Overall, this was a good stay in a fun, busy area of Istanbul. The apt was the right amount of space for 5 people in a great part of the city in the middle of the action. The bathrooms were nice to have too. The best part of the place was the rooftop terrace. Unbelievable views! Honestly, worth booking just for that. And the apt was very clean!
Some things that we felt needed to spelled out or fixed:
- no elevator so lugging the suitcases up 3 floors is tough.
-entrance is a bit tricky to find and shared with a vendor.
- beds are very firm with no top sheets, which seems more common to us now.
- main bathroom has some water damage on the ceiling and has some mildew/mold odor
- en suite bathroom is very small. The shower was not easy for a 6’1 guy to use. It also needs new caulking as you can see where they patched the tiles.
- two chairs were usable but had been damaged.
- the electrical in the house was off. 2nd bedroom has little light and flickered. Main bedroom had a light switch not affixed to the wall with loose wires.
- you are in a busy street so it can be loud in bigger bedroom but we didn’t mind.
With all that said, the location, space and roof top was good enough to rate the apt pretty well. The host is very communicative and flexible which was super nice! So we’d still recommend it but hoping the host fixes some of the things we ran into.