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vagporto

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  1. The hotel looks really good (although too ornate for me... But when in Constantinopla...). Take your time and don't rush the sights: you can easily spend an entire day at Topkaki. There is a cafe with a view to die for, bring a book, sit in a shade ovelooking the Bosphorus in the palace gardens. Take long walks in the city. I only had 2 days, rushed through everything and regret it immensely. Have to return... My other 2 cents: stay with azamara. Avoid MSC like the plague (even YC). I enjoyed Cunard more than HAL (in a sense, both passengers and crew in Cunard make an extra effort, and I appreciate that) and there are some benefits to a larger ship (for example, better medical team and its onboard equipment, which is handy (pun) when you happen to break a wrist in Santorini. "Need a cast? Right away... And will send the xrays to our medical specialists in Southampton"). And I don't think you need the Grills experience. Lots of relaxing spaces throughout the ship without having the grills. But 2-top tables may be impossible, and that may be a deal breaker.
  2. typo alert: my last line should not have "16th century" but "6th century" or "1500 years old" !!! By the 1600s Hagia Sophia was already 1000 years old and moved back and forth a couple of times between being the largest cathedral to the largest mosque in the world...
  3. Glad to know you are ok and already planning future GSJs... Keep them coming. Let me tell in advance that you will deeply regret planning only 2 days at Istanbul. It is a magical place. If time is tight, plan at least one more night in a hotel in the upper area of the old city, and choose an hotel with a rooftop bar. Eight years ago I stayed in a somehow dingy small hotel, and every night I was up there in the rooftop (no bar but you can make a cuppa and bring it with you) breathing in this 16th century view before turning in: And checking if your "carriage" had promptly arrived in the morning:
  4. Bribe the nurse for i.v. guiness. Miraculous stuff... Get well soon.
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