Unfortunatly we can not recommend the Apartment, throughout there are some positive aspects we had too many negative things to handle.
Pros
- Our hosts answered very fast
- The shower was cold one morning and they fixed it within a day throughout it was end of ramadan
- From the flat you can reach the Istiklal street by 5-10min walking, Galata tower was 20min walking
Cons
- The Apartment in general was not clean and run down (e.g. baseboards were loose, side of the fridge was dirty). The pictures on airbnb are much better as the reality
- The door has to be locked otherwise it continues to open
- The lock of the door does not work properly, it is very difficult to lock up twice. This is dangerous in case of an emergency
- The wifi connection is not stable, there is no internet for about a minute/ every 15 minutes
- The lamp in the bedroom is cold white and way to bright to use it
- One chair had a dirty mark
- The dishes were not clean and wet, so that we didn‘t used it
- There was only one fork
- The bed was so hard that it was uncomfortabel to lay on the side
- It‘s loud in the flat. You can hear if someone next to you opens a door normaly, also the small street is loud (loud cars, honking, sirens in the night)
- The bathroom sink was way too small. It was not possible to brush your teeth or wash your face normaly
- The shutter could only be hooked if they were closed. So we had no daylight because the wind closed them constantly and we had no opportunity to fix it.
- My travel budy is allergic to milbs. He reacted as soon as his head lay down on the pillow. As he put a sweatshirt between pillow and his head, his airways became free immediatly