We liked: location, breakfast, decor.
We did not like: passive smoking within the bedroom (room fronts onto road where people were smoking). Roads/alleyways were constructed before cars (i.e very narrow) so there is no parking in front or next to hotel-we parked in front of the Hayrettinpaşa Mosque a few hundred metres away. Breakfast is served in the garden courtyard in rear of the property, which is very pretty, but extremely cold in April (9C at 9am when breakfast service starts). A couple stayed with their pet dog in room next to us; it barked from behind the door when we entered or left our room - this scared our young children. same dog came to breakfast the following morning and sat on a chair at a table (we did not know pets could stay in the hotel), Very bad odour coming from the drains in the bathroom. When paying the bill, we expected to pay €136.40. the online exchange websites estimated this as 890.12 TL, but the receptionist asked for the rounded figure of 900 TL. We showed her the calculation from the online site we visited and she accepted to charge 890 TL, but commented in Turkish “kuru” (which means exchange rate). Had she shown us how she arrived at her figure (which other hotels have done for us) we would have accepted. It left a bitter feeling having to “haggle” for the fee. This money is equals half the cost of buying a small purse in Cop Madam (a women’s social enterprise intitiative) or buying tea/coffee/cold drinks for 4 in a cafe in the same area.