I never stop being excited how Airbnb is able to entice people to unveil their most intimate properties to strangers. What if you end up in one’s family mansion of days long bygone, with stunning facades, outstanding interiors, lavish gardens incorporated with a mosque along the walls and indoor parking lot where one can accommodate the whole ottoman regiment? The views deserve another verse or entire poem to which Swissotel Bisphorus can hardly contend. Feeling ottoman grandeur for ridiculous money has never been close. And if your tailwinds take you further to Mediterranean shores to Bodrum, give a ring to the owner to experience a touch of Turkish noble hospitality in fullest as I did. Uskudar my eternal love