The Golden Siyav hotel is very well located, 5 minutes walk from the Kadıköy Ferry terminal and Metro, but is especially good for the proximity to the many restaurants and bars in the Kadıköy area. This is an excellent area to stay in, when visiting Istanbul. We caught the ferry every day to all the tourist sights.
The hotel is modern and the rooms well presented, with only a small bar in reception.
I have marked the hotel down for our stay though, as the air conditioning in our room didn’t work properly. Not that I was expecting to need to use A/C for a week in mid Feb-24, but the room (406) got far, far too hot and was like a sauna overnight.
We turned the radiators off and even unplugged the minibar fridge, which actually gave off a lot of heat !
We ended up having to open the window each night. Then we couldn’t sleep as the street was too noisy.
We did raise the issue with reception, to no avail.
In retrospect we really should have asked to change rooms, as we did not sleep well at all.
The breakfast was a Turkish Meze style which was quite limited, including interesting local Turkish cheese. The scrambled eggs and French toast were good.
Surprised that only tea and water available to drink at breakfast, with no coffee or juice?
