Choosing this apartment ruined our stay in Istanbul.
The photos provided on the Airbnb ad for this property and the description were misleading.
There were multiple issues which we raised with the host. They kept saying they would do something about them but they did not. The air conditioning stopped working a few days into the stay resulting in the apartment resembling a sauna, we were sweating profusely for days. Even after having contacted the host asking them to resolve this, they made a number of appointments for a repairer to come which were unfulfilled leaving us waiting and wasting our time for days. When someone did finally turn up, the A/C only partially worked for a few hours. We informed the host that the problem was not fixed and we ended up wasting more days waiting for someone to show up but they never did. The host could not have cared less and simply ignored us. Additionally the apartment was dark and dingy, and there were cockroaches and slugs which was horrifying. The two sofas were not in good shape, one of them collapsed & the host sent a repair man to fix it. He said he would come back to fix the second sofa, but never did. The basement room became so unbearably hot due to the broken air conditioning that we were forced to sleep on the sofas in the living room. The mattresses were stained with urine & sheets filthy. Not to mention the stairs with no safety rail/bannister leading to the basement room are a safety hazard and essentially a big hole in the floor - definitely not safe with children. There were brick decorations stuck on the wall above the hot tub that dropped off at random times in the day and night giving us a fright from the loud noise and making the tub unusable. After many attempts at contacting the host to fix the air conditioning and continuously being told someone would come and they didn't, we realised we had to take matters into our own hands and ask Airbnb to intervene. We were forced to find alternative accommodation which wasted yet more of our holiday. The kitchen was unusable and dirty due to the presence of cockroaches so we could not cook at all. The dishwasher was also not connected and there was the smell of mould emitting from it so we could not use that either. The iron also did not work. The bathroom was very small and had mould on the ceiling, a broken toilet seat and a filthy sickening plug hole. The shower door was missing and one of the shower heads was broken. The only good thing about the apartment was the central location close to the metro, everything else was poor. Avoid!