I already had great expectations for the tour, but Ebru far surpassed them. She was incredibly engaging and attentive, not to mention extremely knowledgeable. She painted a very vivid, rich picture of Istanbul's Byzantine past, allowing us to understand its evolution. Although the tour was technically only three hours long, she stayed with us well past that and took us to less known sites that complemented the main walk. We couldn't be happier with the experience.

Claire (our docent) is a delight! She was easy going and catered to our interests, rather than simply telling us what she thought that we should know. She had a great mastery of the subject of the walk, but also a great knowledge of history that I found very useful for putting it all into context. I didn't know anything about Byzantium before I started the walk, but I felt like I was just taking a stroll with an old friend through a few neighborhoods in a city that I wasn't very familiar with. We laughed and had a good time. It was a fun, informative, interesting and fascinating walk. I highly, highly recommend it.

Again the docent was outstanding and knew here range the only thing that I missed out on was a walk on the walls but time constraints made it impossible. Maybe that needs to be a little longer more time is needed on that walk. This is by no way a critism of the what we did see, in other words I'm not suggested any of the other bits be cut as I wouldn't want to have missed anything that I saw. It's just that to do the Golden Horn fully more time should be added.

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