Discover Bursa on a private day trip from Istanbul with a professional driver. Visit Uludag, Cumalıkızık, Grand Mosque, Koza Han and the historic city center in a comfortable Mercedes vehicle. Hotel p...
A private Bursa tour with Cab Istanbul is a car and a chauffeur reserved for your group, from a door in Istanbul to Bursa and back. You name the stop. The chauffeur does not collect other bookings at the mosque, in the village, or at a hotel door on the mountain.
Bursa is a wide city at the foot of Uludağ, not one stop that a microphone can run. The Grand Mosque and the hans, Cumalıkızık, Uludağ, Gölyazı, Mudanya and Trilye, the waterfalls, İnegöl, and İznik each point a different way. Putting all of them on one date means leaving Istanbul before dawn and coming back after dinner has gone cold. This page prices a private day. It does not sell a closed package.
People search "Bursa tour", "Istanbul to Bursa transfer", and "car with driver" as if they were one product. Cab Istanbul prices them apart. A Bursa day trip from Istanbul is the first of the three.
After the bridge you are still inside a large province. The early-Ottoman centre is one way. The village is on the foothill. The snow hotels are higher. The coast is north. Gölyazı is west, on Lake Uluabat. İznik and İnegöl are east. The car waits where you decide. It does not shrink the map.
| Direction | What people mean | What that does to a day from Istanbul |
|---|---|---|
| The Ottoman centre | The Grand Mosque, the hans and the covered market, the Green Mosque if time remains | A city day. Lunch and the walk live here. Do not chase the mountain and the coast afterwards. |
| The foothill | Cumalıkızık, and the İnkaya plane tree if you asked for it | A village morning. Cut the market or skip it. Do not add the Uludağ hotels at the end. |
| Uludağ | The mountain road or the cable car, the hotels, and skiing if there is snow | The whole day. Snow and the cable car are not guaranteed. Tickets are outside the car. |
| Water nearby | A fall such as Saitabat, or Gölyazı, or Mudanya and Trilye | Pick one block. The lake to the west and the sea to the north are not the same street. |
| The east | İznik on its lake, or İnegöl for a furniture appointment | Its own day, or a second night. It does not belong on the same date as a morning mosque and an afternoon mountain. |
The table is a decision map, not the chauffeur's route. If the notes list five names, the desk will ask which ones to drop before anyone drives.
Bursa's hans and the covered market around them are not Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, and that name does not travel with you. The centre here is the han district around the Grand Mosque (Ulu Cami): twenty domes, ordered by Bayezid I after Nicopolis in the late 14th century, with an ablution fountain in the prayer hall. It is a working mosque. Prayer time closes casual wandering, dress is the building's rule, and we do not sell a ticket for it.
Koza Han is a silk han from the reign of Bayezid II, late 15th century, built around a courtyard. Sitting under an umbrella is your bill. The Green Mosque and the Green Tomb, from the reign of Mehmed I in the early 15th century, are a walk from this centre if the day still has time. İznik tiles are on those walls. The workshops are in İznik, which is another town.
The city complexes and Cumalıkızık share the UNESCO listing of 2014, "Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire". That describes the place. It does not add a ticket to the car. Wider reading is the Bursa travel guide. The chauffeur waits where a van can stand, and does not walk you into the prayer hall as a guide.
Cumalıkızık (often written Cumalikizik) is an Ottoman village on the lower slope of Uludağ, inside the same 2014 UNESCO listing. Painted houses and a long breakfast are why people ask for it. You pay the breakfast in the house where you sit. From central Bursa the drive is often about 20–40 minutes, depending on the street. From a Taksim hotel, add the bridge before that. The village does not fit between two mosques and Uludağ on the same day unless you accept that every stop is a glimpse. Background: Cumalıkızık village.
İnkaya is a village on the lower road toward the mountain, known for an old plane tree with tea tables under it. Asking for the tree means sitting, not photographing it from a moving window. The tea is yours. Circulating figures for the tree's age are not a number this page will print.
The foothill and the high hotels are not the same stop. Finishing breakfast in the village and then asking for the hotel belt spends the mountain road after the morning is already gone. If you are leaving Istanbul on this date, choose the village or the mountain.
