Hop-on Hop-off Istanbul Bus Tours

Virginia

May 2025Verified booking

4/5

There is no separate line for skip the line until you get past the first Q so you simply walk to the front of the line where rep checks your bar code and directs you to a separate line. Inside was beautiful but I wish they would reduce the number of people at any given time to make it more peaceful and intimate.

Melissa

May 2025Verified booking

5/5

The cistern is truly beautiful. The price of the ticket was very fair, and the skip the line feature was extremely helpful. Thank you!

Vanessa

May 2025Verified booking

5/5

The whole experience was WOW! The skip the line ticket was totally worth it. And the Basilica is so beautiful, different from everything I've seen. I loved it!

Iliescu

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

It was really easy to book the tickets. The app is very friendly and helpfull. We stay in line on the online row for about 10 minutes. The Basilica was very impressive , overall a great experience. You are doing so well so we decided to make a second reservation through the app.

Christine

Apr 2025Verified booking

5/5

Easy online booking. The queue cutter worked really well, saving us at least 30 minutes waiting time (in mid-season)! A lot of people inside, but the visit and site were sublime 🤩

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José

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

The place is impressive (perhaps the most beautiful cistern in the world), but access is a bit slow. In the end, carrying a pre-paid ticket hardly saves you any time.

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Ferencz

Jun 2025Verified booking

4/5

It is something uniqie, worth to see

Craig

Jun 2025Verified booking

5/5

Spectacular, nice lighting, and with pre purchased tickets, no line. Not too crowded and nice and cool.

Rosmund

Jun 2025Verified booking

5/5

Simply amazing. It was one of our higlights in our first Turkey experience.

Valdas

May 2025Verified booking

5/5

I recomend! The wiev suprised me.

marina

May 2025Verified booking

5/5

the entrance was fast with no queues very good. a

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Agnieszka

May 2025Verified booking

5/5

Amazing place, worth its price

Alexandra

Apr 2025Verified booking

5/5

Simple and easy to use as long as you have good internet connection. Would definitely use again.

Tünde-Gizella

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

It was nice and easy to get inside with skip-the -line ticket.

Ophélie

Apr 2025Verified booking

5/5

The atmosphere of this place is magical, it's a place I'll remember for a long time.

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ALEKSANDRA

Mar 2025Verified booking

5/5

Incredible place. I wish i could be there alone.

Louise

Jun 2025Verified booking

4/5

Skip the queue was still busy and guess what you still had to queue but it moved quite quickly. We did visit on Saturday so it's what we excepted.

Paul

Jun 2025Verified booking

4/5

Overpriced for what it is. Interesting experience and amazing that they were developed. Very easy walk as there are metal grills underfoot everywhere.

Mattia

Jun 2025Verified booking

3/5

I had no problems in particular, the online booking and admission went very well and everything is handled very well, the attraction is exactly what it is supposed to be and is apparently maintained well. Nothing to recriminate. THE PRICE IS MEANINGLESS! I am not even going to mention the amount of places that exist in the world that cost less than half as much and have a cultural heritage to offer incomparable with tanks you had lost memory of for centuries. If the price were fair, no one would feel mocked by losing confidence in the whole country.

Quirino

Jun 2025Verified booking

3/5

The audio guide was included in the price at the ticket office but via app was not received and the ticket office staff blamed the app

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Alejandro

Jun 2025Verified booking

4/5

The tour is very good. But the traffic is horrible and sometimes the narration of the sites goes ahead of the route. You have to "reset" the narration and follow the route.

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Graeme

May 2025Verified booking

3/5

The cistern itself was an amazing piece if engineering considering its age. I had been there the previous day without a booked ticket and decided the queue was too long and I would not be able to enter in time. I had booked the ticket and went early the next morning andf went straight in, although the queue to pay was not very long.

