The apartment is way smaller than expected or reflected in the pictures. There’s barely room for luggage. The apartment space is good for 2 people 3 at most. The rooms are too narrow with no space on the sides on the bed to get in and out of bed. One of the bedrooms is a little longer than the other. The other room is very small with absolutely no space around the bed, you’d have to crawl from the bottom of the bed to get in. It is not a bedroom.
It’s in a super noisy area even after midnight, which is expected since it’s one of the most popular touristy areas of Istanbul.
One of the bathrooms is a decent size but has a broken shower head. The other bathroom is uncomfortably small. Both bathrooms don’t have trash cans or space to put toiletries, hang bath towels or hand towels.
The coffee maker is broken and the kitchen space is not something that you could really use for anything.
One of the blankets has no cover. There are not enough sheets for those sleeping on the sofa bed and not enough towels. So the hosts advertise the unit for six people. I confirmed with them that our group is of six people and then nothing in the unit is really prepared for six people.
The host kept messaging me about our exact arrival time, which I gave an accurate estimate of based on airport and traffic conditions. But then upon arrival the host said will send her colleague to deliver the keys. She said it would take him 2 minutes max. We were standing in narrow busy street with our luggage waiting. He was over 30 min late and the host said that he forgot the keys while we were standing in the middle of a narrow street waiting for him to arrive. When he arrived he said he had a car problem and that he was not really late. And then said to me when he found out I’m from the US that Americans are trouble and that he has a problem with them because they never tolerate when someone is a little late.