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Where to stay in Tel Aviv

Eleven of the twenty hotels in the listing snapshot behind this page carry a HaYarkon Street address, which is the one road running behind the promenade for the whole central seafront.

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Hotels in the city

78

With nearly 8,500 rooms, on the municipality's 2018 count, taking over 1.5 million guests that year

Saturday check-in

18:00

Dan hands rooms over from 18:00 on Saturdays and the last day of Jewish holidays, against 15:00 midweek

VAT on the room

None for tourists

Dan states the prices on its site refer to tourists only and do not include VAT; the standard Israeli rate is 18 per cent

A standard room

24 to 26 sq m

Dan Tel Aviv's smallest category is 24 sq m; Herods publishes its deluxe, executive and club rooms at 26

People sleep in Tel Aviv in large numbers, and the beds are all inside the city rather than scattered around it. The municipality counted 78 tourist hotels with nearly 8,500 rooms in 2018, taking over 1.5 million guests and over 3.6 million overnight stays. What the count does not show is how tightly those rooms cluster. HaYarkon Street runs behind the promenade along the whole central seafront, and it carries eleven of the twenty hotels in the listing snapshot behind this page, with several more on the short streets feeding into it.

So the decision is not really which hotel. It is whether to sleep on that strip at all. The seafront puts the Mediterranean across one road and the promenade under the window, and charges for it in traffic noise, in room categories sold by aspect, and in a walk inland to everything the city is otherwise known for. One block back, the beaches are the same and the view is gone. Further south the hotels sit within reach of Neve Tzedek, Florentin and Jaffa. Inland, around Rothschild and Dizengoff, the architecture and the nightlife are at the door and the sea is a walk away.

The nine places below were researched from the operators' own pages: room sizes, pool arrangements, what the parking costs, when the room is handed over on a Saturday. Ratings and review counts are not in the writing. They render from the dated listing snapshot in its own panel, so it is always clear which day they were pulled on. Nightly rates are not here either, because they move week to week.

9 places to stay

The places to stay worth the trip in Tel Aviv

Our pick and why, then everything the listing knows, with the date it was pulled.

  1. 01

    Dan Tel Aviv Hotel

    The seafront classic, and two pools instead of one

    The Dan has stood at 99 HaYarkon since long before most of what surrounds it, and its coloured facade is the thing people mean when they say a Tel Aviv seafront hotel. Its own site claims it is the only hotel in the city with two pools looking at the Mediterranean, one outdoor and filled with seawater and one indoor and heated, which is an argument for it in February as much as in July. Rooms begin at 24 square metres and run up through studios and terrace rooms to a presidential suite of 191, with several of the upper categories carrying entry to the King David lounge from age 18. Cafe 99 handles the breakfast and brunch. The address is the plain one: promenade at the door, beaches on both sides, Dizengoff and Ben Yehuda a few streets inland.

    “The rooms are beautiful, comfortable, and offer stunning sea views.”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.32,960 ratings

    83% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    HaYarkon St 99, Tel Aviv-Yafo
    Kitchen
    Hotel
    Map, hours and reviews

  2. 02

    Hilton Tel Aviv

    Parkland, a bluff and its own way down to the sand

    The Hilton sits on its own rise inside Independence Park at the northern end of the seafront, which buys it something no other hotel here has: open ground around it and a quiet approach rather than a pavement on a through road. It has its own direct access to the beach below. Inside there is a saltwater outdoor pool, an executive lounge, the Sheva spa with sauna and steam room, and four restaurants the hotel lists as kosher, among them Darya for Silk Road cooking and Cafe Med for the breakfast buffet. The trade is distance: this is the top of the promenade, so an evening around Dizengoff or Rothschild is a long walk or a taxi rather than a step outside.

    Kashrut:
    Kosher
    “Luxurious hotel, beautiful rooms and a lovely view of the sea and the city.”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.45,472 ratings

    87% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    HaYarkon St 205, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6340506
    Kitchen
    Hotel, Banquet hall, Business center
    Website
    hilton.com
    Map, hours and reviews

  3. 03

    Carlton

    A rooftop pool above the marina

    The Carlton stands on Eliezer Peri at the marina end of the seafront, a short street off HaYarkon, and describes itself simply as a luxury hotel on the beach. Its distinguishing feature is on the roof: a pool and jacuzzi above the traffic, with the yacht basin on one side and the promenade running south. Downstairs it keeps four of its own eating and drinking rooms, Carlton On The Beach, the FLAME grill, Contento for sunset drinks and a lobby lounge, alongside a spa and health club with a gym and personal training. Rooms have private balconies. It suits a stay where the hotel is meant to be part of the holiday rather than somewhere to change clothes between outings.

    “Wonderful food, service, beautiful view from our room, amazing rooftop pool.”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.52,293 ratings

    88% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    Eliezer Peri St 10, Tel Aviv-Yafo
    Kitchen
    Hotel, Bar, Fitness center
    Map, hours and reviews

  4. 04

    Herods Tel Aviv

    Arriving on a Saturday and leaving late

    Herods is Fattal's seafront hotel at 155 HaYarkon, beside Gordon Beach, and its outdoor seawater pool opens straight onto the promenade rather than into a courtyard. Deluxe, executive and club rooms are all published at 26 square metres, with suites from 36 to 127 and accessible units in the list. What earns it a place here is the Saturday arithmetic: check-in at 15:00 and checkout at 11:00 on ordinary days, then check-in at 18:00 on Saturdays and holidays with checkout pushed back to 14:00. In a city where no train runs on a Saturday and evening flights are the norm, those extra hours on the last day are worth more than they sound. There is a spa with sauna, and room service runs both meat and dairy menus.

    “Great hotel, super clean, great atmosphere, amazing food, perfect location!”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.28,472 ratings

    78% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    HaYarkon St 155, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6345318
    Kitchen
    Hotel
    Map, hours and reviews

  5. 05

    Dan Panorama Tel -Aviv

    Neve Tzedek, Jaffa and a large pool

    Dan Panorama sits at the southern end of the seafront on Kaufmann Street, across the road from the sand and roughly midway between the modern city and ancient Jaffa. The hotel calls its pool the largest hotel pool in the city and pairs it with a sun deck, a renovated health club with spa treatments and a gym. The address is what really distinguishes it: Neve Tzedek's alleyways, the old Jaffa railway station at HaTachana, Carmel Market and the promenade walk down into Jaffa are all closer from here than from anywhere on HaYarkon. Private parking is available for a fee, which counts for more at this end of town. Check-in is from 15:00, and from 18:00 on Saturdays and the last day of Jewish holidays.

    “Location is perfect in Tel Aviv, close to everything of interest.”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.68,888 ratings

    90% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    Kaufmann St 10, Tel Aviv-Yafo
    Kitchen
    Hotel
    Map, hours and reviews

