After our time in Budapest, we flew to Istanbul, Turkey and spent 6 fantastic days. I have a lot of favourite cities and this is definitely near the top. We had booked a small boutique hotel called Royan Suites, only 7 rooms. We had the only room on the ground floor probably cause we’re old, (there was no elevator) It’s funny because I have tried searching for their website but only their large, expensive parent hotel comes up. It was down and around the corner, maybe this hotel has changed ownership. Above photo is me and the hotel manager, Jem. Our room below with a little patio.
Our room 
Our little patio
Our hotel was in the old part of the city, we were maybe 15 minute walk to the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia and other well known tourist attractions.
The people running the hotel were fantastic, Jem was the manager and Aisha did all the cleaning and made breakfasts, which was included. Chetin was the night manager and was on from 7 – 7. Our first breakfast there we thought, Wow, who is all this food for? Aisha kept bringing out one plate after another, it was insane the amount of food plus she would cook eggs as well. After the first morning, we asked her if she could tone it down lol But I will say, everything was delicious.
View of our hotel from the street 
View from the front patio 
Patio out front, we spent a lot of time sitting there when we weren’t roaming the city 
Clint, Jem and Aisha on our last morning there 
Dodo the cat lived there and the door to our room is just to the left of him
This city loves their cats, most cats are homeless but almost everyone would leave water and food bowls out for the cats and some people built little cat homes that any cat could use. It was quite fascinating to see.
Stray cats and some houses people have put out for them 
You never know what you might see in a shopping cart
I loved this city and every day we were gone from right after breakfast until quite late in the afternoon, or early evening. Next post, I’ll take you around the city !
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