Hasan is a superfriendly, very educated and cosmopolitan young man.
And a very good host, that takes care a lot.
I really enjoyed the cleanliness of his apartment. It is so nice to check-in and not to have to clean kitchen and bath first to feel o.k. Towels and bed linen were very clean also. Even the washing machine was well maintained ( in 25% of the apartments I found black fungus and a lot of dirt).
But what was for me the biggest luxury, that the apartment was quiet. Nobody lives on top of you. Neighbours are quiet, the walls are thick and no traffic in the street. And anyway the double glassed windows have top qualitiy like German windows ( I missed windows like that in Spain so much). When you close them, you can hear nothing from outside. But the area is quiet in the night anyway.
The location is another big plus of the apartment. You are in a central and very good neighbourhood, but away from the crowds and all the terrible traffic, which you have in many parts of Istanbul.
And only 150 meters from the apartment you have all kind of shops, restaurants and cafes ( wonderful patisserie shops!).
And now the good news for all the shopaholics: after 5 minutes walking you are in a the famous shopping area, Nisantasi and Sisli. Only 10 minutes walking to the big famous Cevahir shopping center. And two metro stops further (Levent) there are many more shopping centers.
To Taksim it is only one metro stop, or 20 minutes walking. But I was so happy not to live there. It is so stressfull and overcrowded with tourists and cars. And it isn´t authentic at all. Just an artifical and very overpriced tourist area.
And Hasans neighbourhood, Osmanbey, is so much safer.
I walked there in the middle of the night alone, even in the small streets, and felt really safe. I wouldn´t recommend that to anybody in some streets in Taksim.
And if you are in the mood for culture and the beautiful old part of Istanbul or the big bazar, you are just 4 metro stops away (best stop is Vezneciler).
The apartment is also well equipped. The furniture is modern, and you have a very big tv, with several English channels. Even many sport channels!
The bed was the first comfortable bed I had in Turkey, because they are often very hard. And there is a very big clean! wardrobe.
The kitchen is also very well equipped, with a big refrigerator and dish-washer. Cooks may enjoy the cooking with gas and the oven. Also there are a lot of spices, oil, tea, coffee. And I didn´t have to buy all the cleaning devices myself like in other apartments, where I had usually nothing.
I can 200% recommend the apartment of Hasan, you won´t regret it.
And it means something if I say that, because I stood in 17 airbnb apartments in 12 months.