13:15 · Choose your walk
Private tours, built like a local’s day
Everything below is private — your party only, with the licensed guide, air-conditioned car, professional driver, pickup and parking fees in one per-person price. And on every tour that visits Ephesus, lunch is now included too. Entrance tickets are collected in advance with our priority pass, so you skip the queue and pay only the official price. One exception lives at the bottom of the list: a guiding-only service for people who just need the voice.
Seven ways to spend a day
Private Ephesus Tour
The whole ancient city with a private tour guide who has walked it a few thousand times and still isn't bored.
Ephesus Walking Tour at Opening Hour
There is a version of Ephesus almost nobody sees: the one before the ships come in.
Ephesus Tour for Cruise Guests
Your driver waits at the port exit and your guide has the whole day planned backwards from your all-aboard time.
Ephesus & Şirince Tour
Marble in the morning, vine shade in the afternoon, and a driver handling the hill road in between.
Selçuk in a Day
Selçuk is where the guides live, shop and drink their çay.
Ephesus Night Tour
Since 2026 Ephesus stays open after dark on four nights a week — and almost nobody knows it yet.
Bodrum to Ephesus, in a single day
Yes, it can be done from Bodrum — and done properly, not as a coach marathon.
Hire Ephesian Guide for Ephesus Tour
Already have your transport sorted? This is the one service we sell without a car: a licensed Ephesian guide, €145 for your whole group, waiting for you at the Ephesus gate.
How booking works
You write to us with a date and who’s coming. A licensed guide — not a booking system — replies with an honest plan and the exact price for your group size. On the day, everything about the moving of you — car, driver, parking, timing — is ours and already included, and so is lunch on any tour that visits Ephesus. Entrance tickets we buy ahead of time with our agency priority pass, so you never queue for them — you pay the official Ministry price and we add nothing to it. If you want the long version of how to choose any guide well, read our pillar on hiring an Ephesus tour guide.
Lunch is included from 2026
Our policy changed this year and it is worth saying plainly: if a tour visits Ephesus, lunch is in the price. A proper sit-down Turkish table — mezes, hot bread, a main, çay — not a packed sandwich and not a rushed forty minutes. It applies to the private day, the opening-hour walk, the cruise day and the Şirince day. Only personal drinks are settled by you. This is what the table looks like.
Every tour above walks the full Ephesus Ancient City, and most can add the House of the Virgin Mary in the hills above it. Ask us about lunch too — on this coast it is not an interruption to the day, it is part of it.
The ships we meet
We bring people back on time.
Guests from these cruise lines have walked Ephesus with us for over twenty years. Not one of them has missed a ship — we plan every shore day backwards from your all-aboard time.
21:00 · ONE MESSAGE, ONE PLAN
Tell us your date.
We’ll tell you the plan.
A licensed local guide replies personally — usually the same day, from info@ephesusbylocals.com.
TÜRSAB licence 15746 · Nothing paid in advance · Skip-the-line tickets held for you