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6 de maio de 2023
We stayed here for a one night stopover at the end of our trip to Istanbul, and one night was more than enough. I'll cover the good points first as it won't take long. It's in a good location, just a few meters off Taksim square. That's the good point out of the way, now to the poor and the downright bad. The hotel stinks throughout of cigarette smoke, this is probably due to the guy by the main street entrance who hawks tours to passers by, he constantly smokes & you have to squeeze past him to get into the hotel & his smoke rises throughout. The rooms are small, which isn't an issue, but they aren't the cleanest and the bathroom was grubby. Speaking of the bathroom, whoever built the one in our room had a sense of humour. He decided to put the shower screen door tight up against the washbasin, the result is that the shower door will only open around 250mm/10". My 55kg wife just squeezed in, I at 80kg, needed to perform some interesting gymnastics to get into the shower. Any "larger" folks would genuinely struggle. See photos. Our bed cover was covered in felt pen decoration, no doubt left by the previous resident's 2 year old. Breakfast was a sad affair, the breakfast staff were friendly enough, but the food was scarce. We went down to breakfast at 0900 & the buffet was nearly empty, it didn't get replenished. Coffee was instant powder. If you wanted a proper coffee from the machine, there was an extra charge. Checkout was interesting & the manager's Piece de Resistance. In a nutshell, the manager wouldn't let us leave until we had written a review in his presence for his approval. He was very insistent to the point of holding our luggage hostage. This could account for the numerous favourable reviews for the establishment. We flatly refused to write our review there & then, not least because our taxi was waiting outside. We retrieved our luggage & left. Avoid this hotel, there are much better ones in the locale.
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