Is SuB Karaköy - Special Class pet-friendly?

Yes, pets are allowed at this property. There's a fee of TRY 800 per pet, per day. Service animals are exempt from fees.

How much is parking at SuB Karaköy - Special Class?

Valet parking is available for TRY 800 per day.

What time is check-in at SuB Karaköy - Special Class?

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime.

Where is SuB Karaköy - Special Class located?

Located in Istanbul City Center, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Galataport and Galata Tower. Taksim Square and Dolmabahçe Palace are also within 2 mi (3 km). Tophane Station is only a 2-minute walk and Karakoy Station is 7 minutes.

SuB Karaköy - Special Class Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

10/10 Excellent

caroline

2025/4/22

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

very nice and friendly hotel. good breakfast with wonderful view. centrally located in nice neighbourhood. thank you for a wonderful stay.

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

Henry

2024/12/21

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

The hotel is very close to almost everything you need

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2024

8/10 Good

Peter

2025/4/3

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities

Great location with easy access to the tram, ferries and plenty of local bars and restaurants. The surrounding streets are quite quiet at night. Breakfast and gym/spa are located at another hotel a few doors up the street. Room was compact and had a musty smell, but overall was fine. I appreciated the cool bluetooth speaker.

Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Refqa

2023/6/30

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Great value and location

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

suzann

2023/6/16

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Hotel staff friendly, close to everything, breakfast great

Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

German

2024/10/8

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Amazing place. The rooms are comfortable. The staff is super friendly! My choice in Istanbul always 😊

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

8/10 Good

Alan Ricardo

2024/12/16

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Great boutique hotel in a convenient and safe location near cafes, restaurants, and transportation. The lobby is great to work from and the rooms are comfortable and modern. The staff was also very welcoming and helpful. Shoutout to Arda for going above and beyond when I needed help!

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2024

8/10 Good

Benjamin

2024/3/18

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Walk to many places.

Great hotel in a great location. The breakfast was especially good.

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Faysal

2023/10/20

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Very close to metro station and shopping mall, walkable and a lot of choices for dining

Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Hande

2024/5/27

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

It used to be a beautiful hotel, needs a bit maintenance.

Stayed 3 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

David

2024/12/8

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Quite a bohemian funky hotel which we loved, in the heart of Karakoy, handy for transport links and in walking distance of many of the major sites. Breakfast was in their sister hotel down the street but choice was rather limited. No fruit or fresh salad and nothing if you were vegan. The sister hotel had a spa but the prices were outrageously high. Overall a good hotel to stay in with friendly reception staff who went above and beyond to help.

Stayed 8 nights in Nov 2024

8/10 Good

Nusret

2024/10/28

Liked: Cleanliness

Everything fine

Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2024

4/10 Poor

Hamed

2023/9/4

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Location is good but definitely overpriced, Very small room

Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Abdalaziz

2023/8/15

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Berat and other thay are so cool

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

yesim

2023/7/28

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

The breakfast had moved to their sister property and since then it’s downhill. The worst breakfast ever.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Zoe

2025/4/25

Liked: Cleanliness

Pro’s: Great safe location. Tons of good restaurants, right near different museums and very walkable to other attractions. The hotel and room was clean. The breakfast at the hotel next door was amazing! Service there was incredible, Con’s: Way too dark, it was horrible and very small. They need better lighting not just in the rooms, the entire hotel. It was so hot in the hotel I was miserable. The AC did not work in my room. Staff was ok, it would’ve been nice if they spoke English just a little bit better. If you’re just looking for a place to sleep the hotel is fine. If you’re looking for bells and whistles you’re not going to get it. I only stayed for 2 days but I made plans to stay longer I would’ve changed hotels. Between it being so dark and hot, I would not have been able to last. Side note - the restaurant on the 6th floor is great. I was significantly over charged. I will say the food and service was fantastic. It’s not affiliated with the hotel. I was exhausted so it worked in a pinch. Much better restaurants in walking distance.

