Wow! This place is the best.
The hospitality and kindness of the hosts were superb! They even brought us snacks when we checked in after a long flight. Brought us new clean towels during the our stay (out of their own) and new mugs when we accidentally broke one.
You can easily walk to taksim square and the famous shopping street shopping. You can walk down to the water and old town if you like a longer walk (totally doable we did it twice) and there’s always taxis close to the apartment if you want to get one.
There’s shops on every corner for essentials or grocery foods and super affordable take always.
We are digital nomads and worked in the flat in the week. The internet had a good speed (we were two people on video calls at times).
The neighborhood does like to wake up early, so you might get woken up by some noice in the morning. But it’s all part of Istanbul experience and the locals are so nice!