Bosphorus Dinner Cruise & Turkish Night Show In Istanbul

Very well organised. Shame the photographers were so pushy to buy their photos, which we did not! Show was great.

We had great time with our tour guide Sajid. He was friendly, patient and provided us with a lot of information about Doha and it's history. Me and my husband appreciate his service. Thought we didn't get the dinner in the Souk, tea we were suppose to get as part of the tour package

The boat ride food and service was great. I would recommend it to everyone. It was my first experience in Istanbul.

An upmarket tourist trip. Lovely boat nice food and great entertainment. Great way to travel on the Bosphorus

Boat was great. Food was naff. Driver was abysmal. He didn't speak English on a tour listed as "English guide", he was 45 minutes late, and when he picked us up, some guy went to the toilet and took a while, the driver responded by shouting at his sister so much she and her friend left the bus, then he drove off without them

Rude and aggressive staff terrible food beef kebab was all fat and tastless tiny portion. Waiter poor your treatedmore like a nuisance than a customer. Dont buy the limited drink package you get 2 drinks each. Dancers were ok 👍 just terrible service

Excellent night out with good food and entertaining Turkish show with belly dancing. Good services and beautiful night scenes.

The food was good but the music was too loud. It would have been nice to have a little more time to be outside to see the views without eating. It would also be better to disembark at a different time or place from the other boats because it was too crowded back on shore when it was finished.

Food was very good. Music was too loud. Otherwise, enjoyed it. Nice seeing the city lit up for night.

The show on the boat was great. It ran from 8:45 to 10:45. The hotel pick up was poorly organized and was late by one hour. I was not given any return trip contact neither. Anything on the boat was great. Anything before and after the boat were not professional,

this is not as what we expected. The food was average but the show was indeed very disappointing. We would not recommend this tour.

Trip of 3.5 hours took only 2.5 hours, so 1 hour less than stated. Food was terrible and cold. White wine was not drinkable, so we stopped ordering wine. Music was so loud that you could not speak to your opposite co-travellers or the one next to you. Very poor dancing. one guy was supposed to be a Derwisj-dancer. Oh my God, it had nothing to do with the so famous Derwisj-dancing. The excursion was not worth the money.

The dinner was great. The music they played , the shows , and the performances were all amazing. Highly recommended!!!!

Like any tour with a big group there is a lot of confusion in this process. While the dinner was so-so (as expected) and the transfer process was ok(pound music blaring throughout both pick up and drop off) the hardest part of the process was when our server came up and asked “do you have something for me” at the end of the night. While I understand tipping I felt that this was very aggressive and off putting. Only to have the same thing done on the return transfer.

Amazing experience Emre was great. Boat is amazing, music and food. 100% recommended. Emre was our server and made sure we had our wines and drinks ready. I had chicken and was great.

Overall a wonderful experience! Food was good, entertainment was awesome, and staff was very nice and efficient. Emre was a wonderful waiter! Very attentive and quick! Best waiter on the boat by far!

The whole experience was soo enjoyable from pickup to drop off. The people that worked on the boat were very accommodating and helpful. We were attended too promptly at all times. Good smiley staff Throughly enjoyed the event and would recommend to all travelling to Turkey

strange and feel confused for finding the cruise ,the girl from Palestine and other guy that work there was very nice and helpful .

I emailed the tour group weeks before the event about what time I would be picked up from my hotel. I never got a response back from them until the day of the event so I did not go on this Cruise because on the day of the event they emailed me and said they will not pick me up at my hotel and I needed to find my own way there.

Great experience and the dinner was delicious, I like the fun and activities and also the excellent service

Food good, Final belly dancer worked her way through the crowd, other dancers did not. Whirling Derbish performance ok but only one and very short. Audience dancing with DJ music for the last hour.

The entertainment part with traditional Turkish dances was excellent. Serving staff very good. The driver on time and very nice!

It was a nice experience. Good quality boat and good hospitable staff. The night view of the city from the river was also good. Food is decent.

