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Sultanahmet Accommodation
Sultanahmet - life among history
Sultanahmet means Istanbul itself without any exaggeration. It is true for 99% of tourists. Everything a newcomer must see is located in Sultanahmet. Huge Hagia Sophia Cathedral, gloomy Yerebatan reservoir, gorgeous Blue Mosque, ancient columns of Hippodrome... Living here means life inside an open-air museum. The very salt of Istanbul is in such a way of living. Can you imagine a hotel located in 2 minutes walk from Parthenon? A small hotel overlooking the St. Peter’s Basilica at a distance of 50 meters? Or a hotel at the foot of Eiffel Tower? This is possible only in Istanbul. Today we will tell you how to live among history - in Sultanahmet district.
District hotels
Accommodation in Sultanahmet is good for the fact local hotels never charge much and do not cash on the number of tourists. The numbers are striking. Almost 5 million people visit Sultanahmet every year. It’s clear the Turks want to see them again next year. So they treat each tourist with a special respect. Usually there are 3 star hotels in sultanahmet. There’s no sense of building luxurious palaces and mansions on a small piece of land (Sultanahmet, having the same form as ancient Constantinople, is not so big). That’s why local hotels are not so big and are rather high than wide. 3 or 4 floors for a hotel in Sultanahmet is quite enough.
Food
Local cuisine is one of the main ways of getting long shillings in Sultanahmet. Each hotel has a restaurant with terrace waiting for the clients round the clock. So approximately 60% of income the hotel gets from its guests and another 40 - from the restaurant’s visitors. So, when choosing a hotel pay attention to the number of their restaurants’ visitors. If they have excellent cuisine, you would be able to taste it during your breakfast (breakfast is included in the room price).
How to accommodate
There are 2 ways of choosing accommodation in Sultanahmet and both of them have followers. One of them are sure you have to book a hotel beforehand on Internet. Others prefer to rent a room upon arrival, explore the area, carefully look through the hotels’ assortment... I think the first variant has more advantages. If you come for the first time, it would be rather hard to choose something. Therefore, you’d better book beforehand and calmly wait for your trip. Besides, it’s cheaper than to book a hotel upon arrival.
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