req. opinions on Istanbul hotels: Ottoman Hotel, Hali Hotel

About to schedule a short tour in Turkey. I'm searching
opinions on these two Istanbul hotels below. Could anyone
provide first-hand experiences? Services, food, location,
neighbourhood, etc. Are them centrally located, say, near
Ayia Sofya, Grand Bazaar and the like?

* Ottoman Hotel
Kadirgalimani Cad, 85

* Hali Hotel
Klodfarer Cad, 20

Many thanks for any response.

About to schedule a short tour in Turkey. I'm searching
opinions on these two Istanbul hotels below. Could anyone
provide first-hand experiences? Services, food, location,
neighbourhood, etc. Are them centrally located, say, near
Ayia Sofya, Grand Bazaar and the like?
* Ottoman Hotel Kadirgalimani Cad, 85
* Hali Hotel Klodfarer Cad, 20

I can't place the first one (don't have my streetmap handy),
but Klodfarer (bizarre un-Turkish name, is it German?) is
midway in between Ayasofya and the Grand Bazaar. The downside
of which is that it's also dead centre in all the tourist-
oriented hassle - "Hali" means "carpet" and if it's the one
I think it is, it has a carpet emporium downstairs, so you
won't even get away from carpet salesmen by going back to
the hotel.

I have come to prefer the clump of hotels next to Sirkeci
railway station - handy for the tram, city buses & ferries,
things open till late at night, less aggressive salesmen.
But if everything you want to see in Istanbul is in the
Sultanahmet area then the Hali should be fine.

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I'm searching opinions on these two Istanbul hotels below. [...]
* Hali Hotel Klodfarer Cad, 20
I can't place the first one (don't have my streetmap handy), but
Klodfarer (bizarre un-Turkish name, is it German?) is midway in
between Ayasofya and the Grand Bazaar.

And by sheer fluke I found an answer to that question today, flipping
through a book about the ancient Middle East by Julian Huxley. It's
named after the French author Claude Farrere (the Turkish spelling is
dead-on phonetic). Huxley got the name slightly wrong, as "Farrel",
which nearly googleproofed him. Two of his books have titles which
suggest Turkish settings and this describes another one:

http://www.webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/HTMLpages/nr3-dd.htm

Not many people know that. Drabelle didn't think he was in print
in any language, but maybe Turkish (or Japanese? - how many authors
end up inspiring the name of a perfume?) might be worth a try.

[I figured rec.arts.books is the appropriate place for this chain
of free associations to go...]

============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ==============
Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

More on hotels in Istanbul, Sultanahmet: what about some feedback
on the Nena Hotel, at Klodfarer Cad, 8-10? Anyone?

"Lola" wrote in message
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More on hotels in Istanbul, Sultanahmet: what about some feedback
on the Nena Hotel, at Klodfarer Cad, 8-10? Anyone?


Have you checked www.tripadvisor.com for Istanbul hotels?

Marianne