About Sirkeci Group Hotels & Restaurants

Sirkeci Group Hotels and Restaurants may be defined as the hotel and the independently operating enterprises providing restaurant and bar services. There are 4 hotels respectively named Hotel Orient Express (4 stars), Hotel Erboy (3 stars), Hotel Ilkay (3 stars) and Sirkeci Konak.

It has 7 restaurants named Paşazade, Ottoman, Imbat, Sirkeci Balikçisi, Neyzade, Istanbul Restaurant and Terrace Restaurant.

Although the hotels with a total bedding capacity of 450 are technically very different from each other, they have similar organizational structures regarding service qualities and utmost customer-satisfaction oriented attitudes. Sirkeci Group Hotels have undertaken certain responsibilities in parallel to the social development and revision movements going on in the Sirkeci area and is continuing to participate actively in projects designed for the Group and for the district. The Group prefers to describe itself as "a group in love with Sirkeci" and aims at stressing the fact that status quo was only obtained as a result of value oriented struggles and to note the work accomplished in the area.

Sirkeci was an important area for accommodation at the beginning of 1900s but has faced degeneration after 1950s.
Recently, contrary to the previous periods Sirkeci has once again come into the limelight as the rising star of Istanbul. Sirkeci Group has undertaken an important mission to promote Sirkeci area as an attractive living space in the right manner. When it is projected that Sirkeci will attract the attention of intellectual community of Istanbul in the next 2-3 years, it is very important to get prepared for the future and to introduce Sirkeci in much better means.

Urban rehabilitation works going on in Sirkeci area will be completed in 2 years' time and in 2010 underwater transportation project will be completed. Due to these developments Sirkeci Group Hotels and Restaurants has chosen this location. The area is already ahead of its goals in respect of customer satisfaction.

In terms of creating "value" the group has positioned itself properly as well. In fixing the rates, the services offered were meticulously chosen to be exactly right and money's worth. While the local guests form only 10% of the guest profile, remaining 90% mostly consists of citizens of OECD countries. Each hotel has a different guest structure. Therefore, Sirkeci Groups continues the advertisement and introduction activities by employing various channels.

In addition to ads placed in the globally renowned tour operators' catalogs such as TUI (Tourist Union International), the advertisement and introduction activities are carried on via Internet channels.