Hotel Balo

Recent Reviews: 22

• User:Alert111

  Trip type:

  A night at BALO? Perhaps NOT!

  11 Dec 2018

  Thought we stayed at the construction site on the 4th floor and couldn't dare to look at the other floors! Sheets wee short / smaller than the bed itself, the pic we saw was something else where we stayed! Never again!!

• User:ALI E

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Do not go there!

  18 Nov 2018

  small room but called a “suite” no towels not prepared no knowledge diet and 4 th floor where we stayed looks like a construction site! Don’t bother go elsewhere simple! Tv ph not working. AC takes ages to heat up. Not enough blanket and sheets are smaller then the bed so the housekeeper used two sheets to make one bed!

• User:lesley s

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  AVOID !!!

  01 Oct 2015

  My friend and i were booked at this Hotel in a twin room, on arrival in the early hours we were told very rudely and with terrible looks that it would not be possible for us to share a room as we were not married !! While i would respect peoples beliefs in their own home i do not expect to book an Hotel in the lively Nezizade area of Taxsim to be told who i can share a room with !!!!It was too late at night for us to search another hotel so we put up and shut up, The rooms were basic but clean the reason i gave them 1 star, however everything else was very poor and attitude to guest awful.Checked out in the morning and found a much better hotel for the same price with lovely staff who welcomed us, it was refreshing after the frosty reception we got from the Balo Hotel

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• User:ajdavisny

  Trip type:

  Very basic rooms, not too comfortable

  28 Sept 2015

  Not what I was expecting for the star level (three) it had through the booking site I used. Room was very basic- which was okay, but the bed was stiff and uncomfortable and made a lot of noise every time I got up or moved. A chair to sit in would have been nice since I spent evenings inside the room trying to work. Late night noise got to be very loud from nearby club.The location is good to get around and walk to a lot of major areas, but I'd opt for a place more in South Beyoglu (where I spent my first few nights)- also very centrally located and quieter at night. The gentleman that was almost always at the front desk, however, was very helpful and accommodating. Spoke good English and went out off his way to give tips about where to visit, etc.

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• User:manochehr2013

  Trip type: Solo travel

  been tthere 20 to 26 may

  02 Jun 2015

  go there by metro and easily found it, read about it in tripadvisor already, so almost know what it should be, yeah noisy after midnight but guess double glasses windows improved it, especially when your room just have a window, less noise bother you. anyway nice price for such hotel in one of the best part of Istanbul. staffs there speak English quite well and always ready to help you especially Adam. he is great guy, so polite and helpful, even when I lost my plane ticket, he made some calls and printed my plane ticket. also the night shift reception was nice person. it's breakfast was poor but had kitchenette and electric kettle in it's small restaurant that working full time for free, beside tee bags and coffeemix. this hotel has split air-conditioning that I didn't see it in the most of hotels visited in Turkey. also the street to hotel was under construction that a bit bothered me. also had wifi but I didn't use it because my cellular wasn't equipped.

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