The hotel is fully consistent with its 4 *.

Written: 21 september 2011
Travel time: 1 — 7 september 2011
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Family (husband and daughter) flew for 5 days. Task: see the city. The hotel is fully consistent with its 4 *. The rooms are small, but during the day you run so much that you don’t pay attention to it. In a double room there was one double bed + a single bed, in a single room: two single beds. The rooms are new. Linen is excellent - changed daily, without reminders. Bathtub - sedentary, small of course. But you are planning to lie in the bathroom of a hotel room. There are disposable slippers, no bathrobes. The muezzin began his chants at 5:30 in the morning, but this did not prevent him from falling asleep again within 10 minutes. And you will not find a place in Istanbul where the morning prayer would not be heard. True, the audibility between the hotel rooms is increased (on one of the nights behind the wall at 4 o'clock in the morning, a dismantling of a Turkish couple began - they had to knock on the wall 5 times - otherwise you would not fall asleep). Breakfasts on the 6th floor of the hotel - on the terrace with an extraordinary view of the Bosphorus and the Sea of ​ ​ ​ ​ Marmara - are quite good: a lot of fruits, cheeses, sausages, 4 types of hot dishes, and every day something new. It may be only for very young children it will be difficult to pick up something, but this is a separate issue. . The location of the hotel is just super-successful: a tram stop is 20 steps from the hotel, within a radius of 500 m Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Top Kapi Palace. The staff did not please with friendliness and knowledge of the location of historical sights, but in general they could point the right direction. Sauna, hammam, gym - for extra money. Hamam with massage - 40 euros, entrance to the sauna - 10 euros. Getting to the hotel is quite simple: the metro starts right at the airport, drive 6 stops, exit the metro, cross the tram lines, take the T1 tram and take it for another 30 minutes to the Sultanahmet stop. In the tram, the names of the stops are visible on the electronic scoreboard - you can't go wrong. Getting off at the bus stop: in the opposite direction of the tram 10-15 steps and immediately turn left onto the street. Walk 400 meters - here you have the hotel "Lady Diana". I recommend the hotel - it will definitely not spoil the impressions of Istanbul. And we didn’t like the city at all: a dirty noisy ordinary market with theft, deceit and the need to bargain, knocking down the price by 3 times (how much effort and time you need to spend every time to buy things at their real value, and every time you have to smile and pretend that the bargaining process gives you extraordinary pleasure). What is only the Grand Bazaar worth ((( - streets of cheap unnecessary goods of terrible quality. Mosques inside do not amaze with luxury, only the time of their construction is impressive. so they press against all parts of the body, and brazenly examine - terribly unpleasant. Some kind of wildness. In general, the city doesn’t even “smell” of Europe. But maybe someone will like it...
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