Best Hotel yet! Beautiful hotel itself, friendly staff, customer service is wonderful and food is…read moreexquisite in the Element Restaurant located in the lobby floor. All stars rating across the board! The room was spacious, comes with a small kitchen including a microwave, a stove, a sink and washer/dryer. Small appliances like water kettle to make teas and coffee. Cookware and dishes can be provided upon requested.

Really enjoyed this hotel. It's an extremely tall landmark tower (about 20 stories) on a high…read moreelevation in the heart of Taksim Square. Amazing reception staff and I have to commend Dorukcan Ö., Ahmed K. and Vardıya S. for all their help and the nice welcome at check in. For an urban hotel, it has fantastic amenities. There's a wonderful large pool that overlooks the sea, a fantastic fitness center with glass windows overlooking the square, a beautiful rooftop terrace bar and restaurant with spectacular views, and many shops and restaurants on the lower level. The rooms have large windows and incredible views of the city. The bathrooms are marble with luxurious rain showers and nice amenities. The beds were very comfortable. I found the check in to be extremely fast and very efficient and charming. I've stayed in hotels all over Istanbul and I avoided the Taksim Square area before but at this hotel I love it; the room is an oasis of quiet in the center of the city. But you can step outside and everything is next door! Restaurants, shopping, metro, taxis...The hotel is like an urban spa. The actual spa and hammam are very nice in the hotel. If you want something luxurious, but also want to be in the center of the action and close to nightlife and shopping, this hotel is a fantastic choice. And don't forget to visit the roof terrace bar and restaurant (sometimes featuring DJs) even if you just want to see the view. It's probably one of the most outstanding and highest views in Istanbul....360° views above the city.

Good location, but be careful. The hotel management can…read morepublish your privacy. When you check in One day you can see yourself in YouTube videos.

Loved this place! Came here for breakfast with 3 friends, you essentially have a park with tables,…read morehammocks, trees, space to place, ponies wandering around, lots of greenery and cute Polish architecture in which to enjoy your meal. It was self-serve, you pick what you'd like and carry it out on trees. We ordered salads, cheese plates, omlettes, honey-and-butter, visne (sour cherry jam) and melon with tea and coffee. So delicious and a relaxing environment. It was Bayram, so it was a little crowded with all the families, but even so an enjoyable and unique experience.

Have stayed here multiple times. Fantastic views of the Bosphorus . Rooms are clean and well…read moreappointed. Breakfast is delicious and staff are generally very helpful. Will definitely stay here again....

Overall a good hotel, with some great things to highlight and a few things to improve…read more The good: the breakfast is really excellent and was one of the highlights of my stay here. The breakfast restaurant has a really nice, on-the-water view of the Bosphorus. The location is great, being on the water, and being close to a lot of good food in the neighborhood. The service was also nice and friendly. Things to improve: the rooms could be maintained a little better. In my room the shower door couldn't close all the way so a little water would get onto the bathroom floor while showering. And the bathtub drain stop was broken, and couldn't pop up when pressed. Also, this hotel is labeled as a 5 star hotel on google maps, but it's actually more of a 4 star hotel.

Manager is very stingy and stressed me on my wedding day after I left over a €500 for less than 5hs…read morespent in his hotel. Very stingy and screamed and was rude at me. I mean, even if I wasn't a bride it is no way a manager of a luxury hotel should treat his guests!

SAW was a 30 minute and 300,00 TL taxi ride from our hotel in Bostanci. The terminal is…read moreconsiderably smaller than that at IST ... and easier to navigate. SAW is also now accessible by Metro. There are two levels of security -- first bag and person scanning to get into the terminal, and a second security screening after check-in on way to gates. Lines were long but moved quickly. Check-in for Turkish Airlines (TK) flights was long and slow. Fortunately, we used TK mobile check-in and didn't wait in a queue. Our flight was delayed by 30 minutes, and we passed the time at a relatively empty terminal coffee shop

Another trip, another gem, and by gem I mean SAW İstanbul, where travel dreams go to die. First…read moreoff, nothing screams "welcome" like being herded through security twice because why not spice things up with a little déjà vu and a bonus pat-down? The signage? Oh, it's there. Somewhere. Probably hiding behind a guy chain-smoking under a No Smoking sign. Yes, this airport smells like a tavern. Staff range from visibly annoyed to outright hostile, as if your very presence personally offended them. Honestly, I think the ticketing agents made a blood pact to make sure no one leaves here with their sanity intact. Are you hungry? Hope you brought a second mortgage. You can treat yourself to a sad sandwich that tastes like betrayal and costs more than your flight.