I live in Istanbul, but very far from center, it takes 2 hours (1 way) to get there. I had a lot of activity there and decided to rent place to stay for weekends get extra 8 hours of my life = )
I booked place for weekend and it was very nice. Location is very nice, port and useful transportation (ships, T1 train, metro) are in a comfortable walking distance, exactly what I needed.
It was nice to find small things in the apartment like coffee, tee, washing gel (for washing machine). Whatever needed to spend weekends effortlessly for me was there.