10-Day Turkey Tour Package: Istanbul, Cappadocia & Antalya

Q: How much does the 10-day Turkey tour cost, and how far ahead should we book?

The private 10-day tour starts from USD 4,010 per person on a double-occupancy basis. Per person, the price falls as the group grows, because the private guide and vehicle are shared. Four travelling together pay USD 3,450 each, six pay USD 3,210 each and eight pay USD 3,130 each. The price table on this page lists every group size from two to eight. The final figure also depends on your travel dates and hotel choices. We recommend booking three to six months ahead, and earlier for the July–August and Christmas and Easter school holidays. That is when coastal hotels and the Cappadocia hot air balloon fill up fastest. Turkey Family Tours, TURSAB-licensed (no 13538), quotes each trip individually; send your dates and a 25% deposit secures them.

Q: When is the best time to take this tour?

Spring (April–June) and autumn (September–October) are the best seasons: warm enough for the Mediterranean beaches at Antalya, mild for walking Ephesus, Pamukkale and the Cappadocia valleys, and the most reliable window for the optional sunrise hot air balloon, which launches on most mornings in those months. High summer is hot on the coast — fine for swimming, warm for the ruins, so we start the ancient-city days early. Winter is quiet, with Cappadocia often under snow and the coast mild but cool for swimming. See our best time to visit Turkey guide for a month-by-month breakdown.

Q: Can we customise the itinerary?

Yes — every departure is planned from scratch for one group. You can add a night anywhere, extend the beach time at Antalya, swap the optional sunrise hot air balloon in or out, add a Bosphorus cruise in Istanbul, or make touring days lighter for younger children. The route also stretches naturally: two extra days add Fethiye — Saklıkent Gorge and the Ölüdeniz Blue Lagoon — as our 12-day tour, and anyone wanting a shorter trip usually takes the 8-day tour. Tell us your dates, your children's ages and what you most want to see, and Turkey Family Tours shapes the ten days around it.

Q: Are the domestic flights included, and how do they work?

Yes — all three domestic flights are included: Istanbul to Cappadocia on the morning of Day 3, Cappadocia to Antalya on Day 5, and İzmir back to Istanbul on the evening of Day 9. We book the tickets, track the schedules and time every airport pickup to the flight, so there is no self-transfer at any point — your driver is in the arrivals hall at each landing. Flying these legs removes the three longest drives in Turkey — Istanbul to Cappadocia alone is an eight-hour road day — which is what keeps a five-region itinerary comfortable in ten days.

Q: Is the Cappadocia hot air balloon worth it, and how much extra?

The optional sunrise hot air balloon over Cappadocia is the highlight of most trips and well worth adding. It lifts off at dawn over the fairy-chimney valleys and lasts about an hour; it is arranged separately at typically around USD 250–350 per person depending on the operator and basket size. It is most reliable from April to June and September to November, when winds allow flights on most mornings, while winter and high summer see more cancellations. We book it for your Day 4 morning, the same flight that features on our 2-day Cappadocia tour. If weather grounds it, the flight is rebooked for the next morning or refunded in full, as our grounded-flight terms set out.

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Quick Answer: A 10 day Turkey tour package with Antalya from Turkey Family Tours links Istanbul, Cappadocia and the Mediterranean in one private route — from USD 4,010 per person, with a licensed local guide, three domestic flights, nine nights of hand-picked 4-5 star hotels with breakfast including a cave hotel in Göreme, and all listed entrance fees. Days 1–2 cover Istanbul's Old City; Days 3–4 fly to Cappadocia for the valleys and an optional sunrise hot air balloon; Days 5–6 fly south to Antalya for Kaleiçi, Perge, Aspendos and the Düden Waterfalls. Day 7 turns inland to Pamukkale for a thermal-hotel afternoon, Day 8 walks the travertines, and Day 9 covers Ephesus before the evening flight back to Istanbul. Day 10 is your departure morning. International flights, lunches and dinners are not included. Turkey Family Tours is TURSAB-licensed (no 13538). Get a Private Quote →

