Shopping Tour Experience in Istanbul
This is an exclusive tour of personal shopping in Istanbul of high-quality products created by Turkish artists, artisans, and designers. I have a standard tour that offers textiles, bath ware, ceramics, blowing glass, carpets, silks, garments, jewelry, lamps, spices, essential oils, and sweets. We start at The Grand Bazaar where we visit four stores dedicated to textiles, lamps, and jewelry design, then we go to Arasta for rugs and bath ware, and then to the area of Galata and Pera for ceramics, glass art objects, and diverse independent shops of artists and designers. On my shopping tour, you decide what you carry with you, anything you buy can be sent to your hotel or shipped to your country. I also curate personal shopping routes according to your interests. We use the metro to move around. You can buy a personalized metro card, or we use mine. If that is the case, at the end of the tour we refill the card with the fees you and your companion spent with it.
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Shopping Tour Experience in Istanbul
Pickup included
What's included in Shopping Tour Experience in Istanbul
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Grand Bazaar
Inside the Grand Bazaar I will bring my clients to a curated route of high-quality textiles, scarfs, ethnic and antique jewelry, lamps, and caftans
Arasta Bazaar
Here I bring my clients to buy special bath ware created by the last weavers of Anatolia, and to a very special shop of authentic carpets made by families from the East of Turkey.
Galata Tower
Around Galata Tower we have a great area of independent shops owned by artists and designers. Vintage clothes, ceramics, and contemporary garments.
Inclusions
- You are only paying the curated tour I prepare for you
- All food and beverages are paid by the client
- We use my metro card. At the end of the tour the client will pay what we spend from his/her fees in the metro tickets
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- The tour is about walking the city, connecting to neighborhoods, the products that our artists and artisans create, understanding the city through the markets, tradesman, and bazaars. It is recommended to use sports-shoes, and comfortable clothes.
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Pickup and Dropoff
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 15 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
I pick up my clients at their hotels or places they rent while staying in Istanbul. If the place is far away from the routes of the tour, I will let them know an easy meeting point to meet before the tour.