Places to stay in Aksaray/Laleli?
I'm going to spend a few days in Istanbul after the end of Ramadan, and I was wondering if someone could prep me up on the girlfriendliness of the hotels close to the Irmak/Bacardi/Serenda scene. (I haven't been to IST for a year.) I don't mean girlfriendly in the sense of Orange hotel, etc. - I'm looking for a place to say which will allow me to bring girls to the room. In the old days I'd stay at Merit Antik, but it has closed now. On previous trips I've stayed at smaller 3-4 star hotels catering mostly to FSU tourists, but they (I had a shouting match with the receptionist at one of them once...) appear to have turned "anti-monger" under pressure from the police. On another occasion I stayed at Seranda itself, but frankly I like my "nest" a bit quieter than that. Any suggestions? I am NOT going to stay in the Taksim concrete jungle, although I know full well that the businessman hotels you find there are very... discrete.