Galadoo Suites: 45 m² apartment 0.2 km from Galata Tower

Galadoo Suites is an apartment building at Şah Değirmeni Sk. No:1, Istanbul, postcode 34421. Galata Tower is the nearest landmark by far: about 0.2 km away, in a straight line. Taksim Square is about 1.4 km, and Süleymaniye Mosque about 1.5 km. These are straight-line figures, so actual routes will run longer than the numbers suggest.

Of the landmarks, Süleymaniye Mosque is the closest after Galata Tower, at about 1.5 km; Topkapı Palace, Hagia Sophia and Sultan Ahmed Mosque follow at about 1.8 km, 2.2 km and 2.5 km. All are straight-line figures.

• Topkapı Palace: about 1.8 km, in a straight line
• Hagia Sophia: about 2.2 km, in a straight line
• Sultan Ahmed Mosque: about 2.5 km, in a straight line
• Sirkeci railway station: about 1.4 km, in a straight line

Check-in opens at 15:00 and the latest check-in is 18:00, the rule most likely to shape travel plans, since an evening or night arrival is not provided for. Check-out is until 11:00. Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW) is about 31.6 km away, in a straight line, the longest of the straight-line distances from the building; Sirkeci railway station, about 1.4 km, is much closer.

Galadoo Suites has a single room type, the One-Bedroom Apartment: 45 m², one queen bed and one sofa bed, sleeping up to three. The queen bed sits in the apartment's one bedroom; the sofa bed provides the extra sleeping space. The combinations that work are two adults on the queen bed with a third on the sofa bed, a couple with a child on the sofa bed, or two travellers leaving the sofa bed folded away. Children are allowed, so a couple with one child fits the same arithmetic.

There is no second room type: no smaller studio, no larger two-bedroom unit, no twin-bedded alternative. A fourth person has no bed, and two couples cannot be split across units. What the property offers, it offers once, at 45 m², with one queen bed and one sofa bed.

Children are allowed. In practice that means a couple with one child: the apartment sleeps up to three, and the sofa bed is the bed a child would take. A family with two children would exceed the apartment's count of three. The property has no parking; a traveller arriving by car will need to park elsewhere in the city, and should factor that in before choosing to drive.

Galadoo Suites suits a small party of one to three people who want an apartment rather than a hotel room: 45 m², a bedroom with a queen bed, and a sofa bed for a third traveller or a child. A solo traveller or a couple gets the most from the space; three adults fit, but the third bed is a sofa bed.

It does not suit a group of four or more, or anyone who wants a choice of rooms; there is no room type sleeping more than three. It is also the wrong choice for a driver, with no parking, or for anyone whose journey ends after the 18:00 check-in cutoff.