The Blue Mosque is adorned with exquisite Iznik tiles, featuring vibrant floral patterns and intricate geometric designs that showcase the mastery of Ottoman ceramic artistry.
Save almost 29% as compared to original ticket prices by booking Blue Mosque guided tours online. These tours start from €14.92 and include an English-speaking tour guide.
The best Blue Mosque guided tour starts from €14.92 and includes entry access to the mosque, a detailed 1-hour tour with an expert, English-speaking tour guide, and a walking tour of the Old City surrounding the mosque.
If you are on a budget, you must choose the 1-hour guided tour of the Blue Mosque which starts from €14.92. You can save almost 29% as compared to the original tour prices. If you want an in-depth tour of the Sultanahmet Square and its surrounding attractions, consider booking Blue Mosque combo tours, which include access to the Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia, and more.
Blue Mosque guided tours, including an expert tour guide continue for around 1 hour. They also include a walking tour of the Old City surrounding the mosque.
The Blue Mosque guided tours are available in English with an expert tour guide taking you around the mosque and its surrounding areas.
The 1-hour Blue Mosque guided tour is extremely thorough and detailed. An expert, tour guide takes you through most of the mosque’s intricate pathways and courtyards, which are accessible to the public.
We recommend you book Blue Mosque guided tours online for their flexible cancellation policy. If you cannot make it to the mosque on the day of your visit, you can cancel your experience up to 24 hours before the experience begins to get a full refund on your purchase.
Yes, an expert tour guide will accompany you throughout your Blue Mosque guided tour. It is ideal for families with toddlers, solo travelers, and travel groups because it makes it easier to navigate and get past language barriers. These guided tours also include a detailed walk-through of the mosque and its surroundings.
Ticketing was easy, Blue Mosque was beautiful, and our tour guide was excellent. Cenker was very knowledgeable, fun, lively and very accommodating.
All beautiful, especially Cistern and St. Sophia Mosque which, however, due to earthquake ilb23 April, we could see today 24 April. Courtesy and professionalism of the Guide. Thank you
Excellent guide. Great experience with skip the line access to some of the most visited spots in this historic area.
Ali was an awesome tour guide! Great experience 👍👍
Everything, the guide's experience, cordiality, friendliness.
The tour was amazing, detailed and it also included much needed breaks for water, coffee or just resting a bit. The crowds were ok for this time of year, not too many people, but either way, there was more than enough time to visit and see everything there was to see. It was really nice that we got to visit during one of the prayer times and saw a glimpse of what it means, with the full explanation from our guide. Be warned: you need to walk a lot, as is to be expecteeld, but I totally recommend this tour
Knowledgeable and helpful guide. Visited three good sites. It was very hot - so would have preferred shorter history lessons and to have moved through the three locations quicker.
First of all, our tour guide Ms. "Kiss". She was amazing! Loud, clear, knowledgable, and clearly passionate about her job. All 3 locations were spectacular in different ways. I highly recommend this tour!
Booking a tour was the best thing we did, our guide Ali was great and made the whole tour much more relevant and interesting. Skip the Line tickets make a huge difference and I would highly recommend them.
The tour ran like clockwork. Our guide, Michael, was in the expected place and knowledgeably took the group to each of the three historic locations, explained their context and interesting and historical details. We were allowed our own time in each location before meeting back at an agreed place for the next stop on the tour. No real queues in the 4th week of June on a 1pm booking, but great to skip lines on this tour where possible. Apparently the rules have changes in the Hagia Sophia allowing guides to take visitors around the 2nd level which meant that Michael could explain the Christian and Muslim iconography in this exceptional 6th century building. Ticketing through Headout was easy and predictable.
Our guided tour was great. Our tour guide was a local woman who was very knowledgeable. Made seeing the 3 sights easy. Would recommend!
The tour was well organized, the guide was concerned about the group and very professional. I recommend the combined ticket for those who only have a short time in Istanbul and want to maximize their time.
Thanks to Ali, very professional and kind. Made us feel comfortable with detailed information of each site. Ancora Imparo...he knows, Michela and Roberto
Our guide (Matar?) was super informative. His delivery was relaxed, belying the fact that he has undoubtedly given the same dozens of times prior to our group. He allowed adequate time at each location for us to walk around before moving on to the next site. I would definitely recommend this excursion to anyone interested in knowing about the history of istanbul.
The guide Ali, was incredibly knowledgeable - his guiding added real depth to each of the three sights and he was able to take care of us well, preparing us for any practical arrangements e.g. dress codes, queuing, meeting places, toilets etc.. these details are important! The Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern and Hagia Sophia were fascinating and beautiful places to visit and worth doing with a guide lest you miss key details. I'd do the trip all over again if given the opportunity and the wonderful guide.
