Istanbul Private Guiding Service: Customize your day with a local guide

Experience the best of Istanbul with a private guiding service. Customize your day with a local guide who will meet you at your hotel, airport, or cruise port. Discover the city’s hidden gems and create unforgettable memories.

Duration: 6 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Hagia Sophia - Visit the old city of Istanbul. Your local tour guide will meet you at your hotel, airport, or cruise port. Upon your meeting, you will make a program off what you would like to see and do. Then after the meeting then you will start your tour.
What's Included
  • Professional licensed tour guide
  • Bottled water
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Any Transportation
  • Entrance Fees
Additional Information

Your local guide will convene with you at your hotel, airport, or cruise dock. During this initial meeting, you will plan what sights and activities you’d like to explore. Following the planning stage, your tour will commence.
This service encompasses guidance only. Your guide will rendezvous with you at your place of stay. If you possess a…

Location
Hagia Sophia
Ayasofya Meydanı
Your tour guide will meet you at your hotel's Lobby or at Cruise port, please provide your mobile number at the booking time, it will be shared with the tour guide to find easily and meet you there.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Craigdgoodrich
Feb 21, 2026
Great Guide - Our guide was friendly and had a flexible schedule. She offered some ideas on things to see and brought us to the places where we wanted to go.
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Lawrence_f
Sep 29, 2025
Seda is a fantastic guide! - A private tour with a great guide makes all the difference! Seda, our guide was so knowledgeable! Very intelligent, interesting and personable. She took us through the attractions we wanted to see, and knew them so well!
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Venture31862931037
Aug 20, 2025
A day in Istanbul - The visit to the city was wonderful. Istanbul is magnificent and Sedat the guide one of the best. Took us through the most iconic places of the city and made this a memorable visit
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Yumyp2025
Aug 16, 2025
A Magical City Told by an Extraordinary Guide” - I visited Istanbul in May and it was a wonderful experience. The city is beautiful, but what made the trip truly unforgettable was our guide: knowledgeable, passionate, and able to make us dream with her stories. I highly recommend her to anyone who wants to discover Istanbul at its best.
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Susan
Aug 15, 2025
Private guide day trip in Istanbul with Viator’s Volkan. - Volkan, our Viator tour guide, was informative, friendly, funny, and helpful. We saw the beautiful & inspiring mosques. We went to the Istanbul promenade & the Grand Bazaar. We topped off the day with a fabulous meal at a traditional Turkish family restaurant. My husband is mostly in a wheelchair & Volkan ensured all of our visit was accessible & wonderful. Thank you Volkan!
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Gabriela
Jul 18, 2025
Instanbul - Our experience in Istanbul was perfect. Our guide was amazing. Understood what we wanted and spoke our language perfect. So we understood him. He knows his history very well.
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Lictereg
Jun 3, 2025
Excellent tour! Complete in no time! - The tour was amazing, very complete and the Sadet Guide very friendly and very prepared, we visited the most important thing of Istanbul in a short time as when going on a cruise we did not have much time. It was pleasant and without waste! Thank you very much Sadet!
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Robert_w
Jun 1, 2025
Major sites in Istanbul - Mert is a great guide with detailed knowledge of the history of turkey and the origins of the major sites. Very amiable and easy to follow
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Departure25212974625
Jun 1, 2025
Fruitful and pleasant visit to Istanbul - It was an interesting and intense visit for 2 days to all the most important and emblematic places of Istanbul, with our friendly and good guide Sedat Gulen, who was very friendly and knowledgeable, plus everything well organized and with good transport vehicle.
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Reed_r
May 21, 2025
Our guide Tim was very... - Our guide Tim was very friendly and knowledgeable about the history and sights of Istanbul. He customized the tour for us. Highly recommend.
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From $50
up to 15 guests
2 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).