Skip the ticket lines at the Basilica Cistern, save valuable time and enjoy the tour with an official Basilica Cistern guide.
Get ready to discover Istanbul's mysterious underground treasure! With this special tour, you will journey into the depths of history by breathing in the fascinating atmosphere of the Basilica cistern, with the privilege of skipping the long queues.
- Duration: You can spend as long as you want in the Basilica Cistern.
- Language Option: Basilica Cistern Audio App is available for iOS and Android in English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
- Guide: Our host will meet you at the exit and take you to the museum.
Discover the Basilica Cistern under the streets of Istanbul on a guided tour. Be amazed by the stunning architecture of the cistern during the tour and gaze at the Medusa Heads. Skip-the-line and avoid the long queue, as you follow your guide through history.
Marvel at the engineering of the cistern while hearing the history with a downloadable audio guide. After your guided tour, stay and explore the building at your own pace.
After your museum tour you can stay inside as long as you want and discover the Basilica Cistern on your own pace and listen to the stories in the included audio guide app on your own smartphone.
- English speaking tour guide
- Skip-the-line entry
- Audio guide in 5 languages
- Hotel pick up and drop-off
- We skip the ticket lines but can not skip the security check.
With your guide, you will skip the ticket lines, but we can not skip the security line. During high season the security check can take up to 30 minutes.
Meet your guide in front of the exit gate of the Basilica Cistern and enter together. Skip the long lines and enjoy a highlights tour and learn interesting facts about the water cistern with an audio guide.
- Non-refundable
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Our tour guide Mehmet did great work. He was open, friendly and communicative. He had the knowledge and he answered all our questions with a pleasure. He talked with passion about the monuments. He even gave us some recommendations what to see in the city and where to eat. We are very pleased with the tour guide.
No queue, fast but detailed.
Mr M was really nice and the tour was amazing.We love it!
It's been a great experience! Haluk was really nice and made our tour super interesting and entertaining. Totally worth it.
We had a wonderful experience with our guide Arda at Basilica Cistern - very well organized for such a short tour. It was very interesting to follow the story from the beginning of the tour outside of cistern and then inside Basilica. Not overloading with dates and numbers, but making it interesting with the facts. Very knowledgeable guide, answering all the questions and making the tour fun and interactive. He also gave us very nice hints and tips on what to look at inside the cistern after the tour when we had time to walk around ourselves. Highly recommend!