I strongly suggest you find elsewhere to stay. If you read nothing else from this review, read this; AWFUL smell, no follow through on requests and water leaking/flooding. Do. Not. Stay. Here.
When we checked in, Kenan stated since I only specified two guests and we were three, we’d have to pay extra. It was my mistake for not updating the quantity as our trip changed so I agreed.
When we got to the apartment the smell was so incredibly foul. It was a nauseating sewage smell. Messaged the host re that + asking for extra sheets/blanket since we were three instead of two and needed a way to make sleeping on the sofa beds sanitary and comfortable. Host text back that his brother will be there in 20 mins. Three hours and several follow up texts and false promises later, we just went to bed without them. No one ever came. The smell was soo bad it gave us all a headache. Sleep w the bathroom door closed and find elsewhere to shower if you insist on staying here.
Our final night in Istanbul, it stormed. The entire stairway and foyer of the apartment was pouring rain in. Imagine climbing 3 slippery flights of stairs to arrive to the foyer flooded as well. WTF.
The host and who I imagine owns the unit all claimed to be shocked and said the smell was from the building and out of their hands and the leaking was not common but the building is clearly in shambles and shouldn’t be inhabited until it’s fixed. Truly trash experience. Trash.