پکیج‌های سفر به ترکیه از عربستان سعودی: خودروی شخصی، راهنما و هتل

Get Turkey Tours offers packages for travellers from Saudi Arabia that range from a 4-day Istanbul stay, with a Mercedes Vito, a licensed guide and lunch included on each tour day, up to 8- and 10-day routes through four regions linked by domestic flights. Saudi passport holders do not need a visa, Riyadh and Istanbul keep the same clock, and you are in the air for roughly 4 to 5 hours. That leaves two real choices: which cities go on the route, and what size of car your group needs.

Picking the right Turkey package for a Saudi family

When we plan trips for families from the Kingdom, the wish list is usually the same. They want Istanbul by private car, some cool green days to escape the summer heat, and a single booking for the airport run, the guide and the hotel. These are the packages that match that list.

You will find the routes that add Cappadocia, Antalya or the Aegean coast on our multi-city Turkey packages page. Packages that stay in Istanbul are grouped on the Istanbul packages page. Prices begin at $250 per person for the 4-day Istanbul package and at $880 for the 8-day Turkey private package. Season, hotel and inclusions all move the figure, so write to us for the current rate.

What the price includes: the guided tours, the airport pick-up and drop-off, tickets for the sights on the plan, lunch on tour days and, for multi-city packages, the internal flights. The base price does not include hotels. Each package page lets you pick a hotel in every city, and the rate for your dates is then added on top. Saudi families tend to like this. You can take two connecting rooms in Istanbul and one villa-style room in Cappadocia, and you never pay for a set hotel that someone else chose.

Included in the price, and paid separately

We quote in US dollars, and your card handles the conversion.

Not in the price: the flights from Saudi Arabia, your chosen hotel, dinner on most evenings, shopping, and tips for your guide and driver. The cost that catches families out most often in Istanbul is the hotel rate in July and August, when rooms facing the Bosphorus are hard to find. Families who come in the last two weeks of June, ahead of the big Gulf season, normally pay less for the very same hotel.

Every package page books the same way. You send your dates in a request, no money is taken online at that stage, and our team then confirms the plan and the hotels. You can cancel without charge until 7 days before the package begins.

Do Saudi citizens need a Turkish visa?

No visa is required for Saudi citizens. According to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both ordinary and official Saudi passports are exempt for up to 90 days within any 180-day period (we checked in October 2026). You do not buy an e-Visa or complete any form; you simply hand over your passport at Istanbul Airport.

Where visa questions do come up is with people living in the Kingdom on a different passport, such as Egyptian, Pakistani, Indian or Filipino holders. The rule follows your passport, not your iqama. Some of these nationalities can get a conditional e-Visa, others must apply at the Turkish embassy in Riyadh or the consulate in Jeddah, and the requirements do change. Look up your own passport on the official site evisa.gov.tr before buying tickets. If your family travels on mixed passports, check every one of them.

Flying from Riyadh, Jeddah or Dammam

As the crow flies, Istanbul is about 2,440 km from Riyadh, about 2,370 km from Jeddah and about 2,530 km from Dammam. Flight time works out at around 4 to 5 hours. Both countries stay on UTC+3 through the whole year, so you lose no sleep and change no clocks.

• Riyadh: nonstop service to Istanbul with Turkish Airlines, Saudia, flynas and flyadeal.
• Jeddah: nonstop service with Turkish Airlines, Saudia, flynas, flyadeal, Pegasus and AJet.
• Dammam: Turkish Airlines has a nonstop route, though it runs on fewer weekdays than the Riyadh or Jeddah flights, so plenty of Eastern Province families connect in Riyadh.

There are two airports in Istanbul. Istanbul Airport (IST) sits on the European side, and Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) is on the Asian side, where a number of budget flights arrive. Let us know which airport your ticket shows. From SAW the ride to a Sultanahmet or Taksim hotel is longer, and in rush hour it can easily pass an hour. The cars are listed on our Istanbul transfers page, and every package in the table already covers the airport trip.

Flights to Trabzon on the Black Sea only run in season. flynas has flown nonstop from Riyadh and Jeddah to Trabzon in past summers, and flyadeal started a Riyadh to Trabzon route in 2026. Timetables shift each year, so confirm your dates with the airline before deciding whether to start in Istanbul or in Trabzon. With the order settled, our 7-day Trabzon itinerary sets out what each day can hold.

