Guided Tour of Topkapi Palace Museum & Harem with Skip-the-Line Tickets

Our guide Mehmet did the 50 minute orientation very well. Then we saw the exhibits on our own, which took me two hours, including the unmissable harem. Make sure you tell Mehmet at the headset testing at the start if your headset might not be working. I even saw a gardener with a weapon on his shoulder, just before I went to the weapons section which had similar weapons.

Visited Topkapi palace. Great guide (thank you Mehmet), good price, easy booking, access to all areas with our ticket Earpieces were a bit loud, even on lowest volume (had to use them because we were a group larger than 8)

The place is beautiful, full of history and worth a visit. I think we would have had a more rewarding visit on our own.

Very professional guides and a very well-organized tour to visit 3 sites in succession. You absolutely have to be on time too.

The tour was very interesting. The guide offers us a lot of information. Unfortunately, my audio headset doesn’t work. It was a nice experience.

The tour was ok - very rushed and it was not clear when I booked it that it was only an overview. Had I known that we would just have got tickets for the palace and used the free audio guide

We got in very quickly, it was skipping the lines. The guide was very nice and shared stories with us, however 1 hours is very fast-forward through everything, and he never asked if we had any questions, which wasn't his fault, as he was paid to guide us through in one hour, which he did. Information he shared was available on the info tables around the Palace anyway. Only valuable information was about Harem if you paid for the Harem tour option. Apart from that you don't need the guide except to take you in the Palace as part of skip the line ticket.

The guided tour with Adil is a must. Many thanks to you for the organization and to Adil for all the explanations. We actually had a history lesson. It was great!

Fantastic experience, Cenker Yuksei our tour guy was very informative and professional . I will highly recommend 👌. 10 out of 10

The guide was not all in on dates and facts but he was a nationalist so we got the all in Turkish point of view. Very very interesting and exotic. He handled well the most annoying americans asking silly questions.

Unfortunately at the meeting point we were out in the blue mosque first line instead of the Palace line. When the mistake was realized we had missed the time for entry into the palace. Due to our schedule we therefore did not have time to do it at the end. The guides need to pay more attention when assigning people to groups.

Overall the tour was good but more explanations by the guide would have been welcome. After our guided tour we were left on our own; it would have been nice that some other parts of the Palace would have been included in the tour.

The palace is amazing. Loved the visit and experiencing first hand all the cultural heritage contained in this site. Communication could be improved. When we arrived at the meeting point we had to guess which person we needed to talk to. We assumed that the guy with a flag showing many logos, Headout included was it. Our guide was transactional and dismissive. He provided a good amount of information, but not necessarily in an engaging way. It definitely felt like he wanted to be done with the tour and leave. We were given hearing devices at the beginning of the tour. One of the attendees had her device break half way through the program, and the guide didn't have any backups, so his answer was simply "there's nothing I can do for you". That attitude downgrated the overall experience for us.

Nice guide and polite. The tour was short but nice. Unfortunately, the audio did not work and because we were with a stroller and a child we were seated in the back of the group so we didn't hear much.

A very well organised experience - we were not lucky with the weather, but our guide Arda made our tour very interactive and made sure we did not stay long under the pouring rain.

The customer service is absolutely lost. They don't talk to each other and it almost caused us to go to the wrong place for the meeting point. Istanbul has an amazing culinary, but the food on the boat was average to bad. Do recommend the experience itself, but not this company.

Took place on time. Guides were kind and professional. Place was awsome but very crowded. You have to take time to see everything.

The audio headsets didn't work and time was lost as well under 2 hrs more like 1.5 hrs. The guide did well and called another guide splitting the group up.

The guide (Arda or Arza?) was very informative and provided a lot of insight not only into the monument but also in Istanbul/Turkey's history and contemporary society

Our guide was knowledgable and the tour was interesting. but in general it felt very short, as the tour covered just an intro part for the palace, not Harem, and not museums.