Fulda and Baris, thank you for opportunity to stay at your lovely place!
The apartment is great! If you don't consider it for a long stay and remote work, but only tourism, it should be the best choice. A little overpriced though.
Pros:
- location: shops, attractions, transport - everything is very close
- area: almost everybody in cafes and shops speaks English here, very comfortable area for tourists.
- safety: Chihangir is very safe and nice area to live, you can walk or come back at night without any risk
- quiet bedroom: no sounds of mosques in the morning. Only on Ramadan month I faced with drummers at night walking down the street. But it was seldom and looks like a muslim tradition.
- clean: the place was very clean. First two days we felt a strong smell of a cat though, but later it was auto-resolved. Cats are everywhere in Istanbul.
- equipped kitchen: you have everything needed I enjoyed cooking and washing machine.
- hot water: stable constant flow of hot water in bathroom is not a thing you can always have in Istanbul according to my experience.
- style: perfect Turkish style of apartment and you live in the very intelligent family's house. You feel the spirit of modern Turkey here.
- host communication: Baris was very responsive, always trying to help and advice.
- auto-parking is right in front of the door if you drive it might be convenient.
Cons:
- internet is very bad in general in Istanbul. They still have an old ADSL technology. As for the apartment if you are going to work remotely from the place, you should be ready for 30Mbps max, sitting right next to the router. It often loses Wi-Fi. For some video calls it was not good enough for me.
- very noisy street to work: the hall is opposite to the bedroom in terms of noise. Windows are literally in front of the auto-parking. There is a constant engine sound during the day. Prepare headphones with good noise filter if you want to work remotely. From the quiet bedroom internet does not work at all.
- I can not say it is a best price for value.
P.S. I'd advice a host to consider an upgrade of the router in future.