Grand Beyazit Hotel

The property is in an amazing location. Everything is in walking distance, including Grand Bazaar (5-7 mins), Spice Bazaar (10-15 mins) and Blue Mosque/Hagia Sophia (15-20 mins). There are food places and shops all around you which makes everything easily accessible. The hotel was also generous to give us a late check out (2pm) as our flight was at 10:15pm.

The hotel is quite small, as are the rooms and lobby. Toilets and showers are really awkward as there is nowhere to place the towels. The WiFi in our room was absolutely horrendous. Barely useable and very frustrating! Aircon was also not very strong. Barely kept the room cold, I had to ask someone to come twice to look at it and even then, it was barely a chill. Also, cleaners would take a while cleaning later day (sometimes around 5pm), and were not very good. On the first day, a cleaner used her key to walk into the room whilst we were in there. Second day, no refills for tea/coffee. Third day was the worst. Cleaners came at 5pm and left a sweaty stench after cleaning. When we asked for some air freshener, they said they ran out and we were left is a smelly room. Not a great impression. Breakfast was good on the first day, then it started to get repetitive as they didn’t really switch it up. On the last day, I didn’t even eat it because I was so fed up (after 4 days). Too many cold food selections and not enough hot.