Private 10-Day Turkey Tour Package — Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya & Ephesus

A private 10-day Turkey tour linking Istanbul, Cappadocia and the Mediterranean at Antalya, then finishing with Pamukkale and Ephesus — with three domestic flights in place of the longest drives. Nine nights of hotels, a licensed local guide and a private vehicle in every region are arranged for you. You open with two days in Istanbul: the Old City with Hagia Sophia (raised in 537 AD), the Blue Mosque, Topkapı Palace and the Grand Bazaar. On Day 3 an early flight puts you in Cappadocia by mid-morning for the UNESCO-listed Göreme Open-Air Museum and the northern valleys, with the night in a cave hotel. Day 4 adds the Red and Love Valleys, the Kaymaklı Underground City and an optional sunrise hot air balloon.

On Day 5 you fly south to Antalya and walk into Kaleiçi, the walled old town, through Hadrian’s Gate. Day 6 covers ancient Pamphylia: the great Roman theatre at Aspendos, the colonnaded streets of Perge and the Düden Waterfalls dropping straight into the Mediterranean. Day 7 crosses the Taurus foothills to Pamukkale, and Day 8 walks the white travertines and Roman Hierapolis, listed as the Hierapolis-Pamukkale UNESCO World Heritage Site, before the drive to the Aegean at Kuşadası. Day 9 walks Ephesus — the Library of Celsus and the 25,000-seat Great Theatre — and flies you back to Istanbul in the evening. Three domestic flights, nine nights with breakfast including a cave hotel, and all listed entrance fees are included. Operated by Turkey Family Tours, TURSAB-licensed (No. 13538), from USD 4,010 per person.

10-Day Route at a Glance

Days	Region	Signature stops
1–2	Istanbul	Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapı Palace, Grand Bazaar
3	Fly to Cappadocia	Göreme Open-Air Museum, Paşabağ, Avanos, Uçhisar
4	Cappadocia	Optional sunrise hot air balloon; Red & Love Valleys, Kaymaklı Underground City
5	Fly to Antalya	Kaleiçi old town, Hadrian's Gate, the old harbour
6	Antalya	Perge, Aspendos theatre, Düden Waterfalls
7	Antalya → Pamukkale	Taurus foothills drive; afternoon at the thermal hotel
8	Pamukkale	Travertine terraces, Hierapolis; afternoon drive to Kuşadası
9	Ephesus → Istanbul	Library of Celsus, Great Theatre; evening flight
10	Istanbul	Departure with private airport transfer

Three domestic flights · 9 nights (including a cave hotel) · from USD 4,010 per person, all listed entrance fees included.

Where You Stay — 9 Nights

Nights	Hotel	Location
1–2	Sura Design Hotel4-star boutiqueIstanbul · Steps from Hagia Sophia	Istanbul · Steps from Hagia Sophia
3–4	Kelebek Special Cave Hotelcave hotel	Göreme · Cave rooms, balloon views at sunrise
5–6	The Marmara Antalya5-star	Antalya · Falez cliffs, sea views, own beach
7	Richmond Thermal Hotel5-star	Pamukkale · Thermal pools, near the travertines
8	Charisma De Luxe Hotel5-star	Kuşadası · Seafront, walk to the town centre
9	Sura Design Hotel4-star boutiqueIstanbul · Same hotel as nights 1–2	Istanbul · Same hotel as nights 1–2

Hand-picked 4-5 star and boutique hotels, breakfast included.

10-Day Tour: Price per Person by Group Size

Group size	Per person	Group total
2	USD 4,010	USD 8,020
3	USD 3,635	USD 10,905
4	USD 3,450	USD 13,800
5	USD 3,290	USD 16,450
6	USD 3,210	USD 19,260
7	USD 3,155	USD 22,085
8	USD 3,130	USD 25,040

Group totals assume all adults. Children count toward the group size: ages 7 and over pay the adult rate, ages 4–6 pay 40% less and ages 0–3 pay 70% less. A 25% deposit confirms the dates and the balance is paid on arrival.

