I stayed at Sejo's apartment for 4 days with my wife and daughter.
Positive:
1. It is as accurate as it can get as shown in the photos. The apartment is very clean, spacious, and beautiful. All the appliances look new and modern. Nice furniture and a very comfortable bed. It is very convenient that the living room and bedroom are separated and they are further apart by a long hallway. It is very convenient if you have a small child and if she needs to go to sleep early.
2. The location of the apartments is super convenient. A few minutes from the lively street, Istiklal if you go up the street If you go down the street, you can get to Meclis-i Mebusan/Kemeraltı very easily. But the street in front of the apartment is quiet most of the time.
3. The host, Sejo, is a very welcoming, extremely friendly host and is willing to help if you need anything. When we checked in we need a few things. It took a while but he managed to give us what we needed.
Negative:
1. We stayed on the second floor, which is above where the host lives. It was noisy for the first few nights. Every time someone in and out of the main entrance to the building or each apartment, the doors slam very loudly and you can hear them from the inside room. One evening, the noise and screaming lasts til 3 am. Since it was from the bedroom side, it was very difficult to sleep. Because of that, we decided to move out of the apartment earlier than we planned although the following night was very quiet after we complained.
2. When we left the apartment, we could not catch a taxi using taxi apps like Uber or Bitaksi. A lot of taxi drivers would not want to come as far as the apartment. We asked Sejo for help and he called one for us. The taxi arrived very quickly. But we were shocked to learn the taxi driver demanded a very high price for where we asked to go. The cost was equivalent to a trip to the airport! Instead of the expected charge of 60 Turkish lira, we had to pay 300 TL! That was a very unpleasant situation and the stay in the apartments left us feeling distrustful.