Nar Adaevi — Hotel in Bozcaada

I stayed with my wife for 2 days and passed to another place since our room had another reservation. Quite crowded during summer so suggest booking early.||Place is an old house converted to an in-city hotel with a nice setup. We liked the place so much because of couple of things. |First it is in the town and walking distance to anything we wanted to reach. Place gives you the feeling that you are actually a part of neighborhood- especially when you open the street door with your key and take off your shoes before entering. You are asked to take your shoes off for floor protection. Rooms are small but you need almost everything you need assuming you don't expect a jacuzzi. Rooms are very clean. The owner is Mehmet- highly educated professional- and is very welcoming like Halide who helps with breakfast etc. |Breakfast has tomato, cucumber.. Various local cheeses, off course olive seeds and local, homemade, famous jams. Egg is cooked different everyday. You get your breakfast in front of hotel, right on the small street and it feels like you are sitting on the street casually with your friends. Overall, we did like the breakfast much.||On the down side, rooms are small, think twice of you have kids of a lot of clothes etc or ask for the biggest room if not already taken. No AC, we did not need any though given that we get into room after sunset- nights were ok in August, temp was around 30-35 cel. during the day. Still you may be an AC person.|There are the most famous restaurant of he island at the same street- if you stay one of the front side rooms and if you go to bad early, you may feel uncomfortable with the people eating and chatting until like 11pm or midnight. We did not care because we go to room not before 11 and we liked to hear several people chatting in low volume. You may end up with hosting a large, noisy group of people in front of your window tough.. did not happen to us. I don't see much of a risk.||A warm, clean place with welcoming, friendly people. I think the think we most like with the hotel was that it does reflect the sprit of the island.. Calm, nice, slow...

We visited in a group of 7 friends. First, the hotel owner tried to charge us for 8, saying she gave two triple rooms and one double room. We corrected the mistake. She became very agitated after that and was very rude through the check out process. Her machine would not work properly so two people had to do ATM runs to get the money. She also tried to bill us for the complimentary turkish coffee she offered after breakfast as she got agitated. In the end, a one night stay turned into a very agitating process of checking out, and made sure that when we come back to Bozcaada, we will definitely not go near this hotel. The rooms don't have WC's in them but only showers, and seven people had to share one WC cabin...

My husband and I accidently came upon the Narevi during our April vacation in Bozcaada and thank heavens we found this lovely place. The weather was quite chilly and rainy but we were warmed by the wonderful welcome we received from our hostess, Bahar, and by the delicious meals she cooked up for us. We and our friend who was traveling with us ended up spending quite a bit of time in her warm kitchen chatting with her. When we returned to Istanbul, she called to get our address because my husband had left a shirt at the hotel. Two days later, it arrived clean and pressed with some gift soap inside!! We can't say enough good things about this place. We highly...