3-Day Cappadocia Trip Including Hot Air Balloon Ride & Camel Ride

Istanbul, Turkey

3 days (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
Offered in: English

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Overview

Skip the hassle of arranging flights, accommodations, and activities with this 3-day small group Cappadocia tour from Istanbul. Explore the Göreme Open-Air Museum, Avanos pottery town, and fairy chimney valleys, and enjoy included hot air balloon and camel rides. With two nights at a cave boutique hotel, meals, hotel pickup, and round-trip flights, experience Cappadocia’s culture and landscapes without the stress.

Sunrise hot air balloon flight over Cappadocia's unique landscape
Two nights in a cave boutique hotel with breakfast included
Camel ride through Red and Rose Valleys
Small-group tour limited to 10 guests with hotel pickup included

What's Included

Two-nights stay with breakfast at cave boutique hotel
Round-trip flight tickets from Istanbul to Cappadocia and back
Hot Air Balloon Ride, Camel Ride
2 full-day tours by professional tour guides who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Entrance fees (Tour guide will have pre-paid tickets to skip lines at museums mentioned itinerary)
Hotel / Airport pick-up & drop-off services mentioned in itinerary
Transfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
Lunch (2)

Lunch
Breakfast (2)

Breakfast

Dinner & Drinks

Meeting and Pickup

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

Pickup points

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Pickup details

Pick-up and drop-off services for hotels and Airbnb addresses in Istanbul are included in the airport transfers for this trip.

Meeting points

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End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Operating hours
.4:00 am

Itinerary

Day 1

Flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia – Guided Day Trip - Overnight at Cappadocia

12 Stops

Istanbul

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Cappadocia

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Ürgüp

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

30 minutes • 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: Lunch

Day 2

Hot Air Balloon Ride (INCLUDED) – Guided Day Trip - Overnight at Cappadocia

7 Stops

Cappadocia Balloon Tours

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Keslik Monastery

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Sobesos Ancient City

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Uchisar

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Pigeon Valley

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Kaymakli Underground City

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Cappadocia

30 minutes • 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: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 3

Camel Ride (INCLUDED) - Flight Back to Istanbul

3 Stops

Cappadocia Camel Tour

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Cappadocia

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Istanbul

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: Breakfast

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Infants must sit on laps
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
Not wheelchair accessible
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(s).
The pre-planned hotels are "Hotel Arcadia Blue" and "Radisson Blu Hotel İstanbul Pera" in Istanbul - "1811 Cave Boutique Hotel" and "Zeydem Suites Boutique Hotel" in Cappadocia for your accommodation on this travel. If these hotels are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel.
The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm, and you can not start use your room before this time. This is about the check-in & check-out policies of the hotels.

Local tour operator will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at six 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.
Local tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details which requested by the local tour operator, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
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 local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg. This is exactly about the policies of airline companies.
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 "included balloon ride" and "excluded balloon ride" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
The Standard Balloon 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.
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, local tour operator can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.
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.

Reviews

3.3

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Three day Cappadocia tour review- overall disappointing

Jocelyn_J, Dec 2025

Overall disappointing trip. Wouldn't advise in winter as two main activities ballooning and camel riding were cancelled. Yes partial refund provided. Very Good: cave hotel, breakfasts and lunches provided. Undercity experience excellent with good guiding. Good: Fairy rocks and other sights are amazing. However no signage at sights to share history and little provided by guide despite asking. Searched on Google at night. Poor: Inadequate time at sites. Four shopping times which put great pressure on the time and on spending money, despite saying you didn't need to buy. Included leather, carpets, ceramics and jewelery. This needs to be drastically reduced on a two day tour period. Left in shuttle at Kaseri for 30 minutes plus feeling cold with no explanation of what was happening. Ballooning cancelled which appeared very common in this winter period, and this costs you. Camels the only activity on day three and also cancelled leaving all day sitting in a hotel reception. So waste of a day. We did however walk to town. Tried to message with Manager of the tour but he didn't want to listen to concerns. Completed another ten day tour in Turkey, two years ago when service was excellent. This one wasn't. Suggest you look at other options.

3 day Cappadocia tour.

Catriona_R, Sep 2025

Most of this trip was great, packed full days of history and fun. The lunch of the 1st day was absolutely horrible, however the lunch on the 2nd day was great! The fairy chimneys are amazing to see and experience as well as historicalsites and many churches. The carpet show, pottery store and leather fashion shows are experiences that could be removed from this tour, they just take you there to try to convince you to buy stuff. More time at the fairy chimneys would be worthwhile.