Accomodation in here was pretty good. Newly repaired and nicely decorated from inside an old architecture. Everything was as expected. We enjoyed our stay in Balat, lots of cafés and tea places and also eating options around, bakeries/ borek places, pattiseries, soup places and meyhanes... you can enjoy buying things from or just seeing auctions while passing by which are held in little antique stores. lots of visitors of the neighbourhood on weekends for its historical places and well protected culture, lively streets. The house is on one of these streets i can say, so if you want you can open the window and let that street life come in to your room. You can visit the attraction points of Istanbul easily. You can shop from local markets around for your needs. Altho i am from Istanbul originally, Balat still seemed challenging at first but we had no problem. House was very clean and tidy. Kitchen equipment was enough. The only thing i can say, you can easily hear sounds of neighbours', that's all... We haven't seen Mehmet not on arrival nor when we leave but his friend Engin was helpful enough. Thank you once more guys. It was a nice stay!