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Highlights of the Tour

Istanbul's Old City — Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and Topkapı Palace
Cappadocia's valleys and the Göreme Open-Air Museum, with two cave-hotel nights
Optional sunrise hot air balloon over the fairy chimneys
Antalya — Kaleiçi old town and Hadrian's Gate
Aspendos, Perge and the Düden Waterfalls
The white travertines of Pamukkale and Roman Hierapolis
Ephesus, the Library of Celsus and the Temple of Artemis
Three domestic flights — no long overland transfers

Tour Itinerary

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Day 1 — Arrival in Istanbul ( Airport welcome · private transfer · evening at leisure )
Private airport welcome & transfer

Your driver meets you inside the arrivals hall — name board in hand — and drives you by private vehicle to your hotel in Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s historic core. Istanbul has two airports on opposite sides of the city; we track your flight and route the transfer accordingly, so there is no taxi line or ride-app to wrestle with after a long flight.
Check-in & first evening in Sultanahmet
You check in to Sura Design Hotel, a 4-star boutique steps from Hagia Sophia. The Blue Mosque and the Grand Bazaar are a few minutes away. After settling in, many families walk to Sultanahmet Square in the evening, floodlit between the two great monuments, or up to a rooftop terrace for the sunset call to prayer over the Old City. Your guide is a WhatsApp message away with dinner suggestions for the area.

Accommodation:

Sura Design Hotel (4-star boutique)
Day 2 — Istanbul Old City ( Pickup ~09:00 · Topkapı · Hagia Sophia · Blue Mosque · Grand Bazaar )
Topkapı Palace & Imperial Treasury

The day opens at Topkapı Palace, the nerve centre of the Ottoman Empire for nearly four centuries. You move through all four imperial courtyards, step into the Treasury to see the Topkapı Dagger and Spoonmaker's Diamond up close, and reach the viewpoint where the Bosphorus meets the Golden Horn — every ticket is arranged in advance so the morning begins without delay.

Hagia Sophia

A short walk leads to Hagia Sophia, raised in 537 AD and still one of the most technically ambitious structures ever built. Your guide traces both lives of the building — Byzantine mosaics preserved for centuries beneath Ottoman plasterwork, the calligraphy medallions added after 1453, and the engineering behind the dome that appears to float without visible support.

The Hippodrome

You cross into the Hippodrome, where Constantinople staged its chariot races for a thousand years. Your guide reads the square like a map: the Obelisk of Theodosius (cut in Egypt under Thutmose III, raised here in 390 AD), the Bronze Serpent Column from Delphi, and the German Fountain gifted by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1898.

The Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Mosque)

Steps away stands the Blue Mosque, completed in 1616 under Sultan Ahmed I as Istanbul's first imperial mosque with six minarets. Inside, more than 20,000 hand-painted İznik tiles shift from deep cobalt at eye level to paler blues toward the dome — a gradient architects still study.

The Grand Bazaar

The afternoon closes in the Grand Bazaar, a covered city-within-a-city of more than 4,000 shops built from 1455. Your guide steers you past the tourist storefronts into the working lanes — carpet dealers restoring antique kilims, the goldsmiths of Kalpakçılar Street, and ceramics workshops still painting İznik-style by hand.
Evening & second night in Istanbul
Your guide walks you back toward Sultanahmet as the day closes — time for a fish dinner by the water at Eminönü or a tea in the gardens of Gülhane Park — before an early start for Cappadocia in the morning.

Accommodation:

Sura Design Hotel (4-star boutique)
Day 3 — Fly to Cappadocia & Northern Valleys ( Early flight · Göreme · Paşabağ · Avanos · Uçhisar · cave-hotel night )
Istanbul pickup & flight to Cappadocia

Around 04:00–04:30 your private driver meets you at your Istanbul hotel for the short transfer to the airport and the early ~1 hour 15 minute domestic flight to Nevşehir or Kayseri. We book the flights and time the pickup to your departure. You land at around 08:00, where your Cappadocia guide and private vehicle are waiting in arrivals; after the short drive into the valleys, touring begins at about 09:30.

