Overall, this studio was a very good value. It's very small but we weren't spending much time in the apartment anyway. The washer was convenient as well. However, there was a pretty bad smell of mildew in the bathroom. That was our only real complaint. My girlfriend and I stayed here for a week while checking out Istanbul and loved the neighborhood. It is well situated near Galata where there are nice places to eat, walk around, and shop. We tend to walk most places and this was well located for that. It was around a nice 30-40 minute walk to the touristy places in Sultanahmet and also a pretty easy walk along this pedestrian street to Taksim square. We found that there were great restaurants to eat within a mile and enjoyed that everything was walkable. The only time we had to take a taxi or public transportation was when we went to and from the Asian side (highly recommended) and airport.