Madison Hotel - Istanbul

Though the hotel is located close to Taksim Square, it is still inconveniently located not within a main street. I constantly get harassed by commission men who yelled out "hello my friend" and they don't even know my name. These highly persistent men constantly tried to get me to visit or buy something and when you ignored them, they'll say something […] you don't understand as though they're chiding you. Besides, it is away from the main attractions such as the Grand Bazaar and Blue Mosque. Who's idea is it to have a parrot at the reception and it makes a lot of noise especially when my room is on the 1st floor? In addition, the hotel staff is apathetic. While one staff offers to mail my postcard, he didn't specify that it would cost 2 TL per card when the post office is about 150 meters away. Even after I put stamps on the postcard they still demand for 1 TL per card so I walked. I'm not stingy but I hate not being given full information and it seemed like a scamp especially when I'm on my way to the airport. Since breakfast is included with the room, don't expect great variety. The croissant is hard and most food is sub-standard. To make things worse, they rush people to finish as the time approaches 10 AM! One day when I left room late, I added the "clean my room" card together with a button pressed down to get the maid to clean the room but instead, the card was stuffed under my door and the room wasn't done at all. Luckily my experience in Istanbul was great and wasn't as marred by the service from this deplorable hotel. Read more

Genuine Hotels.com guest review

The breakfast needs to be updated, much of the food was inedible as had been sitting without adequate heating for a length of time. The variety has not changed for 23 years even though changed to Ramada. Need to provide more variety, too much bread without much to put on it.

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Excellent and spacy reception, Interiors pleasing to the eye. We were given rooms in the 6th floor. Rooms were just ok, no BIG DEAL.View from the window were terrible, you are almost at a handshake distance with the neighbourly building which had offices & this means, you need to draw your curtains, cant leave it open. My room in particular had water […] dripping into the thick carpet from the central AC duct. even after informing the hotel, nothing was done. If you are an international traveller and use the flat pin on your mobile charger or PC, DO NOT forget to take a universal adapter. Hotel will NOT lend you one. Instead they will suggest you walk down to the nearest store to buy one, Room service is pathetic. Most of the time, they will not understand you (conveniently) If you call them and ask them to replenish some (free) coffee powder in the room, they would come with a tray full of cups, kettle, hot water, sugar, coffee, some biscuits etc etc...and charge you 4TL for it, when all you wanted was one coffee sachet, which is suppose to be free in the room. Breakfast is not bad, had a fairly decent selection of stuff for a power breakfast. I personally liked it. . Lastly, try NOT to eat in the restaurants around these hotel, they will rip you off. better food with a better price can be found if you just leave this area. However, an italian restaurant on the same street is GOOD value for money. Read more

Genuine Hotels.com guest review

Great hotel, found the bed a bit harder than normal hotels. During my stay they where in a renovation stage, but overall very happy with the hotel. The staff where helpful and polite which is imperative if you are English speaking.

Genuine Hotels.com guest review

The hotels location is very good, central but still quit and no noise from the street. The rooms were newly renovated and excactly as shown on the pictures. Very clean and conforted. The staff were very helpful and professional. The range in breakfast buffet were very big. The only negativ point in our stay was some of the other guests that were very […] noisy but the staff interfered immediatly when we made them aware of the bothering situation. Read more

Genuine Hotels.com guest review

Very decent hotel. I was a medical patient and stayed mostly inside the room for 4 days. Good service and good quality of the room. Had a double room alone (ordering a single). Roomservice was good and the food was good as well. Breakfast nothing special but the dinners were good and not too expensive. Smiling staff and relatively ok pried hotel. Would […] definetly recommend this hotel and would consider this hotel again. Read more

Genuine Hotels.com guest review

Utrolig dårlige senger (harde). Slitent bad. Dårlig frokost. Hyggelig betjening og veldig bra service. Perfekt beliggenhet. Slitsom papegøye i lobby'en :-)Har bodd på Elite World rett i nærheten og anbefaler absolutt det i stedet.

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tyvär hotellet var under renovering från tidiga morgon tillsena kvällar!! vilket var det svårt o koppla av varken på morgon el kvällstid!!! läget på hotellet var mkt bra o nära till centrum,metro o restauranger.

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