Istanbul Tours with a Spanish-Speaking Guide: Private and Small Group

The simplest way to have your own guide in Istanbul who speaks Spanish through Get Turkey Tours is our 8-hour private day in the Old City. It costs from $180 per person, and a licensed guide collects you from your hotel. If sharing the guide with others is fine, the shared tours of the Old City also run in Spanish, from $120 per person, and the Hagia Sophia ticket is part of the price. Rates change with the season, the size of your group and what is included, so ask for the current figure. We do not have Spanish-speaking guides listed for every tour, so below we name the tours that have them and say clearly where you should check with us first.

Istanbul tours available in Spanish

The tours below show Spanish as a language on their own pages on our site (October 2026).

For anything else in our full Istanbul catalogue, a guide who speaks Spanish can normally be found if you ask, but our tour data gives no guarantee. Check with us before booking, and your written confirmation names the language the guide will use.

Your own guide for a full day, in Spanish

Couples and families who speak Spanish choose this tour more than any other. On our site it is also the one private day tour that has Spanish as a listed guide language. Your licensed guide comes to your Istanbul hotel and spends 8 hours on foot with you around the Old City:

1. Hagia Sophia from the upper gallery, the part foreign visitors have used since January 2024.
2. The Hippodrome and the Blue Mosque.
3. A break for lunch at whichever restaurant you prefer.
4. Topkapı Palace, its courtyards and its collections.
5. Free time at the Grand Bazaar, and then the walk back to your hotel or to another central spot.

You can change the plan. Say so in the morning if you prefer the Basilica Cistern to Topkapı, or want to finish in Balat rather than at the bazaar. The price covers the private guide for the full day and pick-up and drop-off at your hotel, which the guide does on foot. It does not cover museum tickets, lunch, drinks or a vehicle. If you stay outside the centre, we can add a private car and driver at extra cost.

This day works well for travellers who want answers in Spanish and prefer to set the pace themselves. Because the price is charged per person, it is weaker value for someone on their own.

Shared Old City tours in Spanish

Each of our three shared Old City walks lists Spanish, English, French and Chinese, and each one includes entrance tickets, so you skip the ticket queues:

• Morning, 6 hours: you are collected at a central hotel or at Galataport from 08:00 to 08:30. Then come the Blue Mosque, the Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia, ending with some free time at the Grand Bazaar.
• Afternoon, 6 hours: the palace of Topkapı (tickets included), then Hagia Irene, then the Grand Bazaar. Many people book it the day after the morning tour.
• Full day, 8 hours: the morning sights (Hagia Sophia, the Hippodrome, the Blue Mosque), a lunch stop, and then the palace of Topkapı, Hagia Irene and the Grand Bazaar.

These languages show what can be offered, not the language of each departure. If you want Spanish for all of the commentary, book the private tour, or ask us what language the group on your date will use.

The Bosphorus and the Princes' Islands

Among our boat trips on the strait are a lunch cruise of 3 hours and a dinner cruise of 6 hours with a Turkish night show, and both pick you up at your hotel. Both list Spanish. The lunch cruise description, however, says the guide on board speaks English and Russian, so confirm Spanish commentary at booking if it is important to you. The dinner cruise needs little translation, because the evening is mostly food, live music and dancing.

The full day on the Princes' Islands covers hotel pick-up, the return ferry and lunch in a local restaurant. A tour assistant who speaks Spanish, English or Russian leads it, not a licensed guide trained in history, so see it as an organised outing and not as a guided talk. In July and August the main island and the ferries get very busy.

If you want a private boat with a guide of your own, book the private 2-hour yacht or one of the longer charters from our Bosphorus cruise list. Ask for a guide who speaks Spanish when you book.

Other private tours: ask for Spanish

A number of our private tours give no guide language on their pages. They include the half day of 4 hours with fast-track entry to Hagia Sophia, a tour of Topkapı plus the Basilica Cistern with tickets included, a full day on Byzantine and Ottoman history, a visit to the churches still in use, and short tours for travellers on a layover at the airport. On any of them we can try to find a Spanish-speaking guide, subject to the date. Send your dates with the request, and you will know which language the guide speaks before any payment.

When the whole day must be in Spanish, write that in the request itself rather than leaving a note for the day of the tour. We assign the guide at confirmation, and switching languages afterwards is not always possible.

Packages and Cappadocia in Spanish

Looking at longer trips, Spanish is listed for the Istanbul packages, which run 4 to 10 days with hotels chosen when you book, and on the Istanbul and Cappadocia package of 6 days. If you can add only two days, our two days in Cappadocia with flights goes with between 1 and 15 people per group and lists Spanish as well. On every one of these the balloon flight costs extra.

Tickets, opening days and other practical notes

• Tickets: in 2026 foreign visitors pay €25 for Hagia Sophia (this may change). The Basilica Cistern and Topkapı Palace charge separate fees, and entry to the Blue Mosque is free. The small-group tours include tickets; on the private tours you pay them separately.
• Closing days: Topkapı shuts on Tuesdays and the Grand Bazaar on Sundays. On Fridays, from 12:30 to 14:30, the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia let in fewer tourists.
• Clothing: in mosques, cover shoulders and knees; women also need a headscarf.
• Pick-up: for central hotels the private guide comes to you on foot. If you stay further out, either meet at the German Fountain in Sultanahmet or add a car.
• Booking: we work on Book Now, Pay Later. You can cancel at no charge until 7 days before the tour and get a full refund; inside 7 days there is no refund.

Browse every day tour in our Istanbul catalogue, or only the guided walks in the Old City tour list. Hiring a guide in general is explained on our private guide page.

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