Hotel review

Written: 25 april 2011
Travel time: 17 — 24 march 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
The Royal Tulip Hotel is wonderful, where the value for money is just what you need. And you need to go in March, when prices are lower and there are fewer people. The price of the hotel was 30.000 rubles for 8 days 7 nights. The hotel is located close to the local airport. We thought that we would fly to it, but fly to the OVDA military airport. At the reception they give out vouchers for visiting the beach, as we were told the best on the coast. Every morning come to the reception, you are given a bottle (0.5) of water and a voucher for the beach. This voucher guarantees you free beach chairs. The beaches are urban, so you can visit any beach, but... sunbeds will be paid. Although it is possible to lie on a litter in our style (for free). Currency can be changed both on the street and in a large shopping center on the coast (If you face the sea, the shopping center will be on the right at the end of the beach). All this is not far away, especially along the coast there are stalls with various nonsense. Pay special attention to the purchase of tours. Don't buy on the first day from your tour guides who are trying to get you a higher price. Here along the coast, where the market tents are located, there is a CLEOPATRA travel agency (you won’t pass it - you will see, they sell Dead Sea cosmetics on the other side). Feel free to buy tours for 30-40 dollars cheaper than in a hotel. The hotel tour to Bethlehem and Jerusalem - 150 dollars, the agency - 120-110 dollars. The same goes for the Dead Sea. What is most interesting is that all tourists meet in the same bus. What you can buy in Israel: Dead Sea cosmetics (buy in the last days, when, after going through a bunch of small shops, you will find the best prices for yourself. Do not buy cosmetics on the way to the Dead Sea - a scam for money, the same thing is much cheaper in the city,
very high quality swimwear (from 90 shekels 1sheikel about 10 rubles), well, swimming trunks for men,
in the shopping center there are good shoes (namely Israeli companies), very similar in quality and convenience to RICKER, NOT CHEAP - from 250 shekels.

Yes, I also want to warn you - there are two free excursions from this hotel - one around the bay (on a boat with a glass bottom) - this is a good trip, but supposedly a city tour with a visit to the museum (diamond store) is a waste of time. Lose a day, it's useless. The main thing for them is to try to sell you a diamond at a crazy price. And the city is driven only to the diamond store. Yes, the city is not big, there is nothing to see. I advise you to visit the AQUARIUM - this is a place where you will see a lot of beautifully designed aquariums with all the fish of the Dead Sea, climb the tower, look at the view of Eilat and go down 6 meters into the sea - you will see the underwater world. Entrance and visit to the cinema with special effects - about 100 shekels. Well now about the hotel. Very cute, inside the hotel there is a nice swimming pool, jacuzzi (small), towels are free. Breakfast from 7 to 11.30, you can go as many times as you want. Dinner from 18.00 to 21.30. Dinner is very plentiful - the food is all high quality, a lot of fish, meat and other things. Breakfast - kosher - no meat at all, but so many other things that meat is not needed. There is not enough time to try everything. If you don’t go to the sea, then at about 12 o’clock three tables are laid, on which all sorts of cookies and juices are placed (for free).
There is a kettle in the room, every day they bring tea with different bags, coffee, sugar. So, if you want, you can always have a snack. The rooms are pretty standard. There is Russian TV, there is a telephone, there is also a refrigerator and a safe. They specially timed the time to the sea, walked leisurely for about 20 minutes - but the road is very beautiful between expensive hotels, everything is beautiful, everything blooms, you cross the lagoon over the bridge, so don’t be afraid, on the second day you will no longer notice this road.
Elena Orlova.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original