Great apartment - spacious, well equipped and easy walking to all the sites in Beyoğlu and Taksim Square. In a very hipster area with great cafes and also a nice playground for our young children. 5kats rooftop restaurant and also Savoy seafood restaurant were wonderful. Host Deniz was responsive and helpful. They even equipped the place with two cots and a high chair for our children. Wonderful!
The only let down was the arrangement and endorsement of airport transfer company by Deniz where the taxi driver was not particularly helpful in providing us change of $20 for an $80 fare. We had 2x US$50 notes but claimed he didn’t have any change for $100. He tried to get us to find the change at the foreign exchange at the airport. Made excuses that he couldn’t double park at the airport but still followed us into the check in area and stayed for around 30minures in the end. Even when we came up with the solution (get change in Liras) and the driver spoke with Deniz there was still resistance. We just weren’t prepared to give a US$20 tip for a fairly expensive fare already. Eventually it all got resolved but highly stressful with two young kids for a 2am flight