Uludağ (Uludag) is the high mountain of the Marmara. Published figures put the summit, Kartaltepe, at about 2,543 metres. The hotel belt sits lower. From central Bursa the road is often about 45–75 minutes when it is open. In winter that can stretch, or the road can close. A winter calendar that says "the season is on" is not a promise that your morning's road will be clear.
The Bursa Teleferik leaves from the city station at Teferrüç. It is a separate ticket and a separate queue. Wind and maintenance stop it. The car does not include the seat, and this page cannot tell you the line will run on your morning. If the cable car is stopped, the remaining choice is the road, if it is open, or moving the day to the city or the coast. Say that before you leave, not at the foot of the hill.
Snow in a photograph or a film is not the snow on your date. The ski lift, ski rental, a lesson, and the hotel bill are paid there. The chauffeur is not a ski instructor. November and April are often between seasons: no piste you can count on, and not a full summer walk either. Summer on the mountain is air and a walk, not a slope. Seasonal context is in Uludağ ski centre.
The water around Bursa is not one waterfront. The fall is on the foothill. Gölyazı is on Lake Uluabat, west of the city. Mudanya is on the Sea of Marmara to the north, with Trilye beside it. From Istanbul you pick one. Doing all three sends you back across the bridge with too little time at any of them.
Saitabat Waterfall is one of the falls people request in the foothills toward Kestel. In summer the pool is the point. In the cold, or after heavy rain, it may not be a stroll. We do not guarantee the swim, the depth, or that the gate is open. Other falls, including ones further west, are another day. The set is in Bursa waterfalls.
Gölyazı is a peninsula on Lake Uluabat: boats, cafes on the quay, often about 30–50 minutes from central Bursa. Storks are seasonal and are not promised. Coffee and fish are yours. Reading: Lake Uluabat and Gölyazı.
Mudanya is on the Sea of Marmara, often about 25–45 minutes from central Bursa. The Armistice House, where the Mudanya Armistice was signed on 11 October 1922, is a museum you request if it is open. Any ticket is not ours. Trilye (Zeytinbağı) is a stone village a few minutes west of Mudanya: stone houses and old churches, some of them no longer visited in the old way. We do not promise that a named church is open.
Mudanya and Trilye are one reasonable block. Adding Gölyazı to them, when you started in Istanbul, makes the day a day in the car. The coast guide is Mudanya.
İznik is ancient Nicaea, on its own lake, often about 60–90 minutes east of central Bursa. The walls are still there. The town's Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) is a mosque today. İznik tile is a craft, not one shop whose shelves we can promise. The Council of Nicaea in 325 and the council of 787 are the town's history, not a commentary delivered from the car seat.
From hotels on the European side of Istanbul, the road to İznik is often longer than three and a half hours and can pass four each way, because you cross the bridge and then keep going east past Bursa. Most of that day is spent in the car, with a short time in the town. Adding the Grand Mosque and Uludağ to the same date does not work. Keramet is a thermal spring near İznik that you can request if a pool is open. Entry is paid there.
İnegöl is also east of Bursa, often about 40–60 minutes from the centre, and the reason is furniture, not domes. If you have an appointment, write the hall's name. Someone who came for the mosque is not routed through İnegöl "because it is on the way". It is not on the way to the coast, and it is not on the way to the mountain.
A late start in Taksim means arriving in Bursa after the morning has gone. A Sunday return on the bridge is heavier than a Tuesday morning. These are lines for a decision. They are not a timetable we sign.
Sapanca is another lake and another day: the private Sapanca tour. Keep it off a Bursa date unless the point of the day is the drive itself.
The figures are usual planning bands for a private car via the Osmangazi Bridge, then Bursa streets. They are not a schedule, and they are not a promise from the chauffeur. The evening peak, a Friday leaving Istanbul, a Sunday return, rain, and any restriction on the bridge push the high end further out. Night is often quieter. Do not book an Istanbul commitment on the same evening on the strength of the minimum.
