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Summer tour of Pamukkale and Hierapolis with Lake Salda
Excursions & day trips
Belek, Turkey
4.4/5
Free Cancellation
Language:
German
,
English
,
French
,
Dutch
,
Polish
Mobile voucher accepted
Duration: Fixable
Do this because
You can stop for photos at Lake Salda, famed for its white beaches and electric blue waters
The cascading terraces of cotton-like white calcite in Pamukkale are in the spotlight on this tour
There's free time to check out UNESCO-listed Hierapolis, including its vast Greek theatre
Your lunch and dinner are both included on this full day tour
With a local guide who really knows their stuff, you'll get the inside scoop on Turkey's culture
What to expect
This summer tour takes you to Pamukkale, which means ‘cotton castle' in Turkish – and you'll see why as soon as you set eyes upon its magical landscape. Heading deep into the Anatolian countryside, you'll also visit Hierapolis, and stop en route at dazzling Lake Salda. Muzaffer, one of our expert guides, says, ‘Pamukkale is like something out of a fairytale – a spectacle of terraces formed over thousands of years that look like a cascading snowy waterfall. Legend has it, the hot thermal springs here have healing properties.'Leaving Antalya early in the morning, you'll arrive at Lake Salda after a few hours' scenic drive. It's been compared to the Maldives for its long white beaches and multi-toned blue waters. You'll have free time to take some photos of this otherworldly spot. Then we'll continue to Pamukkale for lunch. Afterwards, admire the bright white calcite terraces – they look like icy stalactites dripping from pools of sky-blue water.At the top of these travertines is Hierapolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Walk through the Byzantine Gate and marvel at the ruins as you stroll towards the vast bowl-shaped theatre. On the way back, you'll tuck into a tasty dinner in a forest restaurant, too. What's more, for every sale of this experience, there's a donation to the TUI Care Foundation charity.
What's included
Transport
Guide
Admission fees
All meals
What to remember
Entrance to the main Pamukkale site is included
There may be an initial, unaccompanied pick-up from your hotel to a meeting point from which the tour proper departs
Please note that this is our summer season tour, only available between 1st May and October 31st
If you're travelling in winter, please choose our winter tour to Pamukkale and Hierapolis
Please be aware, this is a long day with a lot of time spent travelling. For certain resorts, this could be up to around 10 hours of travel in total
Not suitable for families with young children due to the long bus journey
Please be aware, Cleopatra's pool is currently under renovation and not available for use until October 2025
Not suitable for guests with reduced mobility
Bring a hat
Bring bathing gear and sunblock
Bring suitable footwear
Provider
TANTUR TURIZM SEYAHAT A.S
Booking Fee
Good news! No extra fees are applied to this booking.
Cancellation Fee
Receive a 100% refund if you cancel up to 1 day before the experience begins
Reviews
great
4.4/5
Based on
55 reviews from verified customers
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Alan Trigg
July 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 49 years old
Excellent
The only bad thing was the distance and we know you cannot change this, really enjoyed the whole trip, the guide knew so much about not only the destination but also the trip there, detailing everything we passed, ten out of ten, very good
C
Culda
July 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 39 years old
Great
Hotel sehr gut sehr freundlich sehr sauber Küche Top Aber der Ausflug Pamukkale Ausflug sehr schwach Das Frühstück Das Abendessen Das passt überhaupt nicht zu den anderen Leistungen von TUI sehr sparsam beim Frühstück keine Wurst nur Gemüse bin ich ein Hase beim Abendessen Das Fleisch von einer alten Ziege also das Restaurant würde ich sofort wechseln Und der Umweg zu diesem See schade um die Zeit Ich fahre bei dieser Hitze zu einem See wo ich aber nicht baden darf Das ist das selbe wenn
S
Schorsch
June 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
Excellent
Es hat uns sehr gut gefallen, aber es war leider sehr sehr ?? und wir waren 16 stunden unterwegs, meines Erachtens nicht bei der Hitze geeignet
C
Christian
June 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 36 years old
Excellent
V
vogi1974
June 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
Excellent
Abholung pünktlich. Genug Pausen gemacht. Essen in Ordnung. Aus unserer Sicht ist der Ausflug bei einer Temperatur von über 30 Grad nicht zu empfehlen, es gibt dort kaum Schatten.
