Great location! Just a short walk from Taksim square and Istiklal (that big shopping avenue). Naci is a great host who speaks perfect English, but this room has a few shortcomings: It has a sliding glass door to the common area (patio door, doorwall), which is ± 2,5 meters wide. It’s frosted glass, though, … except for the top ± 30 cm. So someone tall enough can peek into the room. (I’m ± 1,85m and could see everything in the room.) I taped it off with some sheets of paper.
Second problem: there are glass doors between this room and the next one. (With a bookcase placed in front of them, I didn’t notice it at first.) So you pretty much hear almost everything in that other room. I had the *good fortune* of having an Algerian neighbor who watched videos on his smartphone until past one in the morning… without headphones. (He didn’t have any.) Fortunately, Naci let me move to another room that came free.