Le Safran Suite Hotel

The reception was very welcoming and fast. Happy that I was upgraded to a suite. My request for a jug kettle and supply of tea and coffee was entertained. My room was spacious, facing the street, the bed comfortable and the shower was new with good hot and cold water pressure. The breakfast spread was good to start the day with the lady and her daughter in attendance to your needs.

Das Hotel ist super gelegen und an sich nicht schlecht. Es ist leider sehr alt. Es wurde lange nichts mehr gemacht und der neue Hotelbesitzer versucht jetzt langsam den Rückstand aufzuholen. Frühstück war ok, aber nichts besonderes. + die Lage - sehr alt und enorm laut. Man hört wirklich alles. Jeden Schritt und jeden Gang. Oropax sind aufjedenfall nötig. - Sauberkeit lässt zu wünschen ûbrig, und ich bin nicht wirklich pingelig

Booked 5 nights. Dreadful rooms, bore no resemblance to those shown on photo, very shoddy finishing, dimsal tattered wall paper, horrible black felt floor covering, shabby furnishing, disgusting shower room. We refused to stay another night and paid in liras for the one we spent there. The hotel management fraudulently tried to make an unauthorised deduction on my card for the full five nights. I got an alert from my banking informing of this and that it had prevented the funds from leaving my account. We were also overcharged for the meal we had on the evening we arrived at the restaurant which belonged to the Hotel, and was just round the corner where it served breakfast at an extra charge. We had a meal there on the night we arrived and as new arrivals to Istanbul were taken gross advantage of and charged 3,214 liras about £80, for a meal that was nothing special and consisted of a shared mezze and two main dishes, chicken kebabs and mushroom and cheese casserole. We subsequently learnt that a nice meal at a decent restaurant costs less that 1,700 liras.