Our stay at Alexis's suite was one of our best AirBnB visits, and we've had a lot of them. We will definitely try to stay here again (if it is not already booked) the next time we are in Istanbul.

The apartment itself is comfortable and well-appointed. The neighborhood feels hip, with cafes and grocery stores (and a wine store, and a boulangerie, and a patisserie, and ...) right around the corner. Taksim is about ten minutes on foot in one direction; Galata Tower about ten minutes the other direction; it's a nice 45-minute walk all the way to Sultanahmet.

Alexis was extremely prompt in all of our interactions, writing back to emails generally within minutes. This was especially important when one key broke off in the lock in the door, leaving us locked out of the apartment --- since we had a smart phone with us, we were able to write to him and he arranged for a locksmith to come within a couple hours (we had our wallets, so went on our planned walk to the tourist sites, just without our camera).

My only regret was that we couldn't spend longer there!