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A'Jia Mansion Hotel: Hot or Not

Where: Ahmet Rasim Pasa Yalisi, Istanbul, Kanlica, Turkey

January 12, 2007 at 11:57 AM | 0 Comments

A'jia is Istanbul's "serenity now" spot. Not much to do, in the traditional tourist sense, however, a 16 room waterfront Ottoman mansion hotel called A'jia is justification enough to consider staying in A'jia.

A Mediterranean Italian terrace restaurant, teak balconies, and panoramic views of the Bosphorous sure look pretty on websites and brochures, but does this hotel provide the type of experience that its views and price tag deserve?

Reports are mixed. European travelers tend to rave about this place, while American folks, at least this one from Chicago, tend to disagree:

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.

Maybe European travelers aren't as cranky when they don't get much sleep.  We are still looking for more info on the A'jia experience, a hotel this beautiful is a terrible thing to sully with bad service, so if you have been there, let us know in the hotel review section here.

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