Trabzon, Uzungöl and Ayder on the Black Sea

For a lot of Saudi families, the Black Sea is the whole point: green peaks, mist, tea gardens, and summer days that stay in the low 20s °C. We operate four private day tours that start at Trabzon hotels, each one with a local guide and a private van. All four are on our Black Sea Turkey tours page.

Tickets for the sights are covered, but meals are not, so you pick where to stop for lunch along the way. Two points deserve a frank look. First, Uzungöl gets very crowded in July and August, mainly with Gulf visitors, and at midday the lake shore can resemble a parking lot; going private helps because the route carries on to the calmer highland villages. Second, no part of Turkey gets more rain than the Black Sea. Summer afternoons with fog and showers are routine, so build in a spare day.

Our site has no set Black Sea package. A plan many families use is 4 or 5 nights in Istanbul followed by 3 nights in Trabzon, two or three of the tours listed above, and a domestic flight to connect the two. For a day-by-day view, see the Black Sea Turkey tours page and our Black Sea region guide.

Green day trips from Istanbul: Bursa and Sapanca

If your family would rather skip a second flight, Bursa or Sapanca make good day trips out of Istanbul. Bursa served as the first Ottoman capital. Our private route stops at the Grand Mosque, the Green Mosque and the tombs of Osman Gazi and Orhan Gazi, and the Uludağ cable car rises high over the city.

Expect about 12 hours for the private Bursa trip from Istanbul, or about 8 hours for the shared one, which includes the cable car and lunch. Sapanca and Maşukiye, known for the lake and the waterfall, are offered as a shared day trip with lunch included. Each of these days involves many hours in the car, so families with young children usually find one is plenty. Our Istanbul day trips page puts every trip outside the city side by side.

Halal meals, prayer and a private group

Turkish restaurants serve halal meat in nearly every case, and pork hardly ever appears on menus. Alcohol is the thing to watch. Some restaurants and most rooftop bars offer it, and on a few of our evening tours the venue includes it with the meal. Lunch on package tour days is at regular Turkish restaurants.

With a private tour, the car and the guide are for your family alone. Share your prayer times with the guide on day one, and the day is arranged so that you are close to a mosque for Dhuhr and Asr. On Fridays many families attend the noon prayer at the Blue Mosque or Hagia Sophia and begin the sightseeing after it. If the women in your group would like a female guide, mention it at booking. We only confirm one when we can cover your dates, and an Arabic-speaking guide works the same way: Arabic appears among the languages on our Istanbul packages and transfers, yet not all guides speak it. For mosques, Ramadan and closures over Eid, read our Muslim-friendly Turkey tours page.

Cars and airport transfers for bigger families

The Mercedes Vito takes up to six passengers and their bags, and on our transfers and car tours nobody else rides with your family. The VIP airport transfer has one price for the car rather than a price per head, and it comes with meet-and-greet and flight tracking; reaching a central hotel normally takes 45 to 90 minutes. Hiring a Vito and driver for 8 hours in Istanbul is likewise priced per car.

A group of seven or more, or six travellers with a lot of luggage, will need two cars or a bigger vehicle. Give us your headcount and number of suitcases when booking, and request child seats ahead of time. A car with just a driver works well for shopping in Nişantaşı or around Galataport, but in the Old City you will want a guide too, and the packages include one. For more on shopping and summer days in Istanbul, see our Istanbul tours for Gulf travellers page.

Best time to come from Saudi Arabia

The school summer break is when most Saudi families travel. Istanbul in July and August is warm, with afternoons near 28 °C, and crowded: by 10:00 the Old City is full, and hotel rates peak. At that time the Black Sea is cooler and greener, and the Trabzon flights are operating. Both Eid holidays cause a second wave of visitors. On the first day of Eid the museums and the Grand Bazaar either shut or open for reduced hours, so keep the Old City tour off that morning.

For a calmer trip, look at May, June and September. Hotels cost less, the lines at Hagia Sophia and Topkapı are shorter, and evenings along the Bosphorus are still mild. In winter Istanbul and the Black Sea highlands are cold and rainy, which makes them better for a city break than a family holiday. If school sets your dates, browse our Istanbul packages or the multi-city packages and send a request with your exact days; we reply with hotels that still have connecting rooms free.

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