Where to begin... The Apartment is just amazing, jam packed with everything you need and more, from the moment you walk in you realise that you are entering your next home not a hostel or bed and breakfast. Everything in the apartment works very well.

The neighbourhood is perfect, all the shops are within a few minutes away, there is a grocery shop just downstairs which has anything and everything you would need, not to mention the farm food i.e. organic vegetables and fruit. There is also a great restaurant just downstairs, the owners are from eastern Turkey where they have brought their home cooking, and the menu has many unique dishes so you will never have to cook during your stay. The area is quiet, you will not hear any cars or people at night, but if you did want to see the crowd and go for a drink then you only have to walk 10 minutes to the seaside where you will enjoy a beautiful view of the Bosphorus.

And finally to the host, Ozancan is the perfect host, he wrote to me on a daily basis checking if I was alright and needed any help or if there was anything needed to be done at the apartment. Also he left me a Istanbulkart (with prepaid credit) which is very convenient as without it travelling is either expensive or impossible.

I have already made plans to come back to Istanbul in the summer and will definitely stay in this place again.