Biblical Ephesus Tours

If it is your first visit and you want the whole story, take the Best of Biblical Ephesus or the Full Day. If you know your Acts and want depth, take the Footsteps of Paul day. If you are off a cruise ship, take the shore excursion, which is built around your all-aboard time. Staying down on the Bodrum peninsula? There is a dedicated day trip from Bodrum. And if none of them fits, the tailor-made day starts from a blank page.

Every one. You never share a vehicle or a guide with strangers, the pace is set by your party alone, and the itinerary can change on the day. A whole church group in its own coach is still a private tour: nobody outside your group joins it.

Yes, any group size. We run tours for groups of 1 to 52 people in one coach, and for larger groups we arrange several guides and coaches. We once ran a week-long tour around Turkey for 200 people in five buses at the same time. Small or large, your group is simple and easy for us. The one practical note: the walkways inside the Terrace Houses are narrow, so a big group goes through them in turns.

Our Ephesus day tours are from €33 per person for groups of 8 or more, and smaller groups get a private quote. The day trip from Bodrum is from €44 per person for groups of 8 or more, and pickups in İzmir (hotel, port or airport) are priced privately. The multi-day Seven Churches tour is privately calculated by group size, season and other variables. Entrance fees are separate and paid at each gate. Write to us with your dates and numbers and a licensed guide sends an honest quote within 24 hours.

No deposit is needed to ask for a quote or to hold a date, and nothing is charged before your tour. Most guests settle with their guide on the day. Our cancellation policy is written for real life — cruises reroute and flights move.

English as standard, with licensed guides also available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Italian and German. Tell us which you would prefer when you book so we can assign the right guide for your date.

Yes, on every tour we run. Gezginol holds priority ticketing access as a TÜRSAB-licensed agency, so your guide collects your tickets before you arrive and takes you in through the priority entrance — you never stand at a box office. At Ephesus in cruise season that queue alone can cost you thirty to forty-five minutes in full sun. The same applies on all our tours anywhere in Türkiye, not only at Ephesus. The ticket price itself is still paid separately; what we remove is the waiting.

Yes. Mass is celebrated daily at the House of Virgin Mary, and visiting priests can arrange to celebrate there with advance notice. On any tour we are glad to build in time for readings, prayer or a short teaching by your own pastor — the day is private, so the schedule is yours.