Sultanahmet sits in the middle of a transit network that connects the whole of Istanbul, which is good news: reaching it from anywhere — the airports, the other districts, the Asian side — is easier than most…
Summer is when Sultanahmet is at its fullest and its most demanding.
Winter is Istanbul’s secret season, and Sultanahmet is its best-kept secret.
Sultanahmet is a superb base for a week of Istanbul, partly because the city around it is enormous and partly because so much of it is reachable in a day.
Istanbul is one of the world’s great food cities, and the good news for visitors is that its most historic neighborhood is also one of its most edible.
Sultanahmet’s headline monuments swallow the crowds, and that is exactly why the neighborhood’s quieter corners remain so rewarding.
Sultanahmet is one of the easiest great cities to visit cheaply, once you know the local arithmetic.
The restaurant scene in Sultanahmet has a bad reputation, and most of it is earned — but not by the places you’ll find here.
Sultanahmet is the classic first-night choice in Istanbul, and with good reason: the neighborhood puts you in the middle of everything, on foot, with the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn at either edge.
Sultanahmet packs more history per square kilometer than almost any district in Europe.
Two days in Sultanahmet is just enough to hit the icons, catch a sunset over the water, eat properly, and still leave a little room for wandering.
Most first trips to Istanbul start in Sultanahmet, and most of them should.
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