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Between Sultanahmet (the
center of Old Istanbul)
and Sirkeci
Railway Station is
the Sirkeci
district,
a neighborhood with two dozen
hotels, at least a dozen restaurants,
even a Turkish
bath.
For more about the district, see my Sirkeci
Street Guide.
In Sirkeci
you may pay 20% to 35% less for a comfortable
hotel room than
in Sultanahmet,
yet Sirkeci is only a 10-minute
walk downhill from
Sultanahmet,
the
Hippodrome,
Blue
Mosque, Ayasofya and
even less far from Istanbul's
Gülhane
Parki, Archeological
Museums and Topkapi
Palace. You can
shorten the walk to and from Sultanahmet by
taking the
tram.
Most hotels
here are newly-built or -restored.
Many have some Ottoman-style
decor, some have restaurants and/or
bars, a few have views from a few rooms.
Many host tour groups from Europe
and the United Kingdom, but all prefer
individual travelers, couples and families.
All in all, this is the best-value
area near Sultanahmet.
3-Star
Hotels
Here's a selection of adequately comfortable
but inexpensive hotels rated at 3-stars
or fewer.
4-Star
Hotels
Here are Sirkeci's better hotels,
rated as 4-star or Special Class,
with all the comforts, at prices
significantly lower than
comparable hotels in Sultanahmet.
Sirkeci
& Hocapasa Restaurants
There are some quite nice restaurants
in and right next to some of these
hotels, and many more clustered near
the Hocapasa Camii (mosque) just
two or three blocks from the hotels.
The Hocapasa restaurants are great
bargains, patronized mostly by locals,
but being discovered by foreign travelers
as well.
Sirkeci Street
Guide
Want to see what the Hocapasa neighborhood
looks like? Here are views, street
by street.
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