A hair transplant is six to eight hours. Here is what your companion can reach from Sisli, and the three jobs that make them genuinely useful.
It depends entirely on the procedure. Dental work runs two to five hours a day across several days. A hair transplant is one long day, six to eight hours, with a lunch break in the middle. Rhinoplasty is two to three hours plus recovery. Bariatric surgery is ninety minutes of theatre and then two nights on the ward, which is the one case where a companion has genuinely long stretches to fill.
Sisli is not the postcard Istanbul, and that is fine for a few hours. The shopping streets of Nisantasi are a fifteen-minute walk. Osmanbey metro puts Taksim and Istiklal two stops away, six minutes. Bomonti has the old brewery quarter and decent coffee. The Bosphorus ferry piers at Besiktas are twenty minutes by taxi, which makes a one-hour crossing an easy fit into an afternoon.
The most valuable thing a companion does is not sitting in the waiting room. It is taking notes during the consultation, when you are absorbing perhaps half of what is said. It is enforcing the ice schedule and the fluid targets in the first twenty-four hours, when you will not want to. It is photographing the swelling daily so we can compare properly, and it is the person who calls us at two in the morning.
A twin room usually costs the same as a single or a few euro more, so accommodation rarely doubles. Airport transfers include your companion at no extra charge. For bariatric patients, the hospital provides a companion bed in the room. Meals and their own sightseeing are theirs to budget — allow 25 to 40 euro a day for someone eating out twice and using public transport.
For inpatient procedures, yes — the room has a companion bed and it is included. For day surgery you both go back to the hotel.
No. Airport and clinic transfers are priced per booking, not per person.