HERVE

May 2025Verified booking

3/5

Hello, I bought 3 tickets via Headout. For 2 of them (Cistern Basilica and St Sophia Basilica), no problems. The tickets worked properly and we didn't waste any time at the entrance. For the ticket to the Palis de Topkapi, we lost 1 hour because of the voucher to be redeemed and because of the wait for the group. Between 9 and 10 a.m., there was no wait at the ticket offices to buy the ticket, nor at the entrance to the Palace. We would have been better off not buying a "coupe-file" ticket. Sincerely, H .Gay

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Raina

May 2025Verified booking

4/5

Loved visiting here and was worth it, however it was a bit confusing to know which was skip the line queue since there were no signs of "online booking only". It would be great if it was clear because we waited in the first line until we found out there was a different queue for those who booked online (which was longer btw)

Jörg

May 2025Verified booking

5/5

The scale of this underground cisterns is unbelievable. Awsome. An absolutely "must see". We were there on a Tuesday in mid May around noon. The queues were ok. The online tickets worked fine for us. I had read about rare cases with other attractions where there were problems with the QR codes on tickets from this reseller. In our case it worked fine.

Hilda

Apr 2025Verified booking

5/5

We bought skip the line tickets the night before for €33.50 each. The next day, Sunday, we went along at 2pm and didn't have to queue at all. Hagia Sophia is spectacular, well worth seeing. We are not Muslim so could only see from first floor balcony which wraps all the way around but you still get a good view of it

Joshua

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

I finally got to visit the great Hagia Sophia. While getting to explore the upper level was a blessing, I don't understand why the lower level is off limits. Even the Blue Mosque is open to non-Muslims. If I had gotten to explore the lower level, my visit would have been perfect. This is not Headout's fault, but something that is on my mind.

Véronique

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

Thanks to the queue-cutting ticket, we were able to enter Saint Sophia easily. We visited the second floor, as the ground floor is a place of prayer. It's a place where Catholic and Muslim cultures meet. What to see

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Inge

Mar 2025Verified booking

5/5

This is the third time I've visited the Hagia Sophia, the first time as a mosque. It's a shame that you can't see the dome from the center, i.e. from the first floor. But the visit is definitely worth it. Booking tickets in advance was an advantage, even if the crowds weren't that big in the morning.

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Marta

Mar 2025Verified booking

5/5

We loved Hagia Sophia, it is beautiful in its aesthetics, its architecture and its history. But we had to wait in line anyway, about 25 minutes to get in.

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Marco

Jun 2025Verified booking

5/5

Beautiful experience. A magical place

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Paula

Apr 2025Verified booking

5/5

Awesome monument and great to already have a ticket ready.

Illouz-neuvillers

Apr 2025Verified booking

5/5

A sublime place. Adults and children were in awe

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Jose

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

Avoidance of queues, although the price is excessive.

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Naveed

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

The art and the ease of buying the ticket

Julia

Jun 2025Verified booking

5/5

I'm so glad I visited the Hagia Sophia – it's such a stunning and awe-inspiring site. The interior is incredibly intricate, and it's truly something you shouldn't miss. We were lucky to get in easily and avoid the crowds thanks to our pass. I’d recommend going in the afternoon when its quieter.

Ingeborg

Jun 2025Verified booking

4/5

It was good not to have to stand in line. It was just a shame that I couldn't visit the mosque because of the prayer time.

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Alejandro

Jun 2025Verified booking

4/5

The tour is very good. But the traffic is horrible and sometimes the narration of the sites goes ahead of the route. You have to "reset" the narration and follow the route.

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THEANOULA

May 2025Verified booking

3/5

I loved seeing St Sophia, but there were so many guards that I felt insecure because my every move was being watched.

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Patricia

May 2025Verified booking

5/5

It's easy to book, so there's no need to queue, and the price is very reasonable. As for the visit to St. Sophia, it's of course exceptional, even if we regret not being able to go to the first floor!

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Vincent

May 2025Verified booking

3/5

Security wait too long. No access to ground floor. Carpeted floor hides original stonework. It's a real shame the building is less beautiful than before and not worth the price charged.

