Amethyst Hotel

10/10

Exceptional

06 Jan 2026

Luke

Staff were very helpful. The pool and free sauna are fantastic

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

27 Dec 2025

Daniela

Pool was not clean. Sauna overcrowded.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

06 Nov 2025

Dean

Helpful staff, comfortable room, reasonable variety at breakfast, and close to transit and shopping

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

03 Nov 2025

Kinsey Elizabeth

Room was clean and staff was friendly. Good location and walking distance to most things.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

27 Oct 2025

Katharine

We had a fantastic stay - incredibly friendly and helpful staff, wonderful room and such a beautiful and unusual pool. Located very close to the tram and buses that took us everywhere we wanted to go. Certainly within walking distance of many of these too. We had a wonderful stay - many thanks to the staff.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

15 Oct 2025

Ramon Roberto

Good location, super staff, good breakfast and super clean.

Business_and_leisure Self

2/10

Poor

07 Oct 2025

Masood

The spa didn’t feel relaxing or calm; it seemed robotic and rushed, and the prices were higher than expected.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

05 Oct 2025

Loubna

Everything was excellent

8/10

Excellent

15 Sep 2025

David Lorne

The best thing about the hotel was the great variety of food available for breakfast. There was also a pool available for free.
My only reservation is that it was easy to hear noises from outside the room quite easily.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Sep 2025

Lobar

Very friendly and helpful staff . Will definitely come back here again. Thank you

Business_and_leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

11 Aug 2025

Jennifer

The bed was comfortable and staff were friendly and very helpful

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

06 Aug 2025

Sahika

Friendly staff and amazing service

We were very pleased with the service, staff accommodated our needs when we arrived early, allowing us to check in early and providing us with lunch bags on departure as we had a night flight, missing brekki. Iron came in minutes when I asked, cleaning staff so friendly and polite, always providing 2x big bottles of water. The cushion was personally too big for me so I used the smaller one which worked well. The hotel was in very close proximity to the tram and metro underground which was great to explore Istanbul and all the main attractions. I would definitely recommend.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jun 2025

Verified traveler

Excellent service and breakfast. Great location.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

26 Mar 2025

Henry

Like the customer service

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

28 Feb 2025

Rajvir

Good staff and service.

10/10

Exceptional

25 Feb 2025

Getachew

The hotel is very convenient for shopping as well as for dining. Tourist action is nice

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jan 2025

Louay

Great stay

This hotel was a very good experience, it's super clean and calm and the staff were very professional and friendly with very good service. I would definetly choose it next time, very high recomended

Self

8/10

Excellent

15 Jan 2025

Mahdi

The hotel is clean and very good, but Air conditioner was broken and the staff were not friendly at all.
There is No English, No Arabic languages .

Business

8/10

Excellent

10 Jan 2025

Bahareh

They ware clean, and took care quickly if there ware any needs.

10/10

Exceptional

20 Dec 2024

jihad

Good as enough

Business Family

10/10

Exceptional

17 Nov 2024

Martin

The hotel is extremely well located! 15min to Old city of Sultanahmet, or 3 stops on the tram across the road. Rooms are good, bathrooms slightly dated, but very well facilitated! Rooms and hotel is very clean. We were surprised as the room booking said large bed, but this was not \"Queen Size\" beds but actually \"Double Beds\" (slightly smaller than anticipated). Business or pleasure the hotel has ample facilities for housing all the requirements. Staff are very professional and helpful as well as extremely helpful, whereas Breakfast is extremely good! Would certainly recommend to others and happily stay again!

Business_and_leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

04 Nov 2024

THIERNO

Good

8/10

Excellent

30 Oct 2024

Ewald

like the hotel pool, sauna, breakfast was very good!!!
they need new matrass

Partner

8/10

Excellent

26 Oct 2024

Vincent

The pool and sauna do not open until midday which was no good for me.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

26 Oct 2024

mohamed

Every thing very good in the hotel and around the hotel...thanks

Business Family

10/10

Exceptional

21 Oct 2024

Aferdita

The breakfast is excellent and offers plenty of choices.

Business_and_leisure

6/10

Pleasant

16 Oct 2024

Ora

The lobby staf c were very nice but the restaurant staff were not actually rude I wanted to enter through the restaurant door to the building but the staff there rudely asked me to get out and go around the building to get to the hotel. Also the housekeeper went through my clothes and put them in my luggage and moved around my luggage things like these which was very disturbing to me

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

13 Oct 2024

B

Good hotel within a busy area.

