2-Day Cappadocia Tour: Includes Camel Safari & Balloon Ride from Istanbul
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Ürgüp
Experience the best of Cappadocia in just 2 days with this tour from Istanbul. Enjoy a camel safari, a hot air balloon ride, and explore the stunning landscapes and ancient caves of this unique region.
Duration: 2 days
Cancellation: 3 days learn more
Highlights

Flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia - Camel Safari (Included) - Overnight at Cappadocia

Istanbul - 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. Exact pick-up time depends the scheduled departure time of flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia on your travel dates. We will inform you about exact timing after booked your domestic flight tickets.

Cappadocia - 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.

Rose Valley - Camel Safari (INCLUDED) : After your hotel pickup, join your guides during the safety briefing. Get to know your new camel friends and start the safari journey. Admire the stunning landscapes of Cappadocia as you ride into the Red and Rose Valleys. Enhance your experience by donning traditional clothing, which will available for you to wear during the ride. After your Camel Safari, you will be dropped back to your hotel in Cappadocia. Standard Route of Safari : Red and Rose Valleys, Zindanonu Valley, Meskenler Valley. ** The route could be replaced to different routes if weather does not suitable on your experience date.

What's Included
  • Airport transfers for domestic flights
  • Outdoor adventures: Hot Air Balloon Ride and Camel Safari
  • Inclusive meal options: Lunch and daily breakfast
  • Comfortable 1-night hotel stay with breakfast
  • Entrance to museums, national parks, and historical ruins
  • Northern Cappadocia Guided Tour (Red Tour)
  • Roundtrip domestic flights: Istanbul-Cappadocia-Istanbul
  • Expertise of a licensed professional tour guide
  • Hotel transfer services in Istanbul & Cappadocia
What's Not Included
  • Dinner
  • Drinks
Additional Information

Take a 2-day journey from Istanbul to Cappadocia, with the option to include an enchanting sunrise hot air balloon flight. This tour has been designed to save you time by carefully coordinating flights, ground transportation, activities, and meals. Make the most of your time in Cappadocia, a breathtaking landscape featuring wind-carved rocks, ancient caves, churches, villages, and other attractions, by spending less time arranging your trip and more time experiencing the remarkable sights of the region.

  • 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 17 years old and under.
Location
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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.

