My wife and I, seasoned independent travellers in our 60s, made a 3-1/2 week tour of western Turkey. Tours just don't go to Edirne, they regard it as too out-of-the-way. But it has one incredible sight (which I've wanted to visit since my first trip to Turkey 20+ years ago): the Selimiye mosque, Sinan's masterpiece. (There are some minor sights... More

The Antik Hotel... that says it all. It isn't high tech, it isn't slick but it is real. It looks ok and it sleeps fantastic but it needs some maintenance in the near future or it won't last another 5 years. The staff is friendly but they started to show us the most horrible room at the top floor under... More

We only had 1 night in Edirne, but we were able to see a fair bit before leaving for Istanbul. When we arrived, we were a little disoriented and caught a cab from the Ulusoy office to the hotel. As it turned out, the Antik Hotel was only a few hundred metres away, but the cab driver was happy! The... More

My sister and I originally went to Edirne to renew our tourist visas to stay in Turkey for another three months. We thought we could go to the border from the Istanbul bus and turn around immediately. However, it was a *dark and stormy night* :) and given the strangeness of being in a tri-border area, we didn't want to... More

hotel antik provides a perfect central location, but being on a side street it's luckily not noisy. the building is a nice, revamped early 1900s small villa in a charming and central part of edirne with many old traditional wooden houses. despite our twin room request we were kindly assigned a large triple on the uppermost floor with a stunning... More