| ISTANBUL- PARIS (Eiffel Tower-Seine River-Notre Dame Cathedral-Artists' Hill-Sacre Cour)
Meeting at Istanbul Airport International Terminal. After ticket, passport, and baggage procedures, departure for Paris with Turkish Airlines scheduled flight. Upon arrival, we leave the airport and set out to discover the wonders of Paris. Our first stop is the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of the city and of France. After going up to the second floor by elevator of the 330-meter-high tower built for the 1889 World Fair, we enjoy the magnificent view of Paris. After visiting the Eiffel Tower, we go on a Seine River boat tour. You will see Paris’s most magnificent buildings up close and experience unforgettable moments passing under the bridges of the Seine River. Then we visit Notre Dame Cathedral, a marvel of Gothic architecture. With a history of more than 850 years, the cathedral has also been the subject of many stories. After our guide explains the interior and exterior of the cathedral, where the coronation ceremonies of many French kings, including Napoleon, were once held, our next stop will be Montmartre, the only hill in Paris (Artists' Hill). In this neighborhood, where bohemian life still continues, you can have your portrait drawn by street artists. We will also have the opportunity to see the Sacre Cour Basilica, located in the same area and visible from almost every part of Paris. Dinner and accommodation after the tour.
Depending on the time, the Paris Mosque will be visited for the noon/afternoon prayer.
PARIS
After breakfast at our hotel, the rest of the day is free. Guests who wish can take the Louvre and Outlet tour (70 Euro; museum entrance ticket, local guide service, and transportation included), and guests who wish can take the Disneyland tour (150 Euro; 2 park admission tickets and transportation service). Dinner and accommodation after the tour.
PARIS – LUXEMBOURG – BRUSSELS
After breakfast at our hotel, we depart for Luxembourg. Places we will see include Petrus Valley, the Cathedral famous for its stained glass, and the Duke's Palace, which was originally the Town Hall and later converted into a palace. Then we head to Brussels. On our panoramic city tour of Brussels, the Palace of Justice, Brussels Cathedral, Grand Place Square, the Manneken Pis Statue, and the Atomium monument are among the places we will see. After the tour, dinner and accommodation.
BRUSSELS – BRUGGE – GENT
After breakfast at our hotel, we depart for the city of Brugge. On our panoramic city tour, where we get to know Brugge, one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe, the places to see include: Market Square surrounded by Guild Buildings, the Belfry Tower, one of the city's symbols, Our Ladies Church, one of Belgium's most important churches, and the historic Burg Square, known as the city's administrative and religious center, the Town Hall, and the Basilica of the Holy Blood. Then we proceed with our city tour of Gent, the fairy-tale land where the Schelde and Lys rivers meet; a city adorned with canals, featuring medieval structures, striking buildings with Neo-Gothic and Baroque architecture, as well as natural beauty. St. Bavo Cathedral, St. Michael's Bridge, Korenmarkt, and Graslei are among the places to see. After the tour, dinner and accommodation.
GENT– ZAANSE SCHANS – AMSTERDAM
After breakfast at the hotel, we depart for Amsterdam. Our first stop will be Zaanse Schans, a magical town with windmills. Then, on the Amsterdam city tour: Fatih Mosque (built as a neo-Renaissance-style Catholic Church; serving Muslims since 1981), Waterloplein, Flower Market, Rokin Street, Dam Square, Royal Palace, Damrak Street, and Central Station will be seen, followed by dinner and accommodation.
AMSTERDAM – VOLENDAM – MARKEN – GİETHOORN
After breakfast at the hotel, we will visit Volendam, an unusual fishing town. You will never get enough of the time you spend in the harbor area of Volendam, an old fishing town that inspired the song "Those who want to see the real beauty of Holland should go to Volendam." We are giving free time for shopping in this fishing town filled with charming houses and many inexpensive souvenir shops. After Volendam, we head to Marken Island. During the walk we will take on this island, where 1200 people live today, we will have the opportunity to photograph the typical dark green, black wooden 18th-century fishing houses. Then we move on to Giethoorn, known as the Venice of Holland. While touring Giethoorn, which resembles a postcard with its canals, resembles a film set adapted from fairy tales, and feels like a village made by Hobbits, you will feel in a very unusual atmosphere. After the delightful and experience-filled boat tour we will take, we return to Amsterdam. Dinner and accommodation.
