Hotel Genova Istanbul Old City

Very affordable, clean, good location

Breakfast options too limited and too strict on time.key card kept resetting daily and locking me out

A very convenient location — subway station, T1 tram station, and bus stops are nearby. We took the M11 from Istanbul Airport (IST), transferred to the M2 line, and got off at Vezneciler Station. From there, we walked just about 100 meters to reach the hotel. We took the T1 tram for three stops to get to Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, and other attractions. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The rooms are clean with comfortable beds. The breakfast is good too.

Very happy with the room with the bed, clean and big, helpful staff, very close to all attractions and shopping, will definitely come back 🌸

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The location is excellent! It is relatively close to the old city centre (about 2 km walk), but if somebody does not want/cannot walk, can take the tram that is just 2 minutes walk, or the metro that is the same distance. The staff offered to call a taxi to the airport for a reasonable price (50USD/42EUR); we were six people, these are the prices for the Mercedes Vito. Also, there are many shops and restaurants nearby. The breakfast was good, we enjoyed four times and it was still not boring. The staff was very nice, checkin and checkout were fast, and they even wanted to carry our luggage :)

The wifi is very slow and in the last room on the corridor, my laptop could not see it. My phone was working, but very slowly. In Istanbul, almost EVERYBODY is smoking. Unfortunately, also the staff, and they smoked just under our window. We could smell it. There are not enough power sockets in the room. Nowadays, people need for chargers or for any other devices. There were no hangers in the room! Nothing for the jackets; we had to hang them in the closet, but also, there was no hanger for the towels in the bathroom! It was the first hotel, I have seen this. The room was very tiny; there was not even a desk, so even if my laptop see the wifi, I won't be able to use it properly :( There is ZERO noise isolation; we could hear everybody whoever spoke or walked in front of the rooms. We could also hear each others through the walls of the hotelroom (our 3 rooms were next to each other).