Istanbul Marriott

... trip for a few days and travel to Istanbul to provide training to the local staff in Turkey. Again, an amazing hotel. The Marriott Renaissance Polat Hotel is a modern highrise hotel. My room was on the 24th or 25th floor and it overlooked the Bosphorus ...

... has a view over a park on one side and the Bosporus on the other. They were playing a Turkish version of "Istanbul not Constantinople" – I wonder how they translate “...how Constantinople got the works...”??  Had a big beer – ...

... were likely taken advantage of as we didn't inquire as to the prices prior to ordering. Istanfools! In order to get around Istanbul we utilized the public transportation system and it was very efficient and clean, just like the rest of Europe's. Unlike ...

... in the rest of Turkey.  Of course, now that we are back home, we hear there was some type of explosion in Istanbul on Saturday.  Probably celebrating that the Kieser Family had left the country.  We should note that the restaurant at the ...

... be a bad thing, but we thought we were on a tight schedule and in danger of missing our 6:00 international flight to Istanbul… After watching Laura completely freak out for 3 mins, she hailed nearby cabbie who happily drove us to the airport for 40 ...

... on and on. Well it turns out I was staying in THE best hotel in Jamaica, New York. My hotel, the Fairfield Inn by Marriott Long Island JFK Jamaica, NY, was owned by a family who all worked in the hotel.  They immediately jumped into action. The ...

... Cairo Bazaar) to buy a scarf or two and to see the amazing shops. Though the area paled in comparison to Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, it was really amazing and sported some amazing Mosques and ancient buildings . Another interesting experience was the kind ...

... on our own in Lisbon was spent in what appeared to be a fair priced, clean and nice hostel. Bit of a drop from the Marriott which the Trafalgar tour concluded in. Our hostel showed its true colours at night when the 10 or so Polish folk staying on our ...

... some stories of his experiences, including one about lost friends due to the more recent conflicts. We flew to Tbilisi, Georgia from Istanbul and arrived around 5pm. Our hotel is gorgeous and has quite a history, too! It even served as a military ...

... Brian is still interested in going to Egypt (despite the recent unrest in that country); he says it'll a historic time to go.  I'm still eyeing Morocco & perhaps Istanbul.  Just keep checking our blog to find out where we're off to ...

... per night in our flea-ridden hostel in Rio, we landed with our bum in the butter with our secret hotel being the 5-star Marriott Hotel! We crashed and burned in our first really comfortable bed in a long time and woke early the next morning, fully charged ...

... connections even today with Egypt - when I bore you with my photos you see what I mean. We had a traumatic departure from Istanbul,  mostly because even allowing 2 extra hours, the travel time took much longer than anticipated. Being a psycho, I ...

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... angeworfen und irgendwann bekomme ich vielleicht Ersatz, vielleicht auch nicht... Mein Plan sieht vermutlich so aus: Bus nach Istanbul Bus nach Muenchen Flug nach Neuseeland ich schaue mal was Fluege kosten, sind aber vermutlich recht teuer. ...

... without a day at the beach and Antalya is our answer to the calling. This is a day of pampering so I used all my Marriot Reward Points that I've accumulated during the year to exchange for a night's stay in Antalya Renaissance. We arrived at the Antalya ...

... station and took a tram as far as we could and caught a cab to Harry’s Pub (located in the basement of the Marriot). Harry’s was pretty spectacular, an old murky bar with decades of cigar and cigarette smoke embed into its wooden walls. If you ...