This was a fantastic find - we highly recommend. The flat is spacious, clean, peaceful, fully equipped, and has a fabulous view out over the Bosphoros, with an incredibly helpful host.
We stayed during some of the hottest days of the year and while it was fun and exciting to explore the bustling beautiful city, the city in that weather was humid, sticky, packed with people, and filled by what seemed never-ending cats and dogs roaming the streets. This flat was the PERFECT place to come home to at the end of the day.
Not only is it air conditioned but it has seperate air conditioning inits in the main bedroom and the lounge at the two ends of the house, so it could remain as cool as you liked and felt like an oasis of calm.
The outdoor balcony is enormous and you are completely unaware of all the action going on below - it’s just a huge shaded space with a beautiful panoramic view, where you aren’t even aware of all the other people in the busy city - a perfect escape. The front balcony is beautifully shaded and allows some shelter from the sun, but for sun-worshippers, the back balcony gets direct sun exposure perfect for sunbathing.
We came to Istanbul as the second part of our holiday and had a lot of laundry - it was brilliant to find that Huseyin not only had a washing machine with tumble dryer (though the dryer wasn’t needed in the heat), but had left us washing powder and softener so we could wash our clothes straight away. He even left us a bottle of wine, but we went out so much that we didn’t have time to drink it!
Huseyin was really helpful with advice on where to go and restaurant tips, and when I messaged explaining that our flight arrived very early in the morning, he kindly offered early check-in for us - that made a huge difference as we were in the flat and asleep by 8am after flying all night.
Great stay and would happily go back.