The hotels rock in Istanbul

Another hotel for the record

You really have to love the stuff you put up with in Istanbul hotels. We rocked up to the hotel ie Sude Konak for all thoses that know of it in Sultanahmet. Our room isn't ready yet so we are asked to wait in the lobby until it is. While waiting the lobby some chick sitting in front of me decides to pull her top down and flash half of her tits at me. I was in shock. I didn't know what she was doing. I thought she might be adjusting her bra but she kept pulling her top further and further down. I had a disgusted look on my face so my friend decides to turn around and look at what im disgusted at and she sees it as well.

Finally our room is ready so we take the elevator up only to discover that its not the right room. So were placed on hold while the other room is getting cleaned. We manage to move in to the room which is above a few levels. We immediately notice that there is a hole in the ground of the hotel room. When you step on it that part of the floor sinks in. Im pretty sure if we stood on it long enough the entire floor would collapse. Maybe I should have tried?

My friend decides to take a shower. She jumps into the shower only to have a blackout. She screams from the bathroom thinking I have turned the lights off for a laugh. I explain that there is a blackout for crying out loud. She some how manages to get dressed in the dark. The lights come on and I have my shower.

By the time we settle in we reaslise that its beyond lunch and we are extremely hungry. So we go to this turkish resturant near the hotel. We order like 4 dishes to celebrate that we are back in Istanbul and everything is cheap. The waiter that serves us is a complete nutcase. He keeps coming to our table and moving our plates. If he sees one of us not eating from a particular plate he would come and push the plate towards us and rearrange the other plates. This continued throughout the lunch.

When he first brang out the plates I waited for him to leave so that I can take a picture of the food but he just stood there waiting for us to divide into the food. Stupid nutcase finally leaves after I take a bite of the pide. Immediately I pull out my camera and take snaps of the food.

The resturant that we were eating at was right next to a train station. Out of no where a loud annoucement came over the PA. My friend immediately panicked thinking something was happening. Because the annoucement was in turkish she didn't understand so she asked me what was happening and I repied:

"The train's coming. We have to move the restaurant"

I think we spent the next few minutes laughing at my stupid comment. After the meal the waiter brang us hand towels in packets that you get similar at KFC. He dumped 3 packets on the table and we each used one. The waiter saw me using one and then spotted the extra packet on the table and thought that my friend didn't use it. So he insisted that she uses the hand towel. He must have thought she was some grubby person refusing to use a hand towel.

Finally the bill arrive. We paid for it and the waiter took it away. He came back immediately with the change. He was putting the bill on the table when I said "Thank you" in turkish to him. Before he put the bill down he stormed off with the change thinking it was a tip for him. We were left in shock. It taught me to never say thank you again in Istanbul.