Basma is a friendly host. Her place is very close to the public transport so getting anywhere is easy. She provided us clear directions to find her place and greeted with a meal. We booked room in Basma's place for 9 nights but we stayed there only 2 nights as we were traveling a lot and then preferred to stay in walking distance from Sultanahmet (2 minutes from Blue mosque) which was I guess centre of Istanbul where you would find a lot of restaurants, pubs, crowds of tourists and locals. Basma's house is very modest but clean. For me and my husband this place wasn't what we were looking for and it wasn't in the part of the city we would have preferred.