+ The location of this apartment is excellent. It really is close to shops, sights, coffee houses, restaurants etc.
+ The apartment is spacious and cosy with AC in the living room only.
+ Communication with the host was excellent e.g. when the taxi driver took us to the wrong location, the host offered to speak with the taxi driver and direct him correctly (make sure you specify Galata a few times to make sure they don’t go to the same address in a different region / check your maps to make sure the copied address is in Galata).
+ Check in once there was simple and easy.
- The shower doors were frustrating to open and close as one side in particular doesn’t open easily (this also caused some water to leak on the outside a few times).
- This only happened once during our 3 night stay thankfully but just in case, I have added it here: be careful with the water temperature in the shower. One day, all of a sudden when I was taking a shower, the temperature just rose rapidly (without any adjustment to the hot lever) and I ended up screaming from the pain of the hot water on my skin. When I quickly turned the hot water lever completely off and left it running on the cold one - the cold water was the same temperature (extremely hot) and stayed so for a while and so I turned them both off. Luckily I suffered no skin damage but it was really painful. I’m hoping this was just a glitch in the mains for the whole building or something.
- We found the pillows uncomfortable (one is either very flat and the other very inflated with material making it hard to get a good night sleep). We are not fussy with pillow but found them to be uncomfortable here.
~ Neither a pro or con but there is no kitchen sink in the main room just one in the toilet which is fine.