Best hotel room ever. I ignored my Kindle watching the late flights approach Istanbul Atatürk Airport 15 km in the distance.
Getting refill pods for the coffee machine was an enduring difficulty of the accommodations. Just one coffee was the recipe for a good lucid dream, however.
Holy moly. That setting is my single, one-day-I'll-be-rich dream since… forever. Would you mind sharing the name of the hotel?
It was ridiculous, the only time I have felt like I was on vacation while still in the hotel. It's the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti. We caught a sale a few months after it opened and the Taksim Suite was cheaper than the two rooms we were going to need at our usual hotel by the airport. When we found out the room included access to the 34th-floor lounge with 360-degree views and complementary breakfast, snacks, beer, wine and sometimes liquor through the evening, we decided it wasn't so extravagant at all, just good financial planning! We got on good terms with the staff by pretending not to notice the plutocrats' kids terrorizing the place, and they looked the other way when we smuggled friends in later. Looks like there's a summer sale going on now, and the same suite is listed for TRY518 = US$193. Maybe that won't have to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience after all...
Thank you! That sounds like a pretty nice package, plutocratic children notwithstanding, and I might have some leave coming up in September… For a moment there I was shocked how affordable even the large suites where, until I noticed the prices where listed per day. Oh well. So much for my sudden bout with megalomania.