Turkey and Greece Tours from Australia 2027: 13–20 Days, A$ Prices

Turkey and Greece tours from Australia are worth the long flight at 13 to 20 days, and ours cost from US$4,200 per person (about A$6,173) for the 15-day private Aegean Legends to US$6,935 (about A$10,193) for the 20-day group tour, with hotels, transfers and the flights and ferries between stops listed on each tour page included; only your flights to and from Australia are extra. The bigger decision is where the tour ends. Our 19-day Turkey and Greece Odyssey, from US$6,390 (about A$9,392), starts and finishes in Istanbul, so a simple return ticket from Sydney or Melbourne works, while the 13-day tour ends in Athens and needs a flight home from there. Below: six routes with Australian dollar prices, the flights home from Athens, the leave you need around Easter and Anzac Day 2027, and the entry rules for both countries.

Our prices are set in US dollars. The Australian dollar figures are approximate, converted at the Reserve Bank of Australia rate for 13 November 2026 (A$1 = US$0.6804).

Turkey and Greece tours from Australia: six routes and their prices

The first decision is where each tour begins and ends, because that sets your ticket from Australia.

What that means for the ticket you book:

• Istanbul to Istanbul, 19 and 20 days: a return ticket to Istanbul. The flight from Crete back to Istanbul at the end is part of the tour price.
• Istanbul to Athens, 12 and 13 days: fly into Istanbul and home from Athens, an open-jaw ticket.
• Athens to Istanbul, 14 days: the reverse, into Athens and home from Istanbul.
• Istanbul to Santorini, 15 days, private: your services end at Santorini Airport, so book a flight home that starts there and connects onward.

How many days each country needs, and which way round to go, is in our Greece and Turkey tour 2027 guide and our trip to Turkey and Greece overview; this page is about doing it from Australia.

The 19- and 20-day routes: one return ticket to Istanbul

The Odyssey spends its first week in Turkey: arrival in Istanbul, an Old City day and a sightseeing day with a Bosphorus sunset cruise, a flight to Cappadocia on Day 4, a valleys hike and an underground city, Ephesus and Pamukkale together on Day 6, and a free day in Kuşadası. On Day 8 you fly to Athens for the Acropolis and Plaka, with a day trip to Delphi on Day 10, then two nights each on Santorini and Mykonos and three on Crete, at Heraklion for Knossos and at Chania. Day 18 is the flight from Heraklion to Istanbul, and Day 19 is departure day.

The 20-day relax package, from US$6,935 (about A$10,193), follows the same Greek islands but slows Turkey down: a flight to Konya on Day 4 and three nights in Cappadocia, then Ephesus and Pamukkale on separate days, where the 19-day tour fits both into one. Its last Greek day takes you from Crete to Athens and on to Istanbul.

Both include all flights in the itinerary, hotels with breakfast, all transfers, fast ferries between the islands, English-speaking local guides and skip-the-line entrance tickets. Lunches, dinners, optional tours and the Cappadocia balloon are extra, and the 19-day page adds the Greek hotel tax of €4 per person per night. Both pages list extra Istanbul nights at US$65 for one and US$125 for two, which is how you would add a buffer day after the flight from Australia.

Ending in Athens or starting there: the 12- to 15-day routes

• Best of Turkey and Greece, 13 days, from US$4,670 (about A$6,864), group. A fast first week, Istanbul, one night in Cappadocia, Ephesus from Kuşadası, Pamukkale and a flight back to Istanbul for a walking day, then a flight to Athens, ferries to Mykonos and Santorini and a final flight from Santorini to Athens, where the tour ends on Day 13. The flights and ferries are named in the inclusions, with 23 kg of checked baggage on the Athens and Santorini flights, and breakfast is daily.
• Turkey and Greece in 12 days, from US$4,195 (about A$6,165), group. Two guided days in Turkey, Istanbul's Old City and the Cappadocia valleys, then a flight from Cappadocia to Athens on Day 4, ferries to Mykonos, Santorini and Crete, and a flight from Heraklion to Athens; you fly home from Athens on Day 12. The island days are mostly free.
• Popular Turkey and Greece, 14 days, from US$4,470 (about A$6,570), group. It starts in Athens, with two nights each in Athens, on Santorini and on Mykonos, crosses by ferry via Samos to Kuşadası on Day 7, and continues through Ephesus, Pamukkale, Konya and Cappadocia to two last nights in Istanbul. Tips are included except for the driver, guide and transfer staff. The inclusions list ferries within the Greek islands, so we confirm the Samos to Kuşadası crossing and the leg from Cappadocia to Istanbul in writing.
• Aegean Legends, 15 days, from US$4,200 (about A$6,173), private. Three nights in Istanbul, two in Cappadocia and three in Kuşadası for Ephesus, the Terrace Houses and Pamukkale, then Athens by plane or by ferry via Samos, depending on the season, three nights in Athens and three on Santorini, with mid-range hotels from our selection.

