This is the video I need for when I go there for a layover. Last time I was there Ataturk was still operating and the metro was much quicker and easier to get to and a whole lot less walking. Hope my mom can make it, lol. I'll just need to go to Karakoy for some baklava, heh.
haha! yes, we were also surprised how much walking was needed especially coming from a long flight but it's not too bad. It helps burn alot calories before eating alot in Istanbul 🤣
I couldn't thank you enough guys for this video, it is too much walking and escalators 😄 to use underground from Ist. airport to Taxim. After watching your video, definitely, I will take HavaIst bus from Ist. airport directly to Taxim square. appreciate your efforts a lot!!!
Exactly the same thought. I watched some other videos and I said that's a great way to cut down the trip cost by 4. But then I see this video, with much more details and less cuts, It's very overwhelming, especially that M11 to M2 transfert. I bet you guys got lost at some point and didn't get it recorded: 29:17
Heres something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird 'turkey'...... .....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :) In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name. Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages, but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :) Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's. The name it self has a suffix, '-iye', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to', just like the Latin suffix of '-ia', which exists in such country names like Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Indones-ia etc. Basically, the use of '-iye/-ia' is the same as the the use of '-land' suffix in country names like Ire(Eire)-land, Po(le)-land, Eng(Anglo)-land and so on and so on. Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10,000 years is much older than Latin which is around 1300 years old. Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) 'Türkiye' we got various spellings like; Turq-uía (in Spanish), Turch-ia (in Italian), Turq-uie (in French) Turk-ei (in German) Turk-ey (in English) Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as turkey was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named turkey.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken'... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as Greek or you don't call the terrier Britirsh, or shepherd as simply German, but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years. Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas. Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)
We did read all the way to the end and even cross referenced it online and with AI, it is an accurate telling of how the name came to be. Thank you for this invaluable information, now it makes more sense to foreigners like us where the name came from. Hope you also have a good day, we hope you stay tune to our videos as well. :)
thanks so much for the video,it helps a lot.planning to go turkey few month time..taxi price seems to skyrocket high,metro is cheaper option to go from airport to city centre
I really enjoyed your videos in the stunning city of Istanbul. More videos pls? Lol. How was ur stay in the airbnb as you mentioned in your video. Is it better than staying in the hotel? We are also going to be visit Istanbul for 5 days and few other cities in May and we also plan to stay in the Taksim area. Maybe you can share some ideas/ important infos about your place as how close to the public transportation and to istikal/galata/ taksim square. pls and thank you 😊
Thank you we appreciate the love. We usually stay in Airbnbs as we stay longer, you get a discount up to 50% if you stay for more than 28 days in Airbnb. We are also going to be releasing series about Istanbul and it's different parts soon, so be sure to stay tuned for more :)
@@notmyname8527 just a spare one if incase we lose it. We saw a video said it’s hard to get that card once your out of the city. Also yeah if we travel separately.
for transfers within 2 hours, you get a discount, but only on the first tap/person. The 2nd person will be charged full price. It's fine if you're only there for a day or two and not use transportation a lot.
The Istanbulkart card fee - 75 TL Then I top it up with - 100 TL Machine Transaction fee - 5.95 Total of - 175.95 TL They charge per entry. We paid twice when we change trains from airport train to metro train. So probably around 50 TL, but just to be sure top up your card 100 TL like what we did on the video.
Sultanahmet Square can be reached from Airport as following: M11 to Gayrettepe, M2 to Vezneciler-University (Direction to Yenikapı) and lastly T1 to Sultanahmet (Direction to Eminönü/Kabataş). You can use Moovit for a better navigation.
Depends on people's preference. We prefer trains because we know exactly where the train stop is, it's harder to tell where the stop is if it's your first time visiting a new country. If you have your own bus video, do share with us so we know how easy it is for foreigners. Thank you!
The video helped me in a different way. Airport to the hotel I will take a cab. Rest of the trip, public transport.
This is the video I need for when I go there for a layover. Last time I was there Ataturk was still operating and the metro was much quicker and easier to get to and a whole lot less walking. Hope my mom can make it, lol. I'll just need to go to Karakoy for some baklava, heh.
haha! yes, we were also surprised how much walking was needed especially coming from a long flight but it's not too bad. It helps burn alot calories before eating alot in Istanbul 🤣
I couldn't thank you enough guys for this video, it is too much walking and escalators 😄 to use underground from Ist. airport to Taxim. After watching your video, definitely, I will take HavaIst bus from Ist. airport directly to Taxim square. appreciate your efforts a lot!!!
this is one of the reasons we do what we do and why we document our travels. appreciate your kind words 🥰
Exactly the same thought. I watched some other videos and I said that's a great way to cut down the trip cost by 4. But then I see this video, with much more details and less cuts, It's very overwhelming, especially that M11 to M2 transfert. I bet you guys got lost at some point and didn't get it recorded: 29:17
Thank you very much, great informative video.