| Leg | Usual planning band | What moves the day |
|---|---|---|
| Sultanahmet, Taksim, Beşiktaş, or Galataport hotels ↔ central Bursa | Often about 2.5–3.5 hours | City streets, then the motorway and the bridge. Friday evening and the Sunday return are heavier. |
| Kadıköy, Ataşehir, or Üsküdar ↔ central Bursa | Often about 2–3 hours | The Asian side is closer to the bridge. The street matters more than the district name. |
| Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ central Bursa | Often about 1.5–2.5 hours | The closest Istanbul start for this direction. A late landing can spend the saving. |
| Istanbul Airport (IST) ↔ central Bursa | Often about 3–4 hours | The airport is on the European edge. You cross the city before the bridge begins. |
| Central Bursa ↔ Cumalıkızık or İnkaya | Often about 20–40 minutes | After you have arrived, not instead of the Istanbul road. |
| Central Bursa ↔ Uludağ hotels by road | Often about 45–75 minutes if the road is open | Winter can close it. The cable car is another queue and another ticket, and that ticket is not here. |
| Central Bursa ↔ Mudanya, then Trilye | Often about 25–45 minutes, then a few minutes more to Trilye | A north-shore block. Do not combine it with the mountain on a day that started in Istanbul. |
| Central Bursa ↔ Gölyazı | Often about 30–50 minutes | West, to the lake. A different direction from Mudanya. |
| Central Bursa ↔ İnegöl | Often about 40–60 minutes | East, for a furniture appointment. |
| Central Bursa ↔ İznik | Often about 60–90 minutes | From European Istanbul the whole leg can become about 3.5–5 hours each way. |
Cab Istanbul does not guarantee the drive time. The Osmangazi Bridge is a tolled crossing on this road. This page does not split that toll out as its own line. Read the form total before you pay, and do not assume a cable-car ticket or a waterfall gate is inside it. The bay ferry is a slower alternative that depends on the boat; the usual private-car road is the bridge, and this page does not promise a ferry sailing.
The pickup is part of the Bursa day when the day continues into the city. If you only need a terminal and then a hotel in Istanbul, this is the wrong page: Istanbul Airport and Sabiha Gökçen. Published airport routes sit on airport transfer routes.
The product that is positioned on its own is VIP transfer. A Bursa day stays Intercity even when the car starts at a terminal.
Mixing the pages is how a guest goes looking for an "Intercity tab" that does not exist, or prices a day with waiting as a one-way airport ticket.
| The job | The page | Why it is not this one |
|---|---|---|
| A Bursa day with waiting and a return | This page | One serious direction, a car for your group |
| A drop in Bursa with no tour | Intercity car with driver | A to B. Waiting is added if you ask, not assumed |
| Hours inside Istanbul | Car with driver and driver services | City Use in the form. No bridge |
| Istanbul sights | Private Istanbul tour | Another day. Do not mix it with Bursa |
| Sapanca and the lake | Sapanca tour | A different eastbound day. Not a stop on the way to Bursa |
| The airport only | IST and SAW | A terminal and a hotel. No Bursa market |
| A private group larger than a Vito | Van with driver | A Sprinter for you. Not a seat on a shared coach |
| A limousine cabin | Limousine | Another product. Price the Bursa day here when the job is the road and the waiting |
| A long road such as Cappadocia | Istanbul to Cappadocia | Not a Bursa day, and not a Bursa night |
The current gallery names a Mercedes E-Class, an S-Class (S 400), a standard Vito, a VIP Vito, a Premium Van, and Sprinter layouts labelled 10, 13, and 16 seats. The passenger list in the form does not choose the car. Four people with ski bags, or with airport cases, may need a van even when a sedan has enough seats. Every card also says "or similar class". The name you pay is the name on the results page.
| What the gallery writes | Capacity as published there | A Bursa day |
|---|---|---|
| E-Class | Prose: up to 3 passengers and 3 suitcases. The icon says 4 people and 3 bags. The gallery warns that this category may not hold a commercial passenger licence in some regions | Only if it appears on the quote for this route. Do not assume it for an intercity day |
| S-Class (S 400) | Prose: up to 3 passengers and 3 suitcases. The card icon says 4 people and 3 bags. The quote decides | A small cabin and few bags. Not for ski boards |
| Standard Vito | The card icon shows 7 people and 7 bags. The prose describes the van and does not repeat a second headcount | The usual family car for this day |
| VIP Vito | The prose says up to 6 passengers and 6 suitcases, then says the vehicle has 8 seats. The icon says 6 people and 5 bags | We do not collapse that to one number here. Confirm the car on the results page |
| Premium Van | The icon says 6 people. The prose describes a partition and a TV. That card does not state a bag count | When that is the name on your quote |
| Sprinter 10, 13, and 16 | Up to 10 passengers, icon 10 bags. Up to 13, with the prose saying one suitcase per passenger. The layout labelled 16 seats is written as up to 15 passengers and 15 bags | A larger private group. The vehicle is yours. It is not a coach that sells the seat |
There is no V-Class name on the gallery. Book the Vito, VIP Vito, or Premium Van that the quote actually names. The gallery also shows a Volkswagen Caravelle, a Renault Trafic, and an Isuzu card whose icon says 27 while the prose talks about larger semi-coaches. This page does not sell those as the Bursa day, and it does not claim they are missing from the garage. A black van in a photograph is not a class name. A child seat is not a field in the form: write the child's age to the desk before the day, and remember the seat takes a passenger space as well. The fleet page is our cars.
