Highlights of Turkey

The itinerary was excellent - for me! But it should be clearer that it involves a lot of walking. Infirm travellers were disadvantaged (which also slowed us some). Our tour director was very knowledgeable and was able to make the sites we visited come alive for us.

This tour covered most of the main attractions In Turkey not only attractions but very detailed Information about historical knowledge by () The excellent tour Manager 👍

Great tour to see the main highlights of Turkey. Guide Orhan was fantastic, extremely knowledgeable and provided a wonderful experience.

What a wonderful and informative trip. I learnt so much. We had an excellent tour director and super co-travellers. Great hotels.

Very good itinerary but too rushed

Overall, a good vacation, both our Tour Director and coach driver were excellent. Hotels were all good 3 of 4-star embellishments. Itenarary was good although misleading for some visits, Izmir for example which we actually did not see as we arrived in the evening at hotel, with dinner at hotel and departure early next morning which was very disappointing as everyone wanted to see Izmir. Other shortcomings were buffet dinner at the hotel for 80% of the nights on the road, again you do not experience localities this way. Finaly the included transfer to airport for departure flight is not something you should count on, if your flight is at 1PM or earlier the tour operator is only giving you an option to depart for airport at 4.30 (you have to get up at 3.30AM), meaning you are going to spend a lot of time at airport waiting.

Pretty strenuous schedule for older folks. Excellent choices of stops and topics of interest. Nice accommodations, comfortable coach, good driver and excellent tour director. Side excursions were interesting. Overall a fun and educating experience.

This was a great itinerary led by an excellent tour guide. I feel like I learned a lot about Turkey, its history, and is people. I really appreciated meeting with some of those people.

I rate this itinerary good simply because there is not enough time to experience the local areas of stay. This trip truly was about the highlights of Turkey with no room to take a breather. With the exception of Kapadokya, all stays are one night after long days. Lots of time spent on the coach traveling to the next destination. Most coach trips are at least 4 hours (with breaks in between). However, the sights are beautiful enough to not feel the long rides. Most meals were enjoyable, but some were just average. Dining at Exedra in Kapadokya was disappointing, with minimal breakfast and a poorly presented dinner. In contrast, the Whirling Dervishes dinner and farewell dinner were spectacular. It would be great if this itinerary allowed for more night stays to experience local areas and restaurants. Hotel rooms were often too warm, some needed upgrades, and while some had ironing boards, none had irons.

A little too much in one day since there was eight hours of travel during the day there was no free time. We made it to the hotels late afternoon evening and never enjoyed the cities that we slept in. It would have been more enjoyable if we stayed at hotels that were in the center of town and we made it to the hotel around 3 o’clock and at least toured the city on foot and shopped a little in the cities that we were staying. By the time we got to the hotel, it was dinner time then bedtime and next morning early we left. We wanted more spa time and relaxation at the hotels we stayed in so that we could get ready and save energy for the next day. However, I must admit it was very well organized. Real spent a lot of money on their clients for the Tours for the tour guide for the accommodation of the buses. The hotels were excellent except for Kapadokya hotel, which was very inconvenient for seniors. They should make sure that when there is a hotel like that with caves and stairs to put the seniors on ground level where they can reach the cafeterias and the office easily, and put the young people at the farthest rooms instead of the elderly at the farthest rooms.

The itinerary was excellent however it was a little tiring, because after eight hours of being on the road by the time we got to our next hotel it was almost 5 the earliest. At that time we had no time to spend with the hotel accommodations, the massages or the therapy pools Because it was almost dinner time and we were very tired, especially the first day when we went to the two mosques and top Kapi palace , and then to the music place, and then the bus for a tour was a lot of walking in the sun. That was a very crowded day. The first day, I know you’re trying to accommodate the tourists by showing them a lot of things, but remember that the age group is almost always more seniors than young people so maybe you should organize the tours according to the ages that sign up

Lots of moving but it was the “Highlights of Turkey”

Fantastic trip. Be prepared to be busy moving from place to place and seeing lots but totally worth it. I have raved about this trip since returning home. Our Tour Guide was just amazing, he was so knowledgeable about everything Turkey (and more). He was very personable and by far the best guide I've ever had on a tour. Well done, Travalgar!

An excellent insight into Turkey with an excellent guide Barcin with his knowledge and humour we throughly enjoyed it. This tour covered so many interesting places that I didn’t know existed. It’s an amazing country. With mainly one night stays and very long days it was tiring so 2 night stays would be much better and also having central hotels would be much better but then that makes it a longer tour.

yes fantastic tour 🙌