The host was amazing from months before my arrival to Turkey. I had some minor issues with Airbnb that they couldn’t even resolve and the host managed to find solutions to it. I arrived very late due to flight delays and host was still able to welcome me himself. The host was very easy to communicate with and would reply less than 10 minutes. The house was very clean and nicely decorated and was literally in the tourist area of Taksim. I was able to get to majority of places in Istanbul very easily because of location. Altogether the apartment and host were really nice, would definitely come back there