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Palmukkae po latach
June 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 42 years old
Excellent
Pamukkale znowu biale. Bylam tu 10 lat temu i mnie nie zachwycily, teraz CUDOWNE. Lekcja historii tez… Pomimo upalu wycieczka fantastyczna a to dzieki super przewodnikowi… który potrafil fantastycznie opowiadac o historii a w trakcie przejazdu sypal anegdotami takze o polskich zwyczajach. Przewodnikiem byl Turek dobrze mówiacy po polsku - ma polska zone. Polecam wszystkim niezdecydowanym…..posilki w trakcie wycieczki ….. no po hotelowych delicjach …. Minimalistyczne
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Katharine Murphy
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 25 years old
Average
As a family of 4 the trip was expensive. The advertised time of 8 hours is not true. We spent the first 6 hours of the trip on the coach before reaching Pamukkale. We feel the breakfast stop is unnecessary & that if there were pastries on the bus whilst travelling it would save some time. The reason people book the trip is for Pamukkale itself not the food stops. More time in Pamukkale rather than meal stops would make the trip so much better. Pamukkale itself is stunning & the guides fantastic.
I
Iris
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
Alone
Excellent
Nasza przewodniczka, Pani Ania byla super! Jej wiedza o Turcji dopomogla mi w lepszym poznaniu rejonów przez które przejezdzalismy i byc bardziej poinformowana o zwyczajach i kulturze Turcji.
M
Manja
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
- 37 years old
Great
Der Rücktransfer vom Treffpunkt zum Hotel lief anders als geplant. Es wurde erst Belek angefahren statt Lara/Kundu. Somit waren wir 1,5 Stunden unterwegs statt 20 Minuten. Unser Reiseleiter Kahn war toll !!
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Teresa white
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 37 years old
Excellent
Lovely trip thankyou very long way on the bus but worth it.
R
Richard
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 50 years old
Poor
Es werden Sachen versprochen (Frühstück in einem Dorf) mit frischem Honig. Ein Abendessen mit grillen im Wald. Alles gelogen. Nie wieder dieser Ausflug. Wenn nicht genug Anmeldungen da sind dann macht kleine Gruppen. Für 139 € pro Person nur Nepp.
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Nelja
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 37 years old
Great
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Beatrix
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
- 40 years old
Excellent
Es war ein toller super Reiseleiter und Busfahrer das Essen war überall super und ein netter Service Viele Eindrücke…wer hier meckert sollte bleiben Lg Beatrix
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NiRa
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 46 years old
Great
O
Olaf
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 44 years old
Poor
Frühstück und Abendessen hatten eine sehr schlechte Qualität. Früh nur Baguettescheiben, abgepackte minderwertige Marmelade und Honig, am Abend Rindergulasch sehr minderwertige zaehes Fleisch. Was uns beim Verkauf der Reise versprochen wurde, traf nicht zu. Keine Möglichkeit zum Baden, das Cleopatra Bad wurde gar nicht angefahren. Wir waren nach dersehr langen Fahrt sehr enttäuscht, so wenig gesehen zu haben. Wir sollen zwar mit 27,80 € entschädigt werden, dass steht aber in keiner Relation.
K
Kris
May 2025
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
Excellent
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Lili67
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 31 years old
Excellent
C
C
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 30 years old
Average
Beaucoup de route pour pas grand chose au final. Pas de visite de Hierapolis ni d'audio guide fourni. Et contrairement aux photos, la quasi totalité des terrasses étaient vides. Au prix ou est l'excursion les boissons devraient être incluses.
S
Steve
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 49 years old
Excellent
Muzo, our guide, was absolutely first rate - excellent English, well informed, from the area so made the voice over very relevant and real. Coach staff were excellent given complexity of getting all the guests onto the coaches from all over the area. THING THAT LET TOUR DOWN - food. Breakfast was simple but OK, Lunch was good but had same two choices as dinner ie chicken or meatballs. Dinner was horrible - chicken was tasteless, gelatinous and frankly substandard for a £169 per head tour.
