Hotel Arinna

The only good thing I can say is the service at the end of my stay was very good. However, upon arrival, I was dropped off at a closed hotel Arianna with a notice on the door telling me to call a number. I stood trying to call the number for more than 20 minutes before someone picked up. Then I was told the electricity is off and they'll take me to another hotel. I'm a solo female traveller and didn't feel very safe. The other hotel was about 5 minutes walk. They escorted me to a building away from the front desk and into a basement room, which smelt like mould. By this point I was too tired to care and just stayed in the room. Half way through the night the electricity went out. The curtains didn't go all the way across the small window. There was blood on the sheets. The door was damaged and had a large gap at the bottom. I've stayed in a lot of hotels all over the world and I think this might have been one of the worst. Thanks to the staff on the last day, but I wouldn't recommend staying here.

The hotel was clean an safe and quite near to the Blue Mosque. The roads are up hill though but thats fairly common on this side of Istanbul.The hotel staff were very helpful an responsive as you do have to whats app call them to check in (which they do advise in the booking email beforehand) but this was relatively easy an simple as they email you the whats app an wifi password details beforehand so you dont have to use your own roaming data. The process was simple an easy an someone turned up very quickly to check me in. On my checkout they were very helpful too, my flight was in evening an checkout is at 12, they got one of the staff to take my luggage to their other hotel round the corner an let me store it there securely till late afternoon so i could go out an about without having to carry suitcases an have a last walk around Istanbul then come back to take luggage an leave for airport when ready.

Accommodation was ok and clean with new remote. But huge but it is without reception, more like flat apar**ent not hotel, and super noisy. You can hear everything!!! If they fix these two horrible things for comfort their clients it will be perfect.