Everything was Great. We were there for 9 days during new year. The hosts were really friendly and helpful, i was asking a lot of questions and they promptly replied.

Photos don't really do this apartment justice, general concern when renting apartments is that the apartment doesn't look as good as on photos, but here its the opposite. Furniture is modern decorated and looks really good, apartment is big and spaceous, we really werent expecting it to be so big. Shower is big, with large hot water supply.

The apartment is really well stocked on cooking eqipment and spices. There was also butter and cheese and other food to get us through first day. We replaced that in the end and we were really grateful for that because we didnt have much food with us when we came.

Location is also quite good... It is 10 minutes walking distance to bus, and 20 minutes to metro. The trip with bus to kadikoy takes about 30-40 minutes, and then 25 minutes with ferry and your on other side. We never used dolmus (taxi-van) but i expect it to be 20-30 minutes from apartment to kadikoy with it. Taxi to kadikoy costs 10TL which is around 4 Euros, too bad we found out that on last day... The nearest big grocery store that we found is 10 minutes away.

The security is also good, it is not located in some shady street at all, like some apartments in taksim would be. There are enough street lights when walking in the night, and there is security cabin in the building complex next to it, so i think the general area is really safe.

We also left from apartment 1 day earlier than expected due to flight back being so early in the morning and they were kind enough to give the money back for that one day.

The only not so positive thing was that the bed is a bit on the soft side which was bad for my girlfriends back, and that cats outside in neighbourhood were sometimes a bit loud, probably because there was winter and they didn't get enough food.

We recommend it to anyone who likes to stay in nice, big apartment for affordable price.