Ephesus Day Tour from Kuşadası Cruise Port

Ephesus is 20 km from where your ship docks — about 25 minutes by road, which is why this works as a half-day off a port call rather than a whole holiday. We meet you at the Ege Port cruise terminal and walk the ancient city with a licensed English-speaking guide: the Library of Celsus, the Great Theatre, the Temple of Hadrian and the marble street the chariots wore grooves into. You also visit the House of the Virgin Mary. The route also takes in a carpet and textile workshop, where hand-weaving is demonstrated and lunch is served, and one or two other local shops along the way. Those stops are how the tour stays at €29 a head: browsing is optional, nobody is expected to buy anything, and your guide stays with you throughout. We plan the return around your ship's all-aboard time, not ours, and we confirm that time in writing before you book so you can check it against your own boarding card.

Your guide meets you at the Starbucks by the cruise terminal — the landmark operators in the port meet at, so you are not hunting for an unmarked car among the coaches. From there it is a few steps out to the vehicle, which waits in the lay-by just outside. Send us your ship and date when you ask, and we will confirm your all-aboard time in writing before you pay anything. On days when a ship sails before 13:00 there is not enough time ashore to run this tour honestly, and we will say so rather than rush you. The workshop and shop stops are part of the price, not a surprise: browsing is optional, nobody is expected to buy anything and the guide stays with you throughout.

The route below follows the official 2026 itinerary. The exact order can shift with traffic, opening hours, weather and your group, and is repeated in your written confirmation.