Thessaloniki Kavala Tour
16 October 2026 – 18 October 2026
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1 Nights, 3 Days
Tour details
Day 1: Istanbul – Keşan - Thessaloniki
On the first day of our trip, we depart at 22:00 from Kadıköy Marriage Office, 22:30 from Mecidiyeköy Oto Ekspertiz, 23:00 from Bakırköy Ömür Shopping Center, and 23:30 from Beylikdüzü Marmara Park, following the Silivri – Keşan highway to arrive at the İpsala border gate. After passport and customs procedures, we will proceed to Thessaloniki via the road passing through Dedeağaç - Gümülcine - İskeçe.
Day 3: Thessaloniki-Kavala – Gümülcine – Dedeağaç – Istanbul
Thessaloniki – Kavala Tour
1 Night – 3 Days
2026
1 Night – 3 Days
2026
Tour Departure Dates:
January 9 / January 16 / January 23 / January 30 / February 6 / February 13 / February 27 / March 6 / March 13 / March 20 / March 27 / April 3 / April 10 / April 17 / April 24 / May 1 / May 8 / May 15 / May 22 / September 25 / October 2 / October 9 / October 16 / October 23 / October 30 / November 6 / November 13 / November 20 / November 27 / December 4 / December 11 / December 18 / December 25
January 9 / January 16 / January 23 / January 30 / February 6 / February 13 / February 27 / March 6 / March 13 / March 20 / March 27 / April 3 / April 10 / April 17 / April 24 / May 1 / May 8 / May 15 / May 22 / September 25 / October 2 / October 9 / October 16 / October 23 / October 30 / November 6 / November 13 / November 20 / November 27 / December 4 / December 11 / December 18 / December 25
Day 1: Istanbul – Keşan - Thessaloniki
On the first day of our trip, we depart at 22:00 from Kadıköy Marriage Office, 22:30 from Mecidiyeköy Oto Ekspertiz, 23:00 from Bakırköy Ömür Shopping Center, and 23:30 from Beylikdüzü Marmara Park, following the Silivri – Keşan highway to arrive at the İpsala border gate. After passport and customs procedures, we will proceed to Thessaloniki via the road passing through Dedeağaç - Gümülcine - İskeçe.
Day 2: Thessaloniki
In the morning, upon arrival in Thessaloniki, we will have a panoramic city tour; among the highlights are the waterfront, White Tower, Rotunda, Exhibition Square, Ottoman and Byzantine artifacts, the largest cathedral in Greece, the Church of St. Demetrius, the statue of Alexander the Great, Hamza Bey Mosque, and the statues of E. Venizelos and P. Konstantinos, Vardar, Macedonia, Aristotle, and Eleftherios squares. After the tour, we will visit the house of our Great Leader Atatürk and transfer to our hotel. Guests wishing to do some shopping can join the Thessaloniki Mega Center & Jumbo Store Shopping Tour organized by our guide (20 EUR). In the evening, guests can join a Yunan Taverna Tour organized by our guide for unlimited entertainment with delicious food, Greek music, and bouzouki (65 EUR). (Note: For guests not joining the Taverna tour, the round-trip transfer to Thessaloniki for 15 EUR per person.) Overnight stay at our hotel. Breakfast: will be purchased optionally en route. Options may include soup, breakfast plate, pastries, brewed tea.
Lunch: will be freely taken in Thessaloniki city center. Our guide recommends seafood at the fish restaurants along the waterfront.
Dinner: Guests can optionally join the Taverna Tour, which is organized separately.
Route: Istanbul-Thessaloniki (590 km),
Lunch: will be freely taken in Thessaloniki city center. Our guide recommends seafood at the fish restaurants along the waterfront.
Dinner: Guests can optionally join the Taverna Tour, which is organized separately.
Route: Istanbul-Thessaloniki (590 km),
Day 3: Thessaloniki-Kavala – Gümülcine – Dedeağaç – Istanbul
After breakfast at the hotel, we will depart for Kavala. After an approximately 2 to 3-hour journey, we will reach Kavala for a panoramic city tour. Highlights include the Aqueduct, the Harbor, the Castle, 19th Century Neoclassical buildings, Pangia, Old and New City, Acropolis, Lighthouse, and the churches of St. Nicholas and Teodoro Kimissi, as well as the Mehmet Ali Pasha Imaret and its statue. Afterward, there will be free time for lunch. Following the gathering, we will begin our return journey, passing through the cities of İskeçe & Gümülcine & Dedeağaç panoramically to reach the İpsala border gate. Guests can optionally join the Porto Lagos tour organized by our guide (10 EUR / This tour takes place if the entire group participates) After completing the passport and customs procedures, we will travel to Istanbul via the Keşan – Tekirdağ – Silivri highway. After a free meatball break in Tekirdağ, we will arrive in Istanbul at our starting points in the evening, marking the end of the program.
