Everything worked. No problems meeting our docent, Ebru, and she was so good. We learned a lot about Turkish history -- past and current and she told us interesting stories and answered all our questions.

The docent had poor people engagement skills, to the point I felt he was rude and disinterested in engaging with the group. He basically was a human audio tour guide. I was disappointed but more embarrassed for other people on the tour who tried to engage with him for questions and were dismissed so we could move on to the next number on our audio guide. Apologies for my frankness however this was not a context experience, not because the docent doesn't have knowledge but because he was unable to tell the story in a manner that encouraged discussion. One of the great things about context tours is the ability to engage with docents on many levels of discussion regarding the subject matter and things related to it.

Our docent was so knowledgeable, interesting and caring. There was sooooo much to tell us and she did the very best she could within the time frame. I think she covered the most important features, but we did not have time to see the jewels. That being said, I can return and see the jewels on my own. I really appreciated all the facts, history, etc etc that she did give us. This was the first time I had a Context tour with other people and it was delightful because we all adore Context for the same reasons. There was not the apprehension that some idiot would be in our group. Sorry to say that, but true. The idiots were in the other (much larger) groups. I think I should stop here!

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