What People are saying

Great location but very noisy

Barclay Kon 14/09/2016 21:05

For the price and location I can't complain. Weak wifi signal in my room. Very noisy live band that we could here pounding until 1am then got turned down until around 3am (Tuesday night). Location great next to Galata tower. Easy to get to boat and metro. Taksim high street nearby.

Not worth the location

BEceFon 18/10/2015 17:50

The room and the bathroom were so tiny that I couldn't dare to close the window fearing I might suffocate. The ceiling itself was a horror movie. Yes it has a great location but there are lots of other places to stay with a location like this which doesn't make you claustrophobic, unlike Galata Hostel-2

Beautiful, calm cafe close to the bustling centre

Travellers1920on 24/09/2015 16:51

Excellent location, between Istiklal and the Golden Horn. Just off of a busy shopping street this cafe offered a haven of calm. Excellent selection, fantastic Turkish coffee and tea for reasonable prices as well as shisha and food. Would definitely recommend as a pitstop.

Friendly, but in a disrepair

consu_saron 27/05/2015 09:33

Nice hosts and fair price, in a very central location, but really dirty and in need of a better management. Some room were under repairs and we got a room full of the dust from the works. It won't have take much to vacuum the floor before we got there.
Wifi is available only at the ground floor.
The bed was good and the matress new, but the pillow yellow of dirt.
The breakfast is decent, even if there was a major spill of water over the kitchenette during our stay.

Scorpion in Our Bathroom

travelbugMN47on 16/03/2015 03:40

My wife and I were attracted to it because it was relatively cheap and the online pictures provided by management were relatively nice.

When we arrived around 9pm, the person working placed us in a small room directly next to the front desk area. The man working at the desk had the television on loudly and was talking on his cell phone intermittently throughout the evening. The walls were thin, and we were concerned that we wouldn't be able to sleep due to the noise. We asked to be moved and were told there were no other rooms available.

When we inspected the bathroom, we found a lot of black mold in the shower area - on the floor, along the wall, and on the ceiling. My wife reluctantly decided to take a shower. When I removed the towel hanging over the top of the shower door, I noticed a large bug inside. I dropped the towel, and the scorpion inside began moving - it was alive. I killed it, and at that point, we decided we had had enough.

I informed the employee that we were leaving and that I wanted a refund (we had been charged for three full nights when we arrived about 4 hours earlier). He told me that only his boss could refund me, but he encouraged me to write out my complaint so that he could give it to the owner. I did, and we left to search for another hotel.

I returned the following night because I was told that the owner would be present. He was, and I explained what had happened and asked for a refund. He agree to refund me for two of the three nights I had paid for, but not the first night even though we had only been in the room for about 4 hours. His rationale for not refunding me for the first night was that he couldn't rebook that night for another person and that I had used some of the towels (yes, including the one that had a scorpion in it). After a lot of tense negotiation, he eventually agree to refund me $200 of the $245 I had paid for my reservation. He angrily explained to me that I was causing him to lose money because of the taxes he had to pay. He never apologized once.

I promptly informed Booking.com of what had happened, and they refunded me the remaining $45. I was not able to write a review on Booking.com because they have a policy that you must stay in the property for one night in order to write a review.

I know this review may sound too bad to be true, but I attest that it is accurate.