Hakan is a very nice host. Friendly and responsive. We were welcome to his home near Taksim square. The check in and check out was very good. But for us the value and coziness were not there. The apartment is located near a very busy 3 lane street that is very noisy all night long. We barely could sleep plus the curtain was very light so we had the lights from the street in the room and it was like there was no windows. I’m sorry to say but the two night sleep that we book were not what we were expecting and unfortunately we didn’t any honest review like that that could have prepared us.