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Virginie

May 2025Verified booking

3/5

Too many queues outside the museum, with queue-cutting tickets, no regularization of visitor flows No access to the ground floor since the museum became a mosque Very disappointing for the exorbitant price. Other camitales

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Natasa

May 2025Verified booking

3/5

Jamia is a mix of Christianity and Islam. The ticket price is high for a 45-minute visit. The queues are too big for a ticket, on 2.may it was expected to be from two sets of tickets per ticket without a queue.

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Maria

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

It is nice, a touristic place to know about how 2 different cultures were combined. Having the skip the line was great to avoid the purchase tickets lane and then the line to go inside. They have a free audio guide in Hagia Sophia, with free internet so don't buy any additional service for it, just make sure you bring your earphones.

Marcel

Apr 2025Verified booking

3/5

There was no mention of a fast-track ticket. You just save yourself the trouble of buying a ticket on site. You still have to join the queue. A waiting time of around 30 minutes is not fast-track entry after all. Consolation: it's worth it though. The Hagia Sophia is well worth a visit.

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antonietta

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

Visit Ok....Even after Hagia Sophia closed due to earthquake, we were allowed entry the day after the booked date

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Robert

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

Buying tickets in advance meant I didn't have to queue on the spot (but early in the morning the queue is moderate...) Negative point: the timetables provided by Headout are both contradictory and inutally worrying: in fact you can turn up at any time at the entrance with the QR code and... that's it (there's no guide provided anyway -- except your smartphone as long as it can access the network).

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Elena

Apr 2025Verified booking

3/5

I was very disappointed. It is not a museum anymore, it is just a mosque now. Hagia Sophia was wonderful museum before, a unique combination of historical and cultural heritage. Now it is just a money machine for foolish foreigners, you can not see anything because the usual visitors paying to see nothing. Before I used to love going back. I will wait to turn to museum again before visit it again.

MICHAEL

Apr 2025Verified booking

3/5

My visit to Hagia Sophia was good... but Headout should rename this offer. You DO skip a line (a relateively short one at the ticket office), but you WILL stand in the much loonger line (that wraps around the block) to actually get in. All that said, the onloine ticket worked fine.

Anca

Apr 2025Verified booking

5/5

Mosque is impressing! But we should.have known from the beginning that we needed to wait for a group until able to enter.

Rui

Apr 2025Verified booking

3/5

We enjoyed the 5 visits and the cruise, all works well. The delivery of the Istambul Kart made us lose a lot of time, because in the first day we gone to the Topkapi kiosk exclusively to receive our Istambul Kart as wright in the papers we received. They told us that now the point of delivery changed and we must go to the Dsign Café near Blue Mosque. Since we are going to Grand Bazar on foot it was not convenient to go there. In the afternoon we gone there exclusively to receive the card but no one from Megapasss was there. In next day we visited Topkapi Palace and at the kiosk they told us to go there after the visiting. At last we could have our Istambul Kart. This change was very inconvenient and Megappas should have told us about that alteration when we bought the Megapass.

Letizia

May 2025Verified booking

4/5

Useful skip-the-line admissions..nice guided tour of the Blue Mosque even if only in English..

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Markus

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

We had a great view over Istanbul. The small informative descent in the tower is also great. Unfortunately, there are no toilets on site

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Alejandro

Jun 2025Verified booking

4/5

The tour is very good. But the traffic is horrible and sometimes the narration of the sites goes ahead of the route. You have to "reset" the narration and follow the route.

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Marianne

May 2025Verified booking

4/5

The view was amazing. I'm glad we arrived very early. Unfortunately the workers looked bored the whole time. They did not smile.

DAVIDEANU

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

The experience was great, a little too expensive. Interesting story, nice view of the old city, I think it worth the money. The instructions were somehaw confusing , was cleared up by the online assisent .

Timothy

May 2025Verified booking

4/5

Very easy - the personnel were very helpful and it was a great way to view Istanbul.

Miss

Apr 2025Verified booking

4/5

Excellent tour showing the city and very informative audio guide.

Victoria

Apr 2025Verified booking

3/5

Pretty good view of part of the city. Not worth the money paid