Göreme Open-Air Museum

The day opens at the Göreme Open-Air Museum, a UNESCO World Heritage monastic settlement carved into the tuff. Your guide walks you through its rock-cut chapels — including the Dark Church, whose 11th-century Byzantine frescoes survive in deep colour because so little light reached the pigment. Tickets are arranged in advance.

Paşabağ & Devrent Valley

Next are the cone-shaped fairy chimneys of Paşabağ, some capped with twin and triple heads of harder basalt — the most photographed rock forms in Cappadocia. A short drive away, Devrent Valley has no churches or ruins, only wind-carved tuff that local guides read as a camel, a seal and a snake.

Avanos & the Kızılırmak

After a lunch break at a local restaurant, the afternoon is spent in Avanos on the Kızılırmak, the longest river running entirely within Türkiye. The town's red clay has been thrown on the wheel since Hittite times; at a working family workshop a master potter demonstrates the craft and you can try the kick-wheel yourself.

Uçhisar Castle & sunset panorama

The day closes at Uçhisar Castle, the highest point in the region — a honeycombed rock fortress with the whole valley opening out below it: fairy chimneys, vineyards and, at dusk, the stone turning gold.
Overnight — Cave Hotel in Göreme
You spend the night in a boutique cave hotel carved into the soft tuff around Göreme — vaulted stone rooms with modern comforts and valley views, breakfast included. The evening is free to relax or wander Göreme's lanes and restaurants before the southern valleys tomorrow.

Accommodation:

Kelebek Special Cave Hotel (Göreme)
Day 4 — Southern Cappadocia ( Optional sunrise hot air balloon · Red & Love Valleys · Kaymaklı Underground City · second cave-hotel night )
Optional sunrise hot air balloon & breakfast

If you'd like the classic Cappadocia sunrise, an optional hot air balloon flight can be arranged separately, with a pickup around 05:00 for lift-off at first light. Otherwise the day begins gently with breakfast at your cave hotel before your guide and private vehicle arrive to start the valley circuit.

The Red Valley

The valley circuit opens at the Red Valley, where iron in the rock turns the cliffs rose and deep red, strongest in the low light of morning and dusk. Walking paths thread between rock-cut churches, terraced vineyards and orchards along the canyon floor.

The Çavuşin Valley

The Çavuşin Valley holds one of the oldest churches in Cappadocia, the Church of Saint John the Baptist, set above an abandoned cave village whose houses are cut directly into the cliff face.

The Love Valley

The Love Valley is known for its unusually tall, slender fairy chimneys rising in clusters from the valley floor, with a level walking path running beneath the Uçhisar skyline and surrounding vineyards.

The Underground City of Kaymaklı

You then descend several levels into the underground city of Kaymaklı, a subterranean settlement with ventilation shafts, stables, kitchens and a chapel where early communities sheltered behind great rolling stone doors.

The Pigeon Valley (Valley of the Doves)

The Pigeon Valley, or Valley of the Doves, is named for the thousands of dovecotes carved into its soft tuff walls; a panoramic path runs along it between Uçhisar and Göreme.

The Castle of Çavuşin

The Castle of Çavuşin is a tall rock outcrop honeycombed with cave dwellings and topped by a hilltop church, rising above the old village at the foot of the Red Valley.
Second night in your Cappadocia cave hotel
After the last valley a private transfer returns you to your cave hotel in Göreme for a second night under the fairy chimneys. Tomorrow morning a short domestic flight takes you south to the Mediterranean at Antalya.

Accommodation:

Kelebek Special Cave Hotel (Göreme)
Day 5 — Fly to Antalya & Kaleiçi Old Town ( Morning flight · Hadrian's Gate · the old harbour · evening at leisure )
Flight from Cappadocia to Antalya

After breakfast at your cave hotel, a private transfer takes you to the airport for the morning domestic flight south to Antalya, the largest city on the Turkish Mediterranean. Your Antalya driver meets you in the arrivals hall and brings you to your hotel beside the old town.

