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Does anyone have experience booking with this online company? Are they reputable? As usual, we are always a bit concerned since this will be for our arrival night in this city. Thank you in advance for your kind repsonse. Also, we are thinking of the Central Palas Hotel in Taksim... thoughts on this one woudl be appreciated as well.

No experience with that in particular, but I have with hotelclub & ratestogo - they have good rates and works well.

Central Palace Hotel, again, no personal experience, but it's centrally located. If you are standing in front of McDonalds which is in the very center of Taksim area, the street in front of you is the Lamartin where the Central Palace Hotel is, which means, very accessible to Taksim area, sights and the whole Beyoglu district.

You may chack TA for personal experiences, here:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g293974-d304834-Reviews-The_Central_Palace_Hotel-Istanbul.html

Have fun!

Thanks June.b! I read your pages on Istanbul and really enjoyed them especially your winter trip there. Cheers!

Glad thayou have enjoyed reading my pages, I hope you picked up even a little. BTW, though, Taksim or Beyoglu area is different from Sultanahmet - the historical area and where most of the highlights are. So you may want to consider accommodations too in Sultanahmet. But if you like the nightlife and watching people and very local ones, the long Istiklal Caddesi in Tkasim area/Beyoglu is ok.

Again, have fun!

HELLO
for nearly all countries i have visited worlwide,i made my reservation through asiarooms .com.they are reliable and often offer better prices than many other online compagnies.for example for the feronya hotel in taksim in isanbul they give, for a single standard room : 58 Euros; with hotelclub it is 65 and the local istnbulhotel.net 70.

Bumping AFALGON:

Agree with that, I forgot, yes, I did use Asiarooms many times in the past, particularly for my far/south-east asian, i.e. Thailand. Cheers!

Hi there,

I am going to stay in this hotel in September (I split my trip staying in two different hotels in Taksim, for an expirience, and one of them (after thorough "sientifice research" and recommendations of local friends, is The Central Palace. I am traveling in September, during a medical congress in Istanbul, and many hotels are going to be pretty much booked. I believe, I saw the same site, you mention, but, nobody also, had experience with them, and, by the way, only this side had listed rooms available on the days I am travelling... it sounded somewhat saspicious... thus, I contacted hotel directly...(which I advise for you to do as well ) I don't remember exact name of the site, but you can google it like "the Central Palace hotel" and among other option, you will see the direct link to the hotel site. I made reservations directly through them about 2 months ago for September. and, by the way even that time (due to the congress in September) only couple of rooms were available. But hotel looks as the one of that you should choose for locations, rooms, jacuzzy in the rooms, etc. In summary, to directly on their site for booking.

Olya