My wife and I are doing the 13 day RS Tour of Turkey which ends in Kusadasi morning of November 1. Read this in the forum: "On the final morning of your tour, the tour bus can take you (no charge) from the tour hotel in Kusadaşi to the airport in Izmir, in time for a late morning flight." If the tour bus doesn't leave by 7:00 or 7:30 AM latest, I'm afraid we won't have time to make an 8:55 AM flight from Izmir to Istanbul; and then make the 1:50 PM Turkish Air flight from IST to SFO. (We have already purchased round trip flights in and out of Istanbul, with the return flight leaving at 13:50 / 1:50 PM)
I'm thinking our only alternatives would be (1) to leave the tour a day early - Friday, October 31 - get up to Istanbul and spend the night at an airport hotel . . . or (2) stay with the tour to the end, arrange for a personal shuttle, taxi, or ?? very early November 1 from our Kusadasi hotel to the Izmir airport.
Thanks in advance for any advice.