Miko is clearly a pro, and made every effort to make arrangements for us. He has assistants working for him who will bring you from the airport; this a MUST if you do now know *exactly* where to TELL the taxi to go...you cannot simply give a cabdriver the address and expect he will take you - some of these streets are thousands of years old and were designed to repel attackers...not be logically constructed to enable navigation. One was also waiting for us when we arrived, we negotiated a proper time that left neither of us waiting or wanting, and had everything we needed.

Agree with other comments describing the apartment, i.e. as a great place to serve as a location central to Istanbul, want to emphasize how close his apartment is within walking distance of Taksim and other excellent and beautiful neighborhoods (for example, if you want to eat a full meal at 4:30am, it is a nice 4 block walk among trees) however his street is actually quite quiet.

The upper balcony views, the sunrise on the water, god....I'm a photographer and I have lived every day since seeing it in shame that I did not take a landscape photo with my film camera - - it was breathtaking, and from me that's saying a lot! I'm a pro photographer and this was unlike anything I've seen it the florida keys, Big Sur, Oregon.