Sumengen Hotel has newly renovated in 2008The renovation works was undergoing and has started to serve on May 1, 2008. The whole room design and decoration and the room plans have completely renewed and changed.
The new rooms are much larger and all rooms will have either sea view, street view or garden view. All its 25 rooms are attractively decorated.

Sumengen Hotel is an old Ottoman House renewed in 1987 and converted in to a charming hotel in Sultanahmet in the center of the old city of IstanbulThe Hotel has a panoramic view of the Sea of Marmara, Bosphorus and the Asian Side of Istanbul.
It is located very close the Hippodrome Square and Obelisk Column, Blue Mosque, St Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Basilica (underground) Cistern, Grand (Covered Market) Bazaar, Turkish and Islamic Art Museum, Mosaic Museum, Archaeology Museum and many other historical monuments.
As Lynn Levine describe in his book of Frommer's Turkey "Istanbul is the only city in the world on two continents, Split down the middle by the mighty Bosphorus straits. To the east is the Asian site, a predominantly residential retreat with little of the chaos of its European counterpart.

The Historic peninsula of the old city stands majestically on the west banks, or European side of the Bosphorus. The modern business district of the Taksim sprawls to the northeast or the another waterway, the picturesque Golden Horn, and is easily accessible by one of several bridges or by ferry. While the majority of sights that draw the visitor to istanbul are located in the old city Sultanahmet.