Nice, clean apartment near major tourist attractions in Istanbul. Fehmi is an excellent host! The apartment is on the fourth floor. Normally we travel very light and climbing stairs with backpacks is no problem at all. But this Istanbul trip was a part of another trip taken to attend a wedding--we were traveling with two suitcases, besides our backpacks. Fehmi was very kind to give us a hand in taking the suitcases up to the apartment. He also arranged for storing the suitcases in a carpet shop next door while we travel to Malta. [In fact, that's where our luggage is at this time].
Apartment Description: You enter the building from main entrance on the street level and go up to the fourth floor using a narrow spiral stairwell. You enter the small living room of the apartment, with kitchen facilities on the left, bathroom in front, and the two bedrooms to your right. Both bedrooms have windows on the street side. One bedroom (most probably 12 ft X 12 ft) has a queen-sized bed; the other one (most probably 8 ft X 14 ft) has a single bed and a sofa that can be converted into a bed. The apartment was very clean. [We feel bad leaving the collected trash bags by the door--there were no instructions where to throw away the trash, and we did not see a dumpster downstairs.] To go to Blue Mosque and Aya Sofia, you turn left, on exiting from the main entrance, and then turn right at the next corner. It is a two-minutes walk to the pedestrians-only area around the tourist attractions. A grocery store (Sokak) is a 4-minutes walk from the apartment. [Left on exiting the building, another left at the corner, walk slight uphill, store will be on the right.]