Hotel Review: Royal Beach Tel Aviv

View of the Royal Beach Tel Aviv

View of the Royal Beach Tel Aviv

I am a big believer that staying in a nice hotel enhances the enjoyment of a trip and ultimately one’s impression of a place they are visiting.  After researching many hotels in Tel Aviv, I came to several conclusions.  First, hotels in Tel Aviv are not cheap.  Tel Aviv is the thirty-first most expensive city in the world as of 2012 and hotel prices certainly reflect this.  Second, I wanted to stay in a hotel near the beach, as it seemed like this was a more scenic and vibrant part of the city.  Third, most of the hotel properties in Tel Aviv are older with very few new properties.  With this in mind, I scoured booking.com (which is a user friendly site for hotel reservations) for a variety of hotels close to the beach in Tel Aviv.  I came across the newest hotel called Royal Beach Tel Aviv by Isrotel.  The hotel was so new that there were no reviews on booking.com and only a handful of reviews on Trip Advisor.  Despite the lack of reviews, the hotel pictures looked great, so I made a reservation for six nights.

 

View of the pool

View of the pool

The Royal Beach Tel Aviv has so many things going for it.  The location of the hotel is amazing with the beach right across the street.

 

Beach located right across from the hotel

Beach located right across from the hotel

The hotel and rooms are decorated very nicely with a modern decor.  The bed was extremely comfortable with nice linens.

View of the room

View of the room

Being that Tel Aviv is hot and humid during the summer, good air conditioning is essential and this certainly did not disappoint.  There were also a few nice touches from hotel management which included complimentary bottled water, fresh fruit, and on our last night a sugar coated loaf of fresh bread.

Complimentary fruit and bottled water

Complimentary fruit and bottled water

The breakfast buffet was great with a multitude of options including western and middle eastern influences.  The pool area, although small and crowded at times, had a great view of the beach and water across the street.

View of the beach from the pool deck

View of the beach from the pool deck

 

On the down side, the hotel is going through some growing pains.  Finishing touches, such as exterior landscaping were still in the process of being completed.  The elevators tended to be unreliable and very slow at times.  In addition, service by the pool was non-existent.  Finally, the hotel concierge really had no knowledge of any restaurants in the area.  However, despite these small flaws, the Royal Beach Tel Aviv is a good hotel with a great location in the heart of Tel Aviv right across from the beach and is certainly worth a stay.

Modern decor of the lobby

Modern decor of the lobby

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