Spinel Hotel - Old City

Centrally located to visit Istanbul’s historic center. Simple but good breakfast on the building rooftop (thanks Iulia). We had 2 rooms: one in the modern part of the hotel and a studio in an annex building at less than 100 m from the main house. The modern room was well equiped. The studio was convenient (space, washing machine) but needs to be renovated. The warm welcome from the receptionist and his good advices were very well appreciated.

The area is a little bit less noisy than the whole Sultanahmmet area, but noisy nevertheless. Cars and busses should definitively be banned from this area of the city. To be noted that the hotel is not appropriate for disabled people or people having difficulties with stairs.

Excelleny

I only stayed for 4 nights and the hotel agreed to refund us 3 nights accommodation but booking.com had failed to give us a refund even though the hotel agreed to. Very poor

rooftop breakfast was amaznig

stairs!!

The location is fantastic. Staff helped with taking our luggage up and down the stairs. I personally liked the rooftop breakfast (when the windows were open, otherwise it was like a sauna up there). It was great having a washing machine but there was no provision to buy washing powder from the front desk, also the drying rack in the room was broken. They were kind enough to store our luggage for a few hours after check out.

I had read all of the reviews on this place so I knew what to expect - no elevator, rooms that need renovations, and not much variety for breakfast. I thought the location and cheap price would make up for these things but, honestly, my advice is to treat yourself to a nicer hotel for your stay in Istanbul - somewhere that supplies tea and coffee, somewhere that provides you with more than one roll of toilet paper, somewhere where not everything looks like it is about to go in the bin or should have already been thrown out. Our experience wasn't terrible, but it certainly could have been better.