So nice thank you so much
Thank you!
Heres something you may find interesting. :)
The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird 'turkey'......
.....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)
In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name.
Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages,
but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :)
Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.
The name it self has a suffix, '-iye', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',
just like the Latin suffix of '-ia', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Indones-ia etc.
Basically, the use of '-iye/-ia' is the same as the the use of '-land' suffix in country names like
Ire(Eire)-land, Po(le)-land, Eng(Anglo)-land and so on and so on.
Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).
The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10,000 years is much older than Latin which is around 1300 years old.
Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) 'Türkiye'
we got various spellings like;
Turq-uía (in Spanish),
Turch-ia (in Italian),
Turq-uie (in French)
Turk-ei (in German)
Turk-ey (in English)
Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as turkey was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named turkey....
...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken'...
....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.
In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as Greek or you don't call the terrier Britirsh, or shepherd as simply German,
but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years.
Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas.
Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )
So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )
Best wishes. ;)
We did read all the way to the end and even cross referenced it online and with AI, it is an accurate telling of how the name came to be. Thank you for this invaluable information, now it makes more sense to foreigners like us where the name came from.
Hope you also have a good day, we hope you stay tune to our videos as well. :)
thanks so much for the video,it helps a lot.planning to go turkey few month time..taxi price seems to skyrocket high,metro is cheaper option to go from airport to city centre
Happy to have helped! enjoy your trip to turkey, we have several videos on our travels to turkey too if you are interested :)
Very practical! Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
i think taking a bus to sultanamet square is better that taking that metro looks confusing and long ride and walk
I really enjoyed your videos in the stunning city of Istanbul. More videos pls? Lol.
How was ur stay in the airbnb as you mentioned in your video. Is it better than staying in the hotel?
We are also going to be visit Istanbul for 5 days and few other cities in May and we also plan to stay in the Taksim area. Maybe you can share some ideas/ important infos about your place as how close to the public transportation and to istikal/galata/ taksim square. pls and thank you 😊
To visit I mean.
Thank you we appreciate the love.
We usually stay in Airbnbs as we stay longer, you get a discount up to 50% if you stay for more than 28 days in Airbnb.
We are also going to be releasing series about Istanbul and it's different parts soon, so be sure to stay tuned for more :)
Thank you for the info, for sure we'll be watching your coming videos. BTW are you guys filipino?
@@errold.4127 Yes, filipinos based in au 😁 🇵🇭
im lost after you got into metro.
How long would it take to get to yenikapi from istanbul Airport and what would the charges be like compare to taxi. Thank you
Why did you take 2 cards? Unless you will be be travelling separately
@@notmyname8527 just a spare one if incase we lose it. We saw a video said it’s hard to get that card once your out of the city. Also yeah if we travel separately.
One card is enough for 7 people 🤷♂️ why took two?!!
Yeah! So we can have a spare one. If incase we lose it. Nice, so the card can be use up to 7 people not 5? That feature is quite impressive!
@@aeyandmel yes you can use for 7 people in each card and sometimes 5 people)
for transfers within 2 hours, you get a discount, but only on the first tap/person. The 2nd person will be charged full price. It's fine if you're only there for a day or two and not use transportation a lot.
How long did it take you to get to Taksim from the airport?
more or less 30 mins
how much the ticket costs from airport to last station metro?
The Istanbulkart card fee - 75 TL
Then I top it up with - 100 TL
Machine Transaction fee - 5.95
Total of - 175.95 TL
They charge per entry. We paid twice when we change trains from airport train to metro train.
So probably around 50 TL, but just to be sure top up your card 100 TL like what we did on the video.
@@aeyandmel so...5.95TL only from aiport to last station?
@@sannyvlog3616 50 TL
is there a stop of metro to sultanamet square ? what is the name of stop ? thanks
I think you need to change trains in Mecidiyeköy, there is no direct train from the Istanbul airport to Sultanamet
Sultanahmet Square can be reached from Airport as following: M11 to Gayrettepe, M2 to Vezneciler-University (Direction to Yenikapı) and lastly T1 to Sultanahmet (Direction to Eminönü/Kabataş). You can use Moovit for a better navigation.
The bus is better
Depends on people's preference. We prefer trains because we know exactly where the train stop is, it's harder to tell where the stop is if it's your first time visiting a new country.
If you have your own bus video, do share with us so we know how easy it is for foreigners. Thank you!
Nah, subway is cheaper and faster