Breakfast: will be taken at our hotel and is included in the tour price.
Lunch: will be freely taken in Kavala city center. We recommend trying Greek Salad, Rice with Mussels, Stuffed Calamari, Fried Eggplant, and Pilaki.
Dinner: will be organized extra at a suitable establishment while on the way.
Route: Thessaloniki-Istanbul (590 km),
Breakfast: will be taken at our hotel and is included in the tour price.
Lunch: will be freely taken in Kavala city center. We recommend trying Greek Salad, Rice with Mussels, Stuffed Calamari, Fried Eggplant, and Pilaki.
Dinner: will be organized extra at a suitable establishment while on the way.
Route: Thessaloniki-Istanbul (590 km),
What's included
* Transportation services with luxury buses
* Local professional Turkish guiding services
* Accommodation in 3* or 4* hotels with breakfast
* Panoramic city tours specified in the program.
* Water service inside the vehicle
* Customs duties
* All highway, parking, and check-point expenses
* Local professional Turkish guiding services
* Accommodation in 3* or 4* hotels with breakfast
* Panoramic city tours specified in the program.
* Water service inside the vehicle
* Customs duties
* All highway, parking, and check-point expenses
Not included
* Museum and archaeological site entrance fees.
* City taxes (5 EUR per person)
* Extras taken at the hotel and all personal expenses
* Breakfast on the first day
* Lunch and dinner.
* Schengen Visa
* Foreign exit fee
* Foreign travel health insurance
Need to Know
INFORMATION,
- Guests participating must have a valid Schengen visa for the entire duration of the tour. (Green passport holders are exempt from the visa.)
- To be able to shop and make purchases in all countries included in the program during the tour, it is sufficient to carry Euros. In regions where local currency is used, the guide will assist with currency exchange.
- Comfortable walking shoes or sneakers should be preferred during the trip. It is advisable to bring a sweater or similar clothing for the evening.
- When entering Turkey from abroad, there is a mandatory minimum stay of 3 days to be able to bring goods (alcohol, cigarettes, etc.).
- Duty-free shopping limit when entering Turkey from abroad: Cigarettes: 3 cartons, Alcoholic Beverages: 1 liter of alcoholic beverages (excluding spirits with more than 22% alcohol, wine, and champagne), Alcoholic Beverages: 2 liters of alcoholic beverages (including spirits with less than 22% alcohol, wine, and champagne), Perfume: 600 ml, Makeup or Skin Care Products: 5 items, Chocolate and Confectionery: 2 kg, Coffee: 1 kg, Tea: 1 kg
- During the tour, guides may make changes to the program flow while ensuring that all places specified in the program are shown, depending on weather and road conditions.
- Guests who register for the tour have the right to cancel free of charge up to 30 days before the tour date. If the cancellation is made less than 30 days before the tour date, a 30% penalty applies; if 20 days or less remain, a 100% penalty applies. Documents submitted with the participant's cancellation request, such as hospital reports or work permission letters obtained from Turkish authorities, are unfortunately not accepted for cancellations of hotels and services booked outside Turkey.
- Our tour program is organized with a minimum participation requirement of 25 people. If sufficient participation is not achieved for the trip, the final cancellation notification date is 20 days before the tour departure. Tours cancelled due to insufficient participation will be notified by Viyatravel.
- In cases where the tour program provides only category information without specifying names and/or offers options for the same destination, the hotel(s) will be notified by Viyatravel 2 days before the tour departure.
- During periods such as fairs, congresses, concerts, events, sports tournaments, etc., hotels may be used at distances greater than the specified kilometers. In such cases, information will be provided by Viyatravel 15 days before the tour departure date.