I recommend this mini cruise, the food is super good, the wine and other drinks at discretion and the staff very friendly and the show with traditional Turkish dances superb!

Except for delayed hotel pick up all arrangements were great! Had a good time cruising the river and enjoying the beautiful sights of Istanbul!

A fun night but very average food, extremely loud music and the pick up/ drop off service was poorly comunicated and 35mins later than the appointed time causing concern.

On arrival starters were on the tables, we then waited 30 min for drinks to be served.Towards the end of the night the waiter was more attentive. Overall the entertainment was fantastic. Please make sure if you are having any alcohol that you book the correct package which is really good value for money.

Perfect time. Perfect show. Good food. Nice time for couple, adult and friend. You see diferent place important building

The dinner cruise itself was 5 stars. However the your operator was sly so only rates a 1 star. We booked with hotel pickup. But as we were in the area decided to make our own way to the pickup point. Which we thought worked well for ourselves and meant one less pickup for the tour operator. Towards the end of the tour we message to see where we would be picked up, as we had not been dropped off. I was then asked which hotel I was going too. It was then outside there area. When I checked my booking it now mysteriously said drop off point same as pickup point. If you do go with this company. Make sure you copy/screen shot all communication. We had to go on to getting a taxi to get back to our hotel. A good value trip became an expensive one

##TLDR - this organizer is a complete scammer. Do not book with them. In fact do not book these trips at all through these online sites - you can buy tickets for the cruise at the dock for less than 5% of the rort they are trying to pull here. Part of the scam is that this person selling tickets here does not actually have anything to do with the boat. He has simply bought tickets and then on sells at inflated price.## We paid $1000 aud for a private table for new years cruise. Before we even got on the boat it was a nightmare - waiting around 1 hour to board in a huddled mass of poor souls. Then got on the boat - we didn't even have an actual table or any seating for us. Organizer told us to wait for a couple of hours while he got boat staff to make us a table. During this time rest of cruise was sitting and eating while we were just standing there. Organizer then told us after two hours that boat crew wouldn't allow a table and we should just sit wherever we could. Sat at a table. Different organizer of that table started yelling at us and threatening us to get off the boat. Argument between two organisers ensues and we are eventually allowed to sit at a table where people have paid $30 a ticket. By this time food is 3 hours cold and inedible. Organizer on boat then simply tells us not his problem and he is just a driver. We text the scammer who took our money off TripAdvisor - he tries to gaslight us that everyone has paid $1000 ( for a couple) to sit at a crowded crappy table and eat bad food. Then stops responding. Reviewing the cruise itself for $30 tickets- pretty standard 3 star experience. Even if food was warm it didn't look appetizing. Entertainment was 3 stars nothing terrible just what you'd expect from an eastern European cruise in 1980. To save fuel cruise actually didn't do much cruising - most of the time was just stationary and moored about 50 meters from shore.

It was a very good experience. It was very fun. I went on my birthday and the stuff surprosed me with a song and a drink. I was very thoughtful. Everyone was very kind, polite and proficient. And the dj made a very good playlist every one was on their feet dancing. The dancers and the performers were very exciting.

Worst pickup driver ever. He was on the phone (holding the phone) all the time talking to whoever. He almost closed the sliding door on my girlfriend hand. Tour itself was very crowded the said it is max of 49 people. But it was beyond 100 people. Food was ok. Had to remember the waiter couple of times to get us our drinks. The price compared to what you get is way expensive and I would not recommend it at all.

It was a great experience! Food was good and flowing wine all the trip! The waiters were on the go all the time ( hard workers) nice staff! Show was brilliant though not everyone could see the the traditional dancing 💃 because they were performing in the middle section not on stage. It’s a pity cause dancers are pretty good performers! Then we had time & we were free to dance too! I really recommend everyone to experience this traditional event 👍 From Kevin & Vanessa from Malta 🇲🇹

Great food and entertainment. The dancers and musicians were so good. The catering staff were very polite and friendly. I recommend this tour.

city tour phosphorous the communication was amazing its a tour i would repeat again year after year.

