The Print House Hotel

When I give this place 5 stars it doesn’t mean it’s a 5 star hotel but rather I am rating the experience. This is a very small charming local hotel. The room was spacious and clean. The shower had a good pressure and no clogging. The staff was friendly. It’s very basic but you get a clean room with a comfortable bed. Location is excellent. You can walk to all of the tourist places. Lots of restaurants and grocery places near by. Gülhane park is right behind it. Also Gülhane Tram station is very close. I recommend this place as a very budget friendly no frills place.

The Print House is a fine place to stay. The rooms are clean and the staff is friendly and helpful. It's small, just six rooms (a mix of single and double rooms). The two rooms that I saw had A/C. Comfortable beds and good linens. The rooms have refrigerators and water kettles but no safes. All the rooms use the same key and there are no in-room safes. The location is great, 5 mins or less to Aya Sophia and Topkapi. The hotel has no parking but there are a couple of pay lots for parking nearby. Breakfast is generous but doesn't start until 9am. If you're a morning person you can get in a walk before you eat.

Jacob on the front was very personable and helpful. He made breakfast in the morning for guests. Very good chef 👨‍🍳! A really hard working guy!

Very close to aya sofia and blue mosque. In a busy area so you would always feel safe.

1. I booked a room in this hotel with ***********. Obviously the hotel prefers to get clients from booking, but does not want to pay their fee, so what they do is inform *********** that the client's card is not working - in this case you get 24 hours to renew your card, after which the booking is cancelled. I tried to contact the hotel regarding the payment (my card was valid and active and had sufficient funds), but the hotel never replied. Later at check-in they told me that they never tried charging my card. Several hours after check-in the hotel confirmed to *********** that my card still was not working, and my booking was cancelled - even though by that time I was already staying at the hotel! 2. Payment. The hotel states EUR as their currency, and the prices are fixed in EUR, and cards are accepted. Nevertheless, the hotel prefers cash - they keep up the show that the terminal is not working, then they insisted that if the payment is made by card it can be made in Turkish lira only (at their own internal exchange rate, of course). After I insisted that we call *********** right now, the terminal magically started to work properly and allowed to pay in EUR by card. The whole experience was quite unpleasant. 3. Transfer. The hotel provides a transfer for 50 EUR from the airport to the hotel. I was planning to come to the hotel after a 13 hour flight, and I did not want to deal with ordering a taxi, or finding a hotel which may be tricky in Istanbul - but I ended up waiting for 40 (FORTY!) minutes for the transfer - there were 2 people meeting me at the airport, but they did not have my name on the list, so I tried to call the hotel (which by the way never picked up the phone during the 30 minute period I kept calling, and it was normal business hours). 4. When we finally got to our room, there was no water - neither hot, nor cold. I had to go back to the reception (4 floors, no elevator) where I was told that the hotel is having some repairs done, so the water would probably be working in 20 minutes (which it did, but it was really dirty with brown color for some time). The next morning the repairs started right behind our room which was awfully loud - and then they had some wall painting or something like that, so the smell was just unbearable. 5. Security. It is normal practice to leave your bags at the hotel after check-out - do not do this if you dare to stay in this place - the bags are left in plain view in 2 meters of the open front door with no hotel staff around. By the way, all the keys are also just laying around, so you might think twice before leaving anything valuable in your room as well. And definitely do not leave the key at the reception when you go out (even though they are heave and uncomfortable to carry with you). 6. There were also some small issues - like missing slippers (one pair instead of two), a weird burn on one of the furniture pieces, some ants in the room... 7. The only good things I can say about th