Beautiful and very clean apartment. It felt like home for the 14 days visit to Istanbul. The terrace was the cherry on top of the cake!
Hosts communication was pretty good and prompted. They accommodate our early check-in and a bit of a late check-out.
Location wise, the apartment is in the middle of the area. Taksim is 5-7 minutes away by walking. Taksim has M2 metro which passes through most of the European side main areas, and the F1 which takes you up and down to findikli area (kabatas ferry) which is near galata port and karakoy (another ferry). The only thing is that in order to reach taksim you'd need to walk uphill for about 100 meters which could be tiring for older people.