Nippon Hotel Istanbul

Travel Blogs from Istanbul

Istanbul day 1

A travel blog entry by sime

7am at the airport, breakfast then get our 8.30am Olympic Air flight to Istanbul, the flight is only 1hr. We end up having to queue for 1 hour to get through customs, the large groups of queue jumpers didn't help either. The rest of us are amazed at the behaviour of these people, its all quite funny and annoying at the same time. Visas €30 …

Happy Birthday Grandma

A travel blog entry by asheevk

... Dante, Rosie and I found this quaint cafe by the ship and literally sat there for hours. There were lots of things I wanted to do in Istanbul, but I was needing a bit of rest, and I am sure I will be back in Istanbul one day. There is so much to see in that city, I think you need about 1 week there to see everything. It is HUGE.
At the cafe I was able to get some skype calls in with my lovely ...

A BIG MISTAKE!!!

A travel blog entry by levinson5

... Fanta and fried calamari. It was good!! After dinner, we passed the manager who gave us the wrong directions to dinner. But my dad said, "Oh yeah, it was a great walk." And Ben whispered over to him, "You do know that he is the one who gave us the directions to the creepy streets." When we got back to our room we were all pooped, and so we went right to bed. As you can see WE MADE A BIG MISTAKE!!! WE HAD A SUPER INTERESTING NIGHT!!!

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What a Day!

A travel blog entry by muggie

... the road and waving us on. We went a little further and stopped in a town called Eceabat. The biggest load of rubbish stalls that I have seen on the entire trip and we were told that we had to wait here for 2 hours.... grrrrrrr... my blood pressure was not good. At this point, Renee didn't even get off the bus ut curled up on two seats and went to sleep. Finally, at 4:30pm, the bus pulled out and we headed back to the checkpoint only to find they were stacking and ...

18th October Istanbul- Turkey

A travel blog entry by edwardsoverland

... we haven’t managed to see any of the game but we hear the red card was the turning point. (Strange what a few miles does –on Sunday within in an hour of arriving in Istanbul we were watching replays the of the Aus v NZ game!)

Anyway Thessaloniki is a huge busy city with lots of Greek ruins and old churches. The streets were full of rubbish as the bin men were on strike and there were a few protest marches just getting going so we decided ...