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 : walloud
The arrangements were top notch…informative snd entetaing guide and lovely and relaxing hotel…all in all a once in a lifetime adventure
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Posted On : 2023-12-30 02:05:17

Posted By : Jason_S
First the positive. All staff were helpful and nice. Good communication and fast refund through WhatsApp. Zeydam hotel stay was great. Huge rooms built in a cave and nice to chill at.
The not-so good. Balloon ride was cancelled due to weather. Wind over 10 knots shuts it all down. This is common in the winter. You can see decision for next day. Google Cappadocia aviation authority. So now youre stuck with a very inconvenient schedule. Early pick up - 4am, late drop off - 12 am, lots of waiting and transfer time. The tours include stores to sell you on rugs, leather clothing, spice, pottery. Lunch was a low quality buffet.
I advise you tell the tour to take you to a local restaurant and skip the stores. Or book a trip to the area on your own. Fly into NAV. The hotels can manage tours and balloon ride for you. It is beautiful country side with down to earth people.
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Posted On : 2023-12-28 11:33:49

Posted By : Elizabeth_M
This is a good little two day tour. Did it with my 9 year old and we had a lot of fun. Only recommendations would be: 1) if traveling with a kid or anyone else who cannot do early mornings, ask in advance about getting a later flight and meeting up with the group later in the day or going solo (we did this and it was worth it to not be overtired) 2) the hot air balloon ride really does entail getting up at like 3am so don’t bother booking that if you can’t do early mornings and a long second day. Otherwise, though, this is a good trip for an active kid and adults. Lots to do, lots to see, good food options, etc.
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Posted On : 2023-12-17 21:13:09

Posted By : 939daphnel
The Red and Green line day tours were quite disappointing. In totally we were driven to five places to shop ( Carpet, Leather goods, Ceramics, Candies, and Jewelry) . I felt like I spent more time in shops than scenic spots. The guide was doing his minimum except for selling products. The positive side is the Cave Hotel was really nice, best shower ever.
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Posted On : 2023-12-06 08:59:01

Posted By : Stay00245668465
The tour was incredible, they took us to wonderful places and everything was very well explained. The guide (Beylerbeyi Göbek) explained every detail to us with dates, names and past events of each place we visited. The Driver was always attentive and very kind and attentive to our needs. They treated us excellent
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Posted On : 2023-12-01 07:50:03

Posted By : MonicaA_Q
We had a great tour guy and a wonderful group . His knowledge of the city history very well explain. Thank you .
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Posted On : 2023-10-20 22:18:40

Posted By : 800junaidm
Overall OK, the hotel involved in package (1811 Cave hotel) is a scam. Hotel owner is walking around everywhere especially in restaurant and staring at customers so no one will eat his little processed canned food free breakfast. Also tour had the pottery, jewelry, leather and carpet shop visits totally unnecessary and a waste of time. A cheap tactics to sell super over priced items.

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Posted On : 2023-10-19 14:59:50

Posted By : clarkparham
I should have stayed longer!! Excellent tour and ballon ride was amazing!! I will definitely go back and stay in the same suite hotel!!
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Posted On : 2023-10-17 10:27:47

Posted By : Russell_M
The balloon flight was spectacular and the cultural tour and our guide were great.
The first part day one was great got to see some interesting sites the accommodation was good and the balloon flight was awesome after the balloon ride and breakfast back at the hotel it went down hill we were taken to carpet stores / jewellery outlets and it became a pushy sales day
After being up at 3 am thursday morning then a 4 am Friday start for the balloon ride it is exhausting and the flight back to Istanbul wasbooked late so didn’t get back to the hotel till 1 am Saturday morning
If they cut out the shopping trip and returned you on an earlier flight it would be great
Beware
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Posted On : 2023-10-16 15:47:02

Posted By : Meher_F
What an amazing experience- a bit hectic as there was a lot covered in the 2 day trip but well worth it. Osman our guide was awesome- very polite and patient.
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Posted On : 2023-10-14 07:31:14