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Maps51123663758
Oct 9, 2023
Amazing views and great staff - I would have stayed longer or I will do it again in the future! It was great to have the flights and taxi/shuttle booked in advacne to make the most out of Cappadocia.
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Kiiki222
Oct 4, 2023
Highlight of turkey trip! - Hi travelers, If anyone is looking for a great time with easy travel arrangements. I highly recommend this company and tour. This was the highlight of my trip to Turkey — the communication between each tour activity, drivers, pick up, airport transfers,and hotel management was awesome. The camel ride, the hot air balloon, the cave hotel, and the tour around the city 100/10! The management at the cave hotel were so nice and accommodating! They do have photographers during the activities so bring some cash if you would like to purchase but can’t say enough how great this company was. If you are thinking about this company and tour, do it! It will be a memory you won’t forget!
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Amber_p
Sep 18, 2023
Dream Tour!!! - This tour was literal perfection. It was highly organized, efficient and offered exactly what it was supposed to. Everything was included. It was so worth it and I have some amazing photos that will last a lifetime! Only thing I would change is the included lunch spot. The restaurant was infested with flies and the food was not good.
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Connector48196097429
Sep 4, 2023
Cappadocia 2 day Camel Safari and Hot Air Balloon tour - This was a great tour. Very different and interesting a tour of a lifetime personally for me. The camel safari was very modern but had that ancient feel as well. We were able to take pictures and videos. The Cappadocia Tour was amazing as well. Nice and wonderful sights with knowledgeable tour guides along with a great group of people that I met from different parts of the world and in the United States. I thoroughly enjoyed the cave hotel reservations that I stayed in at Vigor Cappadocia very chic and elegant hotel in a cave I just can't explain how satisfied I was with doing this 2 day tour in Cappadocia doing the camel safari. I was supposed to do the hot air balloon ride but it was canceled due to the weather. I was so disappointed but I understand. It is better to be safe than sorry. I wish I had that on my first day so if canceled I would get another shot to get to do it. I'm supposed to get a refund we'll see. The Red Tour was very informative and marvelous sites and wonders to behold. The lunch was absolutely amazing. All and all very good I would definitely suggest that if you're adventurous and want to do something different then this would be the tour for you.
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Zaldy_d
Aug 12, 2022
Awesome and amazing - Pick up was on time, brekkie bag was provided to each customer. Our balloon captain was fun! Definitely, a bucket list checked.
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Resort31750383719
Jul 27, 2021
Most amazing trip ever. - First off all I would like to thank everyone that has been involved in arranging this dream trip, I decided last minute and I mean last minute to take this tour, I book this tour at 12 pm the day before I decided to travel, at 7pm I got my confirmation email with flights and hotel booked. There normal hotel was full due to busy season but they found an amazing hotel for me at old vintage house, the tour operating company was absolutely amazing. The hot air baloon ride was the highlight of the trip. I would highly recommend booking this tour if you want to experience all Cappadocia has to offer. It's worth every penny. Once again thank you very much.
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Shariane
Nov 29, 2020
Wow! What an experience - All I can say is wow! Well I can actually say more lol. This entire experience was truly amazing. I can't believe how I lucked up on this awesome experience. Everything ran smoothly. Like no issues-well except for the one time the driver dropped me off at the wrong hotel after the balloon ride. I told him it didn't look like my hotel but he insisted. But besides from that everything was perfect. I was picked up from my hotel in Istanbul and dropped off at the airport. I was picked up once I landed. Took an hour drive directly to start the red tour. I had a great tour guide name Torgor(?) I just remember him saying his name sounds like tour guide lol. His energy was amazing and he was just filled with so much historical information. We visited Pigeon Valley, Goreme Open Air Museum, Cavusin, Devrent Valley. We saw Pasabag, Fairy Chimneys and Love Valley. We had an air conditioner van to take us from place to place. We visited Avanos to a Ceramic Pottery shop. It was cool I was able to get hands on and make pottery out of red clay. We stopped by a nearby restaurant to have lunch which was included. We were done with the tour by 4pm. I stayed in Cappadocia View Hotel. It was ok and basic. The roof top has very beautiful views of everything. With free time I booked a Turkish dinner dance performance in a cave which I highly suggest. The next morning by 430am was picked up for the air balloon tour. This experience was completely amazing. After getting dropped off at the wrong hotel, I found my way back and was able to catch a traditional turkish breakfast at the hotel which is included. We had another awesome guide name Bidom(?) as our guide for the Green tour. We also visited Pigeon Valley again which was cool because I spent time in a different area and Goreme Panorama. We also visited Derinkuyu Underground City which was so cool and amazing. We visited Selime Monastery which was a very steep hike but beautiful especially the views; and Ihlara Valley in which we had lunch at a restaurant right off the river which was included. The food was delicious. Our guide was awesome and was very informative at every place we visited. Once the tour was over I was dropped off back at my hotel to wait for pick up to take me to the airport. Once I landed in Istanbul I had another transportation back to my hotel. Absolutely amazing experience. I wish it was an extra day added for a morning to watch the balloons from the ground up and to also ride the ATV'S or camels or horses and visit winery's and shops that sells rugs haha. But I loved it and I highly recommend this package
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James_d
Oct 20, 2021
Great tour - Fantastic tour guide. He was interesting and congenial. The balloon ride was a unique experience. The tour selections were a combination that took us to the best spots. Most of the transfers were spot on the times given. The only reason I give four stars, is that the return pickup was fumbled. We were at the assigned rendezvous spot for 20 minutes before we connected to an agent of the car company and another 40 minutes, before we actually got in the van. It was late and we were feeling a little grumpy.
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Muhammad_m
Nov 12, 2022
Not properly organized tour. - Return from Cappadocia not included. Make sure you understand this before booking. Also had to pay for shuttle from hotel to Cappadocia Airport on the second day, was told it was included. Otherwise balloon ride was a blast.
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Ani_i
Nov 6, 2023
Totally Disappointing - The Camel ride and the pickup to and from the airport we truly nice. The second day tour is a total fraud! We were supposed to go visit places like the Goreme outdoor museum and instead they took us to a ceramic and leather factory. We complained to Viator and they have not even bothered replying to us!
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