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Airport timing after tour

We will finish the RS Istanbul tour on September 23 and fly to Izmir later that morning. What's a reasonable amount of time to finish breakfast with the RS tour, get to IST, go thru the security/boarding process? Turkish Air has flights at 1100 and 1300.

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"What's a reasonable amount of time to finish breakfast with the RS tour,"

Breakfast on the last day of the tour is not really together. Breakfast is offered by the tour hotesl but as you will have found from the previous tour day breakfasts, people come and go. There will doubtless be people who will have left for a flight before breakfast opens.

I've not done this tour so no comment on the amount of tie to get to IST etc. Just wanted to let you know the breakfast is not really a group event.

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As Pam said, you can go to breakfast as early or as late as you want (depending on what hours the hotel serves breakfast), or skip it altogether. I understand that the airport is about an hour from the central part of Istanbul and you would want to be there about two hours before the flight. So it’s really up to you as to how early you want to get up and go! I would choose the later flight because I’m not much of an early bird LOL. But others prefer an early start.

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By taxi it looks like the airport is ~1 hr away from central Istanbul. So for the 1100 flight it looks like you would need to be in a taxi by 8 AM at the latest.

Really depends on how early you want to get going.

The final dinner is one that has no fixed end time so 'early to bed' is not a given.

I am not an early bird person so my choice would be the 1300 flight. Getting there earlier and you have the how early can you check in to the lodging issue..

Your choice

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CWSocial - The OP is taking the Best of Istanbul, NOT the Best of Turkey tour. There is no bus to Izmir at the end of the Istanbul tour. The bus you’re referring to is at the end of the Turkey tour. The OP is flying FROM Istanbul TO Izmir.

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You're right, my mistake. Removing my above post which was for Best of Turkey rather than Best of Istanbul.