Turkey Tour with Istanbul, Cappadocia and the Sea: 7 or 10 Days, 2027 Prices

An Istanbul and Cappadocia tour costs from $1,250 per person with us (approx. €1,115) for 6 days, from $2,050 for 8 days and from $2,499 for 10 days, with hotels, domestic flights, transfers, a guide and entrance fees. If you want some sea as well, the simplest option is among our Turkey tour packages: Istanbul and Antalya in 8 days starts at $1,980, while every combination with Cappadocia is collected on the page of Istanbul and Cappadocia packages.

We have worked in Istanbul since 2010 (TÜRSAB group A, no. 15751) and arrange every package with hotels, domestic flights and a guide. Dollar prices come from our tour pages; euro amounts are approximations at the ECB reference rate of 02.11.2026 (€1 = $1.1216, so $1 ≈ €0.892).

How much does an Istanbul and Cappadocia tour cost?

Premium Istanbul and Cappadocia package, 6 days – from $1,250 per person

The prices below are per person and cover hotel nights with breakfast, domestic flights, transfers, the guide and entrance fees. The 6-day package has 2 nights in Istanbul and 3 in Cappadocia; the 8-day package 3 and 4; the 10-day package 5 and 4.

Prices vary with season, hotel and programme: ask us for the price on your date. With a week to spare, we recommend the 8-day Istanbul and Cappadocia tour: a free day in Istanbul, a dinner on the Bosphorus and two mornings for the balloon. The whole list is on the page of Turkey tour packages.

Turkey tour in 7 days: day-by-day itinerary

Cappadocia hot air balloon flight at sunrise, standard – from $199 per person

Our packages run for 6 and 8 days, so a 7-day Turkey tour is the 6-day programme plus one extra day in Cappadocia, priced between $1,250 and $2,050 depending on hotel and activities; we quote it for your date. Days 1–5 and 7 below are the real 6-day programme.

Day 6 does one job: the balloon does not fly in strong wind, and with two mornings to choose from (days 4 and 6) your chances are better. The standard flight lasts 45 to 75 minutes with hotel pick-up, a toast and a flight certificate; it costs from $199 per person (approx. €177) and is optional.

An honest note: in 7 days Istanbul is a taste. Two nights cover the Old City and the Bosphorus, not the modern side or the markets. If Istanbul matters as much as Cappadocia, move up to the 8-day programme, which gives a whole day to the city by private car with a driver.

Turkey tour in 10 days with the sea

Grand Turkey package, 10 days – from $2,800 per person

None of our 10-day packages is a beach holiday. The 10-day Istanbul and Cappadocia package ($2,499) never touches the sea. Grand Turkey ($2,800) and Best of Turkey ($3,299) sleep three nights in Kuşadası, on the Aegean coast, and add Ephesus and Pamukkale, but the days are full of visits. For real sea time the option is Istanbul and Antalya in 8 days ($1,980), with four nights in Antalya.

If you want Istanbul, Cappadocia and a week by the sea in one trip, there is no fixed package: we put it together on request from the 8-day programme, adding nights in Antalya or on the Aegean, and write you the price for your dates. Multi-city combinations are on the page of Turkey multi-city packages; a day-by-day plan of a 10-day trip is on our page on the Turkey itinerary from Italy.

Istanbul, Cappadocia and the sea: which coast to choose?

Istanbul and Antalya package, 8 days – from $1,980 per person

After Cappadocia the choice depends on what you want to do by day. Antalya has the warmest sea of the three and is the choice for a week of beaches and boat trips; Bodrum has bays and a marina, and we arrange it on request; Kuşadası has cooler water but Ephesus a few kilometres away. The flight from Istanbul takes about 1 hour 25 minutes to Antalya and to Bodrum and 1 hour 10 minutes to Izmir, from where Kuşadası is a 1–1.5 hour drive.

Average sea temperatures according to weather-atlas.com, checked 03.11.2026; flight times from flightroutes.com and flightsfrom.com (block time varies). From Cappadocia our Aegean packages fly to Izmir; for Antalya the flight is Istanbul–Antalya. For a whole week on the beach, see our page on Istanbul and a beach holiday, and for other routes the multi-city packages.

Private tour or organised group trip?

Istanbul and Cappadocia package, 10 days – from $2,499 per person

The question is an organised trip to Turkey worth it has an honest answer in two parts. The catalogue group costs less per person as a rule and leaves you nothing to think about; the private tour costs more, above all for two, but starts on the day you choose and adapts to you. For a couple or a family the private tour is almost always better; for someone alone on a tight budget, the group makes sense.

For private tours we have licensed guides who speak Italian; we confirm the guide's name and language in writing before payment. A longer comparison of package and group is on our page about the Istanbul and Cappadocia tour from Italy, while the full list sits under the Istanbul and Cappadocia packages.

What is included and what is not

The 8-day Istanbul and Cappadocia package includes 7 hotel nights with breakfast, domestic flights, all transfers, the guide, the Old City tour, the private Istanbul tour, the Bosphorus dinner cruise, the Red and Green Tours, lunch on tour days, the Turkish night with dinner, taxes and entrance fees. Not included are the flight from Italy, the balloon, drinks with meals and personal expenses.

Anyone searching for an all inclusive Turkey tour should know that we follow a different rule from the catalogues, where the label usually means resort board: breakfast and lunch on tour days are included, dinners are not, except the Bosphorus dinner and the Turkish night in the 8-day and 10-day packages. In the Best of Turkey package dinners are not included. The optional activities most often requested, with the from price of each page:

Flights from Italy and documents for Turkey

Turkish Airlines flies to Istanbul Airport from Rome, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Naples, Turin, Bari, Catania and Palermo; the direct flight takes about two and a half hours on average according to the airline's website. Pegasus links Rome and Milan with Sabiha Gökçen airport (Pegasus flight status page, November 2026). As far as we know there are no direct flights from Italy to Cappadocia: you go through Istanbul, so fly into and out of Istanbul and leave the domestic flight to us.

For documents the Italian Embassy in Ankara states a passport or an identity card valid for travel abroad, with at least five months of remaining validity, and allows entry with the identity card alone by air. Since 3 August 2026, however, the paper identity card is no longer valid for travel abroad (Farnesina, July 2026): you need the CIE or a passport. Check the Turkey page on viaggiaresicuri.it before you leave; more is on our page about the Turkey tour from Italy.

When to go to Turkey: balloons and sea month by month

To combine Cappadocia and the sea the best months are May, June, September and October: in Göreme the days are mild, the balloons fly more often and the sea at Antalya is already, or still, warm enough for swimming. July and August are hot on the coast, with highs of 34 °C in Antalya. From December to February it snows in Cappadocia and the wind cancels more balloon flights; there are no official month-by-month figures, but operators and blogs point to winter as the worst period.

Average temperatures from weather-atlas.com, checked 03.11.2026. If the balloon is cancelled because of wind, our guide on what to do when the flight is cancelled explains the alternatives; the general picture of the months is on our page about the best time to visit Turkey.

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