Reviews of Sultan Hostel

Akbiyik Caddesi, no 21, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey 34400

82.9%

337 out of 396 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Sultan Hostel'

Atmosphere
84.8%
Location
96.0%
Facilities
80.8%
Cleanliness
79.2%
Staff
78.4%
Value
84.8%
Safety
76.0%

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Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

08 February 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Awesome place; Great location, friendly and helpful service both morning and night, good breakfast, nice atmosphere at the lounge, and all for a really cheap price!

Disliked: Nothing!

91.4%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 100%

Nataly Zerpa Navas

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

27 January 2012 Nataly would recommend this property

Liked: The staff is very helpful. The location is great !!!

Disliked: Nataly left no negative feedback.

97.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Monika Janku

Alone

City break

17 January 2012 Monika would recommend this property

Liked: reception staff

Disliked: toilets in the ground flore - cold

100.0%
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Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Family Holiday
Sightseeing & culture

08 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Great location near Hagia Sophia, tram and bazaars. Restaurant and internet are available. Plenty of restaurants in the area. Spent New Year's eve at grand party. Good price for money. Staff was very helpful!!

Disliked: Probably the most challenging aspect was the staircase to rooms. This is a hostel you don't spend a lot of time in your room.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

Alone

City break
Sightseeing & culture

13 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The bar and restaruant, and i bet in summer the rooftop terrace would be amazing, it was in a great location. also having free internet (and computers) was great for those who dont take a laptop with them

Disliked: There was only one key per room, that you shared with everyone else staying in it, meant the room was often unlocked

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 80% Facilities - 100% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

13 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The bar and restraunt, with the nice cushioned area and the shisha!

Disliked: There was only one key per room of 6, so i dont think the room was locked the whole time

100.0%
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Customer review

Alone

City break
Sightseeing & culture

08 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Very friendly staff, there's a bar in the same house, (Turkish style) breakfast was good and free and the hostel is very close to the most important sights like Blue Mosque, Aya Sophia and the Topkapi Palace. Highly recommended !

Disliked: Nothing, all is OK.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

City break
Romantic getaway
Sightseeing & culture

12 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Location and Atmosphere...

Disliked: A little noisy in night

68.6%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 60%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 60%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture

10 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The location, the bar

Disliked: The 26 bed dorm has the worst beds ever sleeping on the floor would be more comfortable.

85.7%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Matthew McQueen

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

05 November 2011 Matthew would recommend this property

Liked: Great Location right in the centre of the tourist sights and resturants bars cafes etc...

Disliked: no everthing was great

91.4%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Julie Copson

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

22 October 2011 Julie would recommend this property

Liked: Staff very friendly - having a restaurant also made life very easy if you are tired after a full days walking. Breakfast is good too.

Disliked: There is no lift and I was on the 4th floor - but the guy at the desk kindly carried my luggage for me.

94.3%
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Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

19 October 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The atmosphere in the bar room gets great during the evening. The place has a good style and places where to relax. The beds are good and strong. Staff nice and helpful.

Disliked: Only one toilette for several rooms.

82.9%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

12 October 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Resturant right out front was a good place to hang out.

Disliked: The 24 bed dorm

80.0%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Holly Sproule

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

12 October 2011 Holly would recommend this property

Liked: It was close to alot of sites.

Disliked: I stayed in the 24 person dorm and there was no door so anyone could walk into the room, they did have lockers tho.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 80%

Adam james Moore

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year
Partying / nightlife
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture

12 October 2011 Adam james would recommend this property

Liked: Exremely helpful staff, great location

Disliked: Nothing

97.1%
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Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

Alone

Family Holiday

11 October 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: I'd really recommend this hostel for anyone wanting to stay in Sultanhamet. it's quiet but sociable, I was given a key for a personal locker, the room was fine, breakfast was great, but the best feature is probably the incredibly friendly and helpful staff.

Disliked: Slight drawback is only one toilet per floor (for the rooms that don't have en-suite that is). I had to wait once or twice.

71.4%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 60%

Bradley Ellis

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year

10 October 2011 Bradley would recommend this property

Liked: It had a great location and it was lovely having a bar and restaurant downstairs

Disliked: The prices were not inline with backpacker budgets

100.0%
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Customer review

Alone

Business / conference
Sightseeing & culture

05 October 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location very nice staff, all of them specially Gabriela the girl who works behind the bar in the breakfast

Disliked: nothing all great

48.6%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 40% Facilities - 60% Safety - 20%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 60%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

01 October 2011

Liked: Location

Disliked: Text oder Webseite übersetzen Geben Sie Text oder eine Website-Adresse ein oder lassen Sie ein Dokument übersetzen. Abbrechen Übersetzung von Portugiesisch nach Englisch The hotel, well located, but in the end there was a scheme between the hotel and the taxi driver, we subtracted from 75 euros to the airport. We pay the amount agreed at the hotel when the carriage arrived and two hotel employees falarm that was the transport that we had paid. I confirmed with the taxi driver if he was paid and he also said yes. So we ... when we arrived at the airport the taxi driver discovered the odometer, which until then had been hidden. He said it at the airport we had to pay another 75 euros and told us that we had not paid so he released his bags and said he would call the police. Of course I paid, it would be foolish not to overnight in another country to make trouble. But CARE ....... Do not stay in this Hostel,,,,,, We felt very violated ...

54.3%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 20% Facilities - 60% Safety - 20%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Lisa Kriss

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

29 September 2011

Liked: location only, free breakfast, and tea coffee all day, free wifi when it worked

Disliked: Security - I was located on the top floor dorm - Level5, and people just walked in and out, no key, and keep came up the fire stair in the middle of the night. Curtains did not work, and most windows did not have them at all. They had a terrace right next to the level 5 dorm, and people sat there drinking all night, sometimes till 4am.... so very noisy. Hostel has no really chill out tv food area, and no one wants to sit in the cafe downstairs all day long. I became very sick and needed medical assistance and the staff were extremely unhelpful. I had to stay in bed for 4 days straight and had no energy to walk down the 5 flights of stairs, when I finally got down there asking for hospitals and doctors, chemist details, they were not interested at all. After I left Istanbul I traveled all over Turkey, then returned to Istanbul, and refused to stay at this hostel again. Toilets were dirty and smelt, and I never got a guest discount of food and drinks.

51.4%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 20%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 20%

Ben Beaumont

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year

27 September 2011

Liked: The location was fab, could not ask for better!

Disliked: It caters solely for students between the ages of 16 -19. We originally booked for 4 nights in the 24 bed dorm. We stayed for only one., when we arrived our beds had already been slept in and the terrace is cluttered with beer bottles and fag packets. Didn't sleep well because of the 20 odd kids on the roof getting drunk. Not good for couples or more mature travellers.

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Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year

18 September 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: International feel. Great atmosphere. Free safes.

Disliked: n/a

74.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 40% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

17 September 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Location, atmosphere

Disliked: Rooms were not secure, lots of staff but slow service and limited help with what to do in the city

94.3%
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Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

15 September 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: very friendy staff, good location. you learn to know new people very easily =)

Disliked: a little bit loud in the evening

97.1%
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Alessandro Vevoto

Alone

City break
Sightseeing & culture

15 September 2011 Alessandro would recommend this property

Liked: High reccomended

Disliked: Good location


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