Hotel Niles, Beyazit, Istanbul, Turkey

The Hotel Niles in Istanbul's Beyazit district has surprising advantages:

1. A fairly quiet location only two short blocks from the Grand Bazaar.

2. Experienced, caring family management. Members of the Duyar family (who also own Istanbul's Dersaadet Oteli in Sultanahmet) are at the hotel every day.

3. Simple but good, comfortable air-conditioned rooms at great value-for-money rates.

4. Easy access to the tram to take you to Sultanahmet in only a few minutes.

5. An attractive rooftop lounge-cafe-bar-restaurant with views of the Sea of Marmara.

6. No hassles such as Sultanahmet carpet touts or postcard sellers: this is a real, working Istanbul neighborhood. People here welcome you, but don't bother you.

Everybody wants to stay right near Sultanahmet for obvious reasons: the prime sights of Istanbul are only a few minutes' walk away. But you pay for that convenience in higher hotel rates and a higher hassle factor.

The Hotel Niles is not all that far from Sultanahmet, only a 12- to 15-minute walk along Ordu Caddesi/Divan Yolu, the historic "road to Rome," past historic mosques, medreses, shops, Turkish baths, sultans' tombs, and the Çemberlitas. If you take the tram, it's even quicker. (Map)

Not only that, the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul University, the Old Book Bazaar, the giant Sunday flea market in Beyazit Square, the Beyazit Mosque and the Süleymaniye Mosque—Istanbul's largest and most splendid imperial mosque—are much closer to the Hotel Niles than to Sultanahmet hotels. And you won't be bothered by carpet touts here, because this is a business district, not a tourist district.

The Niles is a modern hotel with standard services: English-speaking staff, elevator/lift, and free Wifi Internet throughout the hotel. It looks and feels far more like a four-star hotel, but prices are three-star!

The smallish air-conditioned guest rooms all have modern private baths, color cable TV with foreign channels, and small refrigerators.

Breakfast, served in the all-glass rooftop restaurant, is quite good, and the setting is very agreeable: in fine weather, leave the air-conditioned glass dining room and sit at a table on the open-air terrace to enjoy the sun and the view.

The experienced staff are very friendly and accommodating, all the more because they are accustomed to hosting European and American visitors.

The Hotel Niles is on a narrow side street in Istanbul's "garment district," alive with workers and traders on any weekday—a nice dose of real life (in contrast to all-tourist Sultanahmet). The narrow street can make the hotel a bit tricky to find (but which keeps it away from most traffic noise.) On the south side of Ordu Caddesi/Divan Yolu right by the Kapali Çarsi (Grand Bazaar) tram stop, just east of the Barceló (Beyaz) Saray Hotel is a narrow street, Dibekli Cami Sokak (misspelled on the street sign as "Dibekci Camii Sokak"). Go south (downhill) on this street for two blocks, past the little Dibekli Mosque, to reach the hotel, on the left-hand side of the street.

Coming by taxi, the driver may want to turn right (south) down broader Mithat Pasa Sokak, then left (east) on the first side street to reach the hotel. Here's a little map:

Map, Hotel Niles, Istanbul, Turkey

When you contact the Hotel Niles, be sure to mention TTP. Here's why.

Hotel Niles
Ordu Caddesi, Dibekli Cami Sokak No. 19 (map)
Beyazit, Istanbul, Turkey
www.hotelniles.com
info@hotelniles.com
Tel +90 (212) 517 3239
Fax +90 (212) 516 0732

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Hotel Niles, Istanbul, Turkey

Above, the modern Hotel Niles, near the Grand Bazaar in Beyazit, Istanbul, Turkey.
Below, the sunny glass roof terrace.

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