Ephesus Tour: Explore Ancient Roman Ruins from Bodrum

Step back in time on a full-day tour of Ephesus from Bodrum. Explore the ancient city’s iconic landmarks, enjoy a delicious lunch, and immerse yourself in history.

Duration: 13 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Bodrum City - Guests are picked up from their hotel around 06:30 in the morning, and the Ephesus tour commences at the meeting point with other travelers. The journey to Ephesus takes approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes.
  • Selcuk - Before exploring the Ephesus ruins, there will be a brief visit to a jewelry store.
  • Ancient City of Ephesus
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Driver/guide
  • Bus with Full A/C
  • Ephesus entrance fee - If option selected
  • Open Buffet Lunch
What's Not Included
  • Breakfast
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • House of Virgin Mary Fee (25€)
  • Ephesus Entrance Fee (40€)
  • Admission fees
  • Admission fees
Additional Information

Travel back to the time of the Ancient Romans with this exciting full-day journey to Ephesus from Bodrum. Ride in a modern, air-conditioned coach and step into the past as you discover one of the Roman Empire’s most illustrious cities guided by an expert. Marvel at the grandeur of the Library of Celsus, the Temple of Hadrian and the Great Theatre, and…

Location
Otogar
Our meeting point from all other regions is in front of the Bodrum city center bus garage
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Susan_h
Aug 27, 2025
Brilliant day out - It’s been a total knowledgeable experience our tour guide Miriam was brilliant I enjoyed everything the breakfast the lunch the Gold factory and the Turkish delight factory the house of the virgin Mary it was a great day from start to finish don’t let the length of the day put you off because the time flies highly recommend it
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Lisa_d
Nov 8, 2024
History came alive in Ephesus - Excellent tour with a very knowledgeable guide. It was a long day filled with history! I was picked up at my hotel and had a nice breakfast on the way to Ephesus and enjoyed some shopping along the way.
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Lilly666
Sep 17, 2024
Amazing place - Fabulous experience. Really worth the trip. So interesting and historic Be careful of the jewellery centre on the way to Ephesus.
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Daniel_m
Sep 2, 2025
Ephusis great!! House of Mary dissapointing. - Tour was very insightful and historically detailed, the lady spoke good English and had a nice sense of humour. Ephusis itself is a place of special heritage and blows your mind!!! Food was great. The Gold shop stop was pointless and very few seemed interested!! House of Mary is treated like a theme park rather than a sacred shrine and pilgrimage site, you are given little time to meditate on its significance. Its also pushed by Native Turks who are Muslim "as virgin Marys house" despite the Catholic Church never dogmatising this, it not being in Biblical scripture and earliest records from church Fathers alluding this are post 4th century. This isn't mentioned in the infancy gospel proevangelium of James and her dormition was supposedly in Israel. Explain how its 100% authentic please? Anyway, the views on mountain are worth the 25 Euros. Turkish people are milking this cow dry and if I'm honest 90% of Protestants wouldn't even bother!!!! If its sacred!! Treat it like its sacred!!! Not a Theme park!!!
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Katherine_h
Aug 31, 2025
I have been before and... - I have been before and wanted to show my family. We thoroughly enjoyed it. However, there were a couple of points we didn’t enjoy. 1) my husband is very knowledgable about Ephesus and some of the information given by the tour guide was incorrect. Also, it says on the booking information that you would go to the Virgin Mary site if the majority want to go. Around 10 people on the bus wanted to go. I counted 22 of us that didn’t and we ended up getting dumped in a town where there was nothing to do other than sit in a cafe and wait for them to come back over an hour later. We did not enjoy that at all and we was not happy considering the majority didn’t want to do that part. Then on the way home the English guide left early and said about how we were going to get a transfer to our hotel and not to worry. We ended up getting off the bus into taxis/taxi bus’s to our hotel. However, this was confusing and when people were getting off we was panicking about whether we should be getting off or not. The French couple next to us were the same. The other spots along the way was a stop at the gold factory and Turkish delight factory, which was fine. They wasn’t long stops. We enjoyed the lunch that was included. Other than that the tour guide was lovely, friendly and ooked after us during the visit. Ephesus is amazing and well worth the visit. I had never been to the museum there and that was amazing, we thoroughly enjoyed that.
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Jill_b
Jun 17, 2025
Day trip to Ephesus. - The basis of it was good with a very good driver and an excellent guide but stopping at a gold warehouse was a waste of time and the lunch was a disgrace and a health hazard. The food had been sitting around for hours, maybe even days, unfriendly service and a disgrace. The breakfast stop was good too with very good service provided there. The best part was our wonderful English speaking guide and she should be looked after well.
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Navigate63783273661
Oct 5, 2024
Good venues, very good guide, poor organisation - This is a difficult one to review. Positives The tour guide - Emma was very good and very informative. She even helped us two days later on a tour that she wasn’t part of The place itself was brilliant. Well worth visiting Negatives The pick up was late The tour could have been much shorter. The diamond factory and Turkish delight factory tours were a waste of time It felt disorganised. There was no English speaking guide until Emma joined the tour an hour into the coach trip The trip was overbooked which meant I had to sit next to the driver (for 6/7 hours). This also meant that we struggled to hear the guide around the site - not her fault! There were two coaches All in all the organisation was poor but the place and guide was very good
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L3137uyandrewl
Oct 5, 2024
Great place, but early start and in a big group difficult to hear guide. However guide was brilliant - The guide was absolutely brilliant. She was so enthused and friendly she really made the experience. However we had changed our booking to another day and it was clear that there were not enough spaces on the coach so that’s one of my friends had to sit on the front seat with the driver and the poor guide sitting on the step. The journey is long and therefore was uncomfortable for them and clearly for the guide. Once at Ephesus the guide was again brilliant but the place was so busy and our group so big that it was difficult to get close and hear what she was saying sometimes. It would be good in similar circumstances if each tourist was given an ear piece so that they could hear clearly what the guide was saying.
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Culture430961
May 14, 2025
very bad trip, wasted our whole day and wasted our money - The tour guides we were with spoke German and Polish, very little English The only place I wanted to go to onthis tour, they did not take us and that was the House of the blessed virgin Mary. Before I booked this tour , I spoke to someone to make sure they take us to this place and they said yes but you have to pay extra money for entrance fee, which was okay with us, I don't what was said on the bus, but they did not take us there and when I questioned them they said there was not enough participants. They did not even take count on who wanted to go or not. That was part of the tour they should have taken us there. Yet they wasted our time and took us to Gift shops so they can earn commisiion from the stores. We didnt want to go to no gift shops we paid money so we can see the Culture and hostrical sites. They also were supposed to pick us up from our hotel and drop us bck to the hotel.. that did not happen on the way back, they dropped us off about a mile and a half from our hotel whichich was on top of a very steep hill, that we could not climb up to it, so we hired a taxi at our own expense to take us back to our hotel
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Thais_r
Sep 29, 2024
Terrible Experience - Terrible experience! They keep us waiting for 45 minutes next to a high way for pickup at 6:30 AM! The food was awful.
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