Excellent price/quality/location ratio. We spent a week on New Year's Eve. If the goal is to walk around the city, and consider the hotel as a place to sleep and relax for a short time, then Peker is a great option. Located within walking distance from the main attractions. The room is small, but there is a necessary minimum: a shower/toilet, a bed, a wardrobe, a refrigerator, a kettle, even an armchair and an ottoman. There is no table, but in front of our room (on the top floor) there was a glazed terrace with tables, where we had breakfast. There is a beautiful view from the bed in the upper room. If you get closer to the window, you can see the street, the neighboring houses (and workshops), and the roofs. But it's a living city. There is a spiral staircase leading to our room and the terrace without a handrail (this may be a problem for some).
Yes, we've never had a room cleaned in a week (but we also didn't put up a sign asking us to clean the room).
The staff is friendly and helpful, some know Russian, others English, and in case of misunderstanding, they used a phone with a translator. All issues were resolved.
I recommend the hotel.
It's a nice hotel, clean, and the staff is helpful. there is a private terrace with a beautiful view of the Bosphorus. There is one disadvantage that we haven't read about anywhere: the hotel is located on a hill (it's not easy to climb) and it's always dirty on this hill and there are a lot of women who sew fakes. In general, if you are not a squeamish tourist like me, then you don't care about this fact. Climbing uphill several times a day is hard, of course)
Positive:
- terrace
- location
- Russian-speaking reception (at night)
- there is a possibility of washing
- there is a shop, cafes and good exchangers nearby
- price
- Pedestrian street
Minuses:
- Cleaning.
- you need to buy drinking water or ask for it at the hotel.
A great terrace, for which you can forgive just about everything else. There is a chain store and cafes nearby. The city center and the tram stop are within walking distance.
The guy from the night shift is very pleasant and speaks excellent Russian. The hotel has laundry services, we were very quickly and inexpensively washed, dried and beautifully folded a whole package of things.
3 hotels were changed during the vacation. This one was the cheapest and at the same time the closest to the center. Even without breakfast, you can arrange breakfast on the terrace.
The street is pedestrian, that is, there was no noise under the windows and you could safely leave the hotel knowing that you would not be hit by a scooter.
The terrain is typical for Istanbul, so I would not say that it was somehow difficult or unexpected that the hotel is located on a steep descent on the street near the sea.
Of the minuses, the only thing is that in 4 days they have never been cleaned, shampoos, tea or water were not added, garbage was not taken out, etc. Although we were not at home consistently for 10 hours a day. On the penultimate day ~ 9 a.m., they hung a sign asking to be removed, at 20 they took it down themselves. The only supplies in the rooms were shampoo. We had to take out the garbage ourselves.
The view from the windows of the room was of the neighboring houses and a bit of the sea. The room has a refrigerator, wardrobe, good slippers, air conditioning. There was no sound insulation, as the light in the room was even visible through the cracks of the front door. The windows are good double-glazed windows.