I stayed in Melisa's apartment for a friend's 4-day wedding in Istanbul. The flat is just as pictured - everything is new and clean, and Melisa was super helpful with suggestions for nearby hair salons and the like. She was also very responsive, which is important!
A few highlights that were important for my stay:
- Air conditioning worked and got cool! key, as it was ~40C in Istanbul. As an American living abroad, I've found a lot of air conditioners here don't get very cool. Melisa's was awesome!
- Strong wifi - for checking work email
- Powerful salon-grade hairdryer - I have curly hair, so with the humidity having a good hair dryer to straighten my hair removing the need to pack my own was a nice perk
- Great shower pressure
- Great clothing iron to steam my dress for the wedding events (again, the iron was brand new)
- Very comfy bed, all pillows and bedding was new
- Washing machine with detergent to do any laundry, and a stocked kitchen to make coffee etc, although why would you Turkey has the best Turkish coffee and tea! ;)
If you are a light sleeper like me, pack earplugs for the weekends. The flat is centrally located (awesome!), but like any town on weekends when people are at the bars it can be noisy. For the week nights it was very quiet
I'd definitely stay at Melisa's again when I'm in town. Thanks for everything!