Istanbul ship terminal embarking Encore, April 2023

[cruisingaussies]

Please can someone who embarked on Seabourn in Istanbul last year (2022) tell me where the ship docks?  Am getting conflicting information for this year – is it the big, new terminal at Galataport, or the old one in town, Sarayburnu Port?

[Dunnedg]

As I said in the other post, in October we docked in Sarayburnu. 
Stayed in Radisson Hotel Istanbul Sultanahmet. Less than a mile from the Sarayburnu. 5 minutes walk from lots of restaurants. 10/15mins from Blue Mosque. 
Nice clean hotel overlooking the Bosporus. Right beside a ferry stop to take you to the East. 
Only issue we had was taxi drivers trying to take advantage of us. Tried to charge TL880 approx €45?  The last driver we approached only charged €5. He got a nice tip. 
Wherever you choose to stay, have a note of the address of your hotel and insist on taximeter.

[cruisingaussies]

7 hours ago, Dunnedg said:

As I said in the other post, in October we docked in Sarayburnu. 
Stayed in Radisson Hotel Istanbul Sultanahmet. Less than a mile from the Sarayburnu. 5 minutes walk from lots of restaurants. 10/15mins from Blue Mosque. 
Nice clean hotel overlooking the Bosporus. Right beside a ferry stop to take you to the East. 
Only issue we had was taxi drivers trying to take advantage of us. Tried to charge TL880 approx €45?  The last driver we approached only charged €5. He got a nice tip. 
Wherever you choose to stay, have a note of the address of your hotel and insist on taximeter.

Thanks for all the info.  We've been to Istanbul a couple of times before, our flight arrives in at 7.00 pm and we board the ship the next day. The departure port info is more important to us so we can find an hotel near that, we don't need to be near the popular sights.  However, departure from Sarayburnu means we'll book an hotel near there, with the bonus of being near Sultanahmet if we want a stroll round in the morning.

Shall be very wary of the taxi drivers!  The hotel our TA has proposed has an airport shuttle so we may book that.

 

[Dunnedg]

15 hours ago, cruisingaussies said:

Shall be very wary of the taxi drivers!  The hotel our TA has proposed has an airport shuttle so we may book that.

We used https://www.istanbulairporttaxis.com who were very good and well priced to travel from hotel to airport.