ORIENT EXPRESS HOTEL -- 2

REVIEWED BY TOM BROSNAHAN OF TURKEY TRAVEL PLANNER

The Orient Express Hotel features an open-buffet breakfast with plentiful choices is served in the breakfast room where guests also receive complimentary copies of the hotel’s own Sirkeci Daily Express full of sightseeing tips and other useful information.

The reception area is decorated with posters which recall the glory days of the eponymous Orient Express trains that used to steam into Sirkeci station nearby.

Also, don't fail to enjoy the artwork with which the hotel's walls are decorated: pages from illuminated books, tile panels, original paintings.

The hotel's owner, Mr Faruk Boyacı, has a good eye for interesting art.

The ground floor features the pleasant Wagon Bar which has been designed to imitate the interior of one of Istanbul’s famous and much-loved ferryboats – they still leave from the Eminonu docks not far from the hotel.

https://turkeytravelplanner.com/go/Istanbul/hotels/districts/sirkeci/orient_express.html

http://www.orientexpresshotel.com/

ORIENT EXPRESS HOTEL

REVIEWED BY TOM BROSNAHAN OF TURKEY TRAVEL PLANNER

The aptly-named Orient Express Hotel is right on the Bagcilar-Kabatas tram line, between the Gulhane and Sirkeci tram stops.

It’s a very convenient location, only a few minutes’ walk to the Sirkeci train station and the Eminonu ferries, and just a 10-minute uphill walk to Old Istanbul and Topkapi Palace, Archeological Museums, Blue Mosque and Aya Sofya.

This is a delightful small 4-star hotel whose 52 immaculate guest  rooms are decorated in a cheerful, simple but appealing style with plenty of natural wood and soothing colors. 

They come with comfortable beds, flat-screen TVs with foreign-language channels, air-conditioning, mini-fridge, free coffee- and tea-making equipment, and free Wifi Internet.

The private bathrooms all have bathtubs (some of them mini-tubs) with showers, hairdryers, bath amenities, telephones, and that most thoughtful of hotel appliances, a pull-out string line for drying clothing items you've washed in the sink.

https://turkeytravelplanner.com/go/Istanbul/hotels/districts/sirkeci/orient_express.html

http://www.orientexpresshotel.com/