Songül is an amazing host: she waited for our arrival and explained everything in detail about the apartment. Although she doesn’t speak English, this doesn’t seem a problem at all — we used Google Translate and communicated really well. She asked daily if we need anything else.
The apartment, although a bit smaller than I thought after seeing the photos, has it’s own charm and style, which I loved, and was rather clean.
We did appreciate hot water, like really hot, not tepid that we had to put up with at another place in Istanbul. And the wifi was decent, which was important for us. You can adjust the room temperature as you wish. This was so good in rainy days when we were all soaked - hot radiators helped get everything dry in a couple of hours.
The kitchen has everything you need for cooking. Lots of everything in fact. Again, a rare case.
It’s quite a quiet street in the middle of a bustling area. Only occasional motorbikes could disturb us, but not until late at night. On a Friday, there seemed to be a home party at some neighboring house, which was a bit annoying, I don’t know if they do that often, but we fell asleep anyhow. It was just once and not much trouble.
A bit of inconvenience was a smell from the bathroom, it used to come and go, and the fact that the bathroom isn’t heated, so in winter taking a shower could be a refreshing experience in the first minutes. Than the hot water does its job and it becomes just fine, so no trouble here, too.
The area here won’t be easy to move around for someone with a stroller like us or other accessibility issues. Pavements are mainly useless, streets very narrow, and you have to share the not so excessive space with cars and motorbikes. Some streets have stairs. It’s all so cute and overall manageable, but literally, no walk in the park.
If it was just two of us, me and my husband, we wouldn’t mind this at all.
Don’t expect a view from the window, it’s the first floor, but we were happy we didn’t need to climb high.
Overall, the apartment is convenient, very well equipped, thoughtfully organized, and the host is one of the best I met, I wish we could just chat with her about this and that, without a language barrier, Songül’s a wonderful woman. And
I personally loved the sofa in the living room, really comfy! :)