Description
Let us help you plan the PERFECT trip to Istanbul! With our Comprehensive Digital Guide, you will be able to plan your trip with confidence, knowing that you have the insight and experience from two people who have spent months and months exploring the city to bring you the best of what Istanbul has to offer.
Inside Our Guide You Will Find:
- 3-Day and 5-Day Itinerary Examples
- So Many Maps
- Our favorite restaurants all across the city (over 125 restaurants)
- Hotel options based on budget and location
- Main attractions and lesser known places
- And more…
- Suggested experiences to help elevate your visit beyond sightseeing
- 10%-15% discounts on a few of our favorite experiences
- Recommendations for where to stay
- Information on how to get around the city
- Our favorite Turkish foods, drinks, & desserts (with pictures and descriptions)
- And much, much more…
We have strived to put together all the tools and information you will need in one easy to digest place. This is NOT something we built after one short stay in Istanbul. We have spent months exploring the city to develop our recommendations based on our first hand experience. We truly wish we had this digital guide for our first trip to Istanbul, and we believe it will help you create your perfect stay here.
So Many Helpful Links
With our digital guide, you will have this information at your fingertips without needing to pack a bulky book. Our guide is full of helpful links that will streamline your planning AND BOOKING! We have also included links to our personal lists of locations on Google Maps to help take the stress out of navigating.
Our Guides are Updated Every Month
Don’t buy outdated information. In today’s world, things change so fast, especially when it comes to travel! Because our guide is digital, we are able to update it instantly every month with the most recent information about pricing, closing times, construction projects, etc… Don’t rely on a book that has been sitting on a shelf for the past year with information that is surely outdated!
100% Money Back Guarantee
We want you to fall in love with Istanbul just like we have! Do not come here without our guide! Buy it worry free right now, and start planning your trip with confidence today. If you are not 100% satisfied with our guide, just email us within 30 days and we will give you all of your money back, no questions asked!
Please contact us via email at Help@waypointofview.com if you have any issues.
Teddy Chan Tin –
I was a bit perplexed to buy a guide online as we can get all kind of books or guide in any bookshop and also so many information online. But seeing the price is not that high, I gave it a try.
I followed every little details and recommendations and it over-turned my plans. I ninitially booked a transfer (which the driver was irresponsive for few days and asking the same questions) and an Air BNB (the host did not answer my question until I cancelled) I took the recommendation for Transfers, book a hotel as per the recommendation.
My trip to Istanbul was mostly aimed for the turkish cuisine as I am a food bloguer. I booked 2 tours that is recommended. And I did not regret making this choice.
Having read this guide, I can sense that the authors are sharing their experience from an eye of a foreigner. I wish they do the same for other cities. Thanks for sharing your experiences and views and this is very much appreciated.
If I did not read the guide, I would not have been prepared for this trip and losing my time to locate and getting in tourist trap.
I highly recommend this guide if you want to explore Istanbul.
Thank you again.
Jess & Myles –
Thanks so much for the great review, Teddy! We’re grateful that even with your hesitation, you still moved forward to purchase our guide. And we are even MORE happy to hear that once you bought our guide, you were able to get things turned around and you felt more prepared for your trip! So glad you had a great time in Istanbul!
Mike –
A must read for any visitor planning a trip to Istanbul. Very helpful. Thank you for developing.
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much Mike! We hope you have a great trip!!
Danial –
Totally a must read if you’re planning to visit Istanbul. Super helpful tips/recommendations.
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much Danial, we are so glad you have found the guide helpful and really hope you have a great trip to Istanbul!
Angel Padilla –
To know this guide was so good, I would have gotten the Turkey guide instead. I would fully recommend anyone to purchase this guide and save yourself 100s of hours watching ‘4k silently walking around’ garbage video LOL. Don’t hesitate, don’t think twice to buy this and enjoy yourself as a ‘visitor’ and a ‘tourist’. Jess and Myles, excellent work and we hope to see you munching on some Baklava. LOL
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much Angel! We are so glad you like the guide and we wish you an amazing trip!
