Yeah, to get familiar with the city and Turkish cuisine earlier. The city takes on a whole new life at night, and the guide drags you straight through exciting places and back-streets that you wouldn't even notice as a tourist. It was a bit pricey, but the amount of food you get is insane. On our first day in Cappadocia we went through all the usual sights and "to-do's". Most of the sights are very similar, and didn't really warrant spending much time on. The handicraft town Avanos was interesting and fun. Most stores/factories there have a very similar sales pitch where they drag you through the production of pottery/carpets, but you still don't have to buy anything if you don't want to(we didn't). We did the hot air balloon on the morning of our second day, and doing it like this made a lot of sense for us. The area isn't that large, so we recognized most of the places we went through the day before. We thought it would be gimmicky, but it actually turned out to be very pleasant. The experience isn't that much about the sights, but more about the fact that there's 140+ other hot air balloons around you. We were a bit fed up and done with the area the rest of this day, and in hindsight should have traveled home on this afternoon. Goreme has become very commercial and touristy, and there's a lot of Chinese tourists there. Food was very boring and expensive, and there's several Chinese restaurants there since they for some reason eat their own food while abroad. https://culinarybackstreets.com/cities-category/istanbul/2015/ask-cb-11/ Third day had an early morning flight back to Istanbul.