Me and my girlfriend stayed in this apartment for a full month during the hottest months of the year. Overall apartment was okay, I will break down this review into pros and cons.
Pros:
- the location is superb. You can walk to Taksim square and Nişantaşı. There are small shops and restaurants around the building.
- the price point for this location is good.
- the internet was good, not great, but good enough for one person to have a call.
- there are a lot of plants and books which makes the apartment cozy and cute.
- there was everything you need to cook your own meals, lots of cute dishes to serve it in and even a dishwasher.
- Burak met us at the apartment and asked us to contact him if we needed anything. Since he does not speak a lot of English and we don’t know any Turkish communication was complicated.
Cons:
- apartment does not have any air conditioning or ventilator and during July and August it was unbearably hot in this apartment, my girlfriend had trouble sleeping due to the heat.
- it does get noisy at night time so maybe brings some ear plugs
- we did not find any clothes hangers even though there was rack for them.
- apartment had some serious cleanliness issues i.e:
a) we found a pot that was recently used (full of cooking oil and food scraps) in the cabinet with all of the clean pots and pans.
b) some of the appliances in the kitchen were sticky and filthy.
c) the kitchen sink clogs up constantly
d) and other..
- the address given here on airbnb is incorrect, but luckily, we sorted that out before leaving our home country.