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

Laura

2024/5/24

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Disliked: Staff & service

Great location near some lovely eating places and close to the Galata bridge and lots of transport links. Staff not very helpful or friendly but we didn’t need them much. Breakfast was tasty but no options just the same thing each morning. Fine for a few days but by day 5 I was a bit bored! Breakfast staff at the sister “root” hotel were terrible smoking at the entrance to breakfast room, not providing clean cups etc. Rooms were comfortable, clean and quiet. Overall a good stay but a few down sides. Great location and clean rooms. Poor staff and breakfast though tasty can get a bit repetitive

Stayed 5 nights in May 2024

6/10 Okay

Melahat

2023/9/24

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities

The property is ok nothing special ,very unprofessional receptionist, we’ve been given a room that was occupied with belongings inside , my safe ,tv and my lights did not work in the room also walking into the next building for breakfast is strange, definitely not a great experience,. Would definitely replace the reception to more professional and friendly faces

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Kathleen

2022/9/17

When the hotel first opened it must have been just great. Personal, cool design details, great food and bar. But now it seems to be on life support. The rooftop bar and restaurant is now closed. (Covid casualty?) and thinks in the room broken. The owners have a cool new place three doors away ‘Root’ which they seem to be focussing on. Maybe stay there? The location is great but the hotel no longer merits the ‘cool boutique design hotel’ title.

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Michael

2022/7/13

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Wonderful boutique hotel in the best neighborhood.

Loved it. All the cool art and details were so cool and the room was very comfortable. The breakfast was excellent, better than we anticipated. Staff were helpful and kind. The location is perfect, literally the center of everything but quiet at night so sleeping is easy. Didn't hear a thing from other rooms. The price is excellent for such a high quality hotel. My only small issue was the bidet wasn't working very well, the handle came off and the water was weak. You also need to be careful of the curve in the bed headboard so you don't hit your head on the slightly sharp edge. Did nothing to take away from our wonderful stay. Thank you so much!

Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

AARON

2023/1/15

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Extremely Pleasurable Experience!! I travel a lot for work and stay in a lot of different hotels, but the experience I've had at this hotel has been by far the best experience out of all the hotels I've stayed in over the years. As soon as I checked in I was welcomed with a warm greeting from the staff and all my bags were handled for me, the breakfast buffet and the staff that cater for it we're both amazing and I enjoyed a lot of new Turkish dishes that I had never got to experience before. My experience was so pleasurable that I decided to extend my stay for another week and when it came to checking out I felt I had built a very warm and personable rapport with all the stuff at the hotel. I highly recommend this hotel for anybody that's looking for something with unique touches and a dedicated service team!!!! I will let no doubtedly be coming back to stay here on my next work trip to Istanbul

6/10 Okay

Anjum

2022/7/16

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

We had booked this hotel for a 2 night stay. On arrival the counter staff were very friendly and helpful, however the hotel lobby and dining room has most definitely seen better days. It looked unclean and rough (maybe that’s just the industrial look). Anyhow, we decided to not stay at the hotel based on what we had seen. We walked down the road and booked another hotel and came back to remove our luggage. To be fair we did not get an opportunity to see the rooms, however based on what we had seen of the reception area and dining room - I think we made the right choice not to stay at The Sub - Karakoy as it looked very dated and run down.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

4/10 Poor

merve

2023/9/18

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Honestly , it was disappointing! The cleaning staff did a great job but other than that reception and other staff members weren’t helpful at all. There’s no hamam, Sauna, spa or whatsoever you can use for free. It’s not even in the same building. We had to go to a hotel next door. Breakfast is also not in the same building. The manager of the hotel wasn’t helping at all when we expressed our disappointment. It never deserves 4 stars! Never again

8/10 Good

Tim-Maximilian

2025/5/23

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities

Die Lage ist hervorragend, die Zimmer modern eingerichtet. Einzig die Fenster sind nicht schalldicht genug, sodass man nachts des Öfteren geweckt wird. Zudem war das Warmwasser schmutzig-braun, daher lediglich die Nutzung von kaltem Wasser möglich, was beim Personal leider auf wenig Interesse stieß und mit einem schlichten „Lassen Sie das Wasser 5 Minuten laufen, dann wird es schon wieder sauber“ beantwortet wurde.

Stayed 3 nights in May 2025

8/10 Good

Sükran

2025/5/11

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

God beliggenhed

Rigtig fin hotel til prisen. Super beliggenhed. Venlig og hjælpsom personale. Eneste ulempe er larm fra gaden, som kunne høres tydeligt i værelset.

Stayed 4 nights in May 2025

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