Hotel: Hotel Petrol

The Hotel Petrol is a love it or hate it affair. Very much on gay travelers’ radars, it has a gay-friendly Turkish bath nearby and offers free tickets to guests. The rooms are basic but filled with amenities like minibars, cable TV, telephones, and private bathrooms. There’s a great rooftop bar where every Saturday and Sunday 
during the breakfast the cute and multilingual owner Kartal performs guitar 
mostly classical and baroque music. Some travelers The Hotel Petrol is a love it or hate it affair. Very much on the radar of gay travelers, it has a gay-friendly Turkish bath nearby and offers free tickets to guests. The rooms are basic but filled with amenities such as mini-bars, cable TV, telephones, and private bathrooms. There's a great rooftop bar where every Saturday and Sunday during breakfast the cute and multilingual owner Kartal performs mostly classical and baroque guitar music. Some travelers think it's relaxed, intimate, and gay-friendly, while others complain that the

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The Hotel Petrol is a love it or hate it affair. Very much on gay travelers’ radars, it has a gay-friendly Turkish bath nearby and offers free tickets to guests. The rooms are basic but filled with amenities like minibars, cable TV, telephones, and private bathrooms. There’s a great rooftop bar where every Saturday and Sunday 
during the breakfast the cute and multilingual owner Kartal performs guitar 
mostly classical and baroque music. Some travelers The Hotel Petrol is a love it or hate it affair. Very much on the radar of gay travelers, it has a gay-friendly Turkish bath nearby and offers free tickets to guests. The rooms are basic but filled with amenities such as mini-bars, cable TV, telephones, and private bathrooms. There's a great rooftop bar where every Saturday and Sunday during breakfast the cute and multilingual owner Kartal performs mostly classical and baroque guitar music. Some travelers think it's relaxed, intimate, and gay-friendly, while others complain that the staff is not as nice as it could be. But everyone agrees the hotel is reasonably priced with stunning views of the Blue Mosque and Hippodrome. The four-story, converted hotel got its name from the fact it is in the same building that was a gas station in the 1950s; before is was a century-old, neoclassic Turkish house.

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