| Item | In this booking | Outside it |
|---|---|---|
| The car and the chauffeur for your group | Yes, for the duration and the route the form prices | A passenger added from another group |
| Waiting at a stop you named | On a Daily, Intercity car-with-driver day, inside the time that was calculated | Not assumed on an A-to-B transfer with no waiting |
| A licensed guide | No | Someone you arrange if you want commentary. The chauffeur does not take that role |
| Meals, coffee, and a village breakfast | No | Paid where you sit |
| The cable car, a ski lift, and equipment rental | No | The mountain's own desk. We also do not guarantee that the line, or the snow, is there |
| A museum, the Armistice House, a hammam, or a thermal pool | No | If the place is open, the ticket is there. The Grand Mosque is a mosque, and we do not sell a ticket for it |
| A hotel room in Bursa or on Uludağ | No | Your booking. On a longer trip, read what the /cwd quote says about the chauffeur's night before you pay |
| A child seat | Not a field in the form | Ask the desk, with the child's age |
The passenger terms are in the transportation agreement. The company introduction is on about us.
This page does not publish a lira table or a euro table. A day from SAW in a Vito is not a day from IST in a Sprinter, is not a drop with no waiting, and is not a second night on the mountain. Change the pickup, the date, the duration, the vehicle, or the direction, and the quote changes.
The amount you agree is the total from the booking form for that setup, or the total from /cwd when the route is longer than this page's widget. The bridge toll is not itemised here. A venue ticket and a restaurant bill are not guessed into the total. Questions the form cannot hold: info@cabistanbul.com or WhatsApp.
At #service-booking there are two tabs only: ISTANBUL AIRPORT TRANSFER and Rent A Car With Driver. There is no tab named Intercity. Intercity is a radio under Use Type / Route, inside Rent A Car With Driver, opposite City Use. City Use is the one already selected when the form opens. A same-day Bursa return is filled here. A route longer than the four city lines goes to /cwd.
For a Bursa day with waiting, leave the mode on Daily. Hourly is the other mode. It is not the usual tool for this bridge.
Pickup Location takes a hotel, a district, or a landmark (the placeholder reads "Hotel, district, landmark…"), and the form asks you to pick the place from the list. Date / Time is one field. The Duration list is filled by the form; this page does not invent the hours. Passengers runs from 1 to 20 and opens on "Select". If you leave it there, the form says "Please select Number of Persons". Bookings need at least one hour's notice: "We accept bookings at least 1 hour in advance." There is no luggage field. Write suitcases, ski bags, and a stroller to the desk.
Drop-off / Destination is optional. Its placeholder reads "Final destination (optional)". The same form also carries the labels DROP POINT and Final Destination. Choose Intercity, not City Use. The block labelled CITY TO VISIT then asks for City to visit (Day 1) through Day 4. For a same-day return, put Bursa on Day 1 and name the direction in that line: the Grand Mosque and the hans, or Cumalıkızık, or Uludağ, or Mudanya, or Gölyazı, or İznik, or İnegöl. Leave Day 2 to Day 4 empty unless you are actually out on those days. If a required intercity field is empty, the form says "Please fill in all required intercity fields." A second direction on the same day is agreed before you confirm, not after.
The button is labelled SEARCH. It shows the quote for that setup. Change the vehicle before you pay if the bags will not fit. A guide, a child seat, and a named restaurant do not pass through these fields: info@cabistanbul.com or WhatsApp +90 542 579 56 56. If you need the chauffeur to work in English, write that to the desk as well. It is a request, not a field, and it does not turn the driver into a guide.
