How to Reach Istanbul

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Travel to Istanbul

The major Turkish city, Istanbul, is unique not only because of its literally age-old history, but also because of where it is situated. Istanbul location spreads evenly over two continents – Asia and Europe, with the Bosphorus Strait in between. The European side of Istanbul is much more popular as a tourist haunt than the Asian side. So, let’s find out how to reach Istanbul.

Istanbul has two airports. The main one is called Istanbul Ataturk Airport, which is located 24 km west of the city centre towards the Europe side. Ataturk has always been one of the busiest airports of Europe, being located at an important geographical junction. To relieve Ataturk from being overloaded with international traffic, Sabiha Gokcen Airport was opened in 2001 towards the southeast, in the Asian side. Flights to Istanbul from India mostly go to Ataturk airport, since the other one is less used for pleasure trips and more for business or diplomatic trips. From Ataturk airport, one can take Havatas – the airport shuttle service that leave every half an hour, or take the subway to Taksim Station where most of the hotels are changing cars at Otogar Station. The easiest but not so cheap option would be taking a cab. Depending on the time of the day and traffic, it should take you 30 minutes and cost you 50 TRY.

In case, you are flying from Asia, and want to know how to reach Istanbul from India, then, there is only one direct flight operating between India and Turkey, i.e. Turkish airlines that provides flights from Mumbai and Delhi. However, you can also board plane from other international airports like Etihad Airways, Oman Air and more, which have connecting flights to Istanbul.

The only company to have direct tickets from India to Istanbul is Turkish Airlines. There are two flights per day on every day of the week operated by Turkish airlines, one from Delhi and another from Mumbai. India to Istanbul flight duration for both the routes is 7 hours 5 minutes, which is the fastest one can travel between India and Turkey. If you do not live in Delhi or Mumbai, then there are connecting flights run by carriers like Emirates, Qatar Airways, Gulf Air and Etihad with reasonable flight duration. To get cheap flights to Istanbul from India, travel during the off seasons when there is lesser crowd. In case you are on a larger trip and are in any part of Western Europe, then there are more than one daily nonstop flight to Istanbul from cities like Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Munich, Lisbon and more.

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Vinaya's 6 days trip to Istanbul

My trip went without any hiccups, it was very well organized, and pickups were on time. I felt that the guides should have been more informative.

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Gneeshma's 8 days trip to Istanbul

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Thank you team for making our holiday memorable. Special thanks to Rohit and the whole Turkey team for fabulous service and support.

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Vishal's 7 days trip to Istanbul

It was a great trip, however with old people become a bit hectic Pamakule tour was 3hours one way from Antalya, the tour started actually at 2pm in the hot sun, which was really tiring

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Anil's 6 days trip to Istanbul

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Jvk's 7 days trip to Istanbul

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The planning for the trip was detailed. I never had an instance where I stuck. There were regular updates from the travel company on the day's itinerary. I am glad to have chosen them to plan my trip. Hot Air Balloon

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Sriramv's 9 days trip to Istanbul

Cheap Travellers organized the land package for my recent vacation to Turkey. I had booked my International and Domestic Flights on my own. Deepak and team provided an extremely smooth and seamless experience. The pick up and drop from and to Airports, the daily sight seeing tours went off without a glitch and credit goes to Deepak, his team and his partners in Turkey. Deepak also booked a hotel in Antalya at rates better than what I was getting at booking.com, so I went with that. For other cities my bookings were cheaper and Deepak was flexible and suggested me to go ahead with my own. Every day, the schedule was published on Whatsapp and almost every time, the day-tour operators or the taxi service people were at the hotel lobby precisely on time. The tour buses and the private cabs were also quite good, clean and comfortable. I had 2 smallish points of disappointment. 1) Deepak had clearly agreed that I would pay him for the land package in instalments - 1st advance, 2nd advance 3rd payment during trip and final payment after the trip. But he repeatedly brought up new reasons and made requests to pay him earlier than agreed. The requests were incessant, repetitive and honestly irritated me. 2) Secondly, what was promised in the itinerary was not delivered. For the Bosphorus cruise, the itinerary mentioned "Starters & Turkish appetizers, classic turkish desserts, belly dance, turkish gypsy dance, caucasian dance, folk dance show". But these items were missing. Entry to Hagia Sophia (25 euros) was not provided. That day, I spoke to Deepak and showed his own document, but he simply said, "No, its not included". I didnt even raise the issue of Bosphorus cruise, since it was only a matter of a few food and dance items. I had already paid in full by then. But both these were small points for me and not deal breakers. I would however only urge fellow travelers to get clarity upfront and avoid issues later. Will I recommend Cheap Travelers to other fellow travelers ? YES Absolutely!!!

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Reeba's 7 days trip to Istanbul

Excellent work by White rabbit/ Abhishek. Everything went on smoothly. All tours were well organised. Hotels were excellent and up to the mark

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Myspace's 9 days trip to Istanbul

Our trip to Turkey was very well organized and barring a few hiccups, everything went according to plan and we had an amazing experience. Let me elaborate on the great things first. Our cab pick ups were bang on time, I loved the punctuality of the drivers and the on time pick ups and drops made it so muc easier and convenient for us. The cabs were very comfortable especially the private transfers, we got a huge cab. Made us feel like royalty!

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The Marmaray Commuter Rail is the most commonly used transportation to travel across Bosphorus from Asia to Europe and vice-versa. There are cruisers and Catamaran ferries as well, if you want to travel above the water surface.

 

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