Istanbul Medikal Termal in Tuzla

I have stayed in this hotel ca. 13 nights. I think it is quite interesting experience this year w.r.t. my last experience in Istanbul Basakshir last year.
1- The reception staff are kind employees, however they can hard speak English. So it is difficult to communicate with them. I have full pension booking, where the restaurant waiter tried not to introduce us the whole menu. As I said it seems communication with foreigners is not easy. Additionally, the receptionist prioritizes the persons who speak Turkish since it is better than to speak with others via google translate service.
2- The place is very clean. It has nice swimming pool internal and external for women and men with wellness and spa. The external swimming pool is not recommended for families since many ladies are wearing bikini.
3- From the price perspective, it is not expensive, in particular if you land in Sabiha G. airport since it takes ca. 20 min from the latter airport. This is the main advantage of the place.
4- From the room perspective, the available pictures are not new, so the rooms looks a little bit older. The room service is not the best one, they came late frequently. Additionally, they did not clean the bathrooms.
5- The prayer room in Level A needs real caring and cleaning as it smells not good.
6- There is a dog playing in the area. It is very friendly one, however for some persons who have phobia from dogs, it is not recommended.
7- Any taxi to visit any historic places in Istanbul will break your back with the cost and the time. You need at least 60 Dollars and 90 minutes in the day to get to any place beyond Fatih.
At the end, I recommend this place just for one to three nights in maximum if you search for not expensive and accepted service in general. I invited four families from our friends who stayed for not more than 3 days, they were happy for this period. Longer than, I do not recommend. I have spoken with other gasts who are happy about the connection of this hotel and a rehabilitation hospital. The advantages of this hotel are price, food for full pension and (internal) swimming pool.

Smoking every where
Rooms smell onion

We arrived yesterday for 4 nights .. nice hotel .. the receptionist Zara was great .. but the problem there is street dogs in the reception and in the main garden of the hotel and in the main restaurant outside sitting area .. we cannot enjoy setting the whole day due to there presence .. they are barking at us.. the receptionist man on night duty told us it is not his problem and cannot do anything .. we will never return to this hotel and we will not advice our friends to make reservation there.