The studio appears to be part of Nelly’s home. It has a private entrance and so you do feel like you have privacy. The direct area that the studio is in has no charm. It’s dirty, ugly and loud. People seemed to be on the street at all hours making noise. There was a baby constantly crying, from where I don’t know.
It’s about a 7-10 minute walk to the Main Street İstiklal, which is a great street to explore and eat.
Public transportation is also about 15-20 minutes away depending where you are going.
All in all, it takes about 30-35 minutes by public transportation to get to the very touristy parts by public transportation. By taxi would be less time if there isn’t bad traffic.
The apartment is fairly clean and comfortable.
We didn’t cook as Istanbul is so cheap, but I don’t feel cooking in the apartment would be that easy as it’s not too well stocked.
Nelly is a nice woman and spoke English fairly well though she didn’t answer Airbnb messages very quickly. Once I had her WhatsApp, communication got better.