J
Jen A
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 27 years old
Great
********** de temps de route en bus soit 5h aller et 5 h retour pour le peu de trmps rester sur pkace
B
Bebassi
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
- 27 years old
Excellent
D
Dariusz
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 34 years old
Excellent
wycieczka fajna dluga , warto bylo, Ale przy opcji all inclusive napoje do posilków powinny byc wliczone w cene wycieczki a tak mielismy wliczone 3 posilki i tyko rano dostalismy troche herbaty do sniadania, do obiadu i kolacji nie, troche to nie w porzadku powinien byc chociaz wliczony dzbanek wody dla osoby za ta cene (która nie byla mala), warto by sie nad tym pochylic tym bardziej ze bylo goraco
M
Marek
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 30 years old
Excellent
Warto widziec (y) :)
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Anna Artur
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 32 years old
Great
Wycieczka byla bardzo fajna, swietna Pani przewodnik, bardzo duzo ciekawostek opowiadala o kraju, mila atmosfera podczas calej wycieczki. Jeden minus za zbyt malo czasu wolnego juz na samej atrakcji Pamukkale. Dwie i pól godziny to za malo zeby nacieszyc sie tak pieknymi widokami i skorzystac swobodnie ze wszystkich mozliwosci jakie daje to piekne miejsce.??
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Miki
October 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 41 years old
Great
Výklad zbytecne hodne obsáhlý a tím se zkrátila doba na osobní prohlídku areálu
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Polecam
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 35 years old
Excellent
Wycieczka, wiedza przewodnika, organizacja, wszystko na najwyzszym poziomie Maly minus za obiad Kilka razy pytano, czy mozna juz zabrac talerz Zbyt szybkie tempo w trakcie obiadu Ogólnie bardzo mi sie podobalo. Polecam
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Simi
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
- 33 years old
Great
Reiseführer und Busfahrer waren super. Etwas stressig fand ich 3 mal Essen. Nur 2 mal würde reichen dann wäre auch die Tour nicht so lang.
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Micha
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 37 years old
Excellent
Z
Zadowolony
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
- 42 years old
Great
F
Frank
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 44 years old
Great
M
Marie
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 54 years old
Excellent
Lake salda very beautiful place. 3 meals during the day breakfast good other meals not nice.
R
rafal
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
- 27 years old
Excellent
K
Krieger
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 48 years old
Excellent
A
Aldona
September 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With friends
- 35 years old
Excellent
Przepiekne miejsce. Przewodnik i organizacja na medal.
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MD
August 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 19 years old
Excellent
M
M
August 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 23 years old
Excellent
A
Aneta
August 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 29 years old
Excellent
Przepiekne widoki warto pojechac i zwiedzic te piekne miejsca :)
J
Joanna
July 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 30 years old
Excellent
Zamiast 3 posilków zrobic 2 ( sniadanie i obiadokolacje). Wiecej czasu zostaje na zwiedzanie bo jest co zwiedzac. Przewodnik Turek swietnie mówiacy po polsku ciekawie opowiadal.
M
M
July 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 40 years old
Excellent
The tour was very good organised, long but enjoyable. We had breakfast, lunch, dinner and tkt to cleopatra’s pool included which was a good value for money.
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Piotr
July 2024
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 28 years old
Great
Za malo czasu w Hierapolis lub wycieczka w takim okresie gdzie temperatury zblizaja sie do 40 stopni w cieniu moglaby sie odbywac (przynajmniej czesciowo) elektrycznymi wozikami wystepujacymi w Hierapolis. Najodleglejszym miejscem i najtrudniej dostepnym jest teatr. Wejscie na niego w takim sloncu, z dziecmi i starsza osoba to ryzyko udaru a minimum omdlenia. Przynajmniej mozna by bylo tam wjechac. Potem kolejno schodzic do basenu Kleopatry, Muzem, Pammukale, a na koniec do wyjscia w bramie PLD.
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TeriJP
October 2023
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
With family
- 27 years old
Great
Lake Salda is worth the visit, it's lovely. Pammukale is really special and definitely worth seein. We went in Oct when it was still hot (29°C) and not as crowded as we hear it gets in summer. Cleopatra's pool is so welcomed after all the travelling and walking in heat. The amphitheatre is quite something, if you can overcome the 10-minute steep walk (but so worth it). The (all included) breakfast was ok, lunch was delicious and dinner was very good. 13h in total for us, but we'll worth it.
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Rachael
August 2023
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
- 34 years old
Great
A great excursion overall. The sights of Hierapolis and Pamukkale were absolutely stunning despite the extreme heat. The guide was informative and friendly but also didn’t speak too much and allowed us to sleep on the coach. Maybe more time could be arranged at Lake Salda, plus the toilet facilities were a little bit to be desired. However, we did have lots of time to explore Pamukkale and Hierapolis (3 hours) which was fantastic.
