Due to the high inflation, Turkey is not as cheap as it used to be. Touristic attractions have become particularly expensive and the government is obviously looking at tourists as cash cows.
At the same time, we are offered an opportunity of keeping the costs under control, or, at least, to be able to visit more places at the same costs that we would spend for just the must do.
Museum Passes are on sale either on line or in most of the ticket booths (at least in the main sites), that allow to enter a huge number of museums and other attractions withing a predefined period of time.
In our case, since we were spending three weeks in Turkey, two on the road and one in Istanbul, the most convenient was the MuseumPass Türkiye, which, even at the staggering costs of 165 euros, is good value for money. You can visit more than 350 museums and archaeological sites that belong to Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism and enjoy your journey through history. MuseumPass Turkiye is valid for 15 days starting from your first museum visit and it allows you to enter each attarction once.
Let's just consider the main sites:
Pergamon Acropolis 15 euros
Ephesus Archaelogical Site 40 euros
Terrace Houses 15 euros
Pamukkale/Hierapolis 30 euros
Goreme Open Air Museum 20 euros
Zelve Open Air Museum 12 euros
Aphrodisias 15 euros
Galata Tower 30 euros
Topkapi 42 euros*
* at the time of writing Topkapi does not appear anymore in the muze.gov site among the museums included
Just these museums would have an overall cost of 219 euros, significantly more than the cost of the pass itself. And this without considering that there are many other sites which are included in the pass.
So if you are an independent traveller, the purchase of the Museum Pass could be an option to save on the overall cost of the sites you will be visiting, provided that you make your plans in a way to fit all or most of the visits in the 15 days of the pass.
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