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Business and pleasure in Istanbul in Spring;

Spring is the best season in Istanbul in order to enjoy a short visit in town or combine the business travels with weekend leisure and have a break. You can plan your business meetings at Avantgarde Levent or Avantgarde Taksim hotels. No doubt that you will make it a perfect one thanks to Avantgarde Collection’s business catering service! After the mission is completed, why not enjoy the city?

The city blooms and blossoms with the revival of nature, and captivates her visitors with this vision as well as culture and arts, shopping, and open-air events. You can set a weekend course where you can both relax in the nature and join the rhythm of the city during the day which you will probably like to finalize at a restaurant, bar or a club in one of the most popular neighborhoods of the city. After all, Avantgarde Levent and Avantgarde Taksim hotels’ exclusive locations provide you with the best leisure times in Istanbul, which you can reach almost every spot or neighborhood easily.

Business first...

How about enhancing the quality of your business environment? Avantgarde Catering, an Avantgarde Collection brand, turns meetings, business events and launching assemblies into stylish gatherings accompanied by Avantgarde delicacies. You can host high-quality business events with concept menus and a perfect service by Avantgarde Catering. Enjoy an exlusive event whose menu is based upon your requests and our expertise, and which is attended by a private chef and concerned service team, and shaped with a visionary, experienced, professional catering guidance from beginning to end! Apart from any location you choose, Avantgarde Levent and Avantgarde Taksim hotels with their easy accessibilities, provide service for your meetings.

And then leisure...

Open-air pleasures

Fresh air at Atatürk Arboretum: A botanical garden, a tree muesum, a breathtaking beauty which is a home to 2000 different plant species coming from all over the world, spreading an area of almost 300 hectars. Watch the beauty of spring in trees, take pictures, and get some fresh air while wandering around them. It is 15 minutes from Avantgarde Levent by a car or public transport.

Morning walk in Emirgan, yoghurt taste in Kanlıca: A vacation in Istanbul without enjoying yourself by the Bosphorus is uncomplete. You can have a walk to Emirgan through the Bosphorus line which has its own beauty at all sorts of weather conditions in each season, and then cross Kanlıca by the boat in order to taste the famous Kanlıca yoghurt. It is well worth it! Both Emirgan and Kanlıca sides of the Bosphorus are home to many restaurants and cafes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can arrive to Emirgan from Avantgarde Levent in 20 minutes by a car.

Culture and arts, and shopping

37th Istanbul Film Festival: One of the first things coming to mind is the film festival when it is April in Istanbul. 37th Istanbul Film Festival meets the audience at Beyoğlu, Atlas, and Pera Movie Theaters in Taksim as well as Nişantaşı City’s and Zorlu Center movie theaters. For cinemagoers, all these locations are within very close distances from Avantgarde Levent and Avantgarde Taksim hotels.

Da Vinci in Istanbul: You can visit the exhibition ‘Leonardo Da Vinci Expo: Dahi İstanbul’da’ which displays 100 inventions by Da Vinci made up from the master’s original drawings, as well as the reproductions of his most famous paintings, the unique copies of his manuscripts and drawings, almost 200 art pieces together with the original engravings by Michelange, Rafaello, and Albrecht Dürer who lived in the same period with Da Vinci. The exhibition can be seen at UNIQ Museum until 7 April. The museum is 10-15 minutes from Avantgarde Levent hotel.

Shopping and musical cinema: The Lord of the Rings in Concert series was greatly appreciated at Zorlu PSM last year in May. The series is going to attract the audience once again with ‘The Lord of the Rings in Concert: The Return of The King’ in 13-14 April this year. Why not experience this legendary movie and its Oscar-winning music by Howard Shore with Cinema Symphony Orchestra and Choir? You can have a hearty dinner or do some shopping after this artistic activitiy. Choose from the restaurants and shops in Zorlu Center or Kanyon AVM, all appealing to many different tastes. Both locations are only 5 minutes from Avantgarde Levent.