I booked this room for two months mainly because of the great design of the room. The pictures online looked cool!
However, when I arrived I could see that what was on pictures looked not as good as the real thing. The apartment looks tired and worn down. It could use some renovation for sure.
My room generally was clean but my bed mattress was way toooo soft: when you lie down on the bed it feels like you are sucked down by this mattress and you basically sink inside the bed. I would change it for sure. There was no armchair in my room as it was indicated on the photos. The baseboard was missing from the walls which created an untidy look and feel of the room. Wallpapers were old and faded. There was a big closet with lots of hangers which was great. There was a night lamp near the bed which was cool. Wi-Fi was problematic in that room. My phone couldn’t pick up the signal but my laptop could which was very inconvenient as I had to use my mobile internet. The modem is located in the common room. I reset it and it didn’t help. If you need to work from your laptop you will probably need to go to the common room because the signal was not always reliable in my room.
Now moving on to the general areas of the flat. The kitchen is spacious and with lots of handy utensils, plates, cups etc. Convenient if you cook your own food. Big fridge. The girl that lived in this flat before me was really neat and kept the kitchen super tidy. Bathroom had somewhat old stale air smell. I think it needs some renovation (there was an crack in the wall which looked unpleasant).
The common room is big and has a fairly big table which is great. Very dirty carpet though.
One big problem that really turned me off were cockroaches. I know the host was willing to solve this issue in the past and pest professional came to install nets on the windows and apply some poison against cockroaches. This helped because there was only one time that I saw a cockroach on the kitchen wall and two times I saw dead cockroaches (near the oven in the kitchen and in the fireplace thing in the common room). I think this is the problem of this street in general (lots of old buildings and at the time I was staying in this flat, one building was under construction). Maybe cockroaches came from the construction or canalization. The street had quite a lot of cockroaches especially after dark which was very unpleasant. I think if the host wants to solve the issue with cockroaches they need to work on those cracks in the bathroom and in the wall near the entrance door.
All in all, I don’t know why the flat looks better on the photos than it does in real life. Its not too far away from Besiktas center and the ferries which was great but the building is old and the street is dirty.
I was late to my checkout and I told the host that before I come, I want to grab some breakfast first. The host replied to me that my breakfast was not important.
I wouldn’t stay there the second time.