Istanbul Hostel Reviews

... go over everything I have learned. I highly suggest hostels over hotels, you meet so many people that add to your adventure. Ok, Istanbul is huge and I haven't seen much of it. I met a guy from the Netherlands and a reporter from New York that have ...

... back there the third time, the visas had all been approved. Okay back to the sights and sounds of Istanbul, and some miscellaneous thoughts: ·    One particularly fascinating and grand place was the underground Basilica ...

... journey to the hostel took about 2 hours. I had booked into the Metropolis hostel in the heart of the Sultanahmet area, I had read good reviews about this place and so far it has lived up to them. A bed costs 30 YTL a night and the view from the rooftop ...

... ve been doimg other things online. I'm trying to sort out Iranian vısa and the agency I was goimg to use has terrible reviews on forums even though it's lonely plane recomended. Just goes to shw that you cannot trust guidebooks. I have just realized that ...

... ;people are great, the architecture is amazing, the history and sites are endless, and the grand bazaar (market) was unbelievable.   Istanbul is also unique because it lies on 2 continents - half of the city is in Europe and half is in ...

... shaving again now, as of today. Set off for the Aya Sofya or Haggia Sophia today, the former grandest church in Christendom when Istanbul was known as Constantinople until the invasion and from 1453 to 1935 was used as a mosque.  The 'Blue Mosque' ...

... she arrived. As the afternoon rolled along, I met Linda at the airport and we caught up, back in Sultanhamet. I'd been in Istanbul a few times before and knew the city. That night we strolled along to places I was familiar with, passed the Blue ...

... we landed. The BO woke me up , seriously. I was just waiting to get to Sarajevo now after a few hours transit at Istanbul. For those of you who followed my trip last year, you'll remember the glowing reviews and recommendation I gave to Sarajevo, and how ...

... more free-spirited travelers out there, but hear me out.  Websites can be biased and sometimes it's the hostel's own staff puts up positive reviews, which skews the overall rating   Getting stuck in a dirty or unsafe hostel for the night ...

... . Later in the day I took another 8 hour bus ride further down the coast to Selcuk. I booked a place from hostel world that had gotten rave reviews, and sure enough it was sensational! great open yard area with a pool and a bar. heaps of couches and ...

... , so we were up uncomfortably early for our 6:30AM pick-up and hour-long drive to the Izmir airport for our flight to Istanbul. Our connecting flight wasn’t until mid-afternoon and it was too early to check in, so we found a restaurant upstairs to ...

... a couple seems to be quite famous among backpackers traveling in Romania, it received quite mixed opinions in hostelworld.com user reviews. Since this hostel is relatively new, it was not even in Lonely Planet (though it does mention the housing referral ...

I boarded a train for Greece from Istanbul early in the morning and rolled out of town in a Harry Potter-esque cabin all to myself.  A lot of the journey was along the coast and was very scenic- but took a long time, with no available food, and ...

... and subsequent Spanish rule, to recent turbulent history. 6.  The nightlife and socialising, there was plenty of that for all tastes everywhere we went! Until next time (I've got another Tucan trip, Moscow to Istanbul, booked for October), ...