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A Private Ephesus Day for Wind Spirit Guests
For guests sailing on Wind Spirit, a private Ephesus shore excursion means your own licensed guide and vehicle from the Kuşadası berth, a day scaled like the ship, and a return timed to your all-aboard.
Wind Spirit calls at Kuşadası this season, four masts among the giants, and her guests come ashore wanting the day to stay as personal as the ship. This page is that day.
Wind Spirit at Port-Vendres, photo by Jean-Pierre Bazard via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. 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 smallest arrival in port
On a Kuşadası morning of towering hulls, Wind Spirit arrives with masts. Guests come ashore in handfuls rather than thousands, and the whole day can keep that scale: no assembly point, no headcount, just your party crossing the plaza to a guide holding your name.
A day with the same silhouette
A ship chosen for her sails deserves a day with the same character: quiet, close to the ground, and personal. One Ministry-licensed guide, a private vehicle, and Ephesus taken at conversation pace, with the Terrace Houses folded in where your hours allow. Nothing about the day is mass-produced, because nothing about your ship is.
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. A longer call fits the House of the Virgin Mary or a table in Şirince village without hurry.
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
Small ship, small group, the site to yourselves.
Tours of Ephesus is an independent local operator and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of Windstar.