A good place to stay?
Pros:
The apartment is located in Beyoglu next to the football stadium within a walking distance to the cablecar- and metro station Sishane. In this area you will find numerous restaurants with lokal and international Kirchen, aswell as plant of bars for a joyful nightlife. This is the Quartier where you want to stay in you are planning a city trip and althought this is a busy district it was totally quiet in our room during the nighttime. The apartment is a lot smalltalk as you may expect die to the Fotos shown on Air B&B, but it has an overall nice appearance, friendly, clean and definitely big enough for 2 persons. 4 Windows in the mainroom and an additional one in the bathroom makes it easy to get a fresh breeze and a nice view. Unfortunately the temperaturen was quiet low when we visited Istanbul, so we were happy about the good working and simple to operate radiators one in the bathroom and one next to the bed. There is no safe in the room, but the room itself is safe enough. A massive door with several surprisingly high quality locks and downstairs at the mainentrance is a solid metall door that opens with a secure code. There is also a small fully equipped kitchen including a (propperly cleaned) fridge. The white bedding were fresh and inviting. If a very soft mattress is not your cup of tea you will have to do some extra workout in the morning. Irma our hostess offered us assistance with the taxi driver and when we called her for some additional towels they were send to us immediately next morning.
Cons:
It is annoying and incomprehensible why one is leaving a broken toilet seat unrepaired. It is visible for everyone who does the cleaning that the seat needs to be fixed or replaced. The foxing stains on the ceiling are something nobody wants to see in a shower. It also would have been nice to have replacement sheets fot the bed and spare towels. To be honest - why do you even have to ask for them? How can anyone assume that 1 bathtowel per person is sufficient for more than a week? The TV was not working (missing signal) which i could not fix by myself, so i informed our hostess, but sadly nobody cared about it for the whole period of our stay. For me personally a TV is not an absolute must in a hotelroom, but specially during times of war in Europe i would have appreciated to be up to date.
Conclusion:
We really enjoyed our stay!! With a little more maintenance and adequate care there would have been nothing to complain about.
Peter&Nadine from Austria