Wonderful places not to be missed! The guide was able to pick us things not described in normal guidebooks!I recommend doing it in the morning to find fewer people!
Our guide, Ali, was amazing. So full of cool information but was very proactive for our group in getting us through shortcuts and making sure we were always prepared for thr next thing. Highly recommend!
Murat was an awesome guide. He was easy to understand, led us through all 3 sites at the perfect pace and gave us a wonderful history lesson. Highly recommend this tour!
The guide was nice enough, and knew a lot, as much as I could tell. His microphone connection to our earpieces failed, so that was a major problem. He also needs to say "ladies and gentlemen " less often, it waslike a distracting nervous tic. He must have inserted it 50-70 times in the 3 site talks.
Tour guide very helpful and provided lots of information. Answered everybody's questions. Provided useful information about other places to visit.
Ticketing was easy. Loved the whole experience. Our guide Halek had incredible knowledge and was very friendly. I highly recommend doing this tour, there wee lots of people going 9n their own waiting in long l8nescand nit learning about what they were experiencing so to me to pay for that was well worth it
Nice, interesting tours. The guide takes time to tell the story and even takes photos for those who wish.
The guide was exceptional. His comments, humor and knowledge fascinated me. He even went half an hour over schedule. My expectations were exceeded.
The really nice guide But we still have to queue to get in The group is huge, not great For 100€ knowing that the Blue Mosque is free, I don't think it's worth it at all.
Great guide with plenty of information you can not find in a book or online. Skip the line tickets worked fantastic. Enough time for breaks and toilet.
Enjoy expert storytelling, skip-the-line access, and a 5+ language audio guide for 3 of Istanbul’s most iconic sites.
Everything you get at Blue Mosque: Skip the long lines and head straight to the Blue Mosque’s grand prayer hall. Get insights into this stained-glass-lit monument, with an English-speaking guide and an audio guide.
Everything you get at Hagia Sophia: Access the Upper Gallery of Hagia Sophia—an area once reserved for royalty. Avoid the wait and admire its breath-taking mosaics at your own pace, while enjoying a detailed audio guide.
Everything you get at Basilica Cistern: Take an underground walk into the Basilica Cistern’s cool and quiet spaces. Skip long wait lines, and walk in to admire the marble columns and the famous Medusa heads with an expert guide.
Why choose this combo: In just 4 hours, visit three of Istanbul’s top landmarks in one day, with one easy ticket. Skip the long lines with this flexible ticket and explore each site with expert English-speaking guides and immersive audio guides.
Inclusions Basilica Cistern
1-hour guided tour of Basilica Cistern
Skip-the-line entry
Expert English-speaking guide
Audio app downloadable in English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, & Turkish
Hagia Sophia
1-hour guided tour of Hagia Sophia
Skip-the-line entry
Expert English-speaking guide
Entry to Hagia Sophia Upper Gallery visiting area
Audio guide downloadable in English, German, French, Italian, & Spanish
Blue Mosque
Entry and 1-hour guided tour to the Blue Mosque
Expert English-speaking guide
Skip-the-line entry
Basilica Cistern
Tip: Be sure to walk to the far end of the cistern to see the famous Medusa heads—many visitors miss them by turning back too soon.
Floors can be slick in places due to moisture, so wear stable footwear with good grip.
For a quieter, more serene experience, visit first thing in the morning or just before closing when crowds are less.
Skip-the-line tickets help cut down wait time. However, security screenings are compulsory for all visitors and will take time.
Hagia Sophia
Tip: Security checks can take up to an hour in summer (June–August), so plan your visits accordingly.
Only the Upper Gallery is open to visitors; the main prayer hall is reserved for worshippers and not accessible to visit.
Access is paused during daily prayers, so plan your visit between those times.
Tourist entry is paused every Friday from noon to around 2:30pm for weekly prayers.
Visitors are required to dress modestly – so please cover your head, shoulders and knees. Women are also required to wear scarves. If you forget to bring your own, there are scarves available at the entrance.
Blue Mosque
Ticketing was easy, Blue Mosque was beautiful, and our tour guide was excellent. Cenker was very knowledgeable, fun, lively and very accommodating.
The guide's explanations in very good English. The guide's help in contacting the Bosphorus cruise company. The large informative panels on the Muslim religion in English and the booklets in several languages.