Three Cab Istanbul films, and these are the ones published for this service. They show a place. They do not prove that the snow, the waterfall, or the village door will match the day you travel.
No. The car is your group's from pickup until you are back. There is no other party's programme, no guide on a microphone, and no shared departure time at a han.
No. A Vito or a Sprinter means your private group is larger than a sedan. An empty seat is not sold. A shared coach is a different product, and it is not this page.
No. The chauffeur drives, waits, and knows where the van can stand. Commentary inside the mosque or in the village is a person whose licence you arrange, paid outside the car. The chauffeur is not a bodyguard either.
Not as a day in which you actually see them. From hotels on the European side, the road to central Bursa is often about 2.5–3.5 hours each way before any stop. Each of those names is a direction after you arrive. Pick one, or stay the night and build tomorrow in /cwd.
An early start, then one block: the centre (the mosque and the hans), or the village on the foothill, or the mountain, or the coast, or Gölyazı. Lunch is yours, and the return should be before the evening bridge thickens. A late-morning start shortens the place, not the road.
Open Rent A Car With Driver, keep Daily, set Pickup Location, Date / Time, the duration from the form's own list, and Passengers. Then switch Use Type / Route to Intercity and write Bursa plus the direction on City to visit (Day 1). The steps above are the full version. City Use, which is already selected, does not price this bridge.
Intercity is a radio, not a tab. The two tabs are ISTANBUL AIRPORT TRANSFER and Rent A Car With Driver. The radio sits inside the second tab, under Use Type / Route, opposite City Use. City Use does not price this bridge.
They appear only after you choose Intercity, under the label CITY TO VISIT. Placeholders read City to visit (Day 1) through Day 4. A same-day Bursa return uses Day 1. Leave the later days empty unless you are actually staying out. More than four city lines is /cwd, not a fifth box on this widget.
No number is printed here. The figure that holds is the form total after you enter the pickup, the date, the vehicle, the duration, and the route. Change an input and the quote changes. Pay after you have read it.
No. You eat where you choose and you pay there. The chauffeur waits. There is no closed restaurant menu bundled with the car.
No. You buy it on the mountain if the line is running. Ski rental and a lesson are the same. The car takes you by the road you agreed. It does not carry a seat ticket.
No. A photo with snow, or a film, has nothing to do with your date. November and April often disappoint someone who was counting on a piste. Ask the desk on the morning about the road, and do not build the booking on a snow guarantee.
This page cannot know that. Wind and maintenance stop it. If the mountain is the reason for the day, agree in advance: the car road if it is open, or move the day to the city. We do not promise the line will open.
It is a working mosque, and we do not sell a ticket for it. Prayer time limits wandering, and modest dress is the building's rule, not the car's. The chauffeur waits outside the prayer hall.
It is not in the form. Write the child's age to the desk or on WhatsApp before the day so the request can be checked against the vehicle. The seat takes a passenger space as well.
The day on this page includes waiting where you asked, then the return. An A-to-B transfer ends at the address unless a return or waiting time was booked. That job is intercity car with driver, or the airport-transfer tab when the pickup is in Istanbul and you are not sightseeing.
In /cwd. You can also put Bursa on Day 1 and the coast on Day 2 in this widget's city lines, if two days are enough and the final destination is clear. The hotel room is your booking. Read what the quote says about the chauffeur's night before you pay.
The gallery on our cars does not use that name. Book the Vito, VIP Vito, or Premium Van the quote names. A photograph of a black van is not a class name.
That is not a promise in the form, and it is not a promise on this page. If the chauffeur's language is a condition, write it to the desk before you confirm. Whether or not that is arranged, sightseeing commentary is still not the driver's job.
From Bursa alone they are two directions: the lake to the west, and the sea to the north. From Istanbul, combining them eats the time you would have spent sitting. Pick one block. Trilye with Mudanya is reasonable, because they are neighbours.
This page does not open the road by deciding it. The day moves to another direction you agree with the desk, or it is shortened, depending on the booking and the hour. There is no imagined refund here for snow that did not fall or for a line that was stopped. The written terms are in the transportation agreement.
A car for your group, a chauffeur who waits where you asked, and a return to Istanbul. The mosque, the village, the mountain, the coast, or İznik: one of them on this day. Food, the cable car, and skiing stay outside the fare.
