“Old-fashioned hotel, with construction noise”
This is a very old-fashioned hotel in a down-at-the-heels neighborhood. The staff was very gracious, and the room and building were clean and in good repair. Nonetheless, the hotel has some significant drawbacks. The first is not the fault of the hotel, but significantly affects the quality of the stay. The street in front of the hotel is torn up, and apparently has been and will be for years. Work on the street excavations can go on all night, making it difficult to sleep, and taxis cannot actually drop one at the hotel. Another negative point was the quality of the breakfast, included in the room. Most Israeli hotels have excellent buffet breakfasts, but this one served a fixed menu, with juice that tasted worse than Tang, and artificially flavored jam. The eggs and Israeli salad were good, though. Finally, I could not succeed in placing a local call to the city from the room, even with assistance from the desk, and the lobby computers were so out of date that I could not access my e-mail. I know Israel well, and I have to say this hotel--and the neighborhood--took me back to the mid-1960s. I only booked a room there because I could not find another hotel room in Haifa, since I needed to make last-minute arrangements.