Name: Grand Bazaar Hotel
Address: Bali Paşa Yokuşu 30, Istanbul, Istanbul, Istanbul, 34130, Turkiye
Rating: 8.8

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Yenikapı

Aksaray

Sultanahmet

Grand Bazaar

Hippodrome

Blue Mosque

Basilica Cistern

Suleymaniye Mosque

Hagia Sophia

Spice Bazaar

Istanbul Sirkeci Terminal

Gulhane Park

Galata Bridge

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Topkapi Palace

Galata Tower

Dolmabahce Palace

Bosphorus Bridge

Sabiha Gokcen International Airport

Istanbul New Airport

Grand Bazaar Hotel

Istanbul

Thanks to the lovely cleaning woman my room was perfectly clean and tidy every day. She always made my bed and folded my towels. I could feel she does her job with full care. She is also very friendly and welcoming. Thankyou so much!

Thankyou cleaning woman

This hotel is very well located 2 minutes from the big bazaar and in a very busy neighborhood. The rooms are clean however the air conditioning is not accessible you have to call the standard when you want to put it because they control it from the reception. In August in the middle of summer it is really very boring. Because once you turn it off because the room is cold you can no longer turn it on you have to call the reception again. Very bad experience the family was very loud I had to go up twice because their children were running at 2 o'clock in the morning and the furniture was displaced. The rooms are very isolated if you want a good angle of sleep this is not here at the reception.

An experience full of nuances

A room with a sealed window, drunk guests dancing all night, the staff doesn't respond. Don't even think about coming here. Reviews are mostly crooked, asking staff to write a review.

It sucks.

This is a great hotel! Workers are really friendly and always try to help you! Good and clean rooms. Tasty breakfasts. Hotel is nearby the Main Street with transport. Want to say thank you to Nijat, Jihad and Azad for being so helpful and caring! Will recommend this hotel to all my friends who are planning trip to Istanbul.

Great hotel!

The hotel is located at Sultan Ahmed part of Istanbul and it’s in walking distance of Kapalicarsi (Grand Bazar), Egyptian market (I highly recommend to visit it). Also Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Top Kapi. Metro and City bus stops are close enough. The hotel has very good view from its rooftop big balcony. It’s a good to hang out at it late night with cup of tea and to look at the beautiful city lights. Breakfast was very good, room was clean and tidy. Unlike other places people at the customer service desk speaks English. I highly recommend the hotel mostly because of it’s great prices and location.

Great location and affordable price

This is the second time we've been to this small but fine hotel. The staff are very nice, polite and hospitable. What I like the most is that the rooms are very clean. Unfortunately, they're a little small but perfectly sufficient for us, since we only go to the hotel to sleep. The area is great during the day, you can get to the tram in a few minutes. Unfortunately, it's a little creepy in the evening. You should also be careful with the taxi drivers, who do extra rounds. Big tip: download the BiTax app and always pay in advance. There are restaurants, cafes and shopping facilities everywhere. The bazaar leads to Eminönü, so to the port. Really, all the great sights are within walking distance.

It's a great hotel for the super price.

Very good location from many tourist spots with metro station just 5 minutes walk away. The staff was incredibly helpful and humble. Rooms were clean and breakfast bar was very good. We had a great fun and left as a happy customer.

Great stay!

Be very careful when purchasing in the grand bazaar. Check and double check prices. Things inside the bazaar are very expensive . Don't buy at the first shop always look around for better prices. Outside the bazaar at gate 7 there are lots of shops that have things cheaper. Take comfortable shoes as there is lots of walking and don't rush .

Grand bazaar

I stayed for 8 nights in a standard single room in this hotel, in early June 2019. I was mostly happy with my experience. Only a few minor negatives, so if it was a 1-10 scale I would have rated it 9/10. Pros and cons:

Pros:
- Polite, helpful and well mannered staff. Unlike many other hotel reviews in Turkey which mention problems in this, I saw nothing wrong in Grand Bazaar. Thanks a lot guys. :)
- A modern hotel. Everything is new technology, including the door lock system, the elevator, the A/C system, ...
- My room was clean and well maintained. Almost everything worked perfect.
- Affordable price.
- Although small, room had everything necessary, and the shower/bathroom section was great.
- The room was silent and the famous street noise problem in Istanbul hotels didn't exist here (hotel is not in the main street).
- Big safe with enough space for my laptop and other stuff, attached to the room's closet.
- The A/C system deserves a separate positive. Istanbul was hot and humid during my stay. But when I got in the room and turned on A/C, the room became cold in 1-2 minutes.
- Breakfast is good. It's specially strong on the fruit/drinks side and it didn't bore me in 8 days.
- Hotel's wifi internet was unlimited, free and worked well with my 2 devices during my stay.

Cons:
- My biggest problem was about the location. It's in a good touristic site of Istanbul, but you need to go inside a few alleys. I found the hotel real hard in my first day, while being tired and carrying a 5 Kg bag for 3-4 hours in hot weather. It must be easy with google maps, but I arrived late and didn't have a SIM card, so I tried to get help from locals. After showing the address to 20-30 people with no success (not exaggerating), another hotel's receptionist was kind enough to use his google maps app and guide me. I don't even think a taxi driver can find it without using google maps. If anybody else had this problem, it's better to ask around for "Gedikpasa street", go inside it and then find the "Balipasa street". 10 meters inside Balipasa, you must be able to spot the hotel in the alley to your left (the hotel is also very close to the Gedikpasa Armenian Protestant Church). Not sure if it's a fault of the hotel, but maybe they can use a few signs or something?
- My room was small , and there was no window with a view. Kind of claustrophobic. 
- Breakfast was a little weak on the meat side.
- No pool or gym.
- I always had a lot of shampoo, but few shower gels (room service said they ran out of it). Men have less hair, but larger bodies. Give them more shower gel and less shampoo please (lol).

Pleasant stay at a small but modern hotel

Beautiful hotel and very god service. Breakfast was delicious. The thing i liked the most was that the hotel was very clean! And people who work there was so Nice and helpful! The hotel was near the sentrum!

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