Apartment: nicely designed and well equipped, you can see that the owners really put a lot of thought into it. The living room is amazingly welcoming, filled with light and providing good views thanks to its corner location. It has a large expanding table. The heating, the shower, the dishwasher, the Turkish coffee machine – everything works very well. The bedrooms have large windows and plenty of light too; beds are comfy. We used all three rooms as bedrooms during the night (4 adults and 2 children) and it was alright.
Location: it is a quiet peaceful street, but in just 3 minutes walking you can find good local shops and cafes; in 20 minutes walking you have Emaar, a huge shopping centre with entertainment options for kids like the illusions gallery, two storey aquarium and so on. Within 1 minute walk, there is a nice kindergarten called Mavi Penguen with kind cheerful staff and 90 minutes of daily English lessons taught by a native speaker besides other lessons and activities. We were so glad to find it for our daughter!
There are several small parks nearby, with playgrounds and decorations.
The internet connection (as measured in April 2022) was slightly more than 50Mbit/s down and 7 Mbit/s up and generally very reliable. The wi-fi router placed in the middle room was reaching the whole apartment, but we connected our own secondary router in the living room anyway to make sure the balcony had a strong signal too, because we used the balcony for Zoom calls.
The host Alper was extremely helpful, answering all the questions, fixing a small piece of equipment that we broke accidentally and communicating fluently.