It's a very nice three storey guest house that was started some 30 years ago by Elif's father and that Elif manages now. We are very lucky to have chosen this place for our firt visit to Istanbul because they really made us feel at home. The staff here is wonderful. Perhaps, we lacked a kettle in the room but, still, it was always available in the canteen. The breakfasts were..... gorgeous!!!!!
The transport system in Istanbul is cheap and very effective. You can virtually live everywhere in the city and have easy access to all the interesting places. After actually visiting Istanbul, Sultanahmet isn't exactly a place where we'd choose to stay another time (it's surrounded by wholesale/bazar streets and megaphons on the mosques are so many!!). Still, we will be happly to come to Elif's place again.
P.S. Muezzins of the central mosques of Istanbul sing perfectly!! So bad that they chose to amplify such beautiful evocations with nasty cheap devices. I wonder, how great they must have sound (and perceived) in the past, where no amplification yet existed.