Türkiye with children
Designed around the children as much as the parents: when the days start, how long the boat crossing is, and who is telling the story at the old places.
Pace
No two early mornings in a row unless you ask for them. The first afternoon after a long flight is left empty, and dinner comes to you. Where a famous place has a famous queue, we go in by the quiet door at opening, and we leave before anyone is tired of it.
The water
A day on a boat is the day children remember. We choose the boat and the bay for the youngest on board: calmer eastern bays, a steadier boat where someone gets seasick, a short crossing rather than a long one. On the Bosphorus the boat is yours for the evening; in Bodrum a gulet is yours for the day, with a captain who knows which coves are empty.
The old places
Guides are chosen for the children as much as for the history: the ones who can make a cistern or a ruined city into a story. In Cappadocia, a potter's wheel in Avanos suits small hands; the balloon operators set a minimum age and height, and we check them for your children before promising a dawn.
Where you stay
Houses chosen for a reason written on their page: in Istanbul, somewhere the children can walk to the water and the parents can see it from bed; in Cappadocia, a terrace for the sunset and a breakfast that waits; by the sea, a quiet bay with the first swim before unpacking. The hotels we know well are listed by place.
A sample week, or two
Istanbul, Cappadocia and Bodrum in eleven nights is the shape most families take: the city, the valleys, then a week by the water where nothing starts before ten. With a week, Istanbul and Cappadocia. Both are starting points; tell us the children's ages and we will redraw them.
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We will design the rest around you. A travel designer reads every message and replies personally.