First of all: It was really perfect. The apartment was great and Mahmud did a really good job as being the perfect host.

We went to Istanbul with 7 persons for four days. The apartment was like shown on the pictures: very clean, recently renovated, best location. Every room (three double bedrooms and one single bedroom) has its on bathroom with hair dryer, shampoo and shower gel and for each person there is one big and one small towel left in the closet.
The host Mahmud was courteously, friendly and welcoming. He was at the apartment when we arrived and left and was reachable at any time for us. We asked him to organize our transfer (airport – apartment and back and to a city out of Istanbul at one day and back) – he did it reliably and it was really not expensive.
Mahmud surprised us: he bought some foods for us (eggs, cold cuts, cheese, bread, orange juice…) so we could have a good breakfast in our apartment with the great view to the Bosporus. Drinking water is in Turkey not taken out of the water tap, so he brought water in tanks for us to use.
Some of the most important sightseeing points were so close to the apartment (5 minutes walking distance to the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Cisterna Basilica, 10 minutes to the grand bazar), the next tram station was 5 minutes away either („Sultanahmet“), so you can get to the Galata Bridge in about 8 to 10 minutes. Even though the apartment is in a quite street beside the loud tourist ones.

The single bedroom does have a window going to a little and not so light atrium, but this did not disturb us because we only went to the bedrooms to sleep. Every bedroom has a tv, but we didn’t use it. The living room was designed nice and comofrtable so that we spent our time there, if we were in the apartment. Here is a tv too. The seat options were enough for 7 persons.
The kitchen is small and does not have a dishwasher. For us it was enough because the turkish cuisine is so delicious that we ate in one of the many restaurants in the nearer surrounding of the apartment every day.
If we go to Istanbul again with 6-7 persons we will definitely come to Mahmud again because it was really perfect and Mahmud has done really great!
Thank you very much for this.