Location, location, location. This is a great location for any tourist coming to Istanbul. Very walkable to all main attractions.
Host is very communicative and responds quickly. Room is on the smaller side. Overall reasonably clean and nice.
The owner/host is always downstairs as the lower level is his business where he sell tours to tourists, so if you need help with that he can help you book tours. So he is always and quickly accessible. He also offers airport transfers but honestly it’s cheaper and easier to just get an taxi than pre-order airport transfer. The room you stay in is the upstairs level (separate entrance).
Overall I give it 5 stars but some things that could be better:
* There was no soap in the room. There was small bottles of shampoo, but no soap (either hand soap or wash soap). We asked the host for soap and he quickly brought over several more small bottles of shampoo. Maybe bring your own soap if you want to have hand soap or body wash (instead of using the shampoo for soap).
* No thrash can. There was just one tiny thrash can in the rest room for feminine hygiene products, but other than that the room has no thrash can. So we just put all thrash (used bottles of waters, etc.) in a corner of the apartment.
* AC kind of works but is not really making it very cold. We had it on with max setting but it doesn’t make it very cold. It’s not a huge issue, maybe it’s just an old AC?
* Provide more towels. We asked if we could have some more towels but the host said he doesn’t have any more. So for example we didn’t have a towel to put on the floor to dry feet when going form rest room to living room. And my fiancé didn’t have two towels to use (one for body and one for head). Basically simply adding some extra towels in the room for guests seem like a quick and simple way to make it an even better experience.
Most these things are things I think the host very simply could fix to make it an even better experience, but I’m still overall happy and give it an overall rating of 5. The two key factors is the location of the place and that the host is very responsive.