The kit, on both tours
Our two products — the river day and the Tazı Canyon combo — word it slightly differently and supply the same kit. Three items are inside the fare and the fourth is optional:
- A helmet.
- A life jacket, worn from the base to the finish.
- A paddle.
- A wetsuit, if you want one — it is optional, and you hire it at the base for an extra fee.
What is charged at the base, and what is not
This is the objection the question is really about, so here it is plainly. There is no kit deposit and no charge at the riverside for the helmet, the life jacket or the paddle: those three are in the price of every line on the ladder, including the €38 quad and buggy combos, the €43 zipline lines and the €48 four-part package. If you want the numbers side by side, what it costs is set out line by line on its own page. The one piece of equipment that is hired at the base is the wetsuit: it is optional, and it costs an extra fee.
The other things you may pay for on the day are not equipment: the photo and video service of your run, which is offered at the base and is not included in the fare — it is on our excluded list and it always has been — and drinks. None of them is a surprise if you have read this far.
Why there is a wetsuit
Because the water is cold. That is the honest whole of it: the Köprü is a mountain river, and the wetsuit is there for that reason rather than as a flourish. It is optional, and you can hire one at the base for an extra fee.
What we will not do is put a number on it. We do not publish a water temperature in degrees, we do not publish a warmest month, and we do not tell you in which season you will want the wetsuit and in which you will not. Nobody has measured any of that for us. "Cold" is what the record supports, and the decision to hire one is yours. The hire fee is not printed here either — ask us on WhatsApp and we will ask the base rather than guess.
When you are fitted
At the riverside base, before the safety briefing and before anyone gets into a boat. That is the sequence for everyone, so a helmet that rocks, a jacket that sits loose or a hired wetsuit that does not fit is something to say at that moment rather than in the boat.
Say it. The guide team would far rather refit a jacket on dry land than watch it ride up on the first rapid, and nobody minds being asked.
Sizes and fit: what we do not publish
We hold no sizing chart, no weight limit and no fit policy, so this page carries none. That is a genuine gap rather than a shy answer — if you are worried that nothing will fit, ask us on WhatsApp before you book and we will ask the base rather than guess on your behalf.
The same goes for very small children. The rafting takes everyone from seven, and how the kit is sized for the youngest end of that is a question for us rather than for a web page.
The equipment is why swimming ability is not required
The life jacket is worn throughout — from the base to the finish, including the calm stretches where people are tempted to loosen it — and a professional guide travels in every raft and steers it. Those two facts together are why people who cannot swim take part on this river.
That is also why the jacket is the one item to leave exactly as it was fitted. A loosened jacket is the only way the kit stops doing its job, and it is usually loosened because somebody felt warm on a flat section.
What the kit does not cover, and what you bring
Footwear, mostly. Shoes are not supplied and they matter: they have to fasten to your feet, so trainers you do not mind soaking or sandals with a heel strap. Flip-flops come off in moving water and the riverbank is rock.
Beyond that, a swimsuit to wear underneath, a towel, a full change of dry clothes and a little cash for drinks. No dry bag is provided and nothing in a raft stays dry, so phones, wallets and anything with a screen belong in the hotel safe. The packing page has the long version of that list.