We have checked in to this apartment knowing it has an air-condition as per the listing as Istanbul’s weather is too hot in Jul/Aug. We figured out that it doesn’t when we met the owner and he showed us only a small directional table-top fan and that was the only available thing for the entire house unfortunately.
I showed the owner the listing and how it mentions air-condition, he said he is not aware.
My 1.5 years old son, wife and I had hard time sleeping and pillow-wetting sweating every night as the humidity and temperature in Istanbul was high. A day after he got sick and feverish and been on antibiotics till today.
We tried finding reservations around same day and unfortunately all decent hotels within our budget were booked.
We didn’t complain firmly to the owner fearing that he will kick us out.
We requested a rental indoor A/C unit and he said he won’t pay for it, we even requested a standing and oscillating fan and he sat a 40-90 lira price limit and asked me to go and buy it as he left the city the day after we checked-in. He told me it’s illegal to install AC units in his neighborhood while we saw adjacent same aged buildings around with AC units installed. Sighs**
The shower plumbing wasn’t right either, the shower gets too cold or too hot suddenly, it was frightful when we bath our kid.
We vacated the apartment a week ahead to a hotel and asked the host for a full refund of remaining nights plus 50% of previous ones for issues reported but he refused and fabricated damages to unit claiming we did them, which is too sad.
We think the apartments makes a good choice but not in summer time, it is unlivable these days even with all windows open.
I had two out of three weeks of my vacation ruined, unfortunately.