We were visiting from the US. This was our first time to Istanbul and to Turkey.
Rasim was amazing at how responsive he his, how hospitable he is, how caring he is to make sure things go well. Nothing but great things to say about him and his entire family who help run the place. Their family is great. They will make you feel like you are part of their family.
You do need to walk up steps to get to the rooms, but pretty much everything in Istanbul requires walking up steps. It is part of the experience there so bring walking shoes for your time in Istanbul.
The great thing about Rasim's place is it is a cafe at the bottom, and then rooms above the cafe. The cafe is very warm and cozy and I would love to have just sat there all day drinking Turkish Tea and Coffee. They have some limited food menu, they are mainly for coffee, tea, drinks, etc. But they can prepare breakfast.
My wife and I really enjoyed the neighborhood. It seems like a very tight-nit neighborhood and the impression I get is most everyone wants to work together to create a welcoming and pleasant experience for tourists visiting. and I can sense that from the neighborhood. For example, most of the time we took Uber around and sometimes we took taxis. You are better off taking Uber because some Taxi drivers will unfortunately rip you off and not use the real meter and overcharge you. But Rasim helped out us out one time when one of the taxi drivers tried to rip us off and we felt really honored that he would go so far out of his way to rebuke the taxi driver on our behalf and stop them from taking advantage of us. Actually about 10 people came to our defense immediately to help us out. It was quite sweet of them.
In this neighborhood there are some great blocks of restaurants with cool things in them. There are also 100's of antique shopping stores.
There are so many wonderful things to see all throughout Istanbul and this is a great place to stay where you can trust Rasim and his family to take care of you. I definitely look forward to going back and seeing them and the city again.
If you do need high speed internet, you are best off going just one block down the street to Turkish Cellular and getting a local 4G SIM card. The internet speed will be very fast. I just took the 4G SIM card and placed it into my WIFI mobile device and it was perfect.