The apartment will meet your basic needs. It is accurate that the two bedrooms are spacious. The beds and pillows were not as comfortable as they could have been. The biggest problems we had were access to the unit and location. The apartment is 100 steps from the street. It is very convenient to use the metro, which is helpful as tourists need to access the tourist sites at the metro stops. But it is really difficulty to get to Taksim or any other neighborhood that is above the hill since this apartment is at the bottom of the hill. The hosts were really responsive and helped us out. A big reason that we got this apartment is because it had a washer and dryer, which would have been helpful since we were staying in turkey for 2 weeks; however, the dryer was broken from day 1 of our stay so we had to figure out how to air dry 4 peoples’ laundry (didn’t feel as comfortable using the host or a laundry service because we did not know when we would be home to coordinate such things). I do recommend this apartment to meet your basic needs in Istanbul. The view is as amazing as you think it would be; just don’t open the windows at night since there are a lot of mosquitos!