Sorriso Hotel Due

This hotel is conveniently located at 300 m from Aksaray Tram Station and about the same distance away from Vezneciler Metro Station. The neighbourhood is busy during day, but very calm at night. It is full of restaurants. The rooms are fine, with comfortable beds, but not up to 4-star level. Several things in the room were broken and then hidden, for instance the table by the bed had a loose leg and was glued in an amateuristic way waiting to collapse (which it did). Also the overall organisation of the hotel is not up to standard. Despite our booking of 2 connecting rooms (for 10 people) and despite having conversations with the hotel assuring that they were ready, upon arrival only one connecting room was and they gave us two other separate rooms, which was problematic considering that most of our party were minors. There was no enforcement of rules towards guests making a lot of noise at night. The breakfast is good but gets quite monotonous over the days. The breakfast seating and serving area was too small to accomodate the guests staying at the hotel. There was, however, excellent coffee. The big plus of the hotel is the extremely helpful staff but there is a language barrier, especially at night. Near the hotel there is an excellent Turkish Delight and Lokum shop named Tuğra with the most humble and friendly shopkeeper we met in Istanbul (Balabanağa Mh., on the corner of Vidinli Tevfik Paşa Cd. and Harikzedeler Sk. at street level of Hotel Klas).