Ottoperla Hotel

I was at this place for 9 nights.
It sure seems like everything there was mediocre at best.
Let start with the service: The persons at the front desk started by being straight faced. Theu process and try to accomodate you, but there is no warmth and definetly don't feel the welcome. Basically, here is the key to your room on the Xth floor.
The restaurant: A nice place with an amazing view of the Bosforus and above average food choices. The breakfast is free and it has fairly good choices, but it is almost every morning the same, but who's isn't, so I think theirs is better than most? The restaurant is not part of the hotel is managed separately, which means you can not run a tap and pay at the end. It is available 24 hrs in the form of a room service, but the phone number for the hotel provided on my room service menu did not work, so I had to go and order at restaurant level at 2 in the AM.
The restaurant managers watched you and everyone else nonstop and almost seemed as if the wait staff was happier and more smiling when the manager wasn't visibly present or gone.
There stray cats that sneak in through open patio doors and hope for hand outs, but they are not a bother, I actually found them frendly and cute. (I did try to feed them every chance I got!)

The Room: My room was clean, with a balcony overlooking the Bosforus, and the view was amazing. It was fairly quiet and pieceful almost all the time. I usually never like the pillows at any hotel, but their pillows were firm and good. The shower, no bathtub, was good, but 98% clean. The 2% was the mold in the low corners on the shower that seems was there for a long time. It had a safe to lock your valuables in, and I did. The TV was good and it had one channel in English, the rest were Turkish or Arabic.
I felt safe there. There is security to the hotel parking entrance 24 hours a day.