AMSTERDAM-KÖLN-ISTANBUL
After breakfast at the hotel, we depart for Cologne. Upon arrival, we begin the city tour. Places to see on our city tour include the Cologne Triangle, which attracts attention with its architectural design, the historic Hohenzollern Bridge, the historic Cologne Cathedral, which took 632 years to complete and is on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the Rhine River, which gives the city a different silhouette, the Columba Museum, the Old Town Hall, and the Ditip Central Mosque, one of the examples of Ottoman architecture, for which great effort was spent in its construction. At the end of the tour, we gather at the time determined by our guide and head to the airport. Return to Istanbul and end of our tour.
‣ THY air ticket with Istanbul – Paris, Cologne – Istanbul Economy Class
‣ Sightseeing and visits specified in the program
‣ Airport استقبال and arrival & departure transfers
‣ 6 nights accommodation with breakfast in 4* hotels (continental breakfast)
‣ Dinner to be taken at hotels or restaurants (6 items)
‣ Luxury coach and professional driver service to be used throughout the tour
‣ Professional Turkish-language guiding service
‣ Local guide service
‣ Checkpoint fees in the cities
‣ City accommodation taxes in the cities
‣ Eiffel Tower entrance fee
‣ Paris Seine River Boat Tour
‣ Montmarte hill Funicular fee
‣ Giethoorn Boat Tour
‣ Personal expenses
‣ Lunches
‣ Hotel extras
‣ International departure tax
‣ Visa fee
‣ Travel health insurance
‣ Beverages to be taken during meals and breaks
‣ All expenses not specified as Included in the price
‣ Guide and captain tips
1 – The hotels in the tour program are an estimated hotel list. Depending on availability in the region, you may stay in other hotels of the same standard. You can learn the exact hotel information from our agency 48 hours before the tour.
2 – Hotels or restaurants used on tours may also serve alcohol. Depending on the suitability of regional conditions, our company makes every effort to use non-alcoholic venues wherever possible. However, especially under European conditions, hotels and restaurants serve alcohol.
3 – Triple rooms are provided subject to hotel availability. In triple rooms, an extra bed is used, and the 3rd bed may be a smaller foldable bed than a standard bed. Guests who wish to stay in a triple room are deemed to have accepted this in advance.
4 – Child discounts are valid only for children staying with 2 adults.
5 – For guests joining visa-required tours, we recommend that you read our cancellation/refund conditions and register for a tour for which your visa will be ready in time. For European tours, we recommend registering 2 months in advance and completing your visa procedures 1 month before the tour. In case of any issue arising from the visa, our company’s cancellation/refund conditions apply.
6 – Our company bears no responsibility for visas obtained through our company. We only provide advisory services regarding document collection, organization, and delivery. If your visa is not issued, there is no refund of the fee paid for the visa. For the refund of the fee paid for the tour, the cancellation/refund conditions apply.
7 – Do not forget to bring slippers and a prayer rug on every tour. Depending on the conditions of the region you travel to, we may not always have access to a mosque or prayer room. Our guide will direct you to a place where you can pray.
8 – Our guide has the right, with the approval of our agency, to make changes to the program and to cancel some places in the sightseeing points depending on weather conditions and/or force majeure. All guests participating in our tour are deemed to have accepted this.
9 – In cases such as the consumer or the agency canceling the tour, etc.; refunds are made in the currency paid by the guest and in the same manner as paid. (If paid by credit card in TRY, refund to the card in TRY. If paid in foreign currency, refund in foreign currency.)
10 – In airline companies, there is a consecutive flight rule due to protocol agreement. If the consumer misses any flight segment, all remaining flight segments are canceled. No cancellation/refund or change can be made under any circumstances.
11 – We kindly request that our guests do not purchase domestic flights individually due to possible flight schedule changes or delays in connecting flights that may occur on our tours. The connecting domestic flight arranged by our company also covers the next international flight. In case of a delay in the domestic flight, etc., a free ticket is issued for the next international flight.
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GENERAL CONDITIONS |
The general conditions are an inseparable part of the ‘Tour Brochure’ and the ‘Tour Registration Agreement’, and cannot be considered independently.
‣Our Tour Program is organized with a certain participation requirement. If sufficient participation is not achieved for the trip, the final cancellation notification date is 20 days before the tour departure. The canceled tour due to insufficient participation will be notified to you through the operations department.
‣In cases where only category information is given in the tour program without specifying a name and/or options are available for the same destination, the hotel(s) will be announced by our agency 48 hours before departure.
‣Tours may be combined with tours of other agencies. In such cases, our Agency is responsible for the guests.
‣This price list and program are valid until a new price list is issued.
‣Our prices in all package programs are limited by quotas for a minimum of 10 people, and for groups exceeding this number, a price increase may apply. Please ask for pricing information.
