Raffles Istanbul

Five-star · From $450 per nightAny mandatory hotel fees are shown before you confirm.

Raffles · Bosphorus: Beşiktaş & Ortaköy · Istanbul

A sense of the place

Raffles Istanbul — suite — A corner of a Bosphorus Suite bedroom at Raffles Istanbul: a white leather lounge chair and ottoman in walnut, a brushed-steel floor lamp, a lattice side table with a vase of tulips, roses and hydrangeas and a floor-to-ceiling window onto a terrace high over the Bosphorus, the Bosphorus Bridge and the Asian shore with the Çamlıca tower; nobody in frame — © Raffles Hotels & Resorts

Why it's in the collection

Because Raffles opened in 2014 in the Zorlu Center on the Beşiktaş hill, a hundred and thirty-six rooms and forty-nine suites above the Bosphorus with the performing-arts center and the shops of the complex below – and the house holds five-star standing for the hotel and for the spa.

In the Zorlu Center on the hill above Beşiktaş, with the Bosphorus below; a Raffles house.
136 rooms and 49 suites, opened in 2014; the Raffles Spa; the Zorlu performing-arts center and shops at the door.
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star 2026 for the hotel and for the Raffles Spa; holds five-star standing.

The neighborhood

Mandarin Oriental Bosphorus, Istanbul · Bosphorus: Beşiktaş & Ortaköy — © Mandarin Oriental

Bosphorus: Beşiktaş & Ortaköy

The European shore of the Bosphorus from Dolmabahçe Palace to Ortaköy and Kuruçeşme, home to five of the twelve hotels. Along it lie the palaces and waterside mansions, the ferry piers of Beşiktaş and the mosque and cafés of Ortaköy under the bridge, with the Zorlu Center up the hill.

The Zorlu Center and its performing-arts stage, at the door.
The Bosphorus shore at Beşiktaş, ten minutes by car.
Nişantaşı, ten minutes by car.

First light over Bosphorus: Beşiktaş & Ortaköy

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