My fiancé and I stayed at Ferid's place from August 31 to September 30th. We stayed at a one bedroom apartment and the place looks exactly like how it shows on the Airbnb website. We were quite impressed with that. We were thankful for the air-conditioning as it was very hot during the days. I also really appreciated how fast the WIFI was as I had to work from home the last 2 weeks of my stay there since I work at a college in Canada. This made my life much easier and I never had any issues with the internet while staying at the apartment. The bedroom was quite big and had a lot of space. Great for a family that has kids. We dont have kids but it was still very nice to have the extra space for our stuff. The living room was quite adequate as we also had a friend stay with us for a week so he could sleep on the huge couch in the living room. It was also nice to have the dining table for my work stuff. I did notice that some other places I was checking out didnt have the dining table so we were also thankfully for this as it makes it hard to sit on a couch and eat food or play cards etc. The kitchen area was a bit small with a small space that you could prepare food but still it was doable and we did manage to make food a whole bunch of times instead of going out. The produce, dairy, and overall the food in Turkey is so fresh and organic. This is why we tried to make food at the apartment as much as we could. The kitchen did lack some stuff but we went to IKEA and got a few little things. The apartment is quite close to everything around Taksim and also esteklal street. A few steps from the apartment there were 2 stores that had produce and all kinds of food so if we were missing anything we could get it right away. I also liked how it was so close to the metro, which we used quite a few times to go to the bazar, and also close to the taxis as well. The apartment is very close to taksim square and esteklal street which is the main area for many people to go to the restaurants, shops, coffee places, ice cream shops etc. It was very convenient as we could go there anytime we wanted. Istanbul is a huge city so being someplace touristic and close to everything, definitely made a big difference for us being there for the 1st time.
We also always could get a hold of Ferid anytime if we needed anything. And for me that was the best part of our stay. We knew if we needed anything at anytime and we msged Ferid he would always get back to us right away! Thank you for that Ferid!
Overall we enjoyed our stay at Ferid's place and we would definitely recommend it to anyone who is wanting to go to Turkey and experience Istanbul and be someplace close to everything.
Cheers
Banafsheh