Licence : TURSAB A4339
This tour is the ANZAC Day - Trooper Tour, a 2-day program specially designed for ANZAC Day. It starts in Istanbul and takes participants to the Gallipoli Peninsula, where they attend the ANZAC Day Dawn Service and either the Australian or New Zealand memorial services before returning to Istanbul.
Day(s) : 2
Countries : Turkey
Start City : Istanbul
End City : Istanbul
Meals : 1 breakfast,1 dinner
Meeting Point for this tour is Port Bosphorus Hotel between 8:00am and 8:15am. Please ensure you arrive on time. From there, we depart for the WW1 battlefields of Gallipoli, making a short stop along the way to stock up on supplies and rations.
On 24 April, the programme depends on official restrictions, as tours may be cancelled at the last minute if high-ranking dignitaries such as the Prime Minister or Ministers are in attendance. If tours are permitted, we plan to depart from Istanbul early in the morning for a short complimentary Gallipoli tour, after which we will take the ferry across to Çanakkale to check in at our hotel and enjoy some rest. Around midnight, we will depart the hotel, cross back by ferry, and continue to Anzac Cove, arriving at approximately 1:00am to secure a place for the overnight stay in preparation for the Dawn Service. If tours are not allowed, we will instead proceed directly to the hotel to rest until we depart for Gallipoli in the evening to ensure a good position at Anzac Cove for the long night ahead.
Overnight : Çanakkale
Category : Special Class
Hotel : MD Barbaros Hotel
Awake before sun rise for the ANZAC Day Dawn Service. We become aware of the almost deafening silence as the moving service to commemorate our fallen forefathers on this special day begins. You will then have the chance to attend the Australian or New Zealand Memorial service before a late afternoon drive back to Istanbul. Upon arrival at the Fez Travel office your tour concludes and sadly it is time to say goodbye to new friends.
This is intended to give an idea of the type of accommodation that may be expected. The actual hotels used for any given tour may change due to many reasons such as group size, availability, time of year, hotel standard has dropped or simply we found a better hotel. We update the website immediately if and when any changes take place. If and when we do change hotels it will be to a hotel of equal or higher standard and will be at no extra cost.
Where more than one hotel is shown for a given an overnight stop this means that one of those hotels will be used.
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