What to say about this hotel? Spaces, ambience, cleanliness, staff friendliness and service, comfort, food, everything is just perfect and in a way far better and more personal comparing to the usual indiferent standard 4 or 5 star hotels...
The place is unique, 5 minutes walk from the most important monuments of the city (St. Sofia church, the blue mosque and topkapi palace) and at the same time, not far (with a taxi) from many other important places. However, although so near a highly touristic part, the road is very-very quiet!!
The view from the 2nd rooms on both sides of the building is very nice, (front: Marmara sea, rear: a turkish neighbourhood a bit poor, but of quite local colour, and the tops of St Sophia church and Blue Mosque to the back!!)just ask not to be given 1st floor rear looking rooms(these ones have a small problem, looking at a backyard).
Breakfast buffet....Simply, one of the best I have ever seen in my life...
Ambience as a whole: If it is your 1st time in Istanbul, I blieve in Armada you are getting a good first impression of this city!!
