Cappadocia Magic : 2 Days Travel Package with Balloon Ride Option

Istanbul, Turkey

2 days (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Explore one of Turkey’s most unmissable destinations during this multi-day semi-private tour package to North Cappadocia. Round-trip flight tickets from Istanbul are included, plus overnight accommodation, comfortable ground transfers with hotel pickup, and activities and entrance fees. Visit the Goreme open-air museum and pottery village of Avanos, discover the picturesque Devrent Valley, and enjoy a panoramic hot air balloon flight over the region’s iconic fairy tale chimneys with skip-the-line access.

A multi-day, semi-private tour package to Cappadocia from Istanbul
Experience a personalized overnight trip in a group capped at 10 participants
Relax with pre-booked accommodation, flights, and skip-the-line admission tickets
Sleep comfortably in a boutique cave-style hotel and enjoy a full-day guided tour

What's Included

Breakfast
Lunch
Round-trip domestic flights (Istanbul-Cappadocia-Istanbul)
1-night accommodation in a Cappadocia Boutique Hotel
Hot Air Balloon ride (if 'Optimal' or 'Superior' or 'Premium' package selected)
Semi-private guided tour (Maximum 10 guests per group)
Professional licensed tour guide (Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
All entrance fees for museums and ruins listed in itinerary
Daily breakfast at the hotel on day 2
One local lunch including traditional Testi Kebab
Round-trip airport transfers in Istanbul and Cappadocia

Dinner & Drinks
Gratuities for guides and drivers
Personal expenses

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to your preferred meeting point, or request pickup.

Pickup points

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Meeting points

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End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Day 1

Flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia (Included Flight Tickets) - Overnight at Cappadocia

2 Stops

Istanbul

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Cappadocia

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Included: When booking the tour, you have right to select your desired hotel category from a range of available choices.

Meals: Not included

Day 2

Hot Air Balloon Ride (Optional) - Semi-Private Cappadocia Tour - Flight Back to Istanbul (Included Flight Tickets)

12 Stops

Cappadocia Balloon Tours

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Urgup

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Goreme National Park (Pass By)

Goreme Open Air Museum

1 hour 15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

TokalI Church

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Ortahisar

40 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Avanos Oren Yeri

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Uchisar Castle

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Devrent Valley

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Fairy Chimneys (Pass By)

Cappadocia

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Istanbul

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not wheelchair accessible
Infants must sit on laps
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
Not recommended for travelers who has claustrophobia
The local tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
The local tour operator will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at three days before your departure date. You will not need the print out copies of the tickets for domestic flights. Your passport and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for check-in to plane. Please note that, the local tour operator will not do check-in because of the personal preferences of the guests.
You will have 15kg luggage + 8kg hand bag quota per person for each domestic flight. If you will need more luggage capacity, please inform that to the local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg.
If you do connect any flight which arranged by your own to departure/return flight of this travel package, you may have a risk about miss one of them. This risk is about the delay/cancellation by airlines companies. We do not suggest that to safety of your booking. If there is any glitch because of this type arrangments by you, the local tour operator is not going to be responsible.
The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm. If hotel rooms will be available for early check-in on first day of your trip, hotel managment and the local tour operator will provide early check-in to room for you.
The prices of package are valid for accommodation at the double or triple room. If you would like add accommodation on single room(s) to your booking, there could be supplement cost. There are not going to be any extra cost for bookings of single / solo travelers. They will already accommodate at single room.

CAVE HOTEL ACCOMMODATION EXPERIENCES : The pre-planned hotels are "Yunak Evleri Hotel", "Zeydem Suites Cave Hotel" and "Misty Cave Hotel" for your accommodation on this travel package. You may choose one of them while booking. If these hotels (which you preferred) are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, the local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel.
SEMI-PRIVATE TOURS : The guided daily tours of this trip package, limited to a maximum of 10 guests per group, provide an in-depth exploration of Cappadocia’s ancient sites and breathtaking landscapes.
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE ! : Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip. Your refund rate will be the difference between options of "Standard Package" and "Optimal Package" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
Hot Air Balloon Ride will be in “Standard Category”. This category ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing, and pilots are decide to that within the safety rules of Civil Aviation Authority. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
If you did not add Hot Air Balloon Ride to your booking for this trip package, you can not get any service for hot air balloon ride which advertised/offered at the paragpraph of the descriptions.
If your return hotel is different than pick-up hotel, please inform that detail immediately. If you inform that detail after organised your flight tickets, the local tour operator can request extra cost because of the distances between the airports and some hotels. If you inform this type changes on service day (last day of your trip), the local tour operator do not confirm this last minute amending and drop you to your pick-up hotel.
If your pick-up / drop-off hotels are inside of airports (IST and SAW airports) the local tour operator do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service in Istanbul.
If you do not use any service or give up join to activities / tours / airport transfers, that's meaning is going to be last minute cancellation. Because of that, there is not going to be any refund for that.
If you would like change your scheduled domestic flight(s) after organised them, the local tour operator can request new flight ticket cost. The flight tickets can not refundable after organized.
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, the local tour operator can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.
The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 3 days in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.1

based on 14 reviews

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The best hot air balloon and tour experience in Cappadocia.

Christabel_M, Nov 2025

Would definitely add this to a must do must experience events list. The guides and drivers were exceptional, knowledgeable and experienced. Timing and duration was well adhered to.

Cappadocia; hire a guide and visit the caves.

