



AI Picks
Tours & activities worldwide.
Visit Hagia Sophia and the Basilica Cistern, two highlights of Istanbul's old city, with a single combo ticket. Skip the ticket line with your QR ticket and explore at your own pace with a smartphone audio guide for both sites. An audio guide for the free-to-enter Blue Mosque is also included, and the ticket is valid for 3 days after first use. Depending on the option, you can add a Topkapi Palace ticket.
This combo ticket includes entry to Hagia Sophia and the Basilica Cistern with audio guides. Visit any time during opening hours and start at whichever site you like. The ticket is valid for 3 days after first use.
Admire the magnificent dome and mosaics of Hagia Sophia, once a Byzantine cathedral and an Ottoman mosque. Enter without waiting in the ticket line with your QR ticket and listen to the smartphone audio guide.
Visit the Basilica Cistern, an underground site of ancient columns and dimly lit water. You can explore it with the audio guide too.
Entry to the Blue Mosque is free, and the included audio guide tells you about its architecture, history and religious significance. With the Topkapi Palace option, you can also enter Topkapi Palace, the former residence of the Ottoman sultans (Harem section excluded). QR entry is not available at Topkapi Palace, so you meet a host at the meeting point and enter at a set time.
※ You skip the ticket line, but all visitors must go through airport-style security. Waiting times may be longer during major Islamic and Christian holidays or when cruise ships arrive.
Meeting point :
Hagia Sophia and Basilica Cistern: go directly to each entrance
Meeting point information:
Go directly to each site's entrance with your QR code ticket. You can start at either site and enter at any time during opening hours.
Meeting point :
Topkapi Palace option: Chimney Bistro
Cankurtaran, Soğuk Çeşme Sk. No:1, 34122 Fatih/İstanbul, Türkiye
Meeting point information:
QR code entry is not available at Topkapi Palace. Meet the host at the meeting point at Chimney Bistro near the palace entrance and enter at your set time. Entry is available daily except Tuesdays from 9:30.