Thank you for the accomodation in your flat in Erenkoy / Kadikoy.
We appreciated the private parking place and the location of the building, close to farmacy, exchange, shops. You have access with remote control in the parking and it is really easy to use it.
Of course, central location can also have some downsides - the shop situated just underneath the flat was very noisy in the morning (7-8 o clock) and evening. It did not disturb us so much.
The appartment is renovated, furniture is new and modern. The building is old and there is no elevator. it did not disturb us, since the appartment is located at the first floor (not ground floor).
The livingroom is very large.
Unfortunately, you can not see in the pictures that the bedrooms are actually very small and crowded with lots of furniture (empty wardrobes).
Also, I would reccomend installing mosquito nets at the windows. From our point f view, the major downside of the flat is insufficient air conditioning. There is only one air conditioner in the living. The living is very big and the air conditioner barely covers it. It doesn't cover the bedrooms. It was very hot in the bedrooms. We couldn't open the windows since there were no mosquito nets in the whole house. Outside there were a lot of mosquitos. We couldn't sleep well because of the heat.
Another reccomandation for the host would be to mention very clearly that she lives in the appartment, when it is not rented out - therefore there was the host's food in the fridge and one of the bedrooms was locked (probably host's things in there). It wasn't very pleasant. We felt like we were renting just some rooms and not the whole appartment.
Also, we would reccomend buying a microwave oven. It was strange that we had to heat up milk for breakfast on the gas stove. Nowadays we just use microwave.
All in all, the location was very clean and appropriate for exploring Istanbul, if you don't mind not having the above mentioned things.