Topkapi Palace & Basilica Cistern Combo Tickets
Your ticket is valid from the start date you choose for 3 consecutive calendar days, the start day included. Spread your visits across them, around each museum’s opening days. It does not give unlimited or repeat entry.
- Topkapı Palace: Normally closed on Tuesdays
Check your dates against these before you book; holidays and temporary closures can also affect access.
At a glance
- Museums
- Topkapı Palace · Basilica Cistern
- Validity
- Valid for 3 consecutive days
- Ticket handover
- At our meeting point — details in your confirmation
- Cancellation
- Free up to 24 hours before your date
Topkapı Palace
Basilica Cistern
Valid for 3 consecutive days
Your ticket is valid from the start date you choose for 3 consecutive calendar days, the start day included. Spread your visits across them, around each museum’s opening days. It does not give unlimited or repeat entry.
What’s included
Once the residence and administrative centre of the Ottoman sultans. Its courtyards, pavilions and museum collections offer a glimpse into centuries of imperial life.
Open 09:00–17:00, last entry 16:00.
Not included: the Harem section.
Walk among the illuminated columns and the Medusa heads of the Byzantine underground cistern.
Daytime visits 09:00–18:30.
Digital audio guide on your own smartphone — bring headphones.
What’s not included
- A live guided tour — collecting your tickets from our host is not a tour, unless the product says so.
- Transport between the museums.
- Repeat entry to a museum already visited.
Ticket collection
Entrance tickets are handed to you in person at our meeting point; its location and directions are in your confirmation e-mail. The e-mail itself is not an entrance ticket. Security checks and ticket validation at each museum still apply.
