Hey everybody. if you want to go to Istanbul, this is the place where you want to stay! nice , clean, warm people, and very affordable!

GENERAL
I am from Armenia and was having my honey moon in Turkey, so the most important for us was the gentle and kind environment, fine interior and the neighborhood with the most popular and "Have-to-See" places in Istanbul. So we find the hotel and we checked-in at a late night - the welcome drink was the first good experience after the trip. ... Small thinks can make one be happy.
The front desk did a quick check-in and after some 5 minutes (I didn't manage to finish smoking my cigarette) we were in the hotel room. ...Front Desk works professionally.
The standard double rooms are very comfortable yet are pretty small, but I will repeat myself the rooms are comfortable. ...The rooms are very fine for a 4 star hotel (I suppose it is a 4 star).
The bathrooms and beds are clean and periodically being cleaned ...Room service do their work fine.
Also there is huge assortment of any food for any taste on the breakfast and the restaurant service is fine. My regards to the F&B management.
Also, they have the safes in the rooms which may appear useless for most of tourists, but surely will be used once available for free. :)
Telling "Internet" Sapphire Hotel means a single computer in the hall which was not used for almost all days we spent there. Do not wait for business center with several PCs in a separate cabins in this hotel.

BE AWARE:
CAUTION: Please have in mind that they have only a one way transfer included in the price of room reservation, so either they will pick you up from the airport for free or will drive you there. You should pay for the second transfer and it will cost you around 50 YTL, which is around $40. We faced that misunderstanding there, but everything was resolved smoothly.
CAUTION2: I am not sure that the old town of Istanbul is the place to walk in the nights for tourists. It is totally safe in the daylights but you may feel some kind ugly after 9PM when the shops are closed and the light is low.
CAUTION3: It is very easy to get lost in the narrow streets of the old town, I never did a right turn on the right place of the right street-cross from the first try for all the days we was there. But it DO really worth it to stay in such place - beautiful, romantic and with that smell of history in the air.

SUMMARY
Do not hesitate in choosing this hotel as a place to stay from 2 days to several weeks in Istanbul - you will surely have a lot to do there - history and architecture, sea, ports and ships, grand bazar and small souvenir shops, restaurants on the bridge with well done seafood and other dishes are all close to you - a 15 minutes walk as a maximum (if you will go in right direction). Did you read all these to the end? :) Then thank you too.

I and my husband ( 29-32 years old) were turists and we have stayed in this hotel on 9-13th of May. We had a great time in this hotel. Perfect staff. Room was a little bit small but ok., bed, bathroom - ok. Good breakfast, just we would like to see more fruits next time we will stay in your hotel :))

We will come back to Istanbul and really we will stay in Sapphire again!!!

best wishes to all the nice staff :)

Just returned from a great weekend in Istanbul, staying at Sapphire hotel. We (me & my wife) can gladly recommend this lovely hotel run by a very professional team.

We've traveled a lot, so we know what good hotels are all about. This one has all the things that are essential for a good stay:
nice, clean rooms; v. rich breakfast, professional service, v. competative price.

Try this hotel - you will really enjoy it!

-Jan