Cappadocia Dream - 2 Days Cappadocia Travel with Balloon Ride from/to Istanbul

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Location: Istanbul, Turkey

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Although many cross-country tours in Turkey only allocate a day to Cappadocia’s preternatural landscape and innovative architecture, most travelers find that a two-day tour strikes the right balance between seeing the region’s highlights and sacrificing time elsewhere in the country. See all of the highlights of Cappadocia comfortably during this two-day tour departing from Istanbul. Don’t risk running out of time to see all of the region’s unique natural heritage; instead, make sure you get to experience all of Cappadocia’s surreal landscapes, its cave churches, and the underground city.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
• 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 options 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. Your refund rate will be the difference between options of "included balloon ride" and "excluded balloon ride" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
• 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.
• The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
• Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, service provider (tour operator) can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.

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Posted By : Latchmin_B
Highly recommend this tour. It was well organized from the pickup in Istanbul to the return flight back to Istanbul and hotel. This company did not miss a beat. They were professional, organized and on time. We had the best experience and enjoyed our hot air balloon ride. Most memorable experience ever.
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Posted On : 2024-05-19 05:35:54

Posted By : Ysadude
Wonderful trip and experience in Cappadocia with the most uniquely awe inspiring hot air balloon ride over the Sun rise in the Goreme valley. Certainly elated with everything packaged into this trip starting with the cave hotel at Zeydem, visits to the monasteries, unesco endorsed mountain churches, underground city and several other breath taking sites like fairy chimney, pigeon valley, uchisar castle and imagination devrent valley. Our guide Umit was very friendly and accommodative!
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Posted On : 2024-05-15 17:35:19

Posted By : Rafael_N
What an amazing experience, it's a must when you plan your travels. From the transfers which were seamless to the excellent accommodation, the tour guides, the lunches, I mean everything was superb. I had other tours in the past but this one was the epitome of how a tour package should be. By the way I want to say thank you to Ilkai from the travel agency for being always available for assistance and answering any doubts. Now you dear reader do no hesitate and I hope you have the same or better experience than I had, enjoy, safe travels.
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Posted On : 2024-05-11 04:08:46

Posted By : Alex_G
Really loved this tour. Only did 2 days but wish I could stay longer to get to know it better. The hotel was great, very relaxing l. Downside there is only one restaurant and off the main strip. Our tour guide was good. He tried to be accommodating to the groups needs. Lunch was a little late one day, good idea for snacks. The balloons taking off were breathtaking with the scenery. Really loved the cave monasteries
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Posted On : 2024-05-02 10:12:53

Posted By : Tamara_M
Wow what a memorable experience even if we didn’t had the chance to do the hot air balloon activity. Everyone in the team from drivers, hotel staff and of course tour guides were helpful, polite and friendly. I will 100%recommend it!
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Posted On : 2024-04-30 09:23:38

Posted By : Christian_R
Beyond amazing experience, stunning views, smooth ride and lots of fun. Amazing team that made this experience possible
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Posted On : 2024-04-22 13:59:05

Posted By : CESARRENAN_N
My trip which I had planed with 3 months of anticipation and reservations, was cancelled by you one day before my trip and one week before the event. You can imagine our surprise and frustration! The excuse from the operator was that there was no more flights due to the holidays! and that they had only started booking the flight due to Viators one week cancellation policy! Of course there were flights but the prices were much higher, reason the operator cancelled. My suggestion to all persons planning to include the flight as part of the tour package that they "Don't"... or your bound to expect the same treatment!
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Posted On : 2024-04-15 08:54:21

Posted By : Emma_H
This was an amazing experience to the guided tour of all the amazing sights in Cappadocia, the cave hotel (one of my favorite hotels Ive stayed in my life) and the absolute peak of the hot air balloon tour (a must add to your bucket list)! The logistics were all handled from flights to transportation and lunch, there were only a few hiccups. We had a pretty large group and I assume that they didn't book our flights until the last minute incase we cancelled but it meant our group was separated on the flight. The other real issues was with our shuttle once we landed back in Istanbul. It was over an hour & a half late which really ended the experience on a negative as a whole.
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Posted On : 2024-03-04 09:09:54

Posted By : garima_g
Was good experience, I did not like the 1811 cave hotel. And there was a group of 12 people which ruin the experience for a solo traveler.
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Posted On : 2024-03-03 02:24:20

Posted By : Melissa_C
What can I say without sounding like I have received bribery from the company?! 😂 Everything was so perfect from the minute we booked to the end of our trip! Communication was spot on. Instructions were given almost immediately after we booked - and we did booked v last minute! Every tour guides that guided us was very knowledgeable and friendly even the drivers too. Our hotel (1811 Cave) I can honestly said they were one of the best hotel & the most amazing hospitality you could have ever received from the people that runs it. Now the hot air balloon experience: totally worth it! Try it for yourself and definitely with this company - their organising skills are just superb
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Posted On : 2024-02-27 17:24:37