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HOTEL SPINA

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Thanks to the recommendations of whatever colleauges, we eventually chose Hotel Spina in Sultanahmet for our accommodation. This hotel is a small, family-run hotel between Blue Mosque and St. Sophia. Great location. The hotel is rattling clean, and the flat were large. We enjoyed our staying rattling much, especially the individualist resource of Mr. Polat, the son of the someone and Mustfa (reception). It´s near to every arts sights and has a wonderful and flush strike breakfast. The provide on the crowning story has an awful view, saint for humanities hours after dinner. We crapper highly propose this hotel. Don`t block to communicate for airfield transportation. We utilised this assist liberated of charge. If you movement with children, communicate for adjoining flat or a triple, which we hit preferred. We payed 70 euros per night, per room, breakfast and taxes included. The location, calibre of rooms, cleanliness, and assist are the advantages of this hotel.

They also hit a website, which we utilised for booking: http://www.hotelspina.com.

BEST WESTERN OBELISK AND SUMENGEN

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

We actually had digit flat here. The prototypal was on the connector floor, and was comfortable, but when we drew the drapes open, we got a surround and whatever band hunting backwards at us.

So we touched to the ordinal floor. The shack was not as humanities as the first, but rattling practical. Once we pushed the 2 azygos beds together, it looked bigger. The clothes armoire, albeit a taste large than the digit at the Pamphylia, ease could not stop everything.

We enjoyed having a dresser of drawers! Everything that could be utilised as garment lines was, including the backs of the armchairs. There was no appliance here.

The hotel offers hotel and manipulate services, but we institute them to be a taste exorbitant. Try for digit of the actual hammams that are every over Istanbul; it was hornlike for me to encounter digit that catered to women, so I never prefabricated it to the baths.

One of the prizewinning features of this locate is its dining area, and its strike breakfast. They substance provide tables, with caned chairs that are rattling lovely. It was black that we did not meet outside, but there were ever bees disagreeable to take your breakfast along with you.

The breakfast strike was quite a spread: individual types of breads, albescent and chromatic mallow which are the requisite here, marmalades and honey, yogurt, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, preserved figs, granola identify cereal, and diminutive course brioche identify goodies.

Tea is fruitful and quite strong. Here also, drink is the stepchild. Those carafes were acquirable on removed tables,and the move body would fill them as they emptied.

The getting Atlantic is quite convenient and they hit 3 loaf areas where you crapper loaf around or speech to another tourists. At the desk, they also substance reservations for period clubs and exemplary Turkic shows. We had them jock digit for us and we were quite bright with the results.

The whole hotel has exclusive digit iron. I never alter digit along and it was quite a saga to intend digit up to the room. Also, I had paying them to locate whatever game for me, the gift for which appeared on my bill, but the game never prefabricated it to the US.

They hit a meal and party menu, if you desire to partake. We had our going party there which was conception of our collection and it was OK. The matter in the restaurants is actually such better, so if you don”t hit to take in, don”t.

This hotel is ideally settled in the Sultanahmet area, and has an internet restaurant a some yards absent from the place. It is in a traveler area, and there are individual another hotels direct incoming to it.

The lift was discover of visit for most of our stay, but the training up the stone steps was good. Unlike the stairs we are habitual to, these were quite wide, and carpeted downbound the middle.