K
Katherine
July 2023
From United States of America
Traveled as
With family
Great
The trip stated that entrance fees were included. I thought this was all entrance fees. We had to pay to go into cleopatras pool. The trip was expensive as it was this should have been included in price, or stated if it wasn’t.
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Carol
October 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
As a couple
- 51 years old
Great
It was a great day out but the food choices could have been better, not everyone can eat or like's a traditional Turkish breakfast and evening meal, there should have been more choices for breakfast and the evening meal. The lunch time meal was good as there was something for everyone wish the other two was like that. The tour guide guy was great very knowledgeable and very happy to please.
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Catherine
September 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
As a couple
- 14 years old
Excellent
Good amount of stops to break up the journey. Stopped at nice toilets and bkfast/lunch/dinner was very tasty. Guide was friendly and informative about the journey, the area and activities. But day trip was advertised as full day 8 hours but in total lasted 15 hrs door to door so was a lot longer than expected (picked up at 6am and dropped off at 9.30pm) Overall though I would highly recommend to see the 'real Turkey'. I would do it again. Thanks to Mehmet for being a wonderful guide.
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Gareth H
September 2022
From United States of America
Traveled as
As a couple
- 38 years old
Average
Trip was to long voucher said 8 hrs and the coach journey alone was 12 hours and only allowed 3 hours to experience the full experience.
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Georgina
August 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
With family
- 32 years old
Average
Pamukkale is an amazing natural phenomenon and great to see, however, it is very busy and once you have seen it there is little do to. Cleopatra's pool is dirty and even our guide said he wouldn't personally swim in it. Hierapolis is interesting but it was extremely hot and there is no shade at all. The journey from Side area is just too long - left hotel at 5a.m and got back 10p.m. - I thought the coach journey would never end. Food and guide great but too far to make it truly worth it.
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Sam
July 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
As a couple
- 9 years old
Great
Amazing trip, beautiful experience would highly recommend. When booking the excursion the confirmation says the trip is 8 hours when in fact it was 16 hours. This is a massive difference and would have made us think differently about what to bring ect with us and whether we wanted to spend 10 hours travelling.
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Monica Rusu
July 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
With family
- 31 years old
Excellent
The whole experience was lovely. Transport was organised very well and Mustafa, our guide was knowledgeable and friendly. We didn’t like breakfast, neither the shopping break we had on the way back.Overall we really did enjoy this experience and can highly recommend.
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T K
July 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
As a couple
- 38 years old
Great
Our tour guide Ahmed was amazing very interesting and educational. Restaurant chosen for dinner okay, although I was very unwell after eating dinner, the meal wasn't appealing. The places we went were amazing and enjoyable. A big negative was on the tour it stated a full day 8 hours, in fact it was 15 hours, it took 4 hours to reach destination although we had a few mins tolet breaks and 4 hours back, my husband suffers quite bad with his legs and sitting on a coach for long periods wasn't good
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Aimee Cross
July 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
With friends
- 12 years old
Excellent
Loved every minute of the whole trip just to experience a lot more what Turkey had to offer with their beauty.
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Roxanne
June 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
With family
- 10 years old
Excellent
I really enjoyed the tour, it's a long journey but worth the trip. I particularly enjoyed having breakfast, lunch and dinner catered for. The drivers were very good and I felt perfectly safe. The mini bus was comfortable. Our guide Mehmet was fantastic with a good sense of humour and excellent English. I really enjoyed his talks about Turkey's history and found him to be very knowledgeable.
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Diane
May 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
As a couple
- 47 years old
Great
Would have liked to be advised of approx return time so others would know when to expect us back to hotel. Overall a very enjoyable trip with good guide.
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Arpad
May 2022
From United Kingdom
Traveled as
Alone
- 26 years old
Excellent
Well, I'm satisfied with everything after all. Our tour guide was very professional, prepared and friendly, also the drivers were friendly. A very nice surprise was to me, that there is 3 meals included in this long journey. Pamukkale and Hieropolis are in a huge territory, we had a long time enough to enjoy this sight, but you can spend easily a full day there. The only one thing I didn't really like is the very long bus journey time, specially the way back to hotels. But still, I'm happy with this excursion, it was a lifetime experience.
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Anonymous
October 2021
From United Kingdom
Excellent
We were a bit worried about this one given the long travel time but our worries were for nothing. While it was a long day and time spent travelling there were many breaks throughout the journey to help. The food was amazing, best food I’ve had on an excursion. Great guide too, very knowledgable.
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