Kaleiçi & Hadrian's Gate

You check in for two nights a few minutes' walk from Kaleiçi, Antalya's walled old quarter of Roman and Ottoman lanes. In the afternoon you can walk in through Hadrian's Gate, the triple-arched marble gate raised for the emperor's visit in 130 AD, past the Yivli (Fluted) Minaret and down to the old harbour cut into the cliffs below.
Evening on the Mediterranean
The evening is free. Kaleiçi's restaurants fill the courtyards of old Ottoman houses, and the clifftop Karaalioğlu Park looks west over the bay toward the Taurus mountains at sunset — an easy first evening before tomorrow's ancient cities.

Accommodation:

The Marmara Antalya (5-star)
Day 6 — Antalya & ancient Pamphylia ( Perge · Aspendos · Düden Waterfalls )
Perge — the ancient Pamphylian city

The day opens at Perge, a Pamphylian city founded in the 3rd century BC, whose Hellenistic gate — twin round towers flanking the entrance — is among the best-preserved on the Turkish coast. Your guide walks you down the long colonnaded street with its central water channel, past the agora and the stadium that once held some 12,000 spectators.

Aspendos — the great Roman theatre

Next is Aspendos, home to the best-preserved Roman theatre in the ancient world — built in the 2nd century AD and seating around 15,000, its stage building still complete. It is still used today for the Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival; the Roman aqueduct stands nearby.
Düden Waterfalls
In the afternoon you visit the Düden Waterfalls, where the Lower Düden falls some 40 metres straight off the cliffs into the Mediterranean — best seen from the clifftop park. You return to Antalya for the night.

Accommodation:

The Marmara Antalya (5-star)
Day 7 — Antalya to Pamukkale ( Morning drive through the Taurus foothills · afternoon at the thermal hotel )
Morning drive to Pamukkale

A relaxed start: after breakfast you leave the Mediterranean and drive north-west through the Taurus foothills to Pamukkale — roughly a three-and-a-half to four hour journey with a stop along the way.
Afternoon at the thermal hotel
You check in to the Richmond Thermal Hotel near the travertines, and the rest of the day is deliberately free at the hotel's indoor and outdoor thermal pools — the one built-in rest afternoon in the middle of the trip. Tomorrow morning you walk the white terraces themselves.

Accommodation:

Richmond Thermal Hotel, Pamukkale (5-star)
Day 8 — Pamukkale & Hierapolis ( Travertines · Hierapolis · Cleopatra's Pool · drive to Kuşadası )
Pamukkale Travertine Terraces

This morning you start right at the Pamukkale travertines — the “cotton castle” of white terraces that calcium-carbonate-rich hot spring water has built up over the cliff-face for thousands of years. You walk barefoot down the warm, shallow pools (footwear is not allowed on the travertines, to protect them) while your guide explains how the springs and the white stone formed.

Hierapolis Ancient City

Hierapolis was founded in the 2nd century BC under the kings of Pergamon and inscribed by UNESCO alongside Pamukkale in 1988. Your guide walks you along the colonnaded main street to the Temple of Apollo and the Plutonium — the “gate to the underworld” from which volcanic gas still seeps.

Cleopatra's Antique Pool

Next is Cleopatra's Antique Pool, a thermal spring scattered with fallen marble columns from a Roman portico toppled by an earthquake. The 36°C mineral water is open for swimming among the ancient stones — bring a swimsuit if you'd like a thermal swim among the submerged Roman marble. Entry to the pool itself is optional and paid separately.

Hierapolis Theatre

A short walk up brings you to the Hierapolis Theatre, which seated around 12,000 and keeps its carved stage building and tiered seating largely intact — one of the best-preserved Roman theatres in Anatolia, looking out over the white terraces below.
Drive to Kuşadası & overnight on the Aegean
In the afternoon you set out on the roughly 2–3 hour drive through the olive groves of the Aegean hinterland to Kuşadası, the coastal town beside Ephesus. You check in to the Charisma De Luxe Hotel, a seafront 5-star on the Aegean, with the evening free to rest by the sea before tomorrow’s ancient city. Breakfast at the hotel is included.