The hotel is located within a busy shopping district, close to a tram stop. A metro station is also within walkable distance.

Road access may be a bit complicated I think. The taxi from the airport dropped me at a busy road intersection and asked me to cross 2 roads and walk up the street on the opposite side to reach the hotel.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

10 Oct 2024

Bibi S

I love everything about this hotel . Staff an manager were amazing! The Male manager had an amazing personality. I would recommend my friend a family to this hotel .

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

26 Sep 2024

Rifhat

Amethyst hotel was quite a good experience. Firstly we were given rooms on the first floor that had no light coming from window. There was just a wall outside with wires. 3 days later fortunately with some persuasion they transferred me to another room which was much better.
The breakfast was lovely but the actual Amethyst restaurant is not good at all.
Overall it was comfortable with friendly helpful staff.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

19 Sep 2024

Adal

The hotel was in prime location close to all the attractions and its was very clean and staff were very friendly, i would stay here again.

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

18 Sep 2024

Verified traveler

Great staff

A great staff. My room was dated, small, and with a very hard bed. The breakfast was average, and crowded. Food in the restaurant I found a bit pricey, and only average. I had a big problem getting taxis to drop me off given the location. The spa was modern and very clean. You can swim lengths in the pool.

Business

6/10

Pleasant

17 Sep 2024

Paul

Great staff. Bed hard. Food ok. Hard to get a cab.Crowded for breakfast

Business

10/10

Exceptional

16 Sep 2024

Amjad

Staff were excellent I’ll go back to that hotel.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Sep 2024

Jad

Very good 👍

Business_and_leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

08 Sep 2024

Zeshan

The best thing that can be said for the property is that the location is good. It is walking distance to a lot of the attractions in the old city and is right by a tram stop leading to easy access to the public transportation. The area around the hotel is relatively safe and has food and shopping options even late at night. For the most part the staff was polite and did try to accomodate our needs, however they did ignore our requests for water and towels one night.

The hotel itself is lacking and misleading. The pictures online are for their deluxe room and not representative of their regular rooms which are small and very old. The whole hotel smells of cigarette smoke, the walls and carpet were dirty, and the toilet was old with dirty tubs. This was the case unfortunately with all 3 rooms that we booked with this property. We stayed for 7 nights and wanted to leave after the first day, however the hotel would not reimburse us for the other nights and we were stuck there. I would not stay here again nor would I recommend anyone staying here. For the price and location there are other hotels that are better. It was a disappointing stay.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 Sep 2024

Sharon

Really nice hotel with fabulous unusual pool. Room was spacious, clean and well laid out.

10/10

Exceptional

26 Aug 2024

Irma

We had an amazing time, the staff was so nice and helpful we went back for a second time. It’s walkable to many places. The rooms are a great size definitely recommend.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

23 Aug 2024

Gabriel

The hotel went above and beyond to ensure I was satisfied during my stay. They was a bit of an issue but in. O time the management correct it with a sense of urgency and ensure that I was comfortable and checked in with me daily during my stay. I have stayed here 4 times now doing my visits to istanbul and I come for the exceptional Customerservice and hotel quality as well as the neighborhood. Front desk staff is wonderful and so is the bell staff. The sales manager went above and beyond and exceeded all my expectations when an issued occurred. I am pleased as always and I recommend this property if you decide to visit istanbul. It’s close and walking distance from everything even the bazar and markets. There is 24 hour reception desk and also room service and free breakfast if you choose that option. There is also inside great amenities spa sauna and pool. In most of the hotels I have stayed ar in turkey this is by far one of the best in service and catering to the needs of the client. Gabriel D NYC

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

22 Aug 2024

Sabine

I love the location of the Amethyst Hotel. Everybody is very nice and helpful. The pool is amazing and has a perfect temperature. The only thing that's really bothered me is the mattress. It is like concrete. I had a really hard time sleeping.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

14 Aug 2024

Abdul

Excellent service from the staff members, especially Amir who helped a lot during our stay.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

13 Aug 2024

Verified traveler

Very clear hotel

Very clean hotel with swimming pool and spa the restaurant is also very tasty over all for the breakfast

Business

6/10

Pleasant

29 Jul 2024

Mohammed

The carpet is dirty in the bedroom, shower is too small the water standing in the sink overall the hotel need a face-lift

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jun 2024

Sheikh

Staff was extremely helpful and great customer service from the day I arrived to till I left ,have no complaints and can't praise enough! Will be back again and this is my go to hotel from now

Business_and_leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

10 Jun 2024

Martha

Sweet

It was a convenient location

Business

8/10

Excellent

06 Jun 2024

Jora

Internet service is terrible.
The rest is good.