‣If the passport issue date on regular passports is more than 10 years old, and on other passport types more than 5 years old, the person traveling cannot go abroad even if they have a valid visa, and visa processing cannot be done in the passport. Please check your passport information and details.
‣When departing from Turkish customs, passport control requires a minimum validity of 6 months from the travel date for all passport types, whether for Turkish citizens or foreign nationals, even if they have a valid visa in the passport, (Ordinary, Special, Service, Diplomatic). For this reason, our agency does not approve passports with less than 6 months validity. Our Agency has no compensation liability towards the passenger because holders of passports with less than 6 months validity cannot join the tour.
‣Our agency acts as an intermediary between the consumers participating in the trip and all kinds of third parties and legal entities providing services related to ships, hotels, carriers, and the trip. Therefore, the parties know that consumers who register for the trip by applying to the Agency are not under the responsibility of the Agency, contrary to the agreements made between the Agency and the institutions undertaking transportation; in the event of not being present in the indicated vehicle programs, times, or places; all kinds of delays of land, air, and sea vehicles; strikes, terrorism, war and the possibility of war, these or similar force majeure reasons; any disruptions caused by the fault of the user of the transportation vehicle or the personal faults of third parties or unforeseeable technical issues; accidents causing material and moral damage; incomplete accommodation or faulty service of facilities; and since the Agency is not the operator, it has no existing liability and is not directly responsible as the principal offender.
‣For all foreign departures with customs, it is necessary to be at the relevant port 3 hours before the tour departure time on the departure day. In particular, guests coming from other cities to the port or airport by domestic flight must arrange their flight times according to the time they need to be at the port. For this reason, the responsibility for being late and/or being unable to join the tour lies with the passenger, and our Agency has no compensation liability towards the passenger. If the relevant airline has an online check-in site, it is recommended that check-in procedures be completed personally 24 hours before the tour departure.
‣Our agency is an intermediary between the airline and our passengers and is subject to the Hague Protocol dated 28.09.1955. Flight times may change before departure. All flight times must be confirmed by the passenger 48 hours before the tour departure time. Our passengers have purchased the tour knowing and accepting that flight details may change.
‣Breakfasts taken at the hotel among the services included in the tour program are offered in accordance with the breakfast culture of the country where you are staying and generally with a limited menu called Continental breakfast, consisting of butter, jam, bread, tea or coffee, and may be served in a separate hall allocated to the group for groups.
‣Triple rooms may be provided depending on hotel availability, and the bed assigned to the 3rd person in such rooms is smaller than standard beds. Triple rooms consist of 1 large bed + 1 extra bed. Since the extra beds are foldable and so-called couch beds, tour participants are deemed to declare that they accept the possible congestion in the rooms and the bed type in 3rd person and/or child reservations. Child discounts are valid for a single child -in the applicable age group- staying with 2 adults.
‣Due to the limited number of TWIN (2 separate beds) rooms in hotels, please check your TWIN room request before booking.
‣When children under 18 who are not considered adults do not participate in the tour with one or both of their mother and father, the consent forms required for participation in the tour must be carried with them during the trip.
‣Panoramic city tours are 2-3 hour tours organized for the introduction of cities and may be organized on different days provided that their content does not change. They do not include museum or archaeological site entrance fees. Extra tours are carried out with the number of people determined by the tour leader, and their days may be changed by the tour leader according to the flow of the program. Depending on weather conditions, tours may not take place. Excursions or tours that are not permitted by local authorities for any reason are not carried out. Our Agency cannot be held responsible for the inability to carry out such excursions or tours.
‣People participating in the tour must bring their health issues, pregnancy status, medications they use regularly, and reports related to these medications with them.
‣On extra tours to be made along the route, guests who will not participate in the tour will be directed by the tour leader to rest areas where they can benefit from public transportation vehicles located on the route before entering the city.
‣Tour – Area – Tour Leader - Hotel information will be sent by the operations department via email 48 hours before the tour departure.
‣A passport is an official document, and if it is damaged or dirty in any way, especially if there are tears in the seams or pages, passport control has the authority to refuse you entry into the country. In such a case, the responsibility lies with the passenger.
‣For a visa application, a passport valid for at least 6 months from the end date of the tour and the documents required by the consulate are necessary. A Schengen visa is required for this program. There is no visa application for a green passport. Having obtained a visa does not mean that entry into the country is guaranteed. Passport control has the authority to refuse entry to the passenger. In such a case, responsibility lies with the passenger.