Accommodation:

Charisma De Luxe Hotel (5-star)
Day 9 — Ephesus ( Temple of Artemis · Celsus Library · Great Theatre · evening flight to Istanbul )
Temple of Artemis

The day opens at the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Its 127 columns once stood some 18 metres tall; the great Ionic temple is now marked by a single re-erected column among its foundations — your guide reconstructs its scale and the cult of Artemis that drew pilgrims from across the Mediterranean.

Ephesus Ancient City — Hadrian's Temple & the Celsus Library

You then enter the Ancient City of Ephesus, the best-preserved classical city in the eastern Mediterranean. Walking the marble Curetes Street you reach the ornate Temple of Hadrian and the Library of Celsus, whose two-storey façade — once holding 12,000 scrolls — is the icon of Ephesus. Tickets are arranged in advance.

The Great Theatre, Roman baths & the Old Harbour

The route continues to the Great Theatre, a 25,000-seat amphitheatre carved into Mount Pion where St Paul is said to have preached, then past the Scholastica Roman baths and along the colonnaded Harbour Street that once led to Ephesus's silted-up ancient harbour. A lunch break at a local restaurant follows.

House of the Virgin Mary

The last visit of the day is the House of the Virgin Mary, a small stone chapel on Bülbül Mountain believed to be where Mary spent her final years. A place of Catholic pilgrimage recognised by the Catholic Church as a holy site, it sits in quiet pine woods above Ephesus.
Evening flight from İzmir to Istanbul
In the late afternoon a private transfer takes you to İzmir airport for your ~1 hour evening flight back to Istanbul. A driver meets you on arrival and transfers you to your hotel in the Old City for your final night. We book the flight and time the transfer to your schedule.

Accommodation:

Sura Design Hotel (4-star boutique)
Day 10 — Departure from Istanbul ( Breakfast · free time · private airport transfer )

Breakfast & a last Istanbul morning

The morning runs to your flight time — a final stroll through the Hippodrome or the Arasta Bazaar behind the Blue Mosque, a Turkish coffee in Sultanahmet, or any shopping you saved for the end.

Private transfer to the airport

Your driver collects you from the hotel and transfers you by private vehicle to the airport in good time for your flight home.

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What's Included & Excluded

Included

Three domestic flights (Istanbul–Cappadocia, Cappadocia–Antalya, İzmir–Istanbul)
Nine nights of hotels with breakfast — including a Cappadocia cave hotel
A private licensed local guide and private vehicle on every touring day
All listed entrance fees — Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya, Pamukkale and Ephesus
All airport transfers and hotel pickup and drop-off

Excluded

Optional sunrise hot air balloon flight in Cappadocia (arranged separately)
Lunches and dinners (midday breaks built into touring days; breakfasts included)
Cleopatra's Antique Pool swim at Pamukkale (optional, paid on site)
Drinks, gratuities and personal expenses
International flights and travel insurance

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Fill in the request form and send it to us. Our team gets back to you within a few hours by e-mail to confirm availability and the final cost.

Once you confirm your booking, we send you a secure online payment link and take a 25% deposit to reserve your tour. The remaining 75% is paid on arrival in Turkey, in cash or by credit card. If you’d rather not use a card for the deposit, you can pay it by bank transfer.

Pricing is per person. Ages 7 and over pay the adult rate; ages 4–6 receive a 40% discount; ages 0–3 receive a 70% discount.

Cancellations must be made in writing, by e-mail or certified mail to Turkey Family Tours. The 25% deposit is non-refundable for any cancellation. This is because the deposit is used right away to buy your domestic flight tickets and book your hotels. If you cancel less than 7 days before the tour, or do not show up, no refund is given and the full tour fee is due.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Private is the better choice on a route with this many regions: only your group travels, with a licensed local guide and a private vehicle in every region, and three domestic flights in place of long coach days. You set the pace, pause where the children are engaged, and skip the fixed coach-group starts. Across ten days and five regions — Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya, Pamukkale and Ephesus — that flexibility is what keeps the trip comfortable for children and grandparents alike. Turkey Family Tours, TURSAB-licensed (no 13538), plans each departure around your dates, your children's ages and the pace you want.

