Istanbul, Turkiye
Tours Delivered,
Since Aug 6, 2010
7.0
Hours, Avg. response time
Guide #1521
MERHABA!! (Hello) A warm HOŞGELDİNİZ( Welcome) from guide Safiye. First of all I want to thank you for choosing Istanbul for your next destination. You will experience great Turkish hospitality, taste delicious Turkish food and learn deep history and culture, you are in right page :) I am Safiye and joined Toursbylocals in 2010 since then I am delivering private tour to eager travelers from all around the world. I am a happy guide and who adores her job. I do organize any kind of private tours and I custom tours according to travelers needs. The unique thing about Tourbylocals is, you can get a local guide in every city and feel like a local, learn the history and culture, visit hidden gems, try authentic local food, experience real life and use public transportation. I do arrange Shore Excursions and as well as layover tours. I arrange a private vehicle and driver if clients request. The beginning of my guiding carrier with Tourbylocals. I spend a couple of days with a couple from US. At the end of the tour, they told me that "Safiye we read a lot of books about Turkey and Turkish people, we knew how nice they are but you are the true reflection of all those informations". In my opinion without visiting Turkey, you will never experience this. Most of the Turkish people are very nice and hospitable, because it is in our culture. Since then I feel myself more responsible about my country because guides are the real culture ambassadors. Istanbul is a great city with a lot of history and culture, it is a very vibrant city with a lot of life. Istanbul is a crossroad between two continents (Asia and Europe) It is the only city in the world that you can experience changing continents in 20 minutes you can even have breakfast in Europe and take a ferry to Asia and have lunch there. I hope our paths cross one day through Tourbylocals, I feel lucky myself to guide you and help you for a lifetime Istanbul experiences and unforgettable memories. ***In accordance with the recent amendments of laws regarding tour guiding in Turkey, the guides are not allowed to directly sell tours. So, please note that the tours quaranteed here are to be by means of an officialy registered A Class Tourism & Travel Agency. -Professional Tourist Guide License from Ministry of Culture And Tourism License Number: 1403 -Graduation from Adnan Menderes University School of Travel Agency Management and Tourism Guiding Program. I am not a driver guide. I can accompany you in your vehicle or I can arrange a private vehicle and driver. In some museums, we are not allowed to enter exhibition halls, we give information about the exhibitions and give you some free times to visit.
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Excellent. Would thoroughly recommend Safiye, she is very knowledgeable and clearly knows her way around Istanbul.
We spent two full days touring with Safiye and I honestly can’t say enough good things about our experience. I would absolutely give her five stars. She was incredible from start to finish — warm, knowledgeable, flexible, and genuinely invested in making sure we had the experience we wanted, not just a standard tour.
Our tour was awesome. Perfectly tailored to gut what we were looking for and our guide Sophia was terrific!!!
Safiye provided us with a great day. We were very much looking forward to our day in Istanbul and it did not disappoint. Safiye was very friendly and knowledgeable. We learned many things about Istanbul and Turkey. Her tour was very efficient as she looked after getting tickets to all sites ahead of time. It was a great mix of history, food and a bit of...