We checked in Necīp’s place with great disappointment. The apartment intro didn’t mention it’s located on fifth floor without lift, so we had to carry our heavy luggage to fifth floor by ourselves. When we entered the apartment and checked around, it’s obviously not been cleaned appropriately, as there is dirt everywhere even on the table; leftover stuff in the kitchen; even smelly bathroom. These should all be cleaned up before we arrived. We could not stand to pay the standard price for such a place, so we had to book another place and communicated with Necīp for the issues. We also found out the location of this place is not accurate, as it says it’s 2 min walk to station. But it took us 15 min to walk from Taksim station to the apartment.
Besides, what upset us more is Necīp’s attitude toward this problem. He didn’t believe the hygiene issues is his problem, but insisted on coming in and check first, and kept saying the problem can be fixed instead of refund. He continued blaming us on the cancellation, saying it would let his place not be able to rent out for the whole week, which doesn’t make sense. Last but not least, he canceled our stay without notifying us in our valid stay period and refuses to get us refund even we already paid for 2 nights stay.
We are writing this not to complaint, but let visitors who plan to rent this place please do think twice before you make the decision.