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

04 Jun 2024

Sana

A Gem in Istanbul!

We cannot express enough how outstanding our experience at the Amethyst Hotel was. It offers exceptional value for all the services and amenities provided, making it a fantastic choice for anyone visiting Istanbul.

The rooms, although smaller than what we are accustomed to in the U.S., were impeccably clean and equipped with all the usual amenities, including a mini-fridge and a coffee/tea maker. The overall cleanliness of the hotel was remarkable, and the property itself was visually appealing and well-maintained.

One of the highlights of our stay was the breakfast buffet included in our reservation. The buffet, available every day until 10:30 AM, featured a variety of delicious foods, both hot and cold, with new options added daily. Coffee, tea, and juice were also provided, making for a delightful start to our mornings.

The hotel's location is fantastic, surrounded by numerous restaurants and stores, and just a couple of minutes away from the tramway. This made it incredibly convenient for us to explore the city, as the tramway is the best way to visit many of Istanbul's attractions.

The cleaning staff were kind and accommodating, ensuring our rooms were cleaned daily and replenishing necessary accessories, edibles, and bottles of water. The hotel also boasts a beautiful indoor pool available daily to guests, along with a Turkish bath and other spa services available for an additional cost.

In short, we can't recommend the Amethyst Hotel enough.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

13 May 2024

ASAD

Nice property. Good breakfast option. Close to bus station. Staff was helpful. The rooms are smaller but overall clean hotel. Would definately recommend when visiting Istanbul.

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

12 May 2024

Olga

Very convenient location. The staff was extremely friendly and helpful in every way - adding extras to our room, calling a taxi, etc. Breakfast menu varied every morning, was fresh and plentiful. We stayed in this hotel from April 26 thru May 8. No complaints

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

28 Apr 2024

Ali

Good

8/10

Excellent

26 Apr 2024

Marvis

The checking in staff were really good. The chambermaid on the 6th floor was was very helpful & friendly. Strongly recommended.

Business_and_leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

09 Apr 2024

Lomey

It was really nice hotel

Business_and_leisure

10/10

Exceptional

07 Apr 2024

Andreas

Amazing hotel!

The Location was perfect, the hospitality was excellent, and the amenities was great. The best hotel for its class and value.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Feb 2024

Thelma

Very good location

2/10

Poor

11 Dec 2023

evelyn

£400 was stolen from my safe when I briefly went to the pharmacy.

10/10

Exceptional

14 Nov 2023

Micheline

Nice hotel

Business Friends

8/10

Excellent

10 Nov 2023

Ayman

It was nice overall but a bit noisy due to high volume of guests

Business_and_leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

06 Nov 2023

umar

The Hotel Staff was friendly, especially the cleaning ladies were very friendly. Breakfast was also best, too many vegan and veg options along with non-veg.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Oct 2023

tambala

Very nice hotel. Middle of everything. Tram stations ( Aksaray and Laleli) are less than 5 minutes walking distance. Hotel Manager and his staff are all very friendly. I strongly recommend the Amethyst.

10/10

Exceptional

17 Oct 2023

michael

Great stay quick check in lovely quiet room great breakfast i would definitely stay again

Self

8/10

Excellent

13 Oct 2023

Luis

First time at the property. It isn’t a very convenient location and breakfast is included. The only downside is the rooms are very small

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

27 Sep 2023

Joanne

Great value and stay

Loved our stay at this hotel. Clean and friendly environment. Nothing was too much to ask and the receptionist staff were very accommodating

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

26 Sep 2023

Robina

Property is located in a busy area with everything on the doorstep.

So many options to choose from Restaurants to Shops

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Sep 2023

Verified traveler

Best food and staff

the staff at the reception were so helpful , they made breakfast ready especially for us at 6am because we had an early flight and everything else was perfect from the food to the comfort to the location

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jul 2023

Joanne

Great hotel!!

