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A 39-room design hotel above the Prada flagship in Istanbul's Nisantasi shopping district, by studio Autoban, hung with Turkish art and part of a carbon-neutral group.
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Need To Know
- 39 rooms and suites designed by the studio Autoban, with custom wooden furniture, marble bathrooms and walk-in dressing rooms; some suites have private terraces, and connecting rooms suit families.
- On Abdi İpekçi Caddesi in Nişantaşı, directly above the Prada flagship and steps from the city's main designer boutiques.
- A Library Lounge Bar serving Turkish and international food, a small gym, and a contemporary Turkish art collection throughout.
- The group is carbon-neutral, with refillable glass bottles and a plastic-free approach; note there is no pool or spa here.
- Our Favourite Rooms: a top-floor Terrace Junior Suite, at 45 square metres the largest, with its own outdoor space.
Check in - Check out
Check in from 15:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The location. Directly above the Prada flagship on Abdi İpekçi, with Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Chanel a few steps from the door.
- The design. The work of Istanbul studio Autoban: custom wooden furniture, neutral tones and a lounge built around a striking floor-to-ceiling bookcase.
- The art. A collection of contemporary Turkish work, masters alongside younger artists, hung through the rooms and corridors so no two stays look alike.
- The ethos. Part of Turkey's first carbon-neutral hotel group, with refillable glass bottles, a plastic-free approach and locally made materials.
- The feel. Small and low-key, more like a chic city apartment than a grand hotel, with a lounge rather than a busy lobby and restaurant scene.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at The Stay Nisantasi Hotel
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Location
Address
Harbiye Mahallesi, Abdi Ipekci Caddesi, No: 30, Nisantasi, Sisli, Istanbul, 34367
Travel Info
Istanbul Airport is about a 45-minute drive, with transfers arranged on request. Osmanbey metro is around a 12-minute walk, and the hotel sits in the heart of Nişantaşı, so the boutiques, cafes and Maçka Park are all on foot.
Nearby Places
Abdi İpekçi Street
2min
Maçka Democracy Park
3min
Last Updated: 2026-06-30
Expert Review
Origins
The Stay grew out of one person's idea of what an Istanbul hotel could be. In 2017 Ali İspahani, a former private-equity investor, founded the group with a vision built on two things, contemporary art and sustainability, converting characterful Istanbul buildings into design hotels rather than building anew. Working with the architect Mahmut Anlar and the acclaimed Istanbul design studio Autoban, he furnished them with recycled materials, local craftsmanship and pieces from his own art collection.
The Stay Nişantaşı is the most fashion-forward of the group, and its address says why: it sits directly above the Prada flagship on Abdi İpekçi Caddesi, in the heart of Nişantaşı, Istanbul's smartest shopping district, a quarter of Art Nouveau apartment buildings, designer boutiques and stylish cafes. The hotel reads less like a conventional hotel than a private city apartment: Autoban's calm, modern interiors in neutral tones, a Library Lounge built around a custom bookcase in place of a grand lobby, and Turkish art at every turn. The group is the first carbon-neutral hotel company in Turkey, and that quiet environmental conscience runs through the place alongside the design.
Top Secret
The art is the thing to look for: the hotel doubles as a gallery of contemporary Turkish work, masters hung beside younger names, so it pays to slow down in the corridors and lounge rather than walk straight past them to your room.
The Review
The Stay Nişantaşı is a design hotel for people who want to be in the middle of fashionable Istanbul and treat the city, rather than the hotel, as the event. It sits above the Prada flagship in Nişantaşı, the city's smartest shopping quarter, and is the most style-conscious property in the small, art-and-sustainability-minded Stay group, founded by Ali İspahani in 2017.
The look is the draw. Designed by the Istanbul studio Autoban, the 39 rooms run to custom wooden furniture, neutral tones and marble bathrooms, several with walk-in dressing rooms and the top-floor suites with private terraces; contemporary Turkish art hangs throughout, part of the owner's own collection, so the place feels curated rather than corporate. Public space is deliberately minimal, a Library Lounge Bar built around a floor-to-ceiling bookcase that serves as lobby, breakfast room and bar in one, which suits the apartment-like mood but means this is not a hotel with a buzzing scene of its own.
What it offers instead is location and ease. You are above Prada and a few steps from Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Chanel, with the boutiques of Turkish designers, the cafes and Maçka Park all walkable; drop the shopping in your room and head back out hands-free. Breakfast in the lounge is a strength; the staff judges well when to talk and when to leave you be, and the group's carbon-neutral ethos, refillable bottles, no plastic, local materials, is woven in without fuss.
It is worth being clear about what it is not. This is a compact city hotel, not a resort: the gym is small, there is no pool or spa here, public areas are limited, and a few guests note traffic noise. But for a design-led base in the best-located corner of Istanbul, run with a collector's eye and a light environmental touch, with the whole of Nişantaşı on the doorstep, The Stay Nişantaşı is among the most appealing boutique stays in the city.
