I stayed for 3 days in the basement room at Merve's house. It is a cute little place with a small terrace. The place was really clean and basic. The only thing to flag is because I was there in August, and it's a basement room, it was humid, but there is a fan you can turn on but not AC. I don't like AC so that was fine for me, but at times I needed to sit out on the terrace when it got too hot!

The neighbourhood is very close to Istiklal street which is the busy shopping and dining street near Taksim square. It's not a far walk but it's uphill on the way to Istiklal.

For the price, it's pretty good!