When 'Orient Express' reached Istanbul five years after its operation in 1883, the first hotels of Istanbul had already begun to appear, in the very cosmopolit westernized section of the city called 'Pera'. One of those hotels was 'Hotel Buyuk Londra' or 'Grand Hotel De Londres', which soon after its opening took its place among the best hotels of Istanbul, together with Tokatliyan and Pera Palace.