If you’re on a budget, this is a great hotel to stay in Old Town Istanbul. I am sure there are other great boutique hotels around the area but this hotel is located in a quiet corner of Old Town. Far from the maddening tourist crowd.
The rooms are adequate in size. Bathrooms are small but in need of an update and reno. The general area is clean. Breakfast spread is great and their coffee machine is fantastic.
The hotel lobby, while it is small, is too crowded with too many chairs. A lounge sofa pushed to the wall would have freed space and create a larger lobby. Their recycling bins are on the front entrance (WHY?!), TV on the wall (again, WHY?! A nice painting of Istanbul will suffice.) Hotel lobbies should be inviting and easy on the eyes. A well kept hotel lobby makes great impressions.
The downside of our stay was check-in. The job of the front desk staff is to get your guests to their rooms as quickly as possible upon check-in. The staff was nice but instead of giving us our room key cards, he took so much time selling us Hamam and tickets to sights. We were tired coming from a very long flight. A simple line, “If you need information on sights and Hamam, please don’t hesitate to ask me.”, would have suffice.
Other than that, our stay was okay.