Cruise Lines at Kusadasi: Ship Days, Port Hours and Ephesus

Kusadasi is Turkey’s busiest cruise port: Ege Port handled 617 calls in 2025, and every one of them tied up at the same terminal in the middle of town. For a passenger the useful questions are simple. Which day is my ship in? How long does it stay? And what can I see at Ephesus in that time?

Which cruise lines call at Kusadasi most?

The table counts the calls listed for the twelve months from 27 September 2026 to 30 September 2027. Lines add sailings all year, so the list is still incomplete: in 2025 the port saw 617 calls in total. Use it as a guide to who comes often, not as a timetable.

Source: the Kusadasi schedules on cruisetimetables.com and CruiseMapper, counted on 28 September 2026; smaller numbers come from P&O, Norwegian, AIDA, Virgin Voyages and other lines. Each line page lists that line’s ships, dates and hours in port, the berths that fit its ships and the tours that fit its calls:

• Viking in Kusadasi: the winter line, with most calls from November to March
• Royal Caribbean in Kusadasi: Odyssey of the Seas on summer Wednesdays, Rhapsody on Sundays and Mondays
• Celebrity Cruises in Kusadasi: Celebrity Infinity, mostly on Tuesdays
• Windstar in Kusadasi: 07:00 arrivals and the Evening in Ephesus dinner
• Silversea in Kusadasi: Silver Nova and what the fare covers ashore
• Holland America in Kusadasi: Ephesus at an easy pace
• Regent Seven Seas at Kusadasi: when a private day adds to the included tours
• Emerald Cruises in Kusadasi: the 2027 yacht calls
• Oceania Cruises in Kusadasi: Ephesus and Turkish food in one call
• Azamara in Kusadasi: Ephesus by day, the old town after dark
• The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection in Kusadasi: Ephesus at a yacht’s pace
• Seabourn in Kusadasi: a private day before the Ephesus Evening Reception
• Carnival Cruise Line in Kusadasi: Ephesus with children and teens

How we decide which line gets a page

A line page is only worth reading if it tells you something the general pages cannot. So we add one when we can publish real data for that line: every call listed for the next twelve months with its date and source, the hours in port where the line publishes them, which berths can take its ships and which tours fit its hours. The number of calls does not decide it: a line that visits twice a year gets a page as honest about that as a line that comes every week, because its guests ask the same questions. Where a line publishes no port times, the page says so rather than guessing. Ships appear as dated sections inside their line page, and we recheck the calls before every season.

Your line has no page yet?

That changes nothing on the day. Every ship docks at the same terminal, and our guide meets you at the exit where the pier meets the town, with your name on a sign; the spot is marked on an aerial photo on the shore excursion page. The terminal itself, from its address to its piers and the ships in port month by month, is on our Kusadasi cruise port page. Send us the ship name, the date and the all-aboard time from your daily program, and the route is planned backward from it.

Which Ephesus tour fits your hours in port?

In our catalog those are the Treasures of Ephesus tour (3 hours), the Best of Ephesus tour (4–5 hours), the Archaeological Ephesus tour (5–6 hours) and the Full Day Ephesus tour (7–8 hours). The Kusadasi to Ephesus shore excursion is shaped around your exact hours. Every one starts at the Upper Gate and walks about 1.5 km downhill to the Harbor Gate, where the car waits.