Room 05 · Çukurcuma Street side

Balcony Apartment

30 m² · up to 2 guests · 1 walk-in bath

Thirty square metres, used well

A small apartment with a Juliet balcony — and a view of the hamam dome at the end of the street.

Thirty square metres, laid out as a single open room with the bed at one end, a small dining table for two near the window, and the kitchenette tucked into a recess by the door. The Juliet balcony is just two metres of railing under tall French doors, but throw them open in the afternoon and the room becomes the street: the same antique-shop noise, the same warm Çukurcuma light, the same view down the lane to the lead dome of the hamam.

It is the room for a couple on a first visit to Istanbul who would rather have a small apartment with a balcony than a larger room with no street life. The bed is a comfortable double; the bathroom is the same walk-in marble shower as the larger rooms, just compressed; the kitchenette is real but not show-offy — an induction hob, a half-fridge, an espresso machine, enough plates for breakfast for two and not many more.

We have hosted writers who used the small table by the window as a desk, and we have hosted dancers from the festival who used the same table for take-away. The room is honest about its size and rewards guests who travel light. There is in-room laundry behind a folding door, and underfloor heating that does the work of a much larger thermostat.

Çukurcuma Street is the address. The Museum of Innocence is three minutes one way, the Galata Tower nine minutes the other, and the hamam is the building you can see from your window. That last detail has, in our guest reviews, started becoming the reason people book the room a second time.

Wellness privilege: 10% off at Çukurcuma Hamamı 1831, included for direct-book guests of the apartment.

The interior of the Balcony Apartment seen from the entry — bed at the far end, the small dining table by the French doors. — 01 · Room From the entry, looking through

The view from the Balcony Apartment's Juliet balcony — Çukurcuma Street below, antique dealers, the curve of the lane. — 02 · Outlook Çukurcuma Street, late afternoon

The hamam dome seen from the room's window — lead cladding warm in the sun, the corner of the building just below. — 03 · View Toward the lead dome

The bed of the Balcony Apartment with the French doors of the balcony behind, the dome of the hamam framed in the doorway. — 04 · Bedroom Bed, balcony, dome behind

A wider view from the balcony down the length of Çukurcuma Street, the hamam dome anchoring the end of the lane. — 05 · Street Down the lane, dome anchored at the end

What's in this apartment

Smaller than the studios. Bigger than its plan suggests.

Juliet balcony onto Çukurcuma

Hamam-dome view from the window

Compact kitchenette · induction + espresso

In-room laundry

Walk-in marble shower

Underfloor heating

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Best rate guaranteed when booked direct.

Best rate guaranteed · Direct guests save 5%

The göbektaşı — the heated marble platform — at the centre of the Çukurcuma Hamamı, lit from above.

Wellness privilege

Cross the courtyard, and the year is 1831.

Guests of the Balcony Apartment enjoy 10% off any treatment at the Çukurcuma Hamamı 1831 — the hotel's historic neighbour, a sister sanctuary of marble, warmth, and ritual.

See the hamam

Or stay in another room

Six more apartments in the same two buildings.

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