Romualdo –
I just returned from a wonderful 20-day stay in Istanbul and West Coast Türkiye. I have purchased both the Istanbul and Turkey guides from Jess & Miles and the tips helped outline my trip and save time. I have also enjoyed watching their Waypoint of View YouTube channel videos, especially about the different foods and different sites to see on both sides of the Bosphorus. These resources were so good to map out my visit. What I enjoyed the most: the people, the food, the sunsets, long walks, incredible history and monumental legacy and historical sites. The last two days I started thinking “should I retire here?” Anyway, thank you Jess & Miles for the tips and for sharing Istanbul and Türkiye 🇹🇷 with me, especially Kadıköy & Moda. Çok teşekkürler!
Romualdo
Jess & Myles –
Romualdo, we are so happy to hear you had a great trip to Turkey and that our guide was able to help you with your planning process!
Bobbilu Walden –
Wow!! This guide is amazing!! We are so excited for our trip and this guide has given us more information than we ever knew we needed. So much DETAILED information and personal experiences included. Highly recommended!!
Thank you!
Jess & Myles –
Thanks so much for the kind words Bobbilu, we hope you guys have a great trip to Istanbul!
Dave and Kimberly –
The 2023 Digital Istanbul Guide was a great straight-forward resource for our recent trip! It was super easy to download and was great to have at the ready on our electronic devices as we planned and explored. We found the general recommendations to be very helpful, and the site-specific advice (best time to visit, real costs, etc.) to be spot on.
Jess & Myles –
Thanks so much Dave and Kimberly! We are so happy to hear you found the guide helpful! We really hope you had a great trip to Istanbul!
William Peterson –
A great resource! We got more useful Istanbul advice from this guide than we did from the MANY hours of research on YouTube and travel sites. Our trip was definitely better because of the insights shared by Jess & Myles in this guide. The best ten bucks you’ll spend if you’re preparing to go to Istanbul for the first time.
Jess & Myles –
Thanks so much William! This makes us so happy to hear! We are thrilled you had a great trip and that our guide was able to help you with that!
Renee Edwards –
An awesome itinerary and recommendations. The guide made getting around the city super easy! Best value. Don’t hesitate.
Jess & Myles –
Thanks so much Renee! We really appreciate your kind words and we are so happy you had a great trip!
Norman –
I just saved the cost of your digital Istanbul guide – literally in about 5 minutes !!!
I was just scrolling the index and saw a page on E-visas – you had a link to apply online with Turkey. The cost is $50 US . My travel agent was about to charge me $109 each … Yikes !!!
Can’t wait to read the rest of your guide
PS I love your u-tube videos
Kathryn Diamond –
This guide is hands down the best thing to happen to us since we began traveling over 2 years ago. The guide got us around Istanbul with the best of memories to bring home. We will definitely use it again when we return. More over, there were travel tips and advice we have used when visiting other countries since then; no spoilers, you have to get your own guide =)
Videos are equally great, we visited a number of the restaurants in the video! Hardest thing is to remember is to ask the price of things before ordering/asking for them. Then do you want to barter (no disrespect to the culture we don’t care to). One vendor had prices posted but claimed they were ‘weekend prices’ after handing us the food. We felt required to pay the inflated price because we had not asked if the posted prices were right. They think All Foreigners are Rich… Anyway… Enjoy your visit.
Thanks for everything Jesse & Myles. We wish you all the best!
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review! We are so glad you found our guide helpful during your trip and we are thrilled you have found value in it beyond your trip to Istanbul! This really means so much to us!
We are sorry about what happened with the pricing at the restaurant. Thank you for sharing your experience. It isn’t too common but that can certainly happen… Sharing those experiences helps everyone remember to always confirm pricing… it is harder than it sounds to remember that rule 😀
CJ Kuan –
This guide has exceeded my expectations.
