Beat the crowds | Your ultimate guide to skipping the lines at Hagia Sophia

It was done in a way that allowed me to understand much more of the history through visual and auditory means. We had to walk from one room to the next and the movement helped me retain the info too. I'm so glad we did this after seeing the Haggia Sophia itself - it made so much more sense. Especially as we did not have a guide for Haggia.

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Tickets were not valud at the museum, it is a fraud

Quite the worst "experience" ever and at Euro 25 a total rip off. Deafening background music meant the narrative of the audio speaker could not be heard. Huge screens far too close. The video moved far too fast and made me nauseous. I had booked thinking this was an adjunct to seeing Hagia Sophia - it was a total waste of time. I could not get out quickly enough but there was no option to leave early.

I bought an experience at Hagia Sophia and I got a pass to the musseum. When I Explain That To The Guide. He tried to reach the company and the person I spoke to was Very Ruth to me and didn't change the tickets. The Way, You announce The experience, and the name of the title It's really confusing.

We were a half hour there and Noone was here...we ask everywhere and at the Cafe and other guides and Noone was for us we didn't the guide..we send messages but nothing

The building and interior were very impressive and skipping the incredibly long ticket line and subsequent queue was wonderful.

The ticket problem was resolved after I tried three different machines, but I was lucky it wasn't busy or it would have been difficult.

I couldn't visit the museum as I couldn't find it. I asked three people and none was able to advise where is the museum.

The tour to the Hagia Sofia and Blue mosque and Bascillica Cistern were great. The Bosphorus ferry was a total mess.very disorganized and way too much walking. Why can't you limit the size of the group. The tour guide couldnt control such a large group. No one could hear him. No one knew they had to go to the online desk to get a cruise ticket. People were just running wildly to try to keep up with him. Very unruly. That's the reason we gave an average rating.

Everything was great!! The organization was perfect and all guides were super nice! The whole experience was super interesting thanks to the great tour guides and all the great stories they told us. It was definitely worth it.

In the information provided a wrong meeting point was mentioned. The guide in Aya Sofia, as opposed to the guide in Topkapi, didn't use headphones which made it difficult to follow what he was telling as it was very crowded.

The guides were fantastic and knew a lot of information. Very structured, understandable. We really enjoyed the tour with them and recommend it to many other travellers.

The courtesy and preparation of the operators Less satisfactory was the "skip the line" aspect: Maybe we had too many of them ... it was longer than the normal line.

So glad we booked Headout. We could turn up whenever it suited us over the 3 day period and could literally get on the next tour which was never long to wait. If the group was too big they split it and provided an extra guide. The Haghia Sophia and Topkapi Palace were such busy and confusing venues that we wouldn't have had a clue where to go without our guides. They were knowledgeable and we had pointed out hundreds of things with fascinating stories that we would have missed. Staff were really friendly and informative. Well done Headout!!

offline availability of tickets and river cruise was highlight guides very good

Very nice team but hard to hear with background noise. Needs audio aids.

Hagia Sofia is an beautiful place. The sights and history of the place are breathtaking and overwhelming. I loved it.

The whole 2-day ticket system was great. We mostly appreciated the skipping of queues, the factual and interesting interpretation of the guide.

It was good just maybe put some phone number to know where to call for some informations

Everything went smoothly. Very friendly guides. Great information.

Knowledgeable guide and well-organized tour. Included in the price is the entrance fee to the palace and also to the harem.

The Cistern is truly beautiful. Well worth a visit and the ability to just walk straight in was ideal. We went late morning/early afternoon and were not swamped by the crowds.

There was really no line at all. We were immediately inside. The place is awesome. The lights changing colours are beautiful. The shadows of Medusa were great. Wonderful experience

Ticketing was easy, Blue Mosque was beautiful, and our tour guide was excellent. Cenker was very knowledgeable, fun, lively and very accommodating.

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!

This saved us queuing twice (1 for the ticket, 1 for the entrance). A little expensive, but when you see how long the queues are...

It was very nice experience. We were very lucky because it wasn't so crowded early in the morning and we were waiting for the personal belongings to be checked only 10 minutes.

Get there early! You have to save time wherever you can. Getting your tickets online is definitely helps!

Excellent guide. Great experience with skip the line access to some of the most visited spots in this historic area.

Beautiful building witch beautiful things inside

The history and beauty of the location was enriched by the knowledge and information provided by our guide

Ali was an awesome tour guide! Great experience 👍👍

Beautiful experience. A magical place

Excellent guide qr code used headphones

It was very interesting and beautiful.

The highlight of my visit was wonderful iconography

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.

La visita fue sin guia. La entrada sin colas perfecta. Fuimos directamente a la cola del control de acceso , que no habia demasiada gente, y entramos directamente.

Everything was just as we imagined. In a few hours, we knew and learned what we needed to know thanks to our guide. Highly recommended.

