4-star Gunes Hotel is strategically located near the Ataturk airport, west of the Bosphorous and only 7 km from the ‘Old City,' historic center of Istanbul, a UNESCO ‘World Heritage Site.' Our hotel is located in Merter, a lively area ideal for shopping, well connected by bus and subway and convenient to the trade fair, the convention and exhibition center and the sites of the textile companies. This makes of Gunes Hotel an excellent choice for business clients as well as for visitors traveling on leisure. Istanbul, where the continents meet (Europe and Asia), is a wonderful city overlooking the Bosphorous, the charming strait dividing east and west, a locale rich in natural beauty, navigable by boats that leave from the Eminonu district and stop alternatively on the Asian and European banks. Filled with monuments and history, heir to centuries-old civilization whose present projects towards the future, Istanbul was recently added to the European capital cities of culture, beginning in 2010.