It is very convenient to download the whole guide onto my phone.
It contains useful information and honest first-hand recommendations about almost anything. The authors are not shy about giving their opinions.
I love the hyperlink inside the guide.
For example, it has a link taking you to the official eVisa application site. It has links to attractions and restaurants on Google Maps.
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much! We are so glad you have found our guide to be so helpful! We love that you see such good value in all the links! Most of all, we are thrilled we were able to exceeded your expectations 😀!
Oliver –
Just had the most wonderful week in Istanbul due to sticking to the recomendations of your electronic guide. Thank you so much! Great job!
Jess & Myles –
Thank you So much Oliver for taking the time to leave us a review! We are so happy you enjoyed your time in Istanbul and we are thrilled we were able to help!
Arturo & Michelle –
This guide far, far exceeded my expectations. It is so well put together, with helpful tips throughout and, maybe my favorite thing about it, working hyperlinks! With this guide, it is almost foolproof to not at least plan a great trip; whether you actually follow their wise advice is another matter entirely.
We highly suggest you do, as Jess & Myles just get it right in every way. Their restaurant picks are excellent, prioritizing where to spend more vs. less time, the neighborhood assessments, etc. all are spot on. I just wish that they published one of these guides for all the places they have been to; would have made our lives much easier…
Trust us and buy the guide. It’s less than $10, you can carry it everywhere with on your phone, it’s well over 100 pages long, and has working hyperlinks. Compare that to carrying around a 2-pound Fodors guide screaming TOURIST! This guide will save you 10x as much as it costs. I know it saved us a lot of money already…
AND, catch their YouTube videos too. Those are free, but the guide is where it’s at.
Thanks, Jess & Myles! Put out more guides to Morocco and other places!!!
Jess & Myles –
Thank you guys so much for your kind words and your support! We are so glad you found our guide helpful to plan your trip!!
Young Suh –
Must have for Istanbul bound travelers. The guide is extremely helpful and a must for first time traveler.
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much for taking the time to write us a review, we really appreciate it! We are so happy you found the guide helpful!
Eve –
So worth it!
I was only in Istabul for 24 hours but I still loved reading through the guide and i’m happy to have it on hand for when I go back sometime.
Incredible city and found many useful tips in the guide
Thanks
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much for the review, Eve! We are so happy you had a great trip and that you found our guide helpful!
Aly Andino –
I’m a female solo traveler and how I wish every country I traveled to had a directional guide like the one purchased by Jess and Myles. I was confident with every recommendation. All the links and discounts worked. I’ve been in Istanbul for two months and still reach out to them when in need. Bless you both from bottom of my heart for making life easier 😊
Jess & Myles –
Ahh thank you so much for the kind words, Aly.. this really means more than you know! We are so glad you are enjoying your time here! ☺️☺️
Kate –
The guide is excellent. Written by young people for young people. Some users like me are older—much older. I would love to have more info in distances, walking surfaces such as cobble stones and elevators or lack thereof in hotels. We must expend our energy wisely.
Jess & Myles –
Thanks so much for your feedback, Kate! You are definitely right, the city can present some challenges with the cobblestone streets, steep hills and lack of elevators. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts and taking the time to leave us a review!
Richard Lucas –
I have done enormous amounts of research for my upcoming trip. I have watched every video, read most of the books, spent countless hours online reading, and researching. These guys have checked every box that I have looked into!
So I can tell you for a fact that they can save you an enormous amount of time in research by reading this guide. And a lot of information that you won’t find online or that may be incorrect or outdated.
Hugh amounts of practical information that you’ll need to make a great trip! Don’t leave home without it
Jess & Myles –
Richard, thank you SO much for your kind review… this was precisely our goal with the guide, to provide ANY/ ALL information someone would need in just ONE place to plan their trip! So it makes us really, really happy to get such wonderful feedback! We hope you have a great time in Istanbul!!
