The host made us feel extremely warm ..ekims mom welcomed us with a nice baskets of fruits ...it was a beautiful apartment very very comfortable ...very well equivped with everything required from Indian spices to toiletries heaters internet ...and not to forget the beautiful location ..it was just a 10 min walk from taksim which made everything extremely accessible and easy for us ...we had a wonderful time ...it was neat clean ....the host was available at any time on the phone to help us with the directions ...we cannot thank him enough for letting us keep our luggage and stay for long althogh he had another booking as we had an evening flight