The most important thing to say is that when I go to Istanbul again I will definitely stay here again - we were there for 4 days and each day we made a particular point of getting back to the apartment by about 5 - just so we could sit and enjoy the fantastic views (directly over to the Blue Mosque etc) but also to watch the fascinating water ways and the sea scape. Great too each morning for coffee before we headed out. The location is very hilly (as other reviewers have said) but then so too is almost all of Istanbul. The location is very close to a group of really good restaurants - come out of the building turn left - go down to the second set of steps - go up the steps and immediately in front of you there are 7 or 8 really good restaurants that we loved. At the bottom of the hill is the tram stop = and the tram system here is REALLY easy to work out - very inexepensive - and takes you direct to all the main tourist sites.