4 hotels · Türkiye
The great hotels of Istanbul
4 luxury hotels in Istanbul are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Çırağan Palace Kempinski, opened in 1991; the most recent, The Peninsula Istanbul, in 2023. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
The Peninsula Istanbul
Four buildings on the Karaköy quay, one of them the port's 1930s passenger terminal, make up The Peninsula Istanbul, opened in February 2023.
177 rooms
Çırağan Palace Kempinski
Sultan Abdülaziz's marble palace of the 1860s burned in 1910 and stood as a shell for decades before it reopened as a hotel on the Bosphorus.
Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at the Bosphorus
A nineteenth-century Ottoman palace on the Beşiktaş waterfront, opened as a hotel in 2008 with 170 rooms and a lawn on the Bosphorus used for weddings.
170 rooms
Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet
The hotel occupies a jail from the last years of the Ottoman Empire, with corner towers and a garden courtyard between Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.
65 rooms