Meeting at Istanbul Airport International Terminal. After ticket, passport, and baggage procedures, departure to Paris on a scheduled Turkish Airlines flight. Upon arrival, we leave the airport and set out to explore the wonders of Paris. Our first stop is the Eiffel Tower, almost the symbol of the city and of France. After taking the elevator to the second floor of the 330-meter-high tower, built for the 1889 World Fair, we enjoy the magnificent view of Paris. After visiting the Eiffel Tower, we take a boat trip on the Seine River. You will see Paris’s most magnificent buildings up close and experience unforgettable moments passing under the bridges of the Seine River. Then we visit Notre Dame Cathedral, a marvel of Gothic architecture. With a history of more than 850 years, the cathedral has also been the subject of many stories. After our guide explains both the interior and exterior of the cathedral, where the coronation ceremonies of many French kings, including Napoleon, were once held, our next stop will be Montmartre, the only hill in Paris (Painters’ Hill). In the neighborhood where bohemian life still continues, you can have your portrait drawn by street artists. We will also have the opportunity to see the SacreCour Basilica, located in the same area and visible from almost everywhere in Paris. Dinner and accommodation after our tour.
Depending on the time, the Paris Mosque will be visited for the noon/afternoon prayer.
After breakfast at our hotel, we will have a full day of free time. Guests who wish can take the Louvre and Outlet tour (70 Euro; museum entrance ticket, local guiding and transportation included), and guests who wish can take the Disneyland tour (150 Euro; 2 park entrance tickets and transportation). Dinner and accommodation after the tour.
After breakfast at our hotel, we will depart for Luxembourg. Among the places we will see are the Petrus Valley, the Cathedral famous for its stained glass, and the Duke’s Palace, which was originally the Town Hall and later converted into a palace. Then we will head to Brussels. On our panoramic city tour of Brussels, the places we will see include the Palace of Justice, Brussels Cathedral, Grand Place Square, the Manneken Pis Statue, and the Atomium monument. After our tour, dinner and accommodation.
After breakfast at our hotel, we depart for Bruges. On the panoramic city tour where we will get to know Bruges, one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval cities, the sights to be seen include: Markt Square surrounded by Guild Houses, the Belfry Tower, one of the city’s symbols, Our Ladies Church, one of Belgium’s most important churches, and the historic Burg Square, known as the city’s administrative and religious center, the City Hall, and the Basilica of the Holy Blood. Afterwards, we continue with our city tour of Ghent, the fairy-tale land, where the Schelde River and the Lys River meet; adorned with canals, natural beauty, and striking buildings with medieval, Neo-Gothic, and Baroque architecture, as well as historic structures dating back to the Middle Ages; with enchanting atmospheres. St. Bavo Cathedral, Saint Michael’s Bridge, Korenmarkt, and Graslei are among the sights to be seen. After our tour, dinner and accommodation.
After breakfast at the hotel, we head to Amsterdam. Our first stop will be Zaanse Schans, a charming town with windmills. Then, on the Amsterdam city tour: after seeing the Fatih Mosque (built as a neo-Renaissance-style Catholic church and serving Muslims since 1981), Waterlooplein, the Flower Market, Rokin Street, Dam Square, the Royal Palace, Damrak Street, and Central Station, we have dinner and overnight stay.
After breakfast at the hotel, we will visit the unusual fishing village of Volendam. You will never get enough of the time you spend in the harbor area of Volendam, an old fishing village that inspired the song “Anyone who wants to see the real beauty of the Netherlands should go to Volendam.” We give free time for shopping in this fishing village full of charming houses and many inexpensive souvenir shops. After Volendam, we head to the island of Marken. During our walk on this island, where 1,200 people live today, we will have the opportunity to photograph typical dark green and black wooden 18th-century fishing houses. Then we continue to Giethoorn, known as the Venice of the Netherlands. With its canals, this village, which resembles a postcard and a film set adapted from fairy tales and seems to have been created by hobbits, will make you feel in a very unusual atmosphere as we tour Giethoorn. After a delightful and experience-filled boat tour, we return to Amsterdam. Dinner and accommodation.
After breakfast at the hotel, we will depart for Cologne. Upon our arrival, we begin our city tour. Among the places to be seen on our city tour are the Cologne Triangle, which stands out with its architectural design, the Historic Hohenzollern Bridge, the historic Cologne Cathedral, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and completed after 632 years, the Rhine River, which gives the city a different silhouette, the Kolumba Museum, the Old Town Hall, and the Ditip Central Mosque, one of the examples of Ottoman architecture, whose construction involved intense effort. At the end of our tour, we will gather at the time determined by our guide and depart for the airport. Return to Istanbul and the end of our tour.