Voyage

Some time ago I received the following:

Staff of «Voyage» Hotel wishes you a Happy Birthday! With all sincere we hope you reach every success in future and wish you a long life filled with health and prosperity. May this year be your best ever!

Should I be happy that they remembered me, or concerned that they kept my personal data?

Holiday Inn Istanbul City

Located 50 m from tram station Çapa Şehremini (line Zeytinburnu-Kapatas), the hotel has good connection with old city. The room was nice and stay was comfortable.

I do not know if this happens only on Ramadan, but at 3 o'clock in the night, a man with a drum was walking in neighborhood to wake up the people for the morning prayer. At 4 o'clock the prayers are heard from the nearby mosque. It was not disturbing from my side, but is better to ask for a room with windows to hotel inner yard.

The booking should be done on hotel web site: at reception the same room will cost you triple!

Staff are eager to help, but, sometime, they are missing basic tourists' information: for example they didn't know what a hop-on hop-off bus can be.

Hotel shuttle from airport is very expensive (60 euro one way), as you can find more convenient one (for example, 20 euro from www.istanbulairportminicab.com).