Hotel The Public - Special Category

The public hotel is located at the center of the istiklal street in a tight alley. Hotel has a unique and interesting interior design. Rooms are situated in 2 blocks which one has the alley view and one block has the hotel backside view. The personnel were kind and helpful enough. Hotel doesn't have the laundry service. Breakfast was ok considering the 4 star hotel. Standard double rooms were relatively small and vanity was located next to the bed outside the toilet area. Last floor (5th floor) rooms were attic roof rooms with low ceilings which can be troublesome for some.
These rooms have balcony with distant view of sea. Cleanliness of the hotel was so so, our first room toilet was not clean and as we informed the receptionist, he stated that room service is not active till tomorrow! It is of note that the signs of wears and tears were visible in every corner of the room. On our second night, our rooms electrical system was jammed which resulted in a delayed room change. There are two 24/7 car parks near the hotel in case of car rental.

Nice location, nice staff, nice interior design, but our room was not clean enough when we arrived, specially the toilet and when we asked for a housekeeper to clean the toilet they said we have to wait till tomorrow, which was very disappointing. And also on our second night the toilet flush wouldn’t work and the room’s key card wouldn’t work which led to change the room at 2 am. The breakfast was alright, definitely not the best breakfast buffet in my experience but acceptable.

PROS
-Hotel is nicely decorated, they gave us a beverage upon check-in and communication was great between us and the hotel
-Rooftop room was spacious and we surprisingly never hit our heads on any beams
-Great location for shopping

CONS
-Bed was supposed to be a king, but it was not. It was bigger than a queen but it was an odd size.
-Bathroom/shower area was VERY small. Could barely turn around inside the bathroom. Water leaked out from the shower into the toilet area. Detachable shower head was broken and had a leak between the handle and where the hose connected so it never worked. Smallest bathroom I've ever seen
-Hotel did arrange our airport transfers but never let us know that it would need to be cash only when departing for our outbound flight the next morning. They did work with us but it would have been great to know this in advance since our transportation leaving for the airport was at 5 AM.
-NOISE! Noise from the street below continued well into the night and this was on a weekday. It was mostly music from somewhere on the street (we were on the 5th floor) and it did keep me up throughout the night.
-Rooftop terrace doesn't have too great of a view, but I expected that. The tiles could be cleaner out there.
-Curtains that blocked out the light from the terraces were somewhat broken so each side of the windows on both terraces had chunks of light coming through on each. We had to use our luggage to keep the curtains in place.