We had a Deluxe Queen room which was huge. The air conditioning worked well. The bed was very comfortable & the bathroom fantastic. The staff were all very friendly & helpful. Location very close to the tram & not far to the train station. The breakfast had a lot of choice & was very tasty. We moved to this hotel after being let down by a nearby hotel but The Amethyst Hotel made us feel welcome & exceeded our expectations. Highly recommend.

Partner

2/10

Poor

30 Jun 2023

Tejinder

i liked the ambience, breakfast was great, maid service was good, response to my request was good. Receptionist was rude, ordered me to sit down while pointing to a chair when i was registering the first day, i was told she travel takes euros only for tours, when they take lira, euros, dollars and credit card. i wanted to use credit card i was denied. had to pay 400 liras to buy euros. had problems with a/c, was not cooling the room, had problem connecting to internet, while making outside call to she travel, call was not going thru, after several attempts i called and the tech told me that i do not need to dial 212 suffix. i was charged for all those calls. receptionist should have told me that when he gave me the brochure. i did not have cash for tours, i was told to go to ATM and take money out, i asked where ATM was, receptionist was impatient and told me outside, go out and there are several ATMs. Went to several ATMs and banks as far as spice bazaar, did not get help from anybody. receptionist demanded in an impatient tone why i did not go to ATM like other people and take money out. i told him about my experience. He asked how can that be. he did not believe me. He had raised his voice, I was told that i had called too many times for one thing or the other from my room. could not use the hand held shower the first day, help had to pull the button real hard to make the handheld shower to work. locker was tempered with, my code did not work. my things were unsafe.

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jun 2023

Samy

Nice hotel with a great location. Staff is friendly and super professional

Leisure Friends

6/10

Pleasant

13 Jun 2023

SHAUNT

Shower door was broken, shower head was broken, drain seemed clogged.

Leisure Self

2/10

Poor

13 Jun 2023

Ali M

They scammed me. I dont recommend anyone staying at this hotel or using any of their facilities. The room was very small. Uncomfortable bed and dirty as well. Internet service is slow.
Very rude people

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

11 Jun 2023

humayun

overall satisfied.

10/10

Exceptional

06 Jun 2023

Amer

Love this hotel

8/10

Excellent

24 May 2023

Sophia Ashley Zainab

The service at this hotel is top notch! Very friendly and professional employees. I would stay here again.

Leisure Self

2/10

Poor

16 May 2023

Sandra

Booked for 2 nights but checked out next morning Close to transport that’s the only good thing. Dining area was nice. Breakfast standard nothing fancy.
Single room was horrible small and no window view. Just a wall with a mural. Claustrophobic. Changed rooms, still small, horrible window view, back of some old rundown buildings. Couldn’t sleep bed was horrible. Check out next Morning booked another hotel. Asked for refund was refused, ( booking stated no refund). Asked to call taxi, was told to walk behind the hotel. Desk didn’t even bother to ask if I enjoyed my stay. Horrible service. No nice restaurant nearby, no tourist info offered. This hotel is good location for traders who go to Turkey to buy things not tourist. Won’t stay here again

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

15 May 2023

Liam

Great central hotel with an excellent pool and sauna.

10/10

Exceptional

09 May 2023

Sinead

Great location, was able to walk to all the key tourist hotspots. Very friendly & helpful staff.

10/10

Exceptional

02 May 2023

Shumina

Lovely hotel and the deluxe room was big and very comfortable. Dinner and breakfast were both great.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

02 May 2023

Umbreen

Very clean, lovely helpful people working there. Breakfast could be better with more savoury pastries like butter croissants, toast option. Plenty of eating places around with authentic cuisine. Overall would definitely go back and recommend to others.

Leisure Partner

2/10

Poor

28 Apr 2023

Henry

Don't be fooled!

They advertise themselves as a luxury, but they are nothing of the sort. They advertise the hotel with images of large modern rooms but what you get is nothing like this. They position themselves as luxury but the hotel is incredibly run down and the staff treat guests terribly.

They tried to give me a much worse room than what I booked. The disappointment continued when I was given a tiny room with faulty air conditioning that stank of cigarettes - even the swimming pool smelt of cigarettes!

I was told the whole hotel was set to one temperature (around 28 degrees) and that this couldn't changed in individual rooms. The rooms were also dirty, the curtains don't cover the whole window, the curtains aren't blackout and the furniture across the hotel is dirty and scuffed.