We had combined tickets for Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia and Cisterns Hal our tour guide was excellent and very informative. Would highly recommend.

The tour fuide was very knowledgable, informative, passionate- and a real credit to your organization, and to your country . Thanks to you all for a magnificent experience. Well done!

Was super easy for us to use. We skipped the line which was long on a very hot day. We were able to go at our own pace.

Our guide was fantastic!! She was well spoken with a nice mix of history and humour. She helped make the tour a great experience. Highly recommend this guided tour - and skipping the lines on a very hot day was so appreciated.

Meeting point easy to find. Quick to receive tickets (once giving the reserve papers of the app) and go inside the palace.

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.

Quick and easy purchase. Even faster entry with skip the line up organized . I really liked the gardens and the overview from the terraces the ballroom and the doctor's residence hall

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.

Tickets were a perfect fit. We got in straight away at 17:00 without having to wait. A great experience.

Very nice historical place.

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

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.

I recommend buying the ticket online to save a long queue. I also recommend the visit to the Cistern. 1 hour is enough to see this magnificent work of Roman civil engineering.

The performance of the office of the meeting point and the guide was correct, to improve the indications of the meeting point, and the audio guide is a disaster because of the absence of internet in the Palace.

Knowing that I was in a place with a very distant past and discovering how the cistern was built was an incredible experience

The audio tour was great. Very informative. Skip the Line was a waste as there weren't any lines when we went. The biggest disappointment was that we could go the ground level of Hagia Sofia as we were told it's for Muslims only.

The audio guide does not have the same order as the places to visit: Hagia Sophia and Topkapi. It is only useful for general ideas but it is out of order

The ancient history and rich following of Islam. Architecture and feeling of richness kept and preserved by kings of that time.

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.

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.

It crashed several times. If I tried to check steps of the guide it went to the side of the screen and I could see the half of the the meniu only. It happened suddenly and sometimes got fixed without explanation either. However, it was really annoying and I stopped using it after 5-6 times restarting the tour guide. The good side of the tour was your staff and smooth entry. For that I can give 5 star. He was really clear and informative.

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 opulence of the Ottoman sultans was on display when we visited the treasury. Overall its a good experience glimpsing through all the courtyards. It takes about 3 hours to finish this tour. Recommended for those who would like to see history and learn something about the past.

Meeting point easy to find. Quick to receive tickets (once giving the reserve papers of the app) and go inside the palace.

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.

Tickets were a perfect fit. We got in straight away at 17:00 without having to wait. A great experience.

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

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.

I recommend buying the ticket online to save a long queue. I also recommend the visit to the Cistern. 1 hour is enough to see this magnificent work of Roman civil engineering.

Knowing that I was in a place with a very distant past and discovering how the cistern was built was an incredible experience

The audio tour was great. Very informative. Skip the Line was a waste as there weren't any lines when we went. The biggest disappointment was that we could go the ground level of Hagia Sofia as we were told it's for Muslims only.

The audio guide does not have the same order as the places to visit: Hagia Sophia and Topkapi. It is only useful for general ideas but it is out of order

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.

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

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.

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The ticket it´s great! But there is a minus - At Dolmbache Palace we were asked to leave a deposit of €100 in cash, per person, to have the audioguide. As we were 5, it would be a deposit of €500 in cash! Ridiculous And we did not had the audioguide that is very necessary, as there is no information, anywhere in the palace and you cannot take pictures for you to remember the places and surch afterwords.

I liked the mosque very much but we could only visit the upper part because the lower part is reserved only for Muslim worshippers. This was not clear: I knew it was a mosque but I was not clear that it could not be visited.

I thought the value was phenomenal. We were able to do all that the tickets included except the whirling dervish show. The etickets and skip the line worked very well. The only disappointment was the dinner show and cruise which was awful all around. The meal was mediocre, as expected. The show, what little we saw of it, was nothing special. The guests all crowded around the performers, so no one else could see. They did have a video of it but it was very grainy. If I had wanted to see a video of it I could have done so at home. And everyone was smoking despite the signs forbidding it. I got home and had to shower and was the clothes. If you want to see all the hihglights of Istanbul and are willing to cram lots of activites into a few day, this is definitely a great deal.

I haven't seen much difference between carrying a purchased ticket or not. The line to buy tickets at most Lis sites is minimal. What there is is a lot of people to snitch at the security checkpoint.

Everything went well, no queues. You don't have to make an appointment, which gave us a lot of flexibility. We really enjoyed it.

It was very straightforward and everything worked.

Great service and above all very uncomplicated. Thanks to the skip the line, you are guided to the harem and can explore les from there with the audio guide on your cell phone. Really easy and with free time management once you are inside. The tour starts on time, so you should be there at least 10-15 minutes early. You also have to get the voucher, which you can get at the Topkapi Café.

We were refused entry to HAREM in TOPKAPI