The apartment has an amazing location, beautiful design and incredible views from both rooms. The building itself looks dusty an doesn’t have an elevator. The bed was super comfortable but the bedsheets didn’t seem to fit, they were too small and kept sliding and wrinkling. There was a generous amount of pillows, cushions and blankets but they were all filled with the unfortunate required low-allergy stuff that made them uncomfortable. The armchairs in the living room were amazing but the sofa-bed in the bedroom was hard and uncomfortable (there was a different one in the pictures). We found shampoo and shower gel as well as some laundry detergent but the amount of toilet paper and hand soap was insufficient for a two-week stay. In the pictures there seemed to be a generous wardrobe but in fact it was more of a storing closet with barely a few shelves. It has a nice secret lighting we only discovered in our last day :) The location is away from the noises of Istiklal street but you can hear the neighbors and the faucets/pipes are also terribly loud. On the other hand the shower had very good pressure and the water temperature was nice and constant. The bathroom could use some refreshing touches, like a coat of painting on the ceiling and fixing the shower hose and maybe better lighting.
Our host was pretty helpful especially with some online orders we couldn’t manage on our own and she sent a handyman to fix the dripping central heating, but despite her best efforts the internet issue couldn’t be solved and this was kind of important to us in the very picking of a place to stay in Istanbul.