Blue Istanbul Hotel

Recent Reviews: 511

• User:MRSlowLoris

  Trip type: Business

  Be careful. They say you cancelled your reservation and now try to charge 3x at checkin

  24 May 2026

  This hotel participates in the popular tourism scam to charge you a low rate online and when you show up in person they say that you canceled the reservation. They still have rooms available but now charge nearly 3x the original online rate. I booked directly on the official hotel website and never canceled. We went somewhere else. Be careful with this place.

• User:Chris G

  Trip type: Couples

  Well situated for the major sites.

  12 Aug 2025

  Small but perfectly clean room, well situated for visiting the major attractions of the city. Excellent front desk staff particularly Nadia and Ali who helped with advice and directions.

• User:jozsa e

  Trip type: Solo travel

  155 bed bug bites, bitten by at least 30 bugs

  01 Jul 2025

  BEDBUGS, 155 bites = bitten by at least 30 bugsBoth booking.com and the hotel are hiding, though admitted claims. Medical records exist.While staying at Blue Istanbul Hotel 1st – 4th June, 2025, I fell victim to bedbugs. 155 bites translates bitten by at least 30 bugs – this is excessive and this means the hotel is heavily infected and severely neglecting their duties to keep place clean and healthy. In my country, a thorough examination would follow and probably the permit of the hotel would be suspended immediately – owner and manager(s) may be forbidden to practice hotel-management in future. Now I have to take medication for over two weeks, avoid sun and much water – and I have to put another, ongoing medical treatment on hold because of this.More details:- Upon returning home on 5th June, I contacted booking – they informed the hotel too- No response from hotel – this is telling- booking.com admits my complaint and offers voucher, which is just worth of my time I wasted on the first medical visit (no medication, no doctor fee included!): EUR 35. Or for medication I paid this amount alone. I made a fair and detailed calculation – lower than on recommendation by a travel legal and insurance advisor, he put compensation claim at EUR 250 to 400.- Due to the bedbug bites, I had to cancel other medical treatments on 6th, 10th, 12th June(proofs, documented)- In addition, there is a list of problems with the hotel – my score would be 5/10 without the bedbug health hazard- The hotel has a 8.7/10 (87%) rating currently on booking.com, on Google 3.2/5 (64%) currently– this pushes me to question and discredit ALL ratings on booking.com, possibly ratings are fabricated- Turkish authorities also hiding-- one claimed this can happen anywhere. NO! Not in civilized countries. One-two bites are tolerable, but 155?Other problems with hotel:1. Main door has over 1 cm gap at bottom – all noise travels both ways.2. Terrible sink (cellar) smell in bathroom3. Noises probably by hotel staff any time of day- kicking furniture, smashing doors. Midnight, 7:00 AM.4. Hot water is very difficult to regulate – it is probably over 40 celsius degrees and is very hard to set optimum shower temperature – 40 or 18 celsius.5. Toilet paper and other usables never replaced.6. There is no mosquito net – any insect may travel and they do! I ended up with 155 bedbug bites.7. A single, very thin bedcover only, and no extra blanket in room – I felt cold.8. Staff tries to milk me – I ask them about public transportation. They cannot answer for twenty minutes, but try to push taxi to their own benefit, three times......My response to comments, the weak pretexts and accusations of hotel (as per Google):In many European countries the hotel would be closed by now (temporary), and fined at least EUR 2000, and hotel would face now a lawsuit – the fact that I told hotel staff during my stay and they completely disregarded is also telling. I am the least surprised that you continue your dishonest and unprofessional ways. I have two medical reports, pictures taken by medical staff of the National Centre for Epidemiology, medical bills. What evidence and reports by authorities do you have to support your claim – is there any? The easiest way to cover up your fault and run from responsibility is to counterattack and make unfunded generalizations and the accusation.Upon returning home I certainly reported the hotel at the relevant Turkish authorities (not one), which I would do anywhere in Europe in such a case, as you are a hotspot for epidemy. The fact that they have not come back to me until now (three weeks) is very much telling of them and Turkey. A member of the Turkish consulate scolded me angrily that 155 bites is normal anywhere, even in Europe! NO, it is not! (Phone recording is available, dear Turkish consulate staff.) In Europe things may work a bit differently. Finally, I am considering to share the story with several media outlets in Europe. 1-2 bites tolerable, but 155 is excessive.

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• User:Pino P

  Trip type: Solo travel

  Big nice hard bed and a bolcony are the best here

  12 Jun 2025

  Lovely hotel has got everything you need nice big room ..big bathroom with hot water bidet...smells very clean...and i have a room with a view...i m Lucky to have found the best place yet...i come many years here in istanbul...love it all

• User:John M

  Trip type: Family

  Little Gem

  03 Jan 2025

  This is a gem of a hotel right in the heart of the oldest part of Istambul. very traditional. All the hotel staff where very helpful. I would say the best and I have traveled the world. We wanted to explore Turkey and they not only did that but helped us will flights, a hotel, Dropped us off at the main airport and had us meet in Cappadocia, Arragnged a great guide Mr Ali, Returned us to Istambul to stay and the same hotel there, Wonderful John

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