Karaefe Tours · TÜRSAB 17017
Explore Ephesus on a private tour planned around your cruise schedule. Depart from Kuşadası or İzmir Cruise Port with a licensed local guide and a private vehicle reserved for your party.
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Private Ephesus days from both cruise ports, a cultural shore excursion and multi-day journeys — all for your booking party alone.
From Kusadasi Cruise Port
The essential Ephesus sequence in about four hours, privately, for a shorter Kusadasi call.
Best for: Private, your party only, maximum 14
Price confirmed for your date.
View Tour Details — Ephesus Highlights: Private Half-Day Tour from Kusadasi PortFrom Kusadasi Cruise Port
Seven private hours in Ephesus, including the Terrace Houses and the full Curetes Street climb.
Best for: Private, your party only, maximum 14
Price confirmed for your date.
View Tour Details — Ephesus Exclusive: Private Tour from Kusadasi PortFrom Kusadasi Cruise Port
Stone lanes, an Orthodox-era church and a village lunch in the hills above Selcuk. The gentlest of our shared shore days.
Best for: Parties who prefer a calmer half-day in a village, with a local lunch included.
Price confirmed for your date.
View Tour Details — Sirince Village Cultural HeritageFrom Izmir Cruise Port
Six private hours from Izmir Cruise Port focused on the Ephesus site, with optional Terrace Houses.
Best for: Private, your party only, maximum 14
Price confirmed for your date.
View Tour Details — Ephesus Highlights: Private Tour from Izmir PortKusadasi to Izmir
Four days across western Asia Minor, following the seven communities addressed in the Book of Revelation — Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea — privately, with your own licensed guide and vehicle, from Kusadasi to Izmir.
Best for: The seven Revelation communities of western Asia Minor
Dates, hotels and total price confirmed in writing.
View Journey Details — Seven Churches of Revelation — Private 4-Day JourneyIstanbul to Izmir
Four days by road from Istanbul to Izmir across four of the best-documented archaeological landscapes in western Turkey — the settlement mound of Troy, the terraces of Pergamon, the excavated city of Ephesus and the travertines of Hierapolis — privately, with your own licensed guide and vehicle.
Best for: Four excavated landscapes between the Dardanelles and the Meander
Dates, hotels and total price confirmed in writing.
View Journey Details — Troy, Pergamon, Ephesus & Pamukkale — Private 4-Day JourneyTell us your cruise schedule, interests and party size. If the published tours do not fit, we can propose a private itinerary for your group.
A private Ephesus shore excursion should work around your ship—not a generic timetable. Every visit is planned for your party, led by a licensed local guide and timed around your confirmed docking and all-aboard times.
Meet your guide at Kuşadası or İzmir Cruise Port and return to the same pier.
Pickup, return buffer and itinerary are planned around your confirmed ship schedule.
Your private visit is led by a licensed local guide familiar with Ephesus.
Receive a full refund when your confirmed port call is cancelled or your ship cannot dock.
Optional entrance tickets can be arranged in advance. Security and entrance queues may still apply.
Mr Ephesus is the visitor-facing brand of Karaefe Tours, a licensed Turkish travel agency, TÜRSAB 17017.
Ephesus is more than a sequence of famous monuments. A licensed local guide connects its streets, homes, public buildings and sacred traditions, and keeps archaeological evidence distinct from later interpretation.
Every private tour is led by a licensed local guide selected for the language and needs of the confirmed booking. Our Ephesus Guide covers when to visit, what to see and how long to allow, so you arrive prepared.
Practical orientation, official visitor information and preparation.
The monuments, streets and houses of the excavated city.
Settlement, empire and the evidence for everyday life.
Artemis, early Christian Ephesus and later sacred tradition, kept distinct.
Selçuk, Şirince and the wider region of western Anatolia.
Travel beyond a single visit to Ephesus with privately arranged multi-day journeys across Türkiye. Choose a Faith & Heritage route, from the Seven Churches of Revelation onward, or an Archaeology & Culture route through Troy, Pergamon, Pamukkale, Istanbul and Cappadocia.
Private itineraries · Licensed guides · Faith & Heritage and Archaeology & Culture routes
Explore Multi-Day Private Tours
Choose an available tour and continue online, or ask the reservations team to confirm the programme in writing. The booking and payment options available for your selected date will be shown before you confirm.
Complete the booking on this website. Instant confirmation is shown only when it is returned for the tour and date you selected.
Send your ship schedule and the reservations team replies in writing with the proposed itinerary, the pickup arrangement, availability and the price.
Settle the confirmed amount on the bank-hosted payment page when you complete the booking.
Where offered for your tour and date, pay a 30% deposit online and the confirmed balance on the day of the tour.
Available only where our operations team has approved it for the selected tour, date and party. It is never assumed.
Payment options depend on the selected tour, date and confirmation status.
Card payments are completed on an approved bank-hosted payment page. This website does not collect or store raw card details.
The questions below cover how our private tours work, cruise-port pickup, and how booking and payment are confirmed. Anything specific to your ship is answered in writing before you commit.
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Yes. Every published tour runs for your travelling party alone, with a maximum of 14 guests. We do not operate shared or seat-in-coach departures.
Kuşadası Cruise Port and İzmir Cruise Port. Each tour starts and ends at the same pier your ship uses.
The reservations team works from your ship name, docking time and all-aboard time, then confirms the programme, the pickup and a return buffer. Port operations, traffic and ship schedules can change, so an exact return time is never promised.
Under the currently approved operational policy, a cancelled port call or a ship that does not dock receives a full refund. Your booking confirmation repeats the policy that applies to that reservation.
They are optional and excluded by default. If you select entrance tickets, they can be arranged in advance, which helps reduce time at the ticket office; security and entrance queues may still apply. Meals are priced and confirmed in writing for your party.
Yes. The assigned vehicle is reserved for your travelling party and is not shared with unrelated guests. It is sized according to your confirmed number of guests, the itinerary and availability. No specific make, model or colour is guaranteed unless it is confirmed to you in writing.
Send your ship, date and party size. Our reservations team confirms the programme, availability and price in writing before anything is reserved.
