Topkapi Palace and Harem Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Tickets

The customer service is absolutely lost. They don't talk to each other and it almost caused us to go to the wrong place for the meeting point. Istanbul has an amazing culinary, but the food on the boat was average to bad. Do recommend the experience itself, but not this company.

Took place on time. Guides were kind and professional. Place was awsome but very crowded. You have to take time to see everything.

The guide (Arda or Arza?) was very informative and provided a lot of insight not only into the monument but also in Istanbul/Turkey's history and contemporary society

Our guide was knowledgable and the tour was interesting. but in general it felt very short, as the tour covered just an intro part for the palace, not Harem, and not museums.

Easy to book online . Arrangement for connecting with guide went well . One hour guided tour gave a useful overview and base to see how he rest of the palace on one's own

Awesome Palace and museum, the guide was excellent and explained things well. Topkapi Palace has been on my bucket list for many years and it did not disappoint. Thank you for a great service

Excellent experience on this palace tour. Our guide gave it the special touch, Haralk (I think that's how you spell it) is an experienced guide who knows the luar, the culture and the history in a way that makes this tour worthwhile. Clear and complete explanations and always taking care of all the doubts.

The guide was interesting, but bake sure to take an audio-guide before entering the palace because you will not have paper tickets to go out and back in. If you have internet in Turkey, the guide can give you a code to download an app. Fortunately the guards were kind to let us out and back in without ticket so that we could get audioguides, but that was not possible for the harem, which we visited without guide or audioguide. (The written inscriptions are not very interesting) Also, the visit takes nearly the whole day, take a picnic ;)

The guide Muhammed Salih was fantastic. His knowledge and delivery impeccable. The site was beautiful and the exhibitions were stunning. Without a doubt the best part of our trip so far 😊👌

Cerkan was a fantastic tour guide! He was very supportive and made sure everyone felt comfortable. His knowledge of Topkapi Palace history was impressive, and he shared many interesting details we would have missed otherwise. The tour ran smoothly and finished on time. I highly recommend Cerkan as a guide!

We thought our experience was a guided tour through all the places. However it is just a simple brief where the tour guide showed us the summary of the places. Additional 3 euro or 100 lira required to be paid by cash directly to the guide if we want additional tour and explaination on Harem was unexpected; which we didnt take. Is it a common practice by this tour to have tourist pay for additional cost for this? As we thought we paid everything when we purchase the ticket online.

Our guide was great, well spoken, informative but it was very chaotic getting our tickets at Topkapi Cafe. No clear system or communication. Attitude of staff issuing tickets was unpleasant. It seems to be the departure point for a number of different tour groups. Head out flags were not on display

Incredible location great history beautiful place. I was disappointed at the tour as it was advertised to be a 3 hour tour but it was only one hour and it was not a good tour

Incredible guide! Cem was forthcoming, professional and VERY knowledgeable I really appreciated his personaable attitude Keep him on staff!!! The tour was very effective in teaching us what we needed to know 5 stats

The guide was very informative. Topkapi Palace was an amazing place and learning about the history of the Palace and the rule of the Ottomans was a truly eye opening. The views from the Harem were breathtaking. Thank you very much to our guide.

The Topkapi palace stunning, we went in quickly with the guide who after explaining the route dropped us off there with no explanation and no audio guide. Great only for skip the line

At no time, do they give you the physical ticket or send it to you by email. Therefore, we could not have the audio guide that they give you with the ticket. The audio guide that we had to download was malfunctioning. There are areas, inside the enclosure, in which there is no wifi. Also, you can't skip steps. It gets stuck and doesn't let you continue. As we didn't have the entrance we couldn't visit the church of Santa Irene either.

The tour guide encourage discussion and questions from the participants of this tour which is great. We love how he engage with kids in getting them to be involve in this historic peace in Istanbul.

The guide was very knowledgeable, nice and friendly. He answered all my questions very well. We didn't have to wait in line and I would definitely recommend it.

I thoroughly enjoyed the guided tour. I esepcially enjoyed the tour guide Hal who was full of knowledge and good humour.