Gafa Garden Hostel & Apartments

breakfast and location, room was in basement which was look like graveyard, then they changed room to 4th floor with no AC and no lift

Staff coordination was too good Special thanks for Mr.Huzaifa for all your support and care Thank you soo much for whole team. All good!

I love this place next I’m going soon this place special huzafia he is very help full. Everyone book this hostels Room is very comfortable and like feel home breakfast it’s to good love you all especially huzifa and Nazii She is very nice and very help full love you naziii sister you are very nice see you soon Best

location maybe more cleanness is required

The place was too small for a person to stay. The breakfast doesn't include proper amount of vegetarian food.

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I like all perfect

noisy ambiance during sleeping hours (machinery noise working in the neighborhood of the hostel from midnight until early hours of the morning was a sore)

Sometimes people smoke on the outside area and you kinda can smell the cigarettes from the room in the first floor.. Other than that the experience was very good

Location and accessibility to food and metros I was surprised by a knock on my door letting me know that the floor in the bathroom was wet. I however managed to sweep off as much water as I can to make sure it isn't too wet after I took a shower. In my opinion and if I may suggest , the bathroom should have a bath math to ensure this doesn't happen.

Had my boyfriend not been with me, I am scared of what would have happened if I was alone. The owner is a lier, scammer and began aggressively screaming at me after I asked for a refund for the nights we could not stay there due to the inaccurate room listing and horrific amount of black mold. When we arrived, we were told we would have to be charged a 10% “tax” for paying with a card, which was not stated anywhere in the listing. We showed up late after a 15 hour travel day, so we just ate it after unsuccessfully pushing back on it a bit. We later did our research to discover service fees are illegal in turkey and is a common scam. “Tourist tax” and VAT were clearly stated and added to my reservation in booking.com. It is also illegal for them to charge us extra for the room upon arrival via booking.com terms and conditions. They also took my receipt and threw it away when I provided it for the refund and refused to give it back. The transaction on my bank statement is run under a restaurant name that is no longer in business. We received legal advice from a lawyer in turkey and were told this is common illegal tax avoidance/ tax fraud that this business is committing. And encouraged us to call the police. This place is a dump. The photos on booking.com are a complete misrepresentation of the hostel. The entire building reeked of cigarette smoke and mold. The sheets were disgusting and too small for the mattress with large stains and so thin you could see the mattress underneath them. The floors and ceiling in our room were bubbling from improperly contained water damage. The floors were unfinished with busted trim everywhere. There were two shared bathrooms on our floor. One had black mold covering the ceiling. The other had been renovated, although the reality is they simply slapped tiles over the mold. This second bathroom also didn't have functioning blinds (they were completely destroyed), so neighbors across the street could see right in.

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Nice staff, very good location. The breakfast (Turkish style) was simple but very good :D Nothing :)

It’s incredibly central, just a short walk (about 1 minute) from İstiklal Street and close to the metro. Everything was good.?

As a backpacker, I like this hostel. Breakfast, wifi, and spacious public area available. I just stayed two nights due to rescheduled flight.

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The owner Ilijas was amazing , Kim, Rosa, Kama ! Big thank you for you all

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