5 Dolmabahçe Palace Tours in Istanbul Worth the Money

1.Dolmabahce Palace & Harem Fast-Track Entry with Audio Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 966 reviews · from $47Our pick

Explore Dolmabahce Palace, its gardens, Selamlik, and Harem at your own pace with a day-valid fast-track ticket and handheld audio guide. Bring your passport or ID to collect the device. You still pass through security, and busy periods can add up to 30 minutes.

“Extremely enjoyable. Well worth visiting and you are given an audio guide to go around with instead of having to download annoying apps.”

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2.Dolmabahce Palace and Harem Skip-the-Line Ticket

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 751 reviews · 1 day · from $62

Enter Dolmabahçe Palace on your own with a skip-the-ticket-line pass covering the Selamlık, Harem, and Painting Museum. An audio guide is available in 10 languages. Allow 2.5 to 4 hours for the palace, gardens, Bosphorus views, and security queue.

“It is a must to visit the Dolmabahçe Palace, Harem, and grounds. It is gorgeous, and an interesting window to the sultans’ lives. The audio tour was easy to use, and very important since we didn’t know much of the history. Skip the line ticket is a nice perk since the Palace is a popular tourist site. It’s important to have the QR code for each ticket in your party, which was not clear to me when I saved our tickets to my Apple Wallet. Those tickets were not enough to enter the grounds. I had to access my email in order to find each QR code. We also enjoyed…”

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3.Dolmabahce Palace & Harem Skip-the-Line Entry

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 488 reviews · from $47

Enter Dolmabahce Palace on your own, skip the ticket queue, and explore the grand state rooms, Harem, gardens, and waterfront views with an audio guide. The visit is self-guided, with no hotel pickup or meeting point. Bring physical ID and cash to borrow the audio device.

“The Palace and its history is very interesting and beautiful to visit. The skip the line ticket helps with part of the queue as the security check is necessary for every visitor.”

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4.Dolmabahce Palace & Harem Skip-the-Line Entry

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 401 reviews · 2 hours · from $55

Explore Dolmabahçe Palace and its Harem section at your own pace with a QR entry ticket and audio guide in 25 languages. You’ll see Ottoman grandeur, Baccarat and Bohemian chandeliers, gold ceilings, Atatürk’s rooms, and the palace gardens. Live guides may be available with selected options.

“The Guide was amazing and so was the palace… we had enough time to roam around and look at the place. As you’re not allowed to take pictures inside the palace, it was faster Ozzy(original Turkish name was difficult to pronounce) was the perfect tour Guide”

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5.Istanbul Boat Cruise and Dolmabahce Palace & Two Continents

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 80 reviews · 8 hours (approx.) · from $156

Spend about eight hours crossing Istanbul by coach, boat, and on foot. Visit the Spice Bazaar and Dolmabahçe Palace, cruise past Rumeli Fortress and Ottoman palaces, cross the Bosphorus Bridge, and finish at Çamlıca or Yeditepe Hill. English guiding is offered.

“The service was good the local guide brilliant I suffer with Tinnitus and could hear everything he was saying,and he was very informative. I could have done without the fashion show the jackets were well above my budget if including this helps with the price of the trip so be it. However excluding that I thoroughly recommend this trip. .”

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