Garden House Istanbul

The bed was very comfortable and most of the staff very lovely. Even though they weren’t necessarily good, they did care about the comfort of the guests. It is the staff that made my stay at the hotel very enjoyable.

My room was nothing like I expected based on the pictures on booking.com. It was the top floor, a roof chamber, where the ceiling was on average probably at 1.75. It felt claustrophobic at first and with a few things needing updating in the room and bathroom, the price I paid was too high for this room in that hotel. Also, one day, my room wasn’t cleaned, having been back at 4pm. I hoped the hotel is in a ‘residential’ area but there are no residential areas in that part of town; its pretty much all hotels (and mosques of course). Having seen other parts, it was still a nice good relaxed place to stay location wise. The hotel is renovating one side of it which didn’t make much noise and no dirt, but at some point in the morning, the water was cut off for for about 2hrs without prior warning. The boy at reception doesn't know anything. Lastly, don’t be fooled by thinking they offer airport transfer as written on booking.com; they don’t- this is old information and the new airport is far away costing 50euro one way for the suggested hotel transport. Its better to take the local bus which starts and stops around the corner.

I lost my money in the room and staff manager cheating on the price of tour to Uludag Bursa.