Excellent show. It’s a great way to see several traditional dances then get to dance with the DJ songs afterwards. The meal was good. It’s not gourmet or anything but most banquet type meals aren’t very good. The price for everything you get makes this an exceptional deal!

The sufi whirling dance show is great 👍 Pick up drop off service is very helpful. The staff are kind and polite. Photographer also ready to take and print images.

A nice experience,we had the all inclusive alcohol package the entertainment was good and the food was average but overall it was worth it.Photos are optional to buy afterwards but bargaining is a must

Dinner was great. Show was great. The audience participation started as we pulled into port to debark. Only reason for 4 out of 5 stars.

I am sorry to say that this was very bad. They sat me at the back of the room, under a blasting speaker, the farthest from the show floor. The waiter was rude. When I sat down and started to eat, he told me not to start eating. When the main dish came it was cold. The entrance to the floor was right in front of my table so many people stood in front of my table during the show. The show was nothing special, 6 people dancing some traditional dances. The evening ended with load dance music and several people got up and danced, including myself. I would suggest that if you want to cruise the river, you take the cruise boat and avoid this turist trap.

Transport from hotel and back was smooth. Food was satisfactory. Service in the boat very good. Show was entertaining. Great time with the people we were seated with. Definitely, recommendable tour.

The service wasn’t that great and they mixed up my reservation which included and I almost lost out on money. The food was poor and entertainment was average. Views at night were beautiful

Generally speaking I think you get what you pay for. In some cases you get a better deal than you expect and the worst way is paying a lot and being disappointed. The evening river cruise falls nicely in the middle and you get the evening you paid for! Nothing wrong with that at all. The cost is not exorbitant, it is fun, especially if you like holiday camp type entertainment and the food and drink is just what you should expect on a river boat with maybe 100+ passengers. The entertainment is fun and exuberant and the staff work and try hard to make the evening a success. Would we go again? No. Do we regret going or paying the fee? No. It is what it says on the tin.

The views of the Istanbul skyline was amazing. The trip around the harbor was great. The entertainment is very good. The food is ok and that is not the real reason for going anyway.

This was unreservedly THE WORST Experience .The bus was late , no Aircon. Limited information.We sat at the dock for over 2 hours before the boat sailed. The food was out on the tables and exposed , dried out and literally rotted!!! The wait staff made Faulty Towers look professional as they cleared meals befor they were eaten . When we asked for our meals to be returned, they gave us someone else’s food that had been sent to the kitchen. The unlimited drinks comprised two warm , flat cokes over the entire night!!! They spilt food on guests and on the floor. The traditional meal included chips and chicken nuggets (Luke warm) The main meal took 2 hours to arrive and was burnt , cold and disgusting. The promised “Twirling Dervishes” simply DID NOT APPEAR and one of the belly dancers obviously had a bad back . The views were magic - you can see them from a public ferry for under $5. This tour is outrageous and should be removed from Viator. Everyone had a bad experience!!! Some even tried to get the boat to dock anywhere so they could get off and not waste their limited time in Istanbul. I would have joined them but we all had to suffer and endure until it ended - only to find the the bus was nowhere near the advised pickup location so we lost another 30 min wandering up an down the street looking for the hapless driver.

Outstanding value for the price. Couldn’t fault the 3 course dinner and the views on the Bosphorus were stunning. The entertainment was so vibrant and so much fun! Hotel pick up and drop off went without a hitch. A must do!

A fantastic night filled with music, dance, food and drink and to top it off all with the spectacular backdrop of Istanbul.

It was fun night, the bottomless drinks were great and there was a good selection. Not watered down! Great atmosphere with a dance floor after the entertainment. Photographer and opportunity’s for costume photo shoots which was a laugh, for an additional fee. Boat has two floors so it didn’t feel over crowded. Great memories.

Bosphorus dinner cruise along with Turkish cultural show was a brilliant experience- thoroughly enjoyed the evening But Viator was charging me €100 for hotel pickup when the cost was only €15 one way from our hotel