The two routes share Istanbul, Cappadocia, Pamukkale and Ephesus but head in opposite directions in between. The Antalya route flies south for the Mediterranean — Kaleiçi, Perge, Aspendos and the Düden Waterfalls — with three domestic flights and no full-day overland transfers. Our 10-day Gallipoli & Troy tour heads west instead, adding the Gallipoli battlefields, ancient Troy and Pergamon overland along the Aegean. Choose the Antalya route for warm-coast time and a lighter driving load; choose Gallipoli if the 1915 battlefields and Homer's Troy are on your list. The Antalya route starts from USD 4,010 per person and the Gallipoli & Troy route from USD 3,815; the day-by-day comparison of both sits in our 10 day Turkey itinerary.

Driving on this 10-day Turkey tour is lighter than on most comparable routes: three domestic flights carry you between Istanbul, Cappadocia and Antalya and back from İzmir, so the longest road day is the Antalya to Pamukkale drive (about three-and-a-half to four hours) through the Taurus foothills, broken with stops. Everything else is short regional driving in a private vehicle with your guide, stopping whenever you need to. The afternoon at the thermal hotel on Day 7 is left free — a genuine slow afternoon in the middle of the trip, before the final Pamukkale and Ephesus stretch.

The private 10-day tour starts from USD 4,010 per person on a double-occupancy basis. Per person, the price falls as the group grows, because the private guide and vehicle are shared. Four travelling together pay USD 3,450 each, six pay USD 3,210 each and eight pay USD 3,130 each. The price table on this page lists every group size from two to eight. The final figure also depends on your travel dates and hotel choices. We recommend booking three to six months ahead, and earlier for the July–August and Christmas and Easter school holidays. That is when coastal hotels and the Cappadocia hot air balloon fill up fastest. Turkey Family Tours, TURSAB-licensed (no 13538), quotes each trip individually; send your dates and a 25% deposit secures them.

Spring (April–June) and autumn (September–October) are the best seasons: warm enough for the Mediterranean beaches at Antalya, mild for walking Ephesus, Pamukkale and the Cappadocia valleys, and the most reliable window for the optional sunrise hot air balloon, which launches on most mornings in those months. High summer is hot on the coast — fine for swimming, warm for the ruins, so we start the ancient-city days early. Winter is quiet, with Cappadocia often under snow and the coast mild but cool for swimming. See our best time to visit Turkey guide for a month-by-month breakdown.

Yes — every departure is planned from scratch for one group. You can add a night anywhere, extend the beach time at Antalya, swap the optional sunrise hot air balloon in or out, add a Bosphorus cruise in Istanbul, or make touring days lighter for younger children. The route also stretches naturally: two extra days add Fethiye — Saklıkent Gorge and the Ölüdeniz Blue Lagoon — as our 12-day tour, and anyone wanting a shorter trip usually takes the 8-day tour. Tell us your dates, your children's ages and what you most want to see, and Turkey Family Tours shapes the ten days around it.

Yes — all three domestic flights are included: Istanbul to Cappadocia on the morning of Day 3, Cappadocia to Antalya on Day 5, and İzmir back to Istanbul on the evening of Day 9. We book the tickets, track the schedules and time every airport pickup to the flight, so there is no self-transfer at any point — your driver is in the arrivals hall at each landing. Flying these legs removes the three longest drives in Turkey — Istanbul to Cappadocia alone is an eight-hour road day — which is what keeps a five-region itinerary comfortable in ten days.

