Barış apartment is located very centralized in Istanbul. You can easily reach the whole city by foot. We never had to take a taxi, bus or tram to get somewhere. If you decide to take the public transport anyways, you are covered as the tram station is just a few minutes away from the apartment.
A few minutes from the apartment away you can also find a grocery store to get all the essentials you need. There is also a little kiosk right next to the apartment. In the small kitchen you can cook perfectly fine, its just a little bit tricky to prepare food as there is not so much space. Once or twice we got a cat visiting us at the kitchen window :)
The apartment has everything you need to survive in the city, including a kitchen, fridge, washing machine, AC in the living room, a TV, and blinds on the windows to cover yourself from the street lights at night.
Overall the apartment was in a tidy and clean state. The only downsides in Barış apartment were once the shower, which will most likely get you to flood the bathroom. (No big deal really, we just dried the bathroom floor afterwards), as well as the noise in the streets. There are sometimes people at night talking and its very easy to hear them in the bedroom, also the neighbors are not the most quiete but absolutly fine. You will most likely only have a few issues when once of this big cruising ships is on the water, as those crazy old lads like to party until 3am. But again, this is totally not up to Barış, however you should take it into consideration in case you have a very light sleep.
To Barış itself, I have to say this was the first time on AirBnb that a host asked me to put my taxi driver on speaker phone so he can tell him to not dare to overcharge me for the ride from the airport to the city. Barış was very caring and super friendly, I really enjoyed the whole communication process.
Barış, thank you so much for hosting us in your nice, cozy AirBnb, all the best to you!