Your ship docks 19 km from one of the wonders of the Roman world. We meet you at the gangway, time the ruins against the coach waves, and have you back aboard with time to spare — guaranteed.
Kuşadası cruise port is just 19 km — about 25 minutes — from Ephesus, which makes it one of the easiest great shore days in the Mediterranean. It also makes it one of the most crowded: when several ships berth together, thousands of visitors walk the same marble street. A private excursion exists to solve exactly that.
We meet you at the gangway with your name on a sign, drive straight to the quieter gate, and route the city against the flow — the difference between photographing the Library of Celsus and photographing the back of a tour group. Cruise guests carry one special worry, so let us say it plainly: we track your all-aboard time from the moment we plan the day, we build in a buffer, and in all our years of port days we have never returned a guest late to a ship.
At your gangway inside Kuşadası cruise port — no walking to a car park, no meeting a stranger in town. (İzmir Alsancak port works the same way.)
Back at the gangway with time in hand before your all-aboard.
The tour itself is at Ephesus Ancient City (Efes Örenyeri), Selçuk — about 30 minutes from Kuşadası and an hour from İzmir. Exact timings are confirmed in writing before your date.
This is a private, door-to-door day: your guide and driver come to you. No address to navigate to, no meeting point to hunt for, no group to catch up with.
Your guide waits where the pier meets the terminal, sign in hand, from the minute your ship clears. The vehicle is steps away.
Twenty-five minutes later you are at the gate your guide chose for that day’s crowd pattern — and inside the marble city, moving with the quiet.
Curetes Street, Hadrian’s temple, the Library, Marble Street, the Great Theater — explained, not recited, at your pace.
With a generous port call: the Terrace Houses, the House of the Virgin Mary, the Basilica of St John, lunch in Selçuk or Şirince — your guide will tell you honestly what fits.
We aim you at the pier comfortably before all-aboard — time for a Turkish coffee by the harbor if you like, with your ship in plain view.
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Whichever ship brings you to Kuşadası — from the biggest lines to the smallest luxury yachts — our guides meet you at the gangway with your name on a sign.
Gezginol holds a priority pass with the sites we visit. Your guide collects your tickets before you arrive, so you never stand in a ticket queue — you walk to the gate and go in.
And we add nothing to the ticket price. You pay exactly what the Ministry of Culture and Tourism charges at the gate — not a lira more. We simply buy the tickets ahead of you and put them in your hand, so the only thing you skip is the queue.
This is one of the real, unglamorous reasons a guided day beats a self-guided one in high season: on a busy August morning the ticket queue alone can take longer than the walk down Curetes Street. Entrance fees are listed separately from the tour price for exactly that reason — so you can see the official amount you are paying, and see that it is unchanged.
Yes. Gezginol holds a priority pass and your guide collects the tickets before you arrive, so you go straight to the gate instead of queueing at the ticket window — and we use the fast-track or group lane wherever a site operates one. The same applies on all our tours, in every region we work.
No — it is 19 km away. Taxis exist but negotiate hard in high season; a pre-arranged private tour costs little more and removes every unknown from a day that runs on a ship’s clock.
If your arrival slips, we simply compress the plan — that is the advantage of private. If the ship skips Kuşadası entirely, you owe us nothing; that is our standing promise to cruise guests.
Four hours ashore covers Ephesus itself well. Six hours adds the Terrace Houses and a relaxed lunch; eight adds the House of the Virgin Mary and St John. Tell us your window and we will design to it.
Yes — lunch at a local restaurant is included in the price on every tour of ours that visits Ephesus, this one included. Tell us about allergies or preferences when you book and we will choose accordingly.
Gladly, whenever you would like to. Many guests enjoy seeing a carpet, leather or jewelry atelier while they are here, and we use established, fully insured workshops of the kind the cruise lines recommend. Lunch also comes with a visit to local artisans keeping an old craft alive — lovely to watch, entirely unhurried, and never any obligation to buy.
Every tour is private and paced around you. Send us your date and a local guide replies within 24 hours.
The widest day we run: nine stops across Ephesus and Selçuk — two viewpoints over the ancient city, a living mosque, the Ephesus Museum room by room, the Temple of Artemis and a lunch cooked by local women, with every ticket and the meal in one price.
The full classic day: ancient city, Terrace Houses, Virgin Mary’s house and St John — private, unhurried, yours.
The essential marble city in four door-to-door hours — the honest choice for tight schedules.
From your Kuşadası hotel to the marble streets in 25 minutes — the region’s easiest unmissable day.
