A modest but charming apartment full of sunlight. So all in all, good value. The neighborhood felt very safe and quiet to me. I loved the dozen of restaurants as you go down the hill toward the Bosphorus.
Ozden was very quick and helpful in responding when I had trouble with something.
If planning to stay for a month or so, I’d just keep in mind that there isn’t much storage space in the apartment (almost all storage options are full of the host’s stuff). This feels more like a home sitting type of situation while your friend is on vacation haha.
Careful with the address. When I was checking in, I hadn’t noticed that the point saved on Airbnb and the street address were like 100m apart, so I spent time wandering around the streets for a bit. As is the case so often in Istanbul, the trouble is that they keep changing street names and building numbers, and Google Maps can’t seem to keep up.
Lastly, something I wished the photos prepared me better for: the charm of an old building comes with the fact that the apartment doesn’t seem to have been renovated in a decade. Especially the kitchen and the shower. So I did get little insect friends on a regular basis. But they were just harmless little spiders, and I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to get rid of them without dismantling all the old furniture.
Oh, and the TV is much smaller than in the photos, it’s currently the size of a computer monitor.