Tom_B, Oct 2024

The knowledge and enthusiasm of our guide, Atlas made for a wonderful tour. He artfully told the story of the origins of Christianity and the crucial development of the monasteries, and wove a tale of Roman influence that linked the archeological sites we visited. Truly inspiring. I so appreciate his willingness to answer questions, and to make sure we were grasping the story. His depth of knowledge is astonishing. The cave hotels are a must; wander the quiet side streets and dine at lovely restaurants and cafes tucked in amongst the rocks. An up-close look at Turkish rug making was eye-opening as well. Worth the detour.

Balloon cancelled

Roberto_A, Sep 2024

Excellent guide on the tours, hotel accommodation great and staff very helpful. Ballon ride cancelled due to weather, refund not received yet. From airport to hotel driver driving with a paper on top of steering wheel almost got us into an accident prevented by us alerting him of stalled vehicle on the road. The 2nd day when being picked up to go airport had to wait st the hotel, finally taxi picked us up to drive us to the shuttle office, another wait while waiting for other passengers, then picking up another couple at another hotel and then dropping off someone in town. This unacceptable.

Response from Host, Sep 2024

Mr Aguero Your balloon ride date was Sep 22 and today is Sep 25. As we informed you and as you confirmed our message, the refund process started at the end of your services (Sep 23) The international transaction process is taking 3 to 7 business days. You knows that. because that detail declareted to you. We belive you about first day transfer. The statements of the guests are always real for us if we do not see or hear anything from staff. About your transfer on second day : you knows the transfers are shared transfer. some guests delayed on your transfer timing. If the original transfer car wait them more time and collect you after them, you and other guests will exactly miss the flight. With this instantly operation, different cars collected guests and meet at office for win the time which missed because of some other guests in group. On shared tours / transfers participants should follow the directions of the operators for best timing and experience. Regards

1 night / 2 days Istanbul to Cappadocia

Denesh_A, May 2024

The trip was great! After a few initial changes from the tour operator with a change to the agenda and flights times, I was a little sceptical. But they were quick to notify me on WhatsApp with on-going communication. It started with day tour of Cappadocia with our amazing guide ‘Osman Imir’. His knowledge and courtesy for guests was exceptional. And the balloon ride morning experience was truly breathtaking. Oh, I mustn’t forget the hotel, the room and hospitality was glorious. Highly recommend this tour.

Tour guide and driver was...

Monica_C, Dec 2023

Tour guide and driver was excellent. Sleeping at the cave hotel was an experiene I never expected. Hands down a great experience!

Response from Host, Jan 2024

Dear Guest, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience!! The whole team puts a lot of work to make sure everything goes as smooth as possible :) They will love to know how much you enjoyed on our tour. Thank you so much for you recommendation! Kind Regards

Long day, but overall great experience

Fatima_K, Jul 2022

The Cave hotel was a unique experience. Enjoyed our stay there. The employees treated us like family. The balloon ride was amazing. I would just allow participants to have a break period to recover from the early 4 am balloon ride and tour.

Better instructions...

Phillip_A, May 2022

Better instructions needed when meeting the shuttle at Istanbul airport upon return from Cappadocia. Once we finally met the driver he didn’t speak English and could not understand we needed the heat in the shuttle turned off. We roasted all the way back to our hotel

The guide was awesome!...

Farheen_G, Feb 2022

The guide was awesome! Cella was his name and he was awesome and knowledgeable. But our ballon ride was cancel and when I booked the tour they should have mentioned that.

Response from Host, Mar 2022

Dear Farheen, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience!! The whole team puts a lot of work to make sure everything goes as smooth as possible. You had told "Awesome" for our tour guide and gave 3 stars because of the cancellation of the hot air balloon ride on your travel date. As you know, the tour companies can not control weather conditions. Also, civil aviation authority department of Turkish government decide about that, not private companies such as our company. This is about the safety measures and block the accident cases. We are EXACTLY inform this on the section of "Additional Info" on this tour page. There is a information paragraph like that : "Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip." We think, you did not read carefully while booking the tour. Your this unreal vote will affect the reservations of our tour, but no problem. Kind Regards

Cappadocia tour

Javier_N, Oct 2021

The tour was amazing . everything very well coordinated. The only thing I didn't like was that we stopped to some places that only wants to sell thing to us. That is a waste of time. The rest amazing.

Not everything planned is being met.

Anonymous, Sep 2025

We choose premium package 5 a.m. 1744€. Pick-up time wasn't 5, it was 3.30. We arrived at the hotel in capadoccia at 9, there was no room ready and we went around the town, little one. We were exhausted. The rest of the day there was not much to do but be in the hotel or hire some excursion. It was a rather lost day. Day 2. For the glove ride you are picked up at 5,20 and in the end we did not even see sunrise above. Between picking up people and when we got there the balloon wasn't swollen, they were late. After this breakfast at the hotel and pick up for the excursion at 9.15, then start after 10 a.m., pick up people again and wait for the rest. The tour of maximum 10 people turned out to be 14. The guide was nice and accessible. At the time of Lunch there were missing reserved menus, they arranged it at that time and 2 people, in this case we offered, had to sit apart from the group. As for what we visited and the explanations and attention of the great guide, we loved what we saw and found it very complete. My opinion: not to book the departure from Istanbul so early, it is not worth it and much time is wasted. Communication with the tour operator is smooth. Very expensive for what is offered and the reservation details are not met: from sunrise nothing and from maximum 10 people on the tour nothing.

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