We will be in Istanbul from 9 April - 13 April and Rick recommends this hotel. It rates very highly on all the hotel booking sites. BUT, I just now noticed 2 identical posts on Facebook in an Istanbul travel group that are "trip reports", word for word with the same photos, different posters (both seem to be fake profiles) and both praise the hotel staff, rooms and location. Maybe it's just how the hotel is advertising using social media but it seems like a potential red flag.
I'm seriously considering booking it because the price is right and the room photos look like what we want in a room for 4 nights. And it's in the Rick Steves Istanbul book.
I'd really like to hear from people who've stayed there, as opposed to suggestions for other places (unless you stayed at the Story Hotel Pera and liked somewhere else better).