Hotel Alilass

Top choice in Sultanahmet


One of Sultanahmet's few budget boutique hotels, the Alilass offers rooms decorated with evocative Ara Güler prints of Old İstanbul. Standard rooms are small but have kettles and satellite TVs; bathrooms are modern and very clean. For a bit more space, upgrade to the deluxe category. Facilities include a stylish lobby cafe and a breakfast gazebo in the rear garden.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Sultanahmet attractions

1. Arasta Bazaar

0.12 MILES

This historic arcade of shops was once part of the külliye (mosque complex) of the Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii). Mosques built by the great and…

2. Sultanahmet Archaeological Park

0.14 MILES

Excavations here have uncovered parts of the Great Palace of Byzantium. The park has been closed for restoration for almost a decade, with no signs of it…

3. Museum of Great Palace Mosaics

0.15 MILES

When archaeologists from the University of Ankara and Scotland's University of St Andrews excavated around the nearby Arasta Bazaar in the 1930s and 1950s…

4. Blue Mosque

0.17 MILES

İstanbul's most photogenic building was the grand project of Sultan Ahmet I (r 1603–17), whose tomb is located on the north side of the site facing…

5. Aya Sofya Tombs

0.17 MILES

Part of the Aya Sofya complex but entered via Babıhümayun Caddesi, these tombs are the final resting places of five 16th- and 17th-century sultans –…

6. Tomb of Sultan Ahmet I

0.17 MILES

The türbe (tomb) of Sultan Ahmet I, the Blue Mosque’s great patron, is on the north side of the mosque facing Sultanahmet Park. Ahmet, who had ascended to…

7. Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque

0.2 MILES

Right in the heart of İstanbul’s historic center, this sacred Byzantine building remains an important symbol of power.

8. Fountain of Sultan Ahmet III

0.21 MILES

This ornate rococo-style fountain outside the Imperial Gate to Topkapı Palace's First Court was built in 1728 by the sultan who so favoured tulips.