Ajia is a beautiful old Ottoman "Yali" or waterside mansion overlooking the Bosporus in Istanbul. The charm of the old building, the view and location are second to none. The interior is very nicely decorated in a modern, minimalist sort of a way. Very appealing.
However, unfortunately, you should not stay there. Loud music plays all night preventing you from sleeping; room service delivers delicious food, but certainly not what you ordered; preparations for evening concerts begin early in the morning, by banging around wrought iron chairs, once again waking you up. The kind hearted fools at the front desk, try but are completely helpless and unable to help you out. They offer you coffee for compensation
An unfortunate waste of a beautiful hotel, by incompetent management. Highly overpriced.
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Welcome to Ciao. One man's meat is another man's poison as the saying goes. As the long suffering partner of a hotel manager, I know only too well the problems associated with running a hotel. On the one hand you have x-number of guests who want to party all night and expect the hotel to be up and running 24/7, on the other you have y-number of guests who are looking for peace an quiet and a long lay-in in the morning. What can you do? Setting up a hotel for activities causes noise and trying to keep that to a minimum causes delays. Often the layout of old buildings does not lend itself easily to converstion to a hotel, with large hollow rooms that act like sound amplifiers and open corridors that conduct every little bump and rattle into the guest areas. This is particularly true of small hotels like this one. As for the poor reception staff, what can they do about it? Not a lot, just smile and try to empathise with you. I don't know what you do for a living, but working on a hotel reception desk is like trying to negotiate a lasting peace between the Israeli's and Hesbulah. No-one listens and everyone expects you to work miracles, and all for little more than the cleaners get paid. In your next review add in a little more detail about the hotel and its surroundings, particularly any alternative accommodation that may be available if your hotel does really suck. :-) Dave.
Reposter78 30.07.2006 03:26
A bit more info would be good. Not a Bad first review though. Steve
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