Lovely apartment. Wished I could have taken the shower home with me. Very quite neighborhood but a little noise from the birds on the roof. Noise came in through the bath vent.

My wife didn't like the steep 1 1/2 block walk up to the main street but other than that it was an ideal location. I would strongly recommend getting a car service for airport pickup and return, as we did, if you have more than one small roller bag, as it is a pretty long walk from the main square drop off point for the shuttle bus or subway, plus the steep incline on the 1 1/2 block down to the apartment from the main street.

We would for sure stay with Alexis if we returned to Istanbul again. His mother meet us at the apartment when we arrived and Alexis called and talked to us before his mother left to make sure everything was in order. Departure instructions were to just live the keys in the apartment and go.

This was our second time in Istanbul (1 day off the cruise ship) plus these six days with Alexis. Although we saw a lot our first day off the cruise ship it was really nice to have 5 full days this time to really see the sights. We left wishing we would have had a least 1-2 more days to go back to the places we had seen 2 years ago and didn't have time to also fit them in on this trip.

Before you go to Istanbul be sure and learn about the history of the city from at least the 2nd Century AD