We really enjoyed our stay at Hande's place. The apartment was cute and just as described. The neighborhood was very quiet and residential, and looked like it had some good restaurants. Hande was very responsive and checked to make sure we had arrived and everything was as expected.
A couple of things to note about the apartment:
- The apartment is quite a ways from downtown in a cute residential neighborhood. We ended up having to go back and forth between downtown quite a bit and spent a bunch of money on cabs (about $15-$20 each time) because the public transit options didn't seem great.
- I was in town to run the marathon, and on Saturday night at about 9:30 a neighbor started blaring music in preparation for a party. This was obviously not under Hande's control and normally wouldn't be an issue, but since I had to get up at 5am the next morning I wasn't thrilled. If you have to get up early in the morning or want more privacy, note that is is an apartment in a building and so the neighbors are very close and walls are pretty thin.
Other than those little things, we had a great stay and really enjoyed Hande's place.