Novotel Istanbul Bosphorus Hotel

We stayed for almost a week, and it has a great location. There are many nearby luxury shops and restaurants, and we walked along the Galataport promenade almost every evening. The light rail is not far, and it gets you to most of the major old city sights. There is a funicular nearby, and it gets you up the hill to more shopping and restaurants that are less touristy. We had breakfast upstairs on the roof most days, and the food and service are great. Our room was well appointed, had a nice bathroom, and had a comfy bed. We would stay there again.

I stayed 7 nights in this hotel for a business trip. Overall, this hotel has clean rooms (small rooms), friendly staff, breakfast is very good and the location is great to walk to the old city and all major historical sites. The only major issue, at least for me, and reason why I'm probably not going back, is that according to the room they give you, if you are a light sleeper forget about sleeping until 3am, 6 days a week (only Mondays are quiet). Extremally loud music (I had to sleep with noise cancelling headphones and still could feel the vibration of the music inside the room) coming from the bars, that starts at 6pm and goes until 3am non-stop. My room faced the street but maybe if you get a room facing the inside, maybe is better.

The hotel is good but it doesn't feel like it's 5 stars hotel at all. The rooms don't have a coffee machine even though they are available in 4 star hotels. I also didn't like the bathrooms as the shower doesn't have any privacy as I could see the person taking a shower even if the blind feature is on. Location was amazing and the staff were amazing as well