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A Private Ephesus Day for Seven Seas Splendor Guests
For guests sailing on Seven Seas Splendor, a private Ephesus shore excursion means your own licensed guide and vehicle from the Kuşadası berth, arranged to the Regent standard, with a return timed to your all-aboard.
Seven Seas Splendor calls at Kuşadası this season, and her published 2027 World Cruise keeps the port on the spring Mediterranean leg. This page is the private version of her shore day, built the way Regent guests expect things built: completely, in advance, and around you.
Seven Seas Splendor 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 Regent standard, ashore
Regent guests live in a world where everything is already arranged, and the shore day should not be the exception. Ours is built the same way: the vehicle confirmed before you dock, the guide waiting at the plaza, the tickets handled, the route agreed, and nothing left for you to manage but the looking.
A world-cruise port worth the title
Splendor’s published 2027 World Cruise threads Kuşadası into its spring Mediterranean leg, and the port earns the company it keeps on that route. A complete Roman city twenty minutes from the berth is a rarity on any itinerary; on a world itinerary it is one of the days the whole voyage is remembered by.
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, the frescoed Roman homes under their canopy, fold in where time allows and reward the unhurried.
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 the 2027 spring leg, 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
Everything arranged, nothing rushed: the Regent day, ashore.
Tours of Ephesus is an independent local operator and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of Regent Seven Seas.