Cappadocia Turkey Hot air ballooning

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Hi all.
Anyone done the hot air ballooning at Cappadocia in Turkey?
How did you get there?
Looking like 10 hours bus from Marmaris, and 7 hours from Antalya?

[K77 CTR]

Best option is to fly to Istanbul and then to one of the two local airports. Is on my to do list and would 100% do the balloon trip.

[Radec]

Istanbul then fly to Nevsehir airport and around 1hr taxi to wherever your staying.

[grumpyscot]

My wife & sister did this in 2019 - bus from Marmaris! Said they'd fly if they did it again. But both said it was a wonderful experience and said that it was brilliant steersmanship for them to land the balloon on the back of the support truck at the end of the flight!

[Griffithy]

My parents did the same.
But the balloon drifted and had to be crash-landed. All of them were injured, two very seriously.
As if that were not enough, the team did everything to cover up and deny the incident.

[QJumper]

Not the best time to be flying a balloon.

[Allegro_Snapon]

UK to Istanbul (Turkish Airlines are the nads, best I have flown with) then Istanbul to Ankara by plane. Then 3hrs minibus up to Goreme.

Went for a dawn / morning flight. Two of the party of six getting "kebab botty" - i.e. virulent diarrhea whilst in a balloon on a 30C day in shorts is not good.

The balloners were obviously not surprised by this, they had water, a squeegee mop and a hole in one corner of the basket to brush the fluids out of. Only a couple of days later did it strike me (not metaphorically) "where did that waste fluid go to.........."

Oh, and being in a hot air balloon was the most scary, least lack of control experience I have ever had in my like, even though I was in the group of four who still had bowel control.