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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 2,144 hotels
Best hotels in Istanbul
The 10 most notable hotels in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Hilton Istanbul Bakirkoy
Sakizagaci Mahallesi
521 m from Yenimahalle railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 100 of 2,144
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2
DoubleTree by Hilton Istanbul Esentepe
Büyükdere Cd. No:117
621 m from Gayrettepe (M2), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.95 of 2,144
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3
ibis Styles Istanbul Merter
Kasım Sok. NO:32
746 m from Zeytinburnu, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.91 of 2,144
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4
Holiday Inn Istanbul - Old City
Gencturk Cad. Sirvanizade Sok, Vezneciler Cd. No:5
286 m from Aksaray, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.86 of 2,144
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5
Holiday Inn Express Istanbul - Atakoy Metro
Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak Cd. 1.Sokak No13
136 m from Şirinevler, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.81 of 2,144
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6
Hampton by Hilton Istanbul Zeytinburnu
Prof. Muammer Aksoy Cad. No:3
222 m from Kazlıçeşme railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.77 of 2,144
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7
Holiday Inn Express Istanbul - Altunizade
Oymacı Sk. No:18
524 m from Altunizade (M14), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.72 of 2,144
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8
Mercure Istanbul Altunizade
Altunizade Mah. Kisikli Cad, Oymacı Sk. No:9
567 m from Bağlarbaşı, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.67 of 2,144
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Mercure Istanbul Sirkeci
Muhzirbaşı Sk. No6
100 m from Sirkeci, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.63 of 2,144
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10
Sofitel Istanbul Taksim
Sıraselviler Cd. No:13
47 m from Taksim, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 99.58 of 2,144
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).