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Hotels in the Talimhane neighborhood just northwest off Taksim
Square (map) offer
numerous advantages:
—Modern, comfortable hotels at value-for-money
prices
—Quiet pedestrians
streets dotted with sidewalk cafés
& restaurants
—Easy, economical transfer from Atatürk
Airport or Sabiha
Gökçen Airport by airport
bus or value-for-money
private transfer
—Easy access to M2
Metro & F1 Füniküler
—Close to İstiklal
Caddesi, Beyoğlu
restaurants & cafés, shopping and
nightlife
—Walking distance
to Elmadağ,
Cumhuriyet Caddesi, Harbiye and
even Nişantaşı with
their luxury hotels, shops and offices
Talimhane has a street
grid dotted with modern 4- and 5-star
hotels, sidewalk cafés and restaurants,
grocery shops, travel agencies, and
currency exchange offices.
Transport to Old
Istanbul is not difficult:
—A taxi can
zoom you
down Tarlabaşı Caddesi to the Old
City in about 15 to 20 minutes—and
the taxis you pick up here a far more
likely to be honest than the ones in
Sultanahmet.
—The F1
Füniküker from Taksim Square
to Kabataş,
then the
T1
Bağcılar tram, can take you to Eminönü,
Sirkeci, Gülhane, Sultanahmet, Çemberlitaş
and Beyazıt/Grand
Bazaar cheaply in
20 to 35 minutes.
—M2 Metro from Taksim to
Şişhane, then the Tünel to Karaköy,
then the
T1
Bağcılar tram, also gets you there.
By the way, a talimhane is
a military drill field, where troops
practice maneuvers. When present-day Taksim
Park was a huge Ottoman army
barracks, this large flat area now
dotted with hotels was the soldiers'
drill field.
Click here for
a list of the best Talimhane
hotels.
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