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Fabulous

Very good

✓ Location is very good, you can walk easily to sea side, restaurants, Izmir park etc. Small but comfortable rooms. It would be good to have at least 1 small bedside table next to the bed but there was no space for it, at least in my room.

✗ It looks like there are a lot of people smoking in the rooms. You can feel that smell quite often. Poor internet (wi-fi) connection. Toilet paper was like a sandpaper :) There was no soap in the bathroom when I arrived. Bad smell from the refrigerator, they need to be stut off, defrosted abd cleaned from time to time.

Very good

✓ Good for value we didnt; have eneough bads but managed somehow

Fabulous

Cosy apartment near Cultural Park; Kültür Parkı yakınında rahat daire

✓ It was a mission to find the location as a traveler, but I had some help with directions. The bed was spacious, as well as the bathroom; I enjoyed the couch in the living space and a small kitchen to prepare food. The apartment had a flat screen TV with only Turkish channels; the aircon was working and that was nice as the weather was very hot. The kitchen had a microwave, bar fridge, stove, and various utensils for the preparation of food; there is also a washing machine and dishwasher. The elevator was also working as I was staying on the third floor. The apartment was cleaned at regular intervals; the owner would contact me with a message to arrange this. There are shops about 200 m away from the apartment, where I could buy fruit, vegetables, bread, and fast food. You can walk to culture park and walk through the park from the east gate to the west gate and find a Tram station there. Otherwise, you can get a taxi easily in front of the culture park entrance.

✗ The WIFI was not so good; the signal was not constant, weak and you cannot use the connection for video calls. Take your own MiFi dongle with.

It was awesome and good for value!

✓ The location is great and staff was really helpful. My room was clean and warm (there is AC)

✗ We had to wait for a while because staff didn’t speak English well

"Overbooked", possible scam

✗ When I arrived at the property late in the evening (around 9:30 PM), reception staff told me that the hotel was fully booked. However they had confirmed my reservation and I had been messaging them and at no point they said anything. They took me to another property, which was not as nice and more expensive. The excuse was that there was a large Turkish holiday going on, but I know that people don't stay in that city for said holiday. I cannot recommend this place to anyone. Why was I not told at any point that the hotel was full? They can easily message me in booking.com app. Why only at check in? Well, I have been traveling for 8 years now and this is not my first rodeo. Advertise a nice hotel, then when a weary traveler arrives late at night, shove them into a worse one which is more expensive. Classic. I was forced to freeze my credit card in fear of getting charged by this property as well and the staff had not responded to booking.com staff regarding this issue. Considering that they have been unwilling to resolve the issue, only possible conclusion I can make that this is a hotel "bait & switch" scam. To hotel staff: please answer to booking.com requests on the matter. If this is a genuine error, then take responsibility of it and let them know you messed up. If I get contacted by booking.com that you have owned up on this, I can consider upgrading my review.

Fabulous