Rachael –
Although we’ve travelled to Turkey many times, there’s information in Jess & Myles guide that we’d never have known about before. We genuinely recommend it to anyone looking for in depth and authentic tips ♥️
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much Rachael! We are thrilled to know you found our guide helpful while planning your trip! We really appreciate your feedback and kind words!
Del, UK –
Having enjoyed and seen the quality of the (free) series of videos on YouTube, the digital guide seemed like a no-brainer.
Payment and download is slick and works really well. You get up to 10 pdf downloads, so you can download to your laptop at home for a leisurely read, and also to your phone for access while you’re oot and about on your trip. The guide contains links and pinned directions for Google maps, and even has opening times and prices for major attractions. On top of that, there’s info on less touristy areas and eateries that we wouldn’t otherwise have known about, which is a real plus.
This guide really did help us to get the best out of our time away, and we’d recommend it in a heartbeat. $9 well spent! 😁
Jess & Myles –
This is so wonderful, thank you so much for the kind words and feedback and we are so happy to know you had a great trip!
John” Max” Carroll –
I found you guys and your guide just a few days before I left for a suddenly-decided first ever trip to Istanbul. It removed a lot of worry, gave me perfect ideas for what to do with my time- I love walking neighborhoods and people watching- and I filled four days easily with your suggestions. I learned I have to go back to try your restaurants and see the things I haven’t had time for! Well-written, easily usable guide, great videos… the best ten bucks I’ve spent in a loooooong time. Bravo guys!
Jess & Myles –
Thank you SO much for taking the time to leave us a review! We really appreciate it and we are so happy you found our guide helpful!
Viktoria Averina –
This guide saved me countless hours of researching and stress, and made it super easy to plan a 5-day getaway with Mom and sister for our first-time visit to Istanbul. It helped me identify the best location for our hotel, gave me a framework for the itinerary for each day and restaurants/foods to try. Jess was even kind enough to reply by email to my additional questions like what kind of fruits and veggies were in season and best places to buy them. We ended up having a fantastic time! Thank you for creating the guide Jess and Myles!
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much for the kind words… we are so happy you guys had a great trip and we are thrilled to know our guide helped you with your planning and saved you so much time! That is our #1 goal. 🙂
Jamie –
Brilliant guide – concise, highly informative and well laid out. Love the youtube channel too. Will update when I travel out and get back in a few weeks!
Jess & Myles –
Thanks so much Jamie, we really appreciate it and we hope you have a great trip!!
Alyssa –
This guide along with Jess&Myles’ YouTube channel was so helpful in planning our recent trip to Istanbul. With so much to do, the city really felt overwhelming for us first time visitors. But this guide was the perfect orientation we needed. We followed so many of their recommendations, and they never steered us wrong. The list of recommended restaurants alone was worth the price of this guide, we found our way to so many wonderful spots we never would have found otherwise. Thank you for helping us have an incredible experience in Istanbul!
Jess & Myles –
Thank SO much for taking the time to write such a nice review Alyssa! We are so happy you guys had a great trip and that you found the guide helpful! 🤗
Scott Koontz –
Just finished five wonderful days in Istanbul, pretty much followed the plans and had a great time. Really appreciated both the guide and the videos! Thank you!
Jess & Myles –
So happy to hear this Scott, glad you had a great trip and thank you for your kind review!
Usayd –
Loved the Guide! Hoping to use it later this year.
It’s impressive what you’ve been able to put together.
Jess & Myles –
Thank you so much for your feedback and we hope you have a wonderful trip!!
William Binz –
I’m a control freak when it comes to travel, and this book eased my mind about visiting Istanbul. Turkey absolutely blew my mind and the info I found in this thorough and up to date book helped me so much in navigating and understanding this beautiful city at a deeper level. Thanks for putting this together, it was worth every penny.
Jess & Myles –
Hi William! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback! We are so happy our guide has helped you plan your trip to Istanbul! We hope you have an amazing trip!