Full-day Ephesus Shore excursion from Kusadasi

We loved our time with Erakan. Her knowledge of the history and area was awesome. I have some limitations to walking distances and she was able to see I had resting places and overall took good care of me. She was also a lot of fun. We had several other good guides at other ports on our cruise but Erica’s was the best. All three of us highly recommend her as a guide.

Jim A.

Family of 8 from Canada arriving on a cruise - Zeynep was the best decision we made our entire trip. We have booked a lot of tours over the years, through a lot of different companies. On this last trip we booked through 3rd party sites, local attraction guides and cruise ship tours, not to mention, obviously with ToursbyLocals. Without a doubt, Zeynep and our other ToursbyLocals guide were the best guides we had over the 25 days we were in Italy, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. Considerate of all our needs arriving by cruise ship, she picked us up at the Port. She taught us everything about the area, entertained us with her wit, charm and humor, took us to the most enchanting spot for lunch and filled our schedule before getting us back to the port with plenty of time to spare to make our ship. Zeynep is the standard by which all guides should be measured. I would hire her again.

Erkan is AMAZING! Her love for her culture, country, and history was obvious through the whole tour. She does a fantastic job of explaining everything and her enthusiasm for history is apparent. We also loved her kindness in bringing cat food for all the cats at Ephesus. I highly recommend this tour.

She planned the perfect day including lunch, the tour and a Turkish hamam visit at the end . The driver was excellent too as was the van. Really could not have been more perfect . We are a family of 8 with a disabled person and 2 little children .

For Zeynep's review: Zeynep provides a lot of interesting historical details interspersed with a wonderfully wry sense of humor. She made everything easy for us with fast passes and getting the tickets for us. She made even the drives through the countryside intriguing with her details about Turkiey pointed out on a map. Zeynep also offered us options to change our tour, with recommendations on how to better order it to avoid the crowds.