Ring Stone Hotels Old City - Special Class

Location, views, rooms

Nothing

Nice clean rooms Very helpful staff So close to everything

Shower in the room was a tiny bit smaller than I would like.

Ornate building of an old bank. We were upgraded to the executive suite and it was a lovely room.

The facilities are old and room and linen had a musty smell.

Convenient location, within walking distance of many of the sights we were in Istanbul to see. The neighborhood was safe with a police presence just down on the corner.

The room we were assigned was literally at/off the front door of the hotel lobby. Very convenient with all the luggage we had with us, but very inconvenient with you hearing EVERYTHING that goes on in the lobby or out on the street in front of the hotel. This included every person checking in/out of the hotel as well as the mating wild cats in the late afternoon. Istanbul is a city of cats, just so you know. Most annoying were the lobby chairs right out in front of the door to our room which always seemed to be occupied by people coming and going and their luggage we would have to walk around to leave our room. The worst however, was when a friend of the night time manager showed up late one night and proceeded to talk at the top of his lungs for about 30 min (around 11 pm) before I got dressed and went out signaling to the manager to tone it down, which he immediately had his friend do. Bottom line: turn down this room. We stayed there 4 nights and I should have done it, but my wife talked me out of it.