- Triple rooms are subject to hotel availability. In these rooms, the bed assigned to the third person is smaller than standard beds. Triple rooms consist of 1 large bed + 1 extra bed. Since extra beds are foldable or referred to as coach beds, participants booking triple rooms for the 3rd person and/or children are deemed to have accepted any potential crowding in the room and the type of bed.
- Breakfasts included in the tour package are served according to the breakfast culture of the country visited, generally as a limited continental menu consisting of butter, jam, bread, tea, or coffee, and may be served in a separate hall allocated for the group.
- Panoramic city tours included in the tour package are tours lasting a maximum of 2-3 hours, organized for general introduction to cities, conducted from the vehicle with guide commentary, and do not include entry to museums or historical sites. If panoramic tours cannot be carried out because they coincide with other tours in the program, or if local authorities do not allow visiting or entering them on the scheduled day and time, or due to closed roads caused by any event, or if weather conditions make the tour impossible, Viyatravel is not responsible for the inability to conduct these tours. Some tours may be conducted via public transport or on foot, within available means, at points where vehicles are not allowed to enter due to closed roads.
- Waiting times at customs gates crossed by road during travel may exceed standard limits; Viyatravel cannot be held responsible for any negative consequences arising from these waiting times.
- Extra tours are organized by our local partner Viyatravel with a minimum participation requirement of 20 people. If sufficient numbers are not met, the tours cannot be carried out, or the prices, content, and vehicles used for extra tours may vary according to the number of participants. Additionally, the days and times of the tours may be changed by the guide depending on whether museums and historical sites at the destinations are open or closed, and on weather conditions.
- Extra tours are optional and depend on the participant's preference. Passengers who do not wish to participate in extra tours organized during the trip are deemed to have agreed to wait at a suitable rest facility along the route. These passengers will be dropped off at the roadside rest facility before the extra tour begins and picked up from that point after the main tour is completed.
- Check-in and boarding procedures for persons participating in air tours are personal procedures and must be completed by the guest at the airport counters of the relevant airline or online via the airline's website before the flight.
- Viyatravel is not responsible for guests failing to board their flights due to not being present at the specified airport at the times announced by Viyatravel for tour participation, failing to complete check-in and boarding procedures on time, completing these procedures on time but not boarding the plane. All costs for new round-trip flight tickets and transfers in the destination area required for passengers who miss their flight to join the tour are borne by themselves.
- Viyatravel acts as an intermediary between the passenger and the airline and is subject to the Hague Protocol of 28.09.1955. There may be risks of delays in scheduled and special flights, or times may change prior to the existing tour and flight. Viyatravel is obligated to notify of such changes as soon as possible. The passenger has purchased the tour accepting the risk of time changes. Children aged 0-2 years do not pay airport taxes or airport service fees.
- Vehicle types used in our tours are classified as follows according to the number of passengers. Based on the number of people in each tour, the following vehicle types are assigned:
Buses: (Used for groups of 25 - 46 people) *Mercedes Travego/Tourismo *NEOPLAN Cityliner/Tourliner -*Temsa Safir/Maraton *Man Fortuna
Midibuses: (Used for groups of 17 - 24 people) *Isuzu Turkuaz , *Otokar Mega
Minibuses: (Used for groups up to 16 people) *Vw Volt , *Mercedes Sprinter
- All guests are deemed to have accepted the above terms upon completing the tour sale.
- To be able to shop and make purchases in all countries included in the program during the tour, it is sufficient to carry Euros. In regions where local currency is used, the guide will assist with currency exchange.
- Comfortable walking shoes or sneakers should be preferred during the trip. It is advisable to bring a sweater or similar clothing for the evening.
- When entering Turkey from abroad, there is a mandatory minimum stay of 3 days to be able to bring goods (alcohol, cigarettes, etc.).
- Duty-free shopping limit when entering Turkey from abroad: Cigarettes: 3 cartons, Alcoholic Beverages: 1 liter of alcoholic beverages (excluding spirits with more than 22% alcohol, wine, and champagne), Alcoholic Beverages: 2 liters of alcoholic beverages (including spirits with less than 22% alcohol, wine, and champagne), Perfume: 600 ml, Makeup or Skin Care Products: 5 items, Chocolate and Confectionery: 2 kg, Coffee: 1 kg, Tea: 1 kg
- During the tour, guides may make changes to the program flow while ensuring that all places specified in the program are shown, depending on weather and road conditions.
