I had a great stay there, I mainly enjoyed the contact with the host Mustafa and Nelly, they are amazing, very helpful and cooperative and flexible.
Mustafa helped me with the taxi driver who wanted to take more money from me when I didn’t speak the language or had no cash, and Nelly helped me with my bags when I left, and we’re flexible with late checking out.
I really appreciated that and would strongly recommend them!
The studio is exactly as described and showed in the pictures, the location is perfect, very close to famous Istiklal shopping street and Taksim square where metro and busses run all day.
It’s perfect and very convenient if you are in Istanbul for couple of days & wont be spending much time in the studio itself.
I was just sleeping & showering in the place and it was more than enough.
It’s not the place to sit and enjoy breakfast or work from, internet worked but not enough to do online work.
The main downside in my opinion was the ventilation and humidity in the studio, I think the bathroom isn’t properly isolated, hence steam/heat/humidity flows into the room, so the quality of air in the studio was not so good in my opinion, there is a window to open but I was only opening it when I was in the studio (I didn’t dare to open and leave the studio), then ofcourse if it’s cold or someone smoking underneath the window, it might not really ventilate and bring good air inside.
But all in all, great stay & amazing hosts 😊
Thank you Mustafa and Nelly