If you want to explore Istanbul with your soul mate, Lodger Travel can plan a romantic tour for you to show the glamorous beauties of a city where many love stories spring to life. Whether for your honeymoon, for your anniversary or just for a romantic escape, you and your soul mate will fall in love again in Istanbul. As a travel agency which designs “tailor made” tours for private groups or individuals, we can change whole tour details upon your demand. As well, we can book your hotel, arrange your transfers from / to the airport and fulfil your any kind of requests…
Itinerary:
Day 1
10.00 AM: We will leave the hotel after breakfast for Golden Horn Tour. We will start our tour with ancient Yedikule Castle and the Old City Walls, one of the most fascinating Byzantine remains to be found in Istanbul. Afterwards we will proceed to Kariye Museum, also known as Chora Church, which has the richest collection of Byzantine mosaics and frescoes depicting the life of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary. Following Kariye Museum, we will go to Eyup to take a cable-lift to reach Pierre Loti Hill, which is also called “Lovers Hill” by locals. The name comes from a famous French writer Pierre Loti, who was in love with a Turkish woman called Aziyade and used to come to this hill to think about this impossible love and wrote his novel. After a while it became a place where lovers meet and watch one of the most beautiful views of Istanbul. At this hill we will have time to drink Turkish coffee or tea.
12.30 AM: Lunch break will be given at Pierre Loti Hill.
01.30 PM: Following the lunch, we will proceed to Spice Bazaar, where you can smell and buy spices, teas, oils, essences, sweets, natural honey in wax, and aphrodisiacs.
04.00 PM: Following the bazaar tour, we will return to your hotel.
P.S: Based on your request we can plan an authentic Turkish night for you, including dinner, belly dancer performance and folkloric dance shows.
Day 2
08.00 AM: We will leave the hotel after breakfast for the Princes’ Islands Tour. We will take a ferry to Buyukada, the biggest and most attractive of nine various sized islands in The Sea of Marmara. As we land to the island, we will have a long buggy tour (horse-drawn carriage tour) which is called “Lovers Road”. This 1.5 hours tour follows a course between the mansions, hills and forested areas. Afterwards, for those who have special interest, we can visit the Aya Yorgi (Saint George) Church which locals believe in its quick healing and rapid wish realising power. This strong belief made this tiny, old church very popular for locals in spite of its effortful and hard-to-reach rout.
12.30 AM: Lunch break will be given at Buyukada.
01.30 PM: After lunch you will have free time to rent bike, to walk along seaside, to have a cup of coffee or wine.
03.30 PM: We will get on the ferry and return to mainland and then drive you back to your hotel.
P.S: Based on your request we can book a romantic restaurant for dinner and rent a classical car to transfer you from your hotel to the restaurant.
Day 3
01.00 PM: Leaving hotel after lunch for Grand Bazaar Tour, one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world. It includes 61 covered streets and over 3.000 local shops. We will walk around, take photos and shop there approximately for 2 hours.
02.30 PM: Following the bazaar tour you will have a relaxing and revitalizing experience in one of the most famous and historical hamams (Turkish bath) in Istanbul.
04.00 PM: After this special treatment we will go back to your hotel to get ready for dinner.
06.00 PM: We will leave the hotel with our private van for dinner. We will make a small boat trip to Maiden’s Tower Restaurant. This romantic restaurant is lying on a small islet located in the middle of Bosphorus, also known as Leander’s Tower. It is one of the most romantic places in Istanbul, that’s why thousands of marriage proposals were made there…
P.S: After dinner we can take you back to your hotel, but based on your request we can book a private Bosphorus night cruise and arrange a “music-champagne-fresh flower” set up for you.
All tours have been posted by TURSAB(Turkish Society of Travel Agencies) licensed travel agencies and tour operators who have replied to the formal TURSAB call of 08.07.2013 for publishing their tours on this website.
Lodger Travel,
Ergenekon Mah. Poyraz Sok. Özgenç İs Merkezi No: 1 Kat: 4/10 Şişli – Istanbul
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