Stone Garden Apartment: sea view, 0.8 km from Taksim Square

Stone Garden Apartment in the Heart of the City is an apartment building on Kumrulu Sokak, Istanbul, postcode 34433. Taksim Square is about 0.8 km away and Galata Tower about 1 km, in a straight line. Sirkeci railway station is about 1.8 km away, and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport about 30.9 km, also in a straight line. Of the sights, Galata Tower at about 1 km is the closest; the rest lie between about 1.9 and 2.8 km.

• Topkapı Palace: about 1.9 km
• Hagia Sophia: about 2.4 km
• Süleymaniye Mosque: about 2.4 km
• Sultan Ahmed Mosque: about 2.8 km

The building has a single room type, so there is no choosing between layouts, sizes or views: every booking is the One-Bedroom Apartment, 65 m², with one queen bed, one sofa bed and a sea view. The queen bed is the main bed, and the sofa bed adds a sleeping place for a child or another traveller. At 65 m² the apartment is generous for a one-bedroom, and the sea view comes with the room type itself rather than with a choice of room.

Children are allowed and the property offers family rooms, and the layout matches: two people in the queen bed, one more on the sofa bed, with 65 m² of floor to spread across. A couple simply gains a spare bed and the space; a family gains separate beds without booking anything beyond the one apartment.

There is no larger unit and no second room type: the One-Bedroom Apartment is the whole of what the property offers, so a group needing more than one queen bed and one sofa bed would have to look at other properties.

The property is an apartment building, and the stay is shaped around the apartment itself rather than around shared hotel services. A pool, a spa and a restaurant are not among its facilities, so travellers who want those should keep looking. Travellers who want a large apartment with a sea view, about 0.8 km from Taksim Square in a straight line, get exactly that here.

Check-in opens at 15:00 and closes at 22:00 at the latest; the property does not provide for arrival after that time. Check-out is until 11:00. Anyone flying into Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, about 30.9 km away in a straight line, should weigh the 22:00 cutoff against their arrival plans.

Children are allowed, and with the sofa bed in the apartment a child has a bed of their own alongside the queen bed. Pets are not allowed, so the apartment cannot take a dog or a cat.

It suits a couple who want room to spread out: 65 m², a queen bed, a sofa bed going spare and a sea view, with Taksim Square about 0.8 km away in a straight line. It suits a small family just as well: children are allowed, and the sofa bed gives a child or another traveller a bed of their own. The single room type also removes the risk of a smaller unit: every booking carries the same 65 m² and the same sea view.

It does not suit travellers with pets, or arrivals after 22:00, or anyone who wants a pool, a spa or a restaurant in the property. For everyone else, the choice is a simple one: a single, generous apartment type with a sea view, on Kumrulu Sokak in Istanbul.