Online, I had booked a ‘family room consisting of TWO rooms’ and this was confirmed 😉 Unfortunately this kind of room didnt exist in the hotel, or in the other building across the road, or in the other hotel belonging to it. And the rooms that did exist were also not too nice. So we moved.
I booked a bed in a hostel just next to the Sultanahmet tram station. It was rather hard to find (the entry is next to a sweets shop without any sign), reception was on the 5th floor, up a steep staircase without elevator, they didn’t speak much english, but I got a bed 😉 Breakfast is included and can be eaten on the roof top terrace. Perfect!
We finally managed to do a day trip to the Princes’ Islands, walked around a bit, then the others wanted to go back to the city for more shopping, while I stayed a bit longer.
The reason for the whole trip was Asli’s wedding 🙂
On the main night, we had to get to near her place. My hostel had no water at the time, so I went to my friends’ hotel room to get ready 🙂 We then took the tram out of the city, and then had to change and take the bus. Unfortunately that was still during rush hour, so we had to wait and let a few full buses pass.
I had the name of the place where the event was meant to happen and google showed me a location. But it was wrong. We asked people for it. And there seemed to be two places with almost the same name on opposite sides of the big street haha. Eventually we found it. We were not even an hour late – so perfect timing as the party also hadn’t started yet 🙂