- Guests who register for the tour have the right to cancel free of charge up to 30 days before the tour date. If the cancellation is made less than 30 days before the tour date, a 30% penalty applies; if 20 days or less remain, a 100% penalty applies. Documents submitted with the participant's cancellation request, such as hospital reports or work permission letters obtained from Turkish authorities, are unfortunately not accepted for cancellations of hotels and services booked outside Turkey.
- Our tour program is organized with a minimum participation requirement of 25 people. If sufficient participation is not achieved for the trip, the final cancellation notification date is 20 days before the tour departure. Tours cancelled due to insufficient participation will be notified by Viyatravel.
- In cases where the tour program provides only category information without specifying names and/or offers options for the same destination, the hotel(s) will be notified by Viyatravel 2 days before the tour departure.
- During periods such as fairs, congresses, concerts, events, sports tournaments, etc., hotels may be used at distances greater than the specified kilometers. In such cases, information will be provided by Viyatravel 15 days before the tour departure date.
- Triple rooms are subject to hotel availability. In these rooms, the bed assigned to the third person is smaller than standard beds. Triple rooms consist of 1 large bed + 1 extra bed. Since extra beds are foldable or referred to as coach beds, participants booking triple rooms for the 3rd person and/or children are deemed to have accepted any potential crowding in the room and the type of bed.
- Breakfasts included in the tour package are served according to the breakfast culture of the country visited, generally as a limited continental menu consisting of butter, jam, bread, tea, or coffee, and may be served in a separate hall allocated for the group.
- Panoramic city tours included in the tour package are tours lasting a maximum of 2-3 hours, organized for general introduction to cities, conducted from the vehicle with guide commentary, and do not include entry to museums or historical sites. If panoramic tours cannot be carried out because they coincide with other tours in the program, or if local authorities do not allow visiting or entering them on the scheduled day and time, or due to closed roads caused by any event, or if weather conditions make the tour impossible, Viyatravel is not responsible for the inability to conduct these tours. Some tours may be conducted via public transport or on foot, within available means, at points where vehicles are not allowed to enter due to closed roads.
- Waiting times at customs gates crossed by road during travel may exceed standard limits; Viyatravel cannot be held responsible for any negative consequences arising from these waiting times.
- Extra tours are organized by our local partner Viyatravel with a minimum participation requirement of 20 people. If sufficient numbers are not met, the tours cannot be carried out, or the prices, content, and vehicles used for extra tours may vary according to the number of participants. Additionally, the days and times of the tours may be changed by the guide depending on whether museums and historical sites at the destinations are open or closed, and on weather conditions.
- Extra tours are optional and depend on the participant's preference. Passengers who do not wish to participate in extra tours organized during the trip are deemed to have agreed to wait at a suitable rest facility along the route. These passengers will be dropped off at the roadside rest facility before the extra tour begins and picked up from that point after the main tour is completed.
- Check-in and boarding procedures for persons participating in air tours are personal procedures and must be completed by the guest at the airport counters of the relevant airline or online via the airline's website before the flight.
- Viyatravel is not responsible for guests failing to board their flights due to not being present at the specified airport at the times announced by Viyatravel for tour participation, failing to complete check-in and boarding procedures on time, completing these procedures on time but not boarding the plane. All costs for new round-trip flight tickets and transfers in the destination area required for passengers who miss their flight to join the tour are borne by themselves.
- Viyatravel acts as an intermediary between the passenger and the airline and is subject to the Hague Protocol of 28.09.1955. There may be risks of delays in scheduled and special flights, or times may change prior to the existing tour and flight. Viyatravel is obligated to notify of such changes as soon as possible. The passenger has purchased the tour accepting the risk of time changes. Children aged 0-2 years do not pay airport taxes or airport service fees.
- Vehicle types used in our tours are classified as follows according to the number of passengers. Based on the number of people in each tour, the following vehicle types are assigned:
Buses: (Used for groups of 25 - 46 people) *Mercedes Travego/Tourismo *NEOPLAN Cityliner/Tourliner -*Temsa Safir/Maraton *Man Fortuna
Midibuses: (Used for groups of 17 - 24 people) *Isuzu Turkuaz , *Otokar Mega
Minibuses: (Used for groups up to 16 people) *Vw Volt , *Mercedes Sprinter
- All guests are deemed to have accepted the above terms upon completing the tour sale.