Sirma Sultan Hotel Istanbul

The staff was friendly and always tried to be helpful, though we sometimes struggled with the language barrier (wish we knew more Turkish!). Overall, the staff was accommodating. Our biggest complaint is that our bathroom smelled terrible the entire stay. Friends stayed in the room above us and had the same problem. I guess it's something with the toilet? Bad sewage smell the entire time. We stayed in the additional building around the corner from the main hotel, and the walls in this building are PAPER THIN. We could hear everything. Every opened and closed door, conversations from the people in the next room and above us through the air vent. This was very annoying. Finally, though the breakfast was overall adequate, the hotel employee serving the coffee tried to charge us for a second cup. We just found it really tacky to give someone such a hard time about a second (small) cup of instant coffee!

The hotel has obviously just been renovated, the room was super clean according to Istanbul average. Breakfast was good, most of the staff spoke good English, wifi working perfectly. We had an electric outlet just under the shower. Locking of rooms was not secure at all.