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A Private Ephesus Day for Celebrity Infinity Guests
For guests sailing on Celebrity Infinity, a private Ephesus shore excursion means your own licensed guide and vehicle from the Kuşadası berth, with the quiet-season site at its very best on her early and late calls.
Celebrity Infinity calls at Kuşadası this season, and her published 2027 itineraries open the port as early as March. This page is the private version of her shore day, and if your sailing falls in the quiet months, it is written especially for you.
Celebrity Infinity at the Port of Rhodes, 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 2019Ephesus in the quiet months
Infinity’s published programme brings her to Kuşadası outside the crush as well as inside it, with 2027 calls opening as early as March. Off-peak Ephesus is a different site: cool marble, long light, storks settling on the Artemis column, and stretches of Curetes Street where your party walks alone. If your sailing lands in the shoulder months, you have drawn the better ticket.
A day with room for the stories
A quieter site rewards a slower guide. Ours is Ministry-licensed and works from the archaeology: who paid for the Library of Celsus, why its facade deceives the eye on purpose, what the inscriptions on the paving actually say. When the crowds are thin, the stories get their full length.
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. The Terrace Houses fold in where time allows, and in the quiet months they are often nearly private.
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, this season or from her published 2027 itineraries, 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
The quiet months are the connoisseur’s months.
Tours of Ephesus is an independent local operator and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of Celebrity Cruises.