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YESIL EV HOTEL

(GREEN HOUSE HOTEL)

Kabasakal Caddesi No: 5

SULTANAHMET 34400

ISTANBUL / TURKEY

 General Info  Until the 1950's the Beyazit-Sultanahmet district could still boast a number of large mansions set in spacious gardens. Then came the population explosion, with the demolition of the old houses and their replacement by rows of concrete blocks.
The mansion belonging to the Minister of Monopolies, Sukru Bey, managed to survive, in a dilapidadet state, until the 1970's. The Turkish Touring and Automobile Association, convinced that the tendency after the 2nd World War to concentrate investments and developments in the modern section of the city around Taksim was mistaken policy and that the activities should have been directed the district containing magnificent monuments such as Ayasofya, Topkapi Palace, the mosque of Sultanahmet and the Grand Bazaar, began to implement his plan first for the revitalisation of this mansion which, with is exceptional location, would serve as a model of traditional housing and accommodation. The old wooden building was dilapidated far beyond repair, so, with the consent of the Commission for Ancient Monuments, it was demolished and rebuilt with is exterior an exact replica. The only change in the interior being the removal of the staircase on the harem side. The old rooms (nineteen in all) and layout being carefully preserved. 

 Facilities of the Rooms  The furnishings chosen by Mr. Celik Gulersoy, the General Manager of the Association were in the style of a 19 th century winter mansion. The building has an absolutely unrivaled location between Ayasofya and the Blue Mosque, and at the same ofters the visitor the warm, friendly atmosphere of an old Istanbul home. A conservatory was built in the garden, which also contains a monumental pool in pink porphyry from the mansion of the Serasker Riza Pasha in Yildiz. Although no publicity attended the opening of this unique building in March 1984 as the "Konak" hotel, it very quickly attained a world-wide reputation. the famous newspapers such as the Washington Post, New york Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, contributed articles expressing their admiration and appreciation... 

Air conditioning and heating, Bathroom, Telephone, Colour Satellite TV, Daily Housekeeping, Direct Dial Int. Telephone, Direct dial phone, Hairdryer, Luxury bathroom, Mini bar, Multichannel Radio.

 Food & Drink  Where else would you find such a location-to say nothing of a quiet, cool garden in which yo can have breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the summer months and a flower-filled conservatory to retreat into if the evening grows chilly?

 General Facilities & Services  24 Hour reception, 24 Hour room service, Breakfast Lounge, Doctor on Call, Garden, Ice making machine, Laundry and cleaning service, Lobby lounge, Mailbox, Safe box at the reception.

 Location  18 km. to Ataturk Airport. In old city. There was opened an enchanting little hotel on the edge of the small park that separates the city's most venerable Byzantine church, St. Sophia, from the one of its magnificent Islamic monuments, the Sultan Ahmed (Blue) Mosque, The hotel-called the Yesil Ev, for "Green House" was an old woodeen house of the mid-nineteenth century and in most cities would have been lovingly and sensitively restored by Mr. Gulersoy and filled with furniture and fittings of its own date-brass bedsteards, wooden wardrobes, plush chairs, carpets and chandeliers and authentic Turkish sliding wooden, lattices on the windows.