Our tour guide Buse was amazing. She was very informative and answered everyone's questions with a detailed answer. She definitely made our experience better than if we would have gone without a guide. I definitely recommend doing the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sofia tour with her.
Great spots to visit, the guide was great, giod details and good english. Plenty of time to visit, no rushing. Just enjoy
Our guide Öpücük was very good. We were impressed how smoothly she managed to navigate us in such busy places. We never felt rushed or anything. Just very informed about the places we visited. She always found the best stop and she had lots of time for extra questions. Great job!
It's worth visiting the Blue Mosque with a guide. We learned a lot. The guide was very friendly, not tiring at all and very knowledgeable.
It was well planned. Hussein our guide was great, knowledgeable and friendly. The pace and presentation was very good and clear.
All beautiful, especially Cistern and St. Sophia Mosque which, however, due to earthquake ilb23 April, we could see today 24 April. Courtesy and professionalism of the Guide. Thank you
We feared bad surprises after reading some negative comments online, but in Istanbul everything went perfectly . Precise and punctual organization, directions are given to the meeting point and via app everything is very convenient and at hand. Pleasant tour, our guide, Ali (I unfortunately do not remember his full name), was a nice guy, knowledgeable and very helpful. We had a great time with him, the explanation given was just the right length, neither too short nor too long, and the time flew by. Very convenient the skip-the-line ticket, considering the crowds of tourists.
The guide's maturity and knowledge made the visit even richer. We learned details about the mosque that we wouldn't have been able to explore otherwise.
Excellent guide. Great experience with skip the line access to some of the most visited spots in this historic area.
Ali was an awesome tour guide! Great experience 👍👍
The guides were well informed, personable and interesting. Very glad I signed up for this service.
The tour is well designed and the guide is fantastic
Everything, the guide's experience, cordiality, friendliness.
I really liked my tour guide Ali. He gave me a lot of information and answered all my questions.
Great overall experience. Guide was very knowledgeable and provided information in very fun way and to an appropriate level (including for our 7 and 9 year old kids).
The tour was amazing, detailed and it also included much needed breaks for water, coffee or just resting a bit. The crowds were ok for this time of year, not too many people, but either way, there was more than enough time to visit and see everything there was to see. It was really nice that we got to visit during one of the prayer times and saw a glimpse of what it means, with the full explanation from our guide. Be warned: you need to walk a lot, as is to be expecteeld, but I totally recommend this tour
I liked having a guide, but it was hard to hear him and he told us to take pictures all the time. I don't need a guide to tell me to take pictures. I would have liked more information about everything we were seeing.
Buse was our tour guide and did a terrific job! She was very informative, fun and interactive. Definitely would recommend a tour with her. The mosque is a must see during your trip to Istanbul.
The tour was well organised. Our tour guide Busa's knowledge about the History and cultural was highly informative. Preparation, crowd control, communication and engagement with the group was good 👍. Thank you for an amazing experience and an indepth experience for your history and culture.
We had an incredible time at the Blue Mosque with our tour guide Buse. She was very informative and friendly. Would highly recommend this tour and our lovely tour guide ❤️
Our guide was very knowledgeable and was able to explain many details. Very personable. No queuing, unproblematic meeting point.
Knowledgeable and helpful guide. Visited three good sites. It was very hot - so would have preferred shorter history lessons and to have moved through the three locations quicker.
First of all, our tour guide Ms. "Kiss". She was amazing! Loud, clear, knowledgable, and clearly passionate about her job. All 3 locations were spectacular in different ways. I highly recommend this tour!
Get expert insights beyond the blue tiles at the mosque and explore Old Town’s timeless streets.
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Ticketing was easy, Blue Mosque was beautiful, and our tour guide was excellent. Cenker was very knowledgeable, fun, lively and very accommodating.
All beautiful, especially Cistern and St. Sophia Mosque which, however, due to earthquake ilb23 April, we could see today 24 April. Courtesy and professionalism of the Guide. Thank you
Excellent guide. Great experience with skip the line access to some of the most visited spots in this historic area.
Ali was an awesome tour guide! Great experience 👍👍
Everything, the guide's experience, cordiality, friendliness.
The tour was amazing, detailed and it also included much needed breaks for water, coffee or just resting a bit. The crowds were ok for this time of year, not too many people, but either way, there was more than enough time to visit and see everything there was to see. It was really nice that we got to visit during one of the prayer times and saw a glimpse of what it means, with the full explanation from our guide. Be warned: you need to walk a lot, as is to be expecteeld, but I totally recommend this tour
I liked having a guide, but it was hard to hear him and he told us to take pictures all the time. I don't need a guide to tell me to take pictures. I would have liked more information about everything we were seeing.
