This airbnb is in great location, very close to Taksim Square and a lot of restaurants and the place itself is great, nice and clean.
However, communication with the host was not easy starting with check-in instructions. We did not receive any check-in instructions until we actually arrived at the door. The main entry door for the building is hard to use esp. once you put in the code, you have to immediately push the door otherwise, it will lock right after the voice information which we figured out eventually but we did not know at the time and thought we had unlocked the door using a separate key in the lockbox (that happened to match with building entry lock code) and we thought the key was for us but it was not which we did not know. This was clearly due to lack of proper check-in instruction. The host made us pay $40 for having to change the lock of that key which honestly was due to lack of communication so hopefully this is helpful for future guests.
If you are planning to work from this place and need internet, you may be out of luck. Connectivity was very slow for most of the time we were here. Also, AC was out while we were there but thankfully, we just had 3 hot days so it was not unbearable. The other thing is the washer and dryer take about 2 hours each for a load and we made a big mistake of doing laundry in the morning of the checkout. We asked for additional 20 minutes (11.20 checkout time and we were willing to pay extra to cover for the delay in checkout too) but were constantly pressured to leave the airbnb both by the host via airbnb messages and by the cleaning lady who was constantly ringing the bell and knocking the door while we were waiting for our washed clothes to be dry. When we opened the door for the cleaning lady, she was so angry at us and started throwing things around including the slippers we had bought which she threw from the upper floor with a great deal of force while we were loading our luggages in the elevator which was honestly such a bad hospitality.
Overall, nice airbnb place but communication and hospitality was such a bad experience for us.