yourself.
To be fair, the tour guide was great. She told and instructed everything perfectly in two languages. The nature of Turkey is also very beautiful, but it was not worth a day on the bus.
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