Ancient Ephesus: Private Cruise Shore Excursion & VIP Entry

Fatih & his driver were excellent tour guides. Fatih was incredibly knowledgeable, friendly and accommodating. We all had a fantastic time & were returned to cruise port in ample time.

The guide was knowledgeable. However, we were led to believe the leather and rug places would be the best deals. They were not. The vendors by the port were less expensive. The leather jacket I purchased would have been over 100 euros less.

We enjoyed the tour, and had a knowledge guide. She was very flexible. The only thing we didn’t like was we felt a bit forced into the shopping. With that said we would use this company again, just make it clear if you don’t want to shop.

It was a wonderful experience, we loved seeing the ruins. Our Guide Emma was fabulous, very knowledgeable and pleasant. We ate a delicious lunch and went to a workshop to see how carpets are made which was amazing to see.

Murat was an amazing Tour Guide! Informative, patient, friendly, respectful and tailored the tour to our personal interests. If you want to see the historical sites of Ephesus and learn about them also, this is the tour to go on.

Our tour guide Mustafa was great! Very informative ,friendly and had a lot of local knowledge.Would definitely recommend him as a guide.

This private tour was exceptional and Mustafa was the best tour guide we could have asked for! We were picked up promptly and were able to customize our itinerary. Mustafa gave us a great history of Ephesus as we toured the ruins. We then went to a local family run pottery business and got an in depth explanation of how they make their pottery. We then had lunch and got to see how Turkish rugs are made. I even got to put a few knots of the rug in! I would highly recommend this tour.

Azime our tour guide was very good! Very nice car and day all around. We did beat the crowds to get into places. Private tour allowed us to ask our own questions and hear everything. This was much less expensive than doing a private tour through our cruise line.

First Zafer Bozoglu was our tour guide. He was so friendly and knowledgeable about Mary’s home , Ephesus and John’s church and burial site. He asked us what we wanted and shaped the itinerary to see the sights and helped us recreate the history of these 3 sites. We spend the majority of our time in Ephesus recreating the history as well as focusing on Paul’s mission to the Ephesians as if we were back in 1st century AD. We learned a semesters worth of information In a few hours. This is the ONLY way to do this tour. Zafer was an A++!

I cannot tell you how great this lady is! Do not go with anyone else. Engaging and warm, deeply knowledgeable. Listener and modified the tour based on exactly what we wanted on the day, with exactly the local knowledge needed to deliver every experience the three (Grandma, daughter and Mum) desired. We had the best day and would not change a thing.