When booking the tour the information that came back included the sentence saying that we would be picked up at the airport and this did not happen so caused some confusion when we landed in Istanbul. The next morning we were supposed to be picked up at 10.30 a.m. and were not picked up until midday due to brake problems with the vehicle. While I accept that as we only had a short time in Istanbul we could have gone for a walk rather than sit for an hour and a half with the only information given was when the hotel rang the company. I felt the first day that us tourists were a bit of a trouble.

The bus drivers and the guides on the second and third day made up for the first day. They were all excellent and very informative and we thoroughly enjoyed the time and learnt a lot about your history. So after a very ordinary beginning it turned out to be a very good ending.