The optional sunrise hot air balloon over Cappadocia is the highlight of most trips and well worth adding. It lifts off at dawn over the fairy-chimney valleys and lasts about an hour; it is arranged separately at typically around USD 250–350 per person depending on the operator and basket size. It is most reliable from April to June and September to November, when winds allow flights on most mornings, while winter and high summer see more cancellations. We book it for your Day 4 morning, the same flight that features on our 2-day Cappadocia tour. If weather grounds it, the flight is rebooked for the next morning or refunded in full, as our grounded-flight terms set out.

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$4,010/ per person · 2 pax

4 pax

$3,450 pp

6 pax

$3,210 pp

Price per person decreases with group size.

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Relevant Package

Experience

Seven days across Istanbul, Cappadocia and Ephesus — the Old City's great monuments, the fairy-chimney valleys and the marble streets of Ephesus, linked by three domestic flights, with a private guide and vehicle in every region.
Inclusion

This private tour includes three domestic flights (Istanbul–Cappadocia, Cappadocia–İzmir and İzmir–Istanbul), six nights of hotels including a Cappadocia cave hotel, a licensed local guide and private vehicle on every touring day, and all listed site entrance fees.

10-Day Private Turkey Tour Package — Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya & Ephesus

Private 10-Day Turkey Tour Package — Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya & Ephesus

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Highlights of the Tour

Tour Itinerary

Day 1 — Arrival in Istanbul ( Airport welcome · private transfer · evening at leisure )

Private airport welcome & transfer

Check-in & first evening in Sultanahmet

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Day 2 — Istanbul Old City ( Pickup ~09:00 · Topkapı · Hagia Sophia · Blue Mosque · Grand Bazaar )

Topkapı Palace & Imperial Treasury

Hagia Sophia

The Hippodrome

The Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Mosque)

The Grand Bazaar

Evening & second night in Istanbul

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Day 3 — Fly to Cappadocia & Northern Valleys ( Early flight · Göreme · Paşabağ · Avanos · Uçhisar · cave-hotel night )

Istanbul pickup & flight to Cappadocia

Göreme Open-Air Museum

Paşabağ & Devrent Valley

Avanos & the Kızılırmak

Uçhisar Castle & sunset panorama

Overnight — Cave Hotel in Göreme

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Day 4 — Southern Cappadocia ( Optional sunrise hot air balloon · Red & Love Valleys · Kaymaklı Underground City · second cave-hotel night )

Optional sunrise hot air balloon & breakfast

The Red Valley

The Çavuşin Valley

The Love Valley

The Underground City of Kaymaklı

The Pigeon Valley (Valley of the Doves)

The Castle of Çavuşin

Second night in your Cappadocia cave hotel

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Day 5 — Fly to Antalya & Kaleiçi Old Town ( Morning flight · Hadrian's Gate · the old harbour · evening at leisure )

Flight from Cappadocia to Antalya

Kaleiçi & Hadrian's Gate

Evening on the Mediterranean

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Day 6 — Antalya & ancient Pamphylia ( Perge · Aspendos · Düden Waterfalls )

Perge — the ancient Pamphylian city

Aspendos — the great Roman theatre

Düden Waterfalls

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Day 7 — Antalya to Pamukkale ( Morning drive through the Taurus foothills · afternoon at the thermal hotel )

Morning drive to Pamukkale

Afternoon at the thermal hotel

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Day 8 — Pamukkale & Hierapolis ( Travertines · Hierapolis · Cleopatra's Pool · drive to Kuşadası )

Pamukkale Travertine Terraces

Hierapolis Ancient City

Cleopatra's Antique Pool

Hierapolis Theatre

Drive to Kuşadası & overnight on the Aegean

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Day 9 — Ephesus ( Temple of Artemis · Celsus Library · Great Theatre · evening flight to Istanbul )

Temple of Artemis

Ephesus Ancient City — Hadrian's Temple & the Celsus Library

The Great Theatre, Roman baths & the Old Harbour

House of the Virgin Mary

Evening flight from İzmir to Istanbul

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Day 10 — Departure from Istanbul ( Breakfast · free time · private airport transfer )

Breakfast & a last Istanbul morning

Private transfer to the airport

Tour Route Map

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