2-Day Cappadocia Tour with Optional Hot Air Balloon Ride
Overview
Inclusions
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- One-way flight from Istanbul to Kayseri airport
- Overnight accommodation
- Meals as per itinerary (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner)
- Local guide
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Hot air balloon flight and glass of Champagne (if option selected)
- 2x Lunch
- Accommodation included: 1 night
- Entry/Admission - Goreme National Park
- Entry/Admission - Kaymakli Underground City
What to expect
Day 1: Day 1: Istanbul - Cappadocia
Stop At: Kaymakli Underground City, Derinkuyu Turkiye
MIGHT BE REPLACED WTIH OZKONAK UNDERGROUND CITY. One of Cappadocia’s best-preserved subterranean sites. Explore its maze of passages, seeing underground stables and cellars while learning about the early Christians who once hid here to escape persecution.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Ortahisar Kalesi, Ortahisar Turkiye
FROM OUTSIDE. On a stroll, admire its stone houses that surround its crowing rocky glory -- Ortahisar Castle. Stop for photos by this unique fortress.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Red Valley, Nevsehir Ortahisar, Nevsehir 50650 Turkiye
NO HIKING - Panaromic view of Rose Valley – a beautiful stretch of land that takes its name from the red-hued rock that abounds throughout it. Wedged between the villages of Göreme and Çavuşin, the valley is studded with rock-carved churches and tunnels.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
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Accommodation included: 4 star hotel
Day 2: Day 2: Cappadocia
Stop At: Zelve Open Air Museum, Zelve Yolu, Nevsehir Turkiye
Imagination Valley, where intriguing animal-like rock formations are abundant. Admire the landscape and stop in Pasabag (Monk’s Valley) in the region of Zelve, to walk through the area’s cone-like rocks where monks and hermits once lived in peaceful seclusion.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Pigeon Valley, Uchisar KasabasI Nevşehir Kapadokya, Goreme 50240 Turkiye
See its famous bird-nesting caves
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Avanos Oren Yeri, Kapadokya Cd., Avanos 50500 Turkiye
Pottery town of Avanos
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Goreme National Park, Goreme 50180 Turkiye
Exemplified by dusty-looking beige buildings and fairy chimneys, this open-air museum comprises a cluster of rocky monuments that attest to Byzantine life in Cappadocia.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Meals included:
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No accommodation included on this day.
Additional information
- Passport name, passport number, expiry date and date of birth required at time of booking for all participants
- Please note: You must contact your local service provider 24 hours prior to the tour to reconfirm your departure point and time
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Children under age of 6 can not join hot air balloon ride
- Most travelers can participate
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
- A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 30 days of travel. In this case confirmation will be received within 48 hours, subject to availability
Ticket delivery
Cancellation
If you cancel between 3 and 6 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
Honestly, this tour is REALLY overpriced. I was nervous, because some of the reviews seemed happy and others, not so happy. Here's the thing: all of the good experiences I had...I had to pay for outside of this tour company, like a hamam or the air balloon ride. Our tour guide barely actually ...
Honestly, this tour is REALLY overpriced. I was nervous, because some of the reviews seemed happy and others, not so happy. Here's the thing: all of the good experiences I had...I had to pay for outside of this tour company, like a hamam or the air balloon ride. Our tour guide barely actually informed us of anything and abandoned us any chance possible, including at places she claimed guides couldn't go...except there were guides for others.
The hotel chosen was nice...with the poorest wifi and thin walls. Superior it was not.
The days ended absurdly early too. The first day ended at THREE PM. We didn't start our actual tour until 11am because of flying and picking others up. So four hours, FOUR HOURS of getting 20 minutes here and there at places? Despicable.
Such a waste of money. Go with another company.
Great tour with very experienced guide! It was very safe with traning for landing.
Great tour with very experienced guide! It was very safe with traning for landing.
If you are going to do anything, definitely do the balloon ride! If this tour was only that it would get the full five stars, but everything else was just OK. Neat to see all the underground cities, but I would have liked to hear more information and history on all the different areas we visit...
If you are going to do anything, definitely do the balloon ride! If this tour was only that it would get the full five stars, but everything else was just OK. Neat to see all the underground cities, but I would have liked to hear more information and history on all the different areas we visited.
Great tour. Our guide (Famous) was so knowledgeable and friendly and went out of his way to make us happy and ensure that we understood everything. Learnt so much from him, not just about Cappadocia but also Turkey more broadly. We saw all the major sights of the region and had the opportunity to...
Great tour. Our guide (Famous) was so knowledgeable and friendly and went out of his way to make us happy and ensure that we understood everything. Learnt so much from him, not just about Cappadocia but also Turkey more broadly. We saw all the major sights of the region and had the opportunity to eat amazing local food. We are genuinely wary of shopping tourist traps but, in this case, the shops we stopped at were producing genuinely high quality and authentic goods. Would highly recommendOne of the superb place I ever visited. A place worth to visit with family. A great combination of ancient and interesting places.
One of the superb place I ever visited. A place worth to visit with family. A great combination of ancient and interesting places.Worst experience ever!!! Although all the services I bought was delivered, it was a real nightmare... no one from the operator (Neon Tours) would give me informations and reply my messages or answer the phone. I bought a package to go to Capaddocia for 2 days from Istanbul and at the night before...
Worst experience ever!!! Although all the services I bought was delivered, it was a real nightmare... no one from the operator (Neon Tours) would give me informations and reply my messages or answer the phone. I bought a package to go to Capaddocia for 2 days from Istanbul and at the night before flying, they just said to me all the informations about my tour and flight was attached to my voucher, which wasn't!!! I had to go to the airport and didn't know what company or flight I was (it was a kindda lottery!!), they didn't let me know in advance where or who were going to pick me up at the airport or to the tour, or the balloon ride. If you like to not know the informations you will need to do a tour, go for it! But if you believe the least the operator could do is to give the necessary informations about the tour you have paid, run away fast from this company!!!!! I had to ask for help from Viator and even pp from Viator they didn't reply... so, avoid this kind of stuff and buy a tour from a local Cappadocia operator!!!