To make matters worse, when I complained about the air conditioning to the hotel manager, I was berated and made to feel like I was being unreasonable. I was also shocked to see the woman running the pool Facetiming her children on her phone.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Apr 2023

Madina

very nice hotel, clean and restaurant excellent breakfasts were good food varied every day different food i really liked the hotel and the location is also good next to the metro tram and the pool is also new and very clean i will definitely come back to this hotel!

Business_and_leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

24 Apr 2023

Peter

Situated in the busy Istanbul open market and close to 2 underground train stations as while as the tram system. Also close to many local cuisine restaurants. It is just close to activities, I loved it.

Business_and_leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Apr 2023

ayodeji

Staff was very helpful and breakfast options was excellent

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Apr 2023

Geosandra Manuela

I like everything, but the unique was the swimming pool my kids love it.

Leisure Family_with_children

8/10

Excellent

12 Apr 2023

Hameed

after all its recommended

10/10

Exceptional

08 Apr 2023

cyrielle fiona

Best service

10/10

Exceptional

05 Apr 2023

Sabine

This hotel is on a great location and has all the amenities you could want. The rooms are small but perfectly fine. I would stay here again.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

20 Mar 2023

Aslam

We've came back the second time,as our stay was pleasant,staff was very helpful,even this time staff were good except for one ,who was not helpful. Our accomodation was comfortable, but as we arrived early, they would not check us in early, even i was willing to pay extra.So tired ,we had to wait almost 5-6 hours,as they must have rooms available because some other guests were leaving.We travelled all over the world, receptionists are very helpful if we arrive early, they always manage to find us a room and check us in ,no fuss.I do understand check in is 2.00pm,but where is compassion. Will I come back,may be.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jan 2023

Verified traveler

A comfortable lazy vacation

It was a comfortable lazy vacation for me and my wife, we just ate, slept and surfed internet.
Breakfast is very good, and all other food is very good too, we ordered food to room daily.
I will drop few notes that may be useful for future guests.
The toilet flush is quite weak. Not sure why, because the bide function in it worked very well, so it is not about overall water pressure.
Just a reminder: If you will ask hotel to order a taxi, hotel will only make reservation for you, you still will have to pay driver for the ride after it, not to hotel.
This year wifi use new system of WiFi login, your year of birth used as password. As it may change over time, ask at reception for WiFi login details.

Partner

2/10

Poor

24 Dec 2022

Liana

If you plan to sleep, forget it. It is not possible to do this in this hotel, it is very noisy.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

13 Nov 2022

Mussie

The ac and the electric is only working by the card so u can’t change will u out that is not good.

Business_and_leisure Friends

6/10

Pleasant

12 Oct 2022

Fazeel

We stayed here for quite a few nights. The room we were in was very small (although I should have read the room size when booking). The safe and fridge were in a small cupboard, meaning that there was no real room to hang clothes properly. I had higher expectations based on previous reviews and photos, and for the price. Overall it was a satisfactory experience. Place is clean, reasonably comfortable (if you get a bigger room) and is in a good location.

Business_and_leisure Family

4/10

Poor

05 Sep 2022

Euael

I have stayed in this hotel for a week in August. The location is excellent. The staff are professional and friendly. I didn’t like the cleanliness of the rooms. The carpet was old and dirty. Bed covers were also poor quality, dirty and they smell.

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

31 Jul 2022

CHYA

Very clean rooms, the hotel in a very good condition

Business

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jul 2022

Mirsad

Everything was excellent,
Nice and clean room, good breakfast, especially good staff, they are friendly every time.
I recommend this hotel to everyone.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jun 2022

Ruth

I like everything

Business_and_leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

01 Jun 2022

Nora

I like the fact that there is easy assets to transportation,and shopping . The staff were very helpful.Breakfast was excellent , also provision is made for lunch or dinner.
The only problem is most of them don’t understand English the language barrier sometimes can make one a bit fostrated but on the whole it was great and I will recommend the hotel to most of my family and friends

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

31 May 2022

peter

Hotel is close to shopping and lots of nice eateries. Also walking distance to 2 metro stations and tram line.

Business_and_leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

10 May 2022

dominique

close to every kind of transport , lovely staff always ready to help, nice buffet breakfast, lots of restaurants and shopping nearby,