My wife and I lived in the guest bedroom in Orcun’s apartment for 6 weeks. We were comfortable in the room, and Orcun made us feel at home. It was great to have use of the kitchen, dining area, and living room with a nice flat screen TV. The neighborhood felt very safe, and we never had any problems returning at any hour. In terms of location, for us it was perfect, accessible to many parts of the city, by walking, bus, taxi, ferry. There may be noise at night—garbage collection in Istanbul seems to work 24/7, and people stay up late—but we became accustomed and didn’t really have trouble having a good nights sleep every night. We would stay again.