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Built
to accommodate the pampered travellers
arriving aboard the Orient
Express, the
historic Pera
Palace Hotel(Pera
Palas Oteli), located in Tepebaşı,
Beyoğlu overlooking
the Golden
Horn (map),
holds a unique place in the annals
of Istanbul lodging-places.
Extensive renovations completed in
2010 have preserved the hotel's orientalist
décor,
strongly evocative of fin-de-siècle Constantinople,
and brought the hotel's technical
systems up to the 21st century while
carefully preserving the ambiance
and detail of its public rooms and
the 115 guest rooms (17 of them suites).
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The grand
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The hotel's other services have likewise
been upgraded: the Agatha Restaurant is
for upscale dinner, the Brasserie
1892 is less formal, the Orient
Bar and Patisserie
de Pera provide drinks
and snacks. Afternoon tea is
served in the central domed
hall (Kubbeli
Salon).
An elborate spa and
indoor swimming pool, provide professionally
assisted relaxation.
The location in the Tepebaşı
hotel district is good,
a mile (1.6 km) southwest of Taksim
Square in the heart of Beyoğlu's
historic Tepebaşı district
right next to the Palazzo
Corpi
(formerly the US Consulate-General),
where I once took Turkish lessons.
More...
Whether
you stay here or not,
stroll in for a look. If you do so
between 3 and 4 pm, you may ask to
see Room 101—Atatürk's
suite, kept as a museum.
No charge for the visit.
For Orient
Express enthusiasts,
a less expensive but still comfortable
and well-located alternative is the Orient
Express Hotel in Sirkeci,
right next to Sirkeci
Station where
the Orient
Express ended its journey
from Paris. More...
Pera
Palace Hotel
Meşrutiyet Caddesi No. 52 (map)
Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu
80050 Istanbul,
Turkey
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Above,
the Pera Palace Hotel, headquarters
of Ottoman Orientalist
nostalgia, in
an advertisement from 1900
Below, the hotel
in April 2010.
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