Azamara · Azamara Onward
A Private Ephesus Day for Azamara Onward Guests
For guests sailing on Azamara Onward, a private Ephesus shore excursion means your own licensed guide and vehicle from the Kuşadası berth, a day built for her long late-evening calls, and a split day if you want the town too.
Azamara Onward’s Kuşadası calls this season often run into the late evening, and her published spring 2027 Greece routes keep the port on the map. This page is about spending a long call the way it deserves: deeply, and in halves if you like.
Azamara Onward at the Port of Tallinn, photo by Pjotr Mahhonin via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and optimized for web use.
Why cruise passengers choose us
Five reasons guests book a private day with us instead of the excursion sold on board.
Award-winning, not just experienced
Eight TripAdvisor awards since 2013, from Certificate of Excellence to Travelers’ Choice, voted by real guests rather than marketing teams.
Exclusively your group
Up to 8 guests from your own party. We never combine strangers into a tour and call it private.
We work around your ship, not the other way
We build the day backwards from your all-aboard time and keep a comfortable buffer, so the return to the ship stays calm rather than a race.
Tickets bought before you arrive
Your guide pre-purchases every entrance ticket, so you walk straight past the queues. At peak season that can save up to two hours, time you spend inside Ephesus rather than waiting outside.
Your language, your pace
Guided in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or Japanese by a licensed expert, never a memorised script.
Recognised by travellers
Eight TripAdvisor awards across a decade.
Certificate of Excellence six times between 2013 and 2019, then Travelers’ Choice in 2021 and 2023. Voted by real guests, not marketing teams.
Certificate of Excellence2013 to 2019The long call is the point
Azamara’s promise is more hours in port, and Onward’s Kuşadası calls this season keep it, often running deep into the evening. A long call changes the arithmetic of the day: Ephesus without a stopwatch, the Terrace Houses at their own speed, a village lunch in the hills, and still an evening left over.
The split day, an Azamara speciality
Our favourite shape for an Onward call: the ancient sites with your guide in the morning, back at the berth by mid-afternoon, and the evening yours for Kuşadası itself, the harbour front, the old bazaar lanes, dinner ashore if the mood takes you. You bought the long day; we help you spend all of it.
Your private route through Ephesus
Where it suits your group, we enter at the Upper Gate and walk gently downhill to the Lower Gate, so the walking is easy and there is no climbing back. One Ministry-licensed guide, your party alone, and a route that bends to what you care about.
Planning your day around the ship
We build the day backwards from your ship’s hours in Kuşadası and keep a comfortable buffer before all-aboard. We do not publish fixed port times here, because they change by sailing. Tell us your date and we confirm your call and shape the day around it.
The private experience
- Private licensed guideYour own licensed local guide, never a shared coach group.
- Private vehicle, matched to your partyA private, air-conditioned vehicle sized to your group.
- Senior-friendly pacingA gentle pace with rests whenever your group needs them.
- Ship-aware return planningThe day is timed to your ship, with a comfortable buffer before all-aboard.
- No forced shoppingNo carpet or jewellery stops. Your hours ashore stay at Ephesus.
- All listed admissions includedClear, transparent pricing with the listed entries covered.
Private Ephesus tours to pair with your call
Common questions
Sites in the morning, the harbour at dusk: the whole call, spent.
Tours of Ephesus is an independent local operator and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of Azamara.