The apartment was great, clean, comfortable, cozy.
Salon is pleasant to sit and read, the kitchen is small but has everything one needs.
The bedroom is away from the street, so extremely silent.
The bathroom is clean.
Quiet area but just a few hundred meters away from cafés, groceries, excellent lokantas, bakeries and even a fantastic wood oven simit.
If you think Turkish hospitality is a myth or a thing of the past, please meet Melike and Inanç ! Inanç came to the shuttle bus station to pick me up. He later took me for a walk around Yeldeğirmeni, Moda and Kadikoy areas, and indicated me the cafés, the restaurants, the locantas, the markets to go. He told me where to buy delicious mezzes I could eat in the apartment, where to find a nice aubergine moussaka, the best Lahmacun, the best Ezogelin soup or köfte...
With a host and a guide like Inanç, Kadikoy (already the most pleasant and human area of Istanbul) becomes Aladdin's cave.