Hotel Bosfora

Location is simply fantastic - in a hip area of Istanbul, near amazing restaurants, near a lovely cat park, and accessible to bus and metro lines to get you around the city. The staff is really friendly, and the breakfast every morning was lovely. Room 503 is spacious and modern, with a good amount of outlets for devices, a nice couch, a table/desk, minibar, and plenty of closet space. There is also a tea kettle that you can use to make tea or instant coffee, and the room has a couple of tea bags and coffee packets for free. The WiFi is decent, and no password is required.

People either smoke in the hotel or close enough to the hotel that the smell gets into the room, even in an upper level room (like room 503). The hotel seemingly has only one key per room, so if you take that key with you, your room is not cleaned. I wonder what will happen if you lose the key ... The cleaning of the room was rather shallow, and whoever cleaned the room did not refil the used tea packets or the bathroom soap/shampoo (luckily we brought our own). The bed is not very comfortable.