Loud. So very loud.
If you’re in İstanbul to tour around and get so exhausted you could sleep through a Tractor Pull, then maybe this charming little dublex with its exposed brick and cozy style - and paper thin walls - would be alright for you.
Unfortunately, before our stay, the previous guests had broken the door handle and the fridge and run off with the TV remote. While the friendly front-desk fellow warned us of the refrigerator inconvenience, he was seemingly unaware that the fridge’s problem had escalated to a minor flood situation in the lower level. The floor of the kitchen & dining nook were puddles of icy water for the majority of our 2-day stay. And, although they said they had called for service on the appliance, no one ever arrived, so we couldn’t really chill anything at all. Oh, and… I fixed the door handle myself - not sure my fix will last, but it lasted the time we were there.
Adding insult to injury, the towels provided were damp - not from us using them to soak up the frigid floodwaters, I mean damp from the beginning of our stay.
Also, the sparse selection of dishes were dirty - that and the fridge issue meant we ate out for every meal, which lead us to finding THE BEST burger from Mr. Cowboy. So that was silver lining. Not really enough utensils/pots/pans to cook a meal anyway.
The internet was terrible. We couldn’t do even one video-chat without the signal cutting out or slowing down & dropping the call.
And it was noisy. Every word of every person in the “lobby” (a small desk in the corner at the end of the hallway), or people on the stoop, or walking past the front of the building, or Instagramming with the window-box-garden was so loud … so. Loud.… you nearly felt like they were on the sofa in the room with you.
Did I mention it was loud? The footsteps of the room above sounded like thunderclaps or a sledgehammer.
We ended up leaving in the middle of our second evening & going to a hotel for the night. We simply couldn’t take the inner city camping experience any longer.
Assuming they fix the fridge, and if you can put up with the noise, the place was super cozy with nice style and exposed brick and had a great location for an alright price, so it could be worth it for you.