Hotel Ipek Palas

The pictures shown online. Very deceiving. Must admit though, the reception area looks great. Upon arrival I liked what I saw until I got to my room.

Ideal location. Close to the main area within Sirceki and Marmaray station. Chose this as it was 4* hotel so paid a lot more for it compared to other 3* or even 2 * hotels. Was disappointed as the rooms were very small. No tea/coffee making facilities in the room. This is something I would have expected in a 4* hotel. To be honest I stayed in a 2* hotel last year and that was very similar in size to this which even that had the mini fridge and tea/coffee making facilities. But this hotel didn't. I would not recommend this hotel. I paid over £200 for 4 nights for this hotel. Yet it would have cost me less than half price if I had gone for a 3*. And the room size and facilities would have been the same. Breakfast is always the same and nothing exciting. I've stayed in 4 star hotels before in Taksim area. They have been great with spacious rooms and all the facilities like, bars, chill out areas, swimming pool and gym. But this didn't have anything. Very disappointed in the lack of facilities. Wanted to use the hotels iron but they didn't have one! Staff were friendly but Would not stay here again. This should have really been a 3* hotel with prices a lot lower.

The location

The bathroom door was broken, there is no door in the shower. Cheap and poor quality of shampoo. They changed the bed sheet ones in nine days.