Our guide was very knowledgeable and was able to explain many details. Very personable. No queuing, unproblematic meeting point.
Knowledgeable and helpful guide. Visited three good sites. It was very hot - so would have preferred shorter history lessons and to have moved through the three locations quicker.
First of all, our tour guide Ms. "Kiss". She was amazing! Loud, clear, knowledgable, and clearly passionate about her job. All 3 locations were spectacular in different ways. I highly recommend this tour!
I really enjoyed the visit to the Blue Mosque and St. Sophia. Our guide Ali's explanations were detailed and thorough without being boring.
Booking a tour was the best thing we did, our guide Ali was great and made the whole tour much more relevant and interesting. Skip the Line tickets make a huge difference and I would highly recommend them.
The tour ran like clockwork. Our guide, Michael, was in the expected place and knowledgeably took the group to each of the three historic locations, explained their context and interesting and historical details. We were allowed our own time in each location before meeting back at an agreed place for the next stop on the tour. No real queues in the 4th week of June on a 1pm booking, but great to skip lines on this tour where possible. Apparently the rules have changes in the Hagia Sophia allowing guides to take visitors around the 2nd level which meant that Michael could explain the Christian and Muslim iconography in this exceptional 6th century building. Ticketing through Headout was easy and predictable.
Our guided tour was great. Our tour guide was a local woman who was very knowledgeable. Made seeing the 3 sights easy. Would recommend!
The tour was well organized, the guide was concerned about the group and very professional. I recommend the combined ticket for those who only have a short time in Istanbul and want to maximize their time.
It was very easy to find the guide and get checked in. The guide was very knowledgeable and helped us to really understand the history!
Thanks to Ali, very professional and kind. Made us feel comfortable with detailed information of each site. Ancora Imparo...he knows, Michela and Roberto
Our guide (Matar?) was super informative. His delivery was relaxed, belying the fact that he has undoubtedly given the same dozens of times prior to our group. He allowed adequate time at each location for us to walk around before moving on to the next site. I would definitely recommend this excursion to anyone interested in knowing about the history of istanbul.
The guide Ali, was incredibly knowledgeable - his guiding added real depth to each of the three sights and he was able to take care of us well, preparing us for any practical arrangements e.g. dress codes, queuing, meeting places, toilets etc.. these details are important! The Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern and Hagia Sophia were fascinating and beautiful places to visit and worth doing with a guide lest you miss key details. I'd do the trip all over again if given the opportunity and the wonderful guide.
Wonderful places not to be missed! The guide was able to pick us things not described in normal guidebooks!I recommend doing it in the morning to find fewer people!
You are told so often to please be on time. The event started 45 minutes late and we were there 30 minutes earlier as recommended. But we enjoyed the tour. I only ticked 2 to be able to send the review.
Our guide, Ali, was amazing. So full of cool information but was very proactive for our group in getting us through shortcuts and making sure we were always prepared for thr next thing. Highly recommend!
Our guide was very informative and we enjoyed it all. The only negative is the meeting place needs to have a big flag with Headout on it. Would make it easier to find. We were waiting at the DSign cafe and the guides were at the side of the building partially hidden from view...
Murat was our guide yesterday. He was so knowledgeable and explained things from all kinds of perspectives, history and culture. My husband and I arrived not knowing much about the places we saw. We came home having much more understanding of its history. It was very interesting and made us want to learn more.
Murat was an awesome guide. He was easy to understand, led us through all 3 sites at the perfect pace and gave us a wonderful history lesson. Highly recommend this tour!
Discover Istanbul’s treasures like Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, and Old Town in one expert-guided tour.
Inclusions
1.5-hour guided tour of Hagia Sophia
Skip-the-line entry to Hagia Sophia visiting area
Expert licensed English-speaking guide
1-hour guided tour of Blue Mosque with entry
30-min Hippodrome & Old Town walking tour
Istanbul Old Town map
30-min guided tour of Basilica Cistern with skip-the-line entry (based on option selected)
Explore Istanbul’s iconic landmarks - Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern, Topkapi Palace, in 1 day with an expert guide.
Everything You Get: A 7-hour guided walking tour in English, and visit to Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern, and Topkapi Palace with ample time to explore each site.
Why Choose This:. Thoughtfully curated to make the most of your time, this expert-guided tour lets you dive deep into Istanbul’s rich history, legends, and architectural wonders. Cover more in a day than most do in three!
