This tour was SO MUCH BETTER than we expected! This company way undersold both the experience and their expertise in showing and explaining it! The experience: Ephesus is incredible: not the paltry few ruins we expected from too many sites, but an incredible array of streets, shops, amphitheaters, brothels, and the third largest library in the ancient world! Mary's house was sweet and moving, and lunch was superb. Their expertise: Taz and Berke are certified tour guides by the Turkish Ministry of Tourism, each with over 10 years experience and holding special passports that allow them to travel visa-free throughout the world as a type of "Turkish Ambassador" for tourism! Besides their university training, both helped excavate parts of Ephesus for multiple years with teams of archeologist, so this was actually a tour with a trained and experienced archeologist for this site!! The resources they gave us were also much appreciated and will be used in the future with other tours. Thanks, Taz. If we could give you more than 5-stars we would!

We enjoyed our day in Kusadasi with Alex. We saw everything in Ephesus. We were never rushed and he explained everything thoroughly. It was a lovely time.

We had such a great time with Mediha. We saw and learnt so much and did not feel rushed throughout the day, especially helpful with an eleven month old baby. Highly recommended

Our guide, Inan, was amazing. His knowledge was so insightful. This was great tour that I highly recommend. Don’t miss out on this one.

Wonderful tour to Ephesus and Virgin Mary House! I am surprised that this tour operator have only small number of reviews. I was hesitant also in the beginning to book because of that. But I have to say that I am glad that I took a chance! Of all the other tours I checked out before deciding to book this one, this tour was the most inclusive. So the admission and lunch is included. Not included are the drinks and tips. I asked to add Terrace Houses to the tour too, so we had to just pay the guide extra for those admission tickets after the tour. If you are interested to do that, I will recommend telling them ahead of time so that they can get the tickets for you so there is not time wasted waiting in line. We got pick up from our Izmir hotel at 9am. Since it was a private tour, we didn't need to make additional stops to pick up other guests. The drive there was around 1 hour, along the way our guide, Taz, gave us an overall history of all of Türkiye since he is licensed to be tour guide for all the regions. We were all impressed by his knowledge of his country and his educational background. It really made the whole experience so much better since the sites we visited were of so full of history. There was so much to absorb during this tour but we didn't feel rush at all during the whole time. Taz made the whole tour effortless down to taking us to best spots to stand to take pictures and to avoid the crowd. I won't go into details about the actual sites, it is best that I leave it to Taz. So definitely try to get him as your tour guide. After visiting the sites, we still have a little time to do some shopping at the museum store before heading to lunch. It was just 10 minutes at a local restaurant , Agora. It was delicious!

My husband booked this tour as part of an excursion for one of our cruise port stops. We didnt know what to expect. However, it turned out to be the highlight of our 10 day cruise trip. Our tour guide was Yesim and she was the best tour guide we had during our whole 17 day trip. She was very knowledgeable and engaging. I would definitely recommend a private tour vs. group tours. She had the expertise and knowledge to maneuver us around the crowds into perfect spots with great views. The local lunch was delightful. Don't pass this one up!

Great tour. Fantastic guide. He was very knowledgeable, professional and personable. Our guide gave us great historical information. He answered all our questions. The tour was very interesting. Highly recommend this tour. Especially a private tour. Thank you

Excellent work knowledge great tour we also enjoy the restaurant,great driver very helpful we will recommend for other

Fantastic day. Serhat (Dynamite!!!) was SO informative, and really tailored the tour to our specific interests. The walk around Ephesus was unbelievably fascinating. I bought some books, and went to the library when I got home to learn more. Our lunch was perfect, I even learned to love the local, friendly but polite- cats!!! (And I can’t stand cats!!!!) I really enjoyed getting hands on at The Rug Centre - inspiring!!!! House of Mary moved me to tears. Serhat and our driver worked hard to keep us ahead of the crowd- no waiting around. Awesome day!

This was a wonderful day with Gonca our tour guide. We started with a visit to the Virgin Mary’s home followed by several hours at Ephesus where Gonca patiently answered all of our questions and made sure we didn’t miss any of the important sites at this massive ruin. This was followed by a tremendous lunch at an outdoor cafe. I can’t say enough good things about Gonca. She was knowledgeable and made sure we enjoyed our time together.

Ceren /zjeh-rone'/ was an excellent tour guide. She was very personable, allowed us to be flexible with our time, considered the sequence of things we would be interested in and the accumulation of crowds at the various locations, etc. we really appreciated her friendly demeanor as well as the knowledge of the sites we saw.

This was an amazing experience. Our tour guide was great and gave us a ton of history about the locations we visited. We would definitely do it again and highly recommend it!

The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable. Had a nice sense of humor. Ephesus was amazing and we learned a lot of historical and biblical information.

Great tour. Enjoyed the ruins. Lunch was also very good. Inan was a great guide. Would have lived more time in the ruins and less at the shops.

5 out of 5 Serhat was knowledgeable, funny, made the history fun. Delicious lunch too! Rug Education Centre was also brilliant! Modern, clean and comfortable vehicle with water which was replenished at every turn.