Absolutely the most disgusting and dangerous place I e ever stayed. RUN!!! The Main Street next to the hotel is littered with prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers. When I mentioned this to the owner he basically brushed me off and said it wasn’t that bad and that Istanbul is like this. Any honest Turkish person will tell you this is THE MOST dangerous part of Istanbul and they avoid it.
The hotel was absolutely disgusting too. The rooms look nothing like the photo, very dingy in person. The showers (I had two separate rooms and both were equally repulsive) were covered in mold and leaked all over the bathroom, the showers do not drain and i even had them try to unclog twice in two days. Every drawer, closet, cupboards was covered in debris and stickiness. The bathroom floors had grime build up in all the corners. The shower was a trickle, literally. And the WIFI was spotty at best. I even had them give me a cable to connect directly to the modem and it was still terrible. And being that I work remotely I really needed it.
Breakfast was also terrible. You’d be better off going to a restaurant and paying for it than paying for the sub par breakfast.
When I told Oytun I needed to leave because I need reliable internet and because I didn’t feel safe, he wanted me to pay for an extra 5 days until he could fill the room. Then I made friends with a large family there who said he promised them 7 rooms and only gave them 6. So he was also ripping them off and trying to pull one over on me.
I have so many other terrible things to say, but run far from here.
Airbnb came thru for me though and let me leave when i wanted, refunded my money and even refunded me what I had to pay to buy my own reliable internet.