Europe · Türkiye
Cave hotels in the rock, balloons at dawn and valleys that took ten million years to make.
Our notes
Cappadocia's landscape of fairy chimneys and rock cut churches sits an hour's flight from Istanbul, and the hotels are carved into the same stone. Two nights is the usual stay: a dawn balloon flight, a guided walk through the Rose and Red valleys, the underground city at Derinkuyu and an evening on a terrace watching the light change. We book the balloon operator with the best safety record rather than the cheapest, and arrange a driver so that the day is not spent negotiating.
Stay
Uchisar, Cappadocia
A cave hotel of 71 individually designed rooms in Uçhisar, overlooking Pigeon Valley with views toward Erciyes Mountain, its two restaurants sourcing ingredients from within a 60 km radius.
Price on request
Uchisar, Cappadocia
A cave and stone hotel in Uçhisar, Cappadocia, built around registered historical artifacts from the Hittite, Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, and the only Relais & Châteaux property in the region.
Price on request