My boyfriend and I stayed at Lino and Gioia’s for 4 nights and we loved the place. The location is great: 20 min walking from Galata bridge and within 10 minuted from Iskital or Karakoy; it is not so turistic yet very safe and friendly, it gives you a real local feeling if you like to enjoy traveling in a less mainstream way. The two terraces are awesome: we liked to get our breakfast on one and watch the sunset over the Galata Tower on the other. The flat was equipped with everything for basic cooking: Lino and Gioia also provided us with coffe and tea and some nice cookies (thank you!). The only thing is that being at the top floor it might get quite warm in the summertime and since it is a local lively neighbourhood, if you leave the windows open at night it might get loud too. But if you close the windows you dont hear anything from the streets and there is AC if it gets too warm (we didnt need it, and we slept with the open windows). There are also several supermarkets, butcher and bakeries really close by. We really liked it, and we would come back again if we come back to Istanbul! The flat really added value to our trip! Thank you for hosting us! :)