Inclusions
Exclusions
Both the Hagia Sophia and the sunken palace were beautiful! It is very worthwhile. And especially for the Hagia Sophia, it's worth buying tickets online in advance to avoid the queue at the ticket office. It's also worth it for the Basilica Cistern, as there are 2 different queues here and the one for the e-tickets was quicker in our case.
The architecture of the basilica cistern is amazingly beautiful, very well lit and with a well organized traffic. It has generously met my expectations. But the number of visitors per shift or hour should be reduced.
Tickets were easy to book, great instructions and saved a lot if time by not queuing. In terms of the sites they were really good to see and understand the history behind it. Great addition to our Istanbul trip.
It's worth visiting the Blue Mosque with a guide. We learned a lot. The guide was very friendly, not tiring at all and very knowledgeable.
Easy to book. Very clear instructions from the guide in Topkapi, which helps not to miss the Harem and the incredible collections. Jump the queue ticket saved us waiting hours to enter. The experience in Topkapi, Hagia Sophia and Balisica were totally different and absolutely awesome.
Impressive! A must see underneath the city. So old and still standing
Made such a difference avoiding the long queues and getting there relatively early was the wa right call
Simplicity in the directions provided, all ok
The guides were well informed, personable and interesting. Very glad I signed up for this service.
It was a good idea to book without queues, since there were a lot of tourists.
There was no line to enter the cistern as we arrived early which made our experience easy and seamless.
Buse was our tour guide and did a terrific job! She was very informative, fun and interactive. Definitely would recommend a tour with her. The mosque is a must see during your trip to Istanbul.
The cistern basilica is very beautiful, Santa Sophia IS beautiful but, in any case the tickets cost too much, I find that 65 euros per person is too much
Two must-see fascinating places. The Cistern an 'incredibly evolved Roman work for that time and very well maintained. St. Sophia a mosque yes but on the layout of a Christian Church, and you can also see it from the mosaics of the Virgin and Jesus preserved in the right side of the structure. Not to be missed.
We had an incredible time at the Blue Mosque with our tour guide Buse. She was very informative and friendly. Would highly recommend this tour and our lovely tour guide ❤️
Fantastic location, so different from everything else in Istanbul. Skip the line tickets are excellent, we got straight in. Make sure you have downloaded the tickets before arriving so you have a code for them to scan.
Skip the line worked. The lighting at Hagia Sophia was very distracting to take photos. Basilica Cistern was great. Audio guide did not work at Hagia Sophia (was it free for everyone?) so I did not even bother trying at the Cistern.
We were greeted in a separate queue with entry without delay. We were helped very clearly by the staff to download and use the audio in our language. We loved the experience
The mosque was expansive and beautiful. This coupled with a knowledgeable guide who shared details about the mosque but also explained how it functioned. I truly enjoyed the tour and learned a lot about the history of the mosque and more insights into the Muslim faith.
In none of the three places we had to wait in line, we were able to enter directly without any problems. In the Topkapi Palace, once inside, there were many people and there were queues for the treasure and the relics.
The queue was cut at the Citerne and the reception staff were very helpful, sharing the connection with us so that we could collect our tickets. But it was more complicated at Topkapi, where you had to collect your ticket from a hut outside the site, which wasn't properly explained. And there's no real queue cutter.
We went yesterday around 4pm to the Cistern. The entrance line was very long and we were able to enter in minutes through the online tickets entrance. We downloaded the audio guide prior entrance in our phones and were able to follow all detailed explanations throughout the visit.
Beautiful place worth seeing, we could not connect them to audioguide because once you enter there is no coverage, no one warns you about it.
We had misread the instructions and entered the palace. We were directed to the ticket office and the clerk told us where to find our guide. Once there, he accompanied us to join a group who were already going through the entrances, so we didn't have to wait 30 minutes for the next departure (very nice of him). The fast pass allowed us to do all 3 activities without a hitch, although you need to allow quite a bit of time for the palace and less for the cistern and Saint Sophia. It was really great
Well, the security queue was fast. We had a problem with downloading one of the ticket QR code PDFs but the Hagia Sofia staff resolved it quickly.
Love a good deal? Save more while exploring the Blue Mosque & Basilica Cistern.
Inclusions Blue Mosque
1-hour guided tour of the Blue Mosque
Entry to Blue Mosque
Expert English-speaking licensed guide
Walking tour around Old Town
Istanbul Old Town map
Basilica Cistern
Skip-the-line entry to Basilica Cistern
Audio guide in English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish & Turkish
Blue Mosque
Basilica Cistern
You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.
You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.
You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.
You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.