To start the 14-day tour in Athens from Melbourne, note that Turkish Airlines' TK169 lands in Istanbul at 11:45 and Istanbul Airport listed Turkish Airlines departures to Athens at 14:25 and 20:30 on 14 November 2026; Aegean Airlines and SKY express fly the route too. Before you pay, we confirm every flight, ferry and hotel on your chosen tour in writing.

Flying home from Athens to Sydney or Melbourne

Every option we could check connects through a hub, so the real choice is the hub. These are the routes we found on airline pages and airport boards in November 2026:

Smartraveller rates the United Arab Emirates and Qatar "exercise a high degree of caution" (versions updated on 8 October 2026), so check the advice for your hub before you book. On the 13-day tour you reach Athens from Santorini on Day 13, so book the flight home for that evening or the next day once we confirm the Santorini flight time. For the flight out to Istanbul, see our Turkey tour packages from Sydney and Melbourne page, with Turkish Airlines' days and times and the Gulf alternatives.

Photo: Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Three weeks of leave around Easter or Anzac Day 2027

A 19- or 20-day tour plus two travel days needs about three weeks away, and the 2027 public holidays help:

• Easter. Good Friday, 26 March, and Easter Monday, 29 March 2027, are public holidays. Fly out on the evening of Good Friday and you land in Istanbul on Saturday 27 March, Day 1 of the Odyssey; Day 19 is Wednesday 14 April, and an afternoon flight has you home on Thursday 15 April: 21 days away for 13 days of annual leave.
• Anzac Day. Anzac Day 2027 falls on Sunday 25 April, and NSW adds a public holiday on Monday 26 April. If you want the Dawn Service at Gallipoli, it needs a free personal pass, and our Anzac Day 2027 page sets out the passes and a week plan.
• Gallipoli without the crowds. Add a spare day in Istanbul before the tour starts and join our Gallipoli day tour, from US$134 per person (about A$197), a group day with a licensed English-speaking guide, lunch in Eceabat and Anzac Cove, Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair.
• School holidays. NSW students are out from 10 to 28 April 2027, long enough for the 13- to 15-day routes; our Sydney and Melbourne page lists every NSW and Victorian break.

Entry rules: Turkey first, then Greece

• Turkey. Ordinary Australian passports need no visa for tourism or transit, up to 90 days in any 180, since 17 April 2026; see our Turkey visa for Australians page for passport validity.
• Greece. The EU's travel site lists Australia among visa-exempt countries and Greece as a Schengen member. Visa-exempt visitors can stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period, counted as one allowance across all the countries using the EU's Entry/Exit System (EES). Turkey is outside the Schengen area, so your days in Turkey do not use it up.
• EES at the border. For visitors who need no visa, the EES records four fingerprints and a facial image in place of a passport stamp; children under 12 are not fingerprinted.
• ETIAS. The official ETIAS site, updated on 21 October 2026, says ETIAS is not in operation, no applications are being collected and the start date will be announced several months ahead, so there is nothing to apply for now. Our ETIAS and Turkey update explains what changes when it starts.
• Crossing by sea. Smartraveller asks travellers who enter or leave Türkiye by land or sea to make sure their passport is stamped on every exit and arrival, even on a short trip to the Greek islands. That applies to the Samos ferry on the 14-day tour and on Aegean Legends when the crossing is by sea; our Samos to Ephesus day trip page describes the two passport controls.

What the price includes, and how it compares

All six include hotels with breakfast, transfers and the flights or ferries between stops listed on each tour page; the guiding ranges from English-speaking local guides on the 19- and 20-day tours to two guided days in Turkey and one in Athens on the 12-day tour. Meals beyond breakfast are mostly extra (the 13-day tour includes some in Turkey, so ask which), and so is the Cappadocia balloon, which only flies when the weather allows.

For comparison, Bunnik Tours listed its 24-day Türkiye and Greece on 14 November 2026 from A$16,595 per person twin share, including return economy flights from Australia, with two of its April and May 2027 departures shown as fully booked. Our prices leave the long-haul flight to you, so you choose the airline and dates. For two people, the Odyssey comes to US$12,780, about A$18,783, before flights.

Tours that cover this

• Turkey and Greece Odyssey, 19 days: from US$6,390 per person (about A$9,392). Group tour, Istanbul to Istanbul.
• Turkey and Greece relax package, 20 days: from US$6,935 per person (about A$10,193). Group tour, three nights in Cappadocia.
• Best of Turkey and Greece, 13 days: from US$4,670 per person (about A$6,864). Group tour, ends in Athens.
• Popular Turkey and Greece, 14 days: from US$4,470 per person (about A$6,570). Group tour, Athens to Istanbul.
• Gallipoli day tour from Istanbul: from US$134 per person (about A$197).

No prepayment needed: pay on the tour day.

Send us your dates on WhatsApp at +90 545 307 67 88, tell us which city you want to fly home from, and we will send a written plan for the Odyssey or the route that fits your leave. For Turkey on its own, see our Turkey packages from Australia; for the Greek side compared with Turkey, read Turkey vs Greece and Turkey or Greece for your holiday.

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