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If you have not visited
Istanbul at all, we would first suggest you to understand the special culture of
this city. Being the most modern and crowded city of Turkey, Istanbul is the
center of Turkish business life. Although Turkey, especially Istanbul in general
is undergoing a rapid change, certain things are still very traditional in
Istanbul. The culture is a good sample of this. Having millions of tourists
visit Istanbul every year, Istanbul can be seen as the summary of the whole
Turkey.
SAFETY IN ISTANBUL HOTEL DISTRICTS:
According to the facts and statistics, Istanbul
is one of safest cities in the world. However, there are of course some risks in
Istanbul as in many other metropolitans.
Even though Ankara is the capital and centre of politics, Istanbul still remains
to be the most exciting city and is also it is probably culturally the most
important city in Turkey. Here many tourists visit Sultanahmet where all the
major sights are arranged in a very comfortable walking distance to each other.
A first time visitor should see Aya Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, The
Grand Bazaar and Egyptian Bazaars and of course if you want a have great view,
The Bosphorus. Especially in Sultanahmet there are many ottoman style tea houses
both for locals and for tourists to take a rest. You may also want to drink the
very strong but delicious Turkish Coffee ( which is so called Turk Kahvesi) and
if you are lucky enough, a local may be able to read the coffee grinds and tell
you your future and fortune. Also, many Istanbul apart hotels are located in Taksim
and Sultanahmet area. Taksim, which some people also call Taxim is very famous
for tourists too. Taksim may be called as the "center of Istanbul" as it is
close to every where, and there are millions of people walk through Beyoglu
everyday.
We advise to choose your
apart
hotel in Taksim
district because Taksim is the heart of the business center in Istanbul. But if
you are coming to Istanbul to visit all the historic and cultural places,
Sultanahmet area would be the best choice for you. Here is why.
The difference between the apart hotels in Taksim district and the
apart hotels in the other
parts of Istanbul are different in many ways. The first difference includes the
fact that there are apart hotels in from one star to five. There are not such family
hotels and in reality there is no need in them. Big hotels with well-known
brand- are the leaders both in star category and in service quality where mostly
business man stay for short term, and sometimes tourists tend to stay in these
hotels. The luxury buildings, the overall infrastructure, which is designed
thinking about each detail. We should clearly say that hotels in Taksim district
are the best in the world with regard to the price-quality ratio.
Another advantages of these hotels are the location. Taksim can be called as the
main district of Istanbul, from where you can easily reach to any place in
Istanbul in 15-20 minutes even to the asian side if you do not wait for rush
hour (from 4 p.m to 7 p.m.). Taksim means "to distribute". This district is
given such a name because the water in the old says was distributed to the other
parts of Istanbul from Taksim. And nowadays the modern Taksim is the cross-road
of Istanbul where the roads lead to the different corners of the city.
In conclusion, the hotels of Taksim are very prestigious. Nearly all foreign
diplomatic representations are located in these area such as in
Hilton,
Conrad
and so on. Furthermore, Taksim is the area where the foreigners prefer to stay,
when visiting Istanbul. If you wane some information about the "star category"
of the Hotels in Taksim, it may be said that the number of the stars are only
given after the level of the services in the hotel were checked. If you are
looking for a quality service, you should not look for lower than a 3 star hotel.
Istanbul Hotels Portal 2009