What a premium mobile IV visit in Istanbul includes, minute by minute

Everything begins on WhatsApp, at any hour. You tell us where you are staying, how many guests would like a drip and roughly what you are hoping for: recovery after a long night, a reset after a long-haul flight, or simply the signature Hammam Detox. There is no app to download and no account to create.

We then send a short health questionnaire. It asks about medication, allergies, heart and kidney health, pregnancy and anything else a careful clinician would want to know before placing a cannula. A doctor reads every answer before the booking is confirmed, and may approve it, adjust the formula or decline. If the doctor says no, there is no charge. This step is the quiet core of the service, and it is never skipped, even at three in the morning.

In central districts such as Beşiktaş, Nişantaşı or the hotels along the Bosphorus, a licensed nurse usually reaches you in about an hour. They arrive in plain, smart clothing and come up through the hotel’s guest entrance like any other visitor. There is no branded uniform in the lobby and no equipment trolley across the marble. Reception sees a guest expected by a guest, nothing more.

On a yacht, the arrival is agreed with the captain. At a villa or a waterfront yalı, the nurse uses whichever door the household prefers.

The case is compact, but nothing in it is improvised. Every visit carries the same standard set:

Before anything is opened, the nurse checks your blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation and temperature, and runs through the questionnaire once more in person. If something has changed since you filled it in, the doctor is called before the drip begins.

Then you choose where to sit. Many guests prefer the armchair by the window, some the bed with the curtains drawn, others the terrace with the Bosphorus below. The nurse sets the stand to suit you, not the other way round. A quiet room is ideal; a business call in the background is also fine.

Most drips run for 45 to 60 minutes. The Hammam Detox takes about an hour; Myers’ Classic, our most requested all-rounder, around 45 minutes. NAD+ is the exception and takes two to four hours, because it has to be given slowly to be comfortable.

The nurse stays for the whole infusion. They adjust the flow if you feel cold or light, check your vital signs again during the drip and otherwise keep out of the way. You can read, sleep, work or talk. If you would like an add-on, such as a B12 shot, vitamin D3, an anti-nausea dose or a glutathione push, it is added at this point, again from a sealed vial and only within what the doctor approved. Add-ons cost between €30 and €60.

When the bag is empty, the cannula comes out and a small dressing goes on. The nurse checks you once more and gives a few simple instructions: drink water, keep the dressing on for an hour, and message us if anything feels unusual.

Then everything leaves with them. Used needles go into a sealed sharps container, and every bag, line and wrapper is packed away for medical disposal. Housekeeping will find no trace of a visit, and nothing goes into the room’s bin.

You pay on the day, by card or in cash, once the visit is done. Prices are per person and the visit is included anywhere in Istanbul: there is no travel fee for Sarıyer, the Princes’ Islands or a yacht off Bebek. The Hammam Detox is €390, Myers’ Classic €290. Between midnight and 07:00 a night supplement of €60 applies.

That price buys a doctor’s review, a licensed nurse’s full attention for the length of the drip, sealed ingredients and a clean exit. It is, in the end, what premium should mean: time, discretion and rigour, delivered so smoothly that you hardly notice them.