Private Turkey Tour Packages: 4 to 11 Days with Your Own Guide

Our private Turkey tour packages run from 4 to 11 days on set routes. They start from $1,565 per person for four days and from $2,250 per person for eight. Longer trips of two to three weeks are planned to order. Every private package gives you your own licensed guide and your own car and driver. You do not share them with other travellers, and you do not wait for a coach to fill up. Most routes link Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus and Pamukkale with domestic flights. Longer ones add the Turquoise Coast, a gulet cruise or the east. A good first look is our 8-day Turkey package, which covers the four classic regions. Below you will find what "private" means in practice, how long each route takes, what usually sits inside and outside the price, and how to choose between 5, 8, 10 and 14 days or more.

What "private" actually means on a Turkey package

The word is used loosely online, so here is what you get on our private packages:

• Your own licensed guide in each region. Turkish law reserves guiding at museums and archaeological sites for professional guides with a state licence. A private guide works only for you, so the pace, the questions and the lunch stop are yours.
• Your own vehicle and driver. A car for couples, a minivan for families and small groups. No hotel-by-hotel pickups for other passengers.
• Hotel pickup and drop-off at the start and end of each touring day, and airport transfers on arrival and departure.
• Fixed days, flexible hours. The route is set before you travel, but you decide when to start each day, when to stop for coffee or prayer, and how long to stay at a site.
• WhatsApp contact with our team in Turkey before and during the trip.

The alternative is a small-group package, where you share the guide and the bus with other travellers, often with fixed start dates. It costs less and suits solo travellers who like company. You can compare both on our small-group tours and multi-day trips pages.

Private packages by length and price

These are set routes from our private range, with the starting price per person as listed today. Prices depend on dates, group size and hotel class, so the tour page shows what is included for each one.

Why do two 8-day routes differ by more than $1,300? Hotel class, the number of flights, and how much is included, such as dinners, entrance tickets or extra guided days. Read the inclusions on each page before comparing.

How the days are usually split

Turkey is big. Istanbul to Göreme is about 730 km by road, so the shape of a package depends on how often you fly.

4 to 5 days. Either two regions done well, such as Istanbul and Cappadocia, or the three inland highlights at speed: Cappadocia, Pamukkale and Ephesus, with flights in between. Good for a stopover or the end of a business trip.

7 to 8 days. The classic first trip: two or three nights in Istanbul, two in Cappadocia, one at Pamukkale and one or two near Ephesus. This is the length most of our guests choose. For a day-by-day idea, see our 7-day Turkey itinerary.

9 to 11 days. The classic four plus a second rhythm: beach days in Antalya or Bodrum, two or three nights on a gulet from Fethiye, or a loop to Konya. Our 10-day itinerary shows how the extra days fit.

14 to 21 days. Now you can add the east: Mount Nemrut, Göbeklitepe and Şanlıurfa. Or the Black Sea highlands, the Gallipoli peninsula and Troy. Our longest set routes include the All of Turkey 16-day tour from $7,380 per person or the 19-day grand Turkey tour from $3,210 per person. If you want three weeks fully private, we build it through our tailor-made Turkey tour service.

Flights and driving times between the regions

Most of our private packages use one to three domestic flights. Here is why:

Nevşehir airport is about 40 to 45 minutes from Göreme, and Kayseri about 1 hour 10 minutes. For the arrival in Cappadocia, see our Kayseri airport transfer page.

What is usually included, and what is not

Every package page lists its own inclusions. On our private routes, these are normally part of the price:

• Hotels with breakfast, in the class stated on the tour page
• A licensed private guide on touring days
• A private car or minivan with driver, and airport transfers
• The domestic flights named in the title or the itinerary

These are normally extra, unless the page says otherwise:

• International flights to and from Turkey.
• The hot air balloon in Cappadocia. Our sunrise flights start from $199 per person for a standard basket. Every flight needs same-morning permission from the civil aviation authority, so it is never certain on a given day.
• Some entrance tickets. For foreign visitors today, Ephesus costs €40, Pamukkale €30 and the Göreme Open-Air Museum €20. Under the new Ministry tariff these rise to €45, €35 and €22 from 1 April 2027. Hagia Sophia charges €25 for the visitor route. Our museum prices 2027 update has the full list.
• Lunches and dinners not listed, drinks and tips.

Private gulet cruises and beach days

The longer private routes add the sea. A gulet is a traditional wooden motor-sailer. On the Fethiye routes you sleep on board, swim from the deck in coves that are hard to reach by road, and eat what the crew cooks in the galley. Our 10-day private tour with a Fethiye gulet starts from $4,310 per person, and the 11-day version from $4,705 per person; both are in the table above.

The cruise season runs from late spring to early autumn. Outside those months we replace the gulet with hotel nights in Fethiye or Antalya. For the coast itself, see our Fethiye and Antalya destination guides.

How to choose the right length

A few questions settle it quickly:

1. Is it your first time in Turkey? Choose 8 days and the classic four regions. You can add the coast on a second trip.
2. Do you want the balloon? Give Cappadocia two nights at least, so that you have a second morning if the first flight is cancelled.
3. Are you travelling with children or older parents? Choose a route with flights rather than long drives, and avoid days that start before dawn twice in a row.
4. Do you want beach time? Add three days for Antalya, Bodrum or a gulet, and travel between June and September.
5. Have you seen the classics already? Look east: Nemrut, Göbeklitepe and the Black Sea are where repeat visitors go.

If you want to know what a private guide costs on its own, without hotels and flights, see our private tour guide cost update. For the whole budget, flights and spending money included, see our Turkey trip cost guide.

Tours that cover this

• Turkey Tour Package 8 Days: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus and Pamukkale: from $2,250 per person.
• Private 4-Day Best of Turkey Tour: from $1,565 per person.
• Private Best of Turkey Tour: 10 Days with Domestic Flights: from $3,865 per person.
• Private Turkey Tour with Fethiye Gulet Cruise: 10 Days: from $4,310 per person.

More private and luxury options are on our luxury tours and Turkey tours pages, and the country overview is in our Turkey destination guide.

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