There is no doubting that the Ferman has a great location in the historic district of Istanbul. It is very close to the Blue Mosque, Haghia Sophia and Topkapi Palace and the excellent tram service is only a 5-10 minute walk away. The rooms are also comfortable and clean enough and the free wi-fi is ver handy but, but, but............
Do not choose the hotel's airport transfer offer unless you want to spend 30 minutes in a cramped, hot and tatty old minibus with half a dozen or more other tourists wondering what on earth convinced them to part with €30 for this service. Pay the same and have a much more comfortable ride in your own air conditioned taxi instead.
The beds are a good size but, unfortunately, the hotel's bed sheets are too small to tuck under the mattress at any point and the top cover is very slippy. This results the top cover eventually being deposited on the floor whilst half-awake efforts to hold onto things simultaneously ensure that the undersized bed sheet ends up covering your neck but not much else. It takes a couple of nights of bleary-eyed recriminations and heated denials before you finally realise that the problem is the bed linen and not your sleeping partner!
But my most scathing criticism is reserved for the breakfast offering. This is simply awful. Is that today's scrambled egg and bacon mixture or yesterday's? Or last week's? I would challenge anyone to be confident of which it was? I'm genuinely struggling to think what the hungry resident could comfortably fall back on. Pastries? No. Bread? Yes, but no telling how many hands had been on it before yours and what would you spread on it? The 'butter' with the 2 or 3mm thickness of dark yellow staleness around it or something from the awful preserves selection? Fruit? No. Cereals? Yes but it's a battle to persuade them out of their stupid tiny tower dispensers (you lift a trap door at the bottom and nothing happens) and if you don't like coco pops or cornflakes, hard luck. Cold meats and cheeses? Well they might not taste as bad as they look I suppose. The biscuits were ok on the first morning but were stale the next 3 - turns out someone forgot to change them the previous 2 nights - oh really?.
At £100 per night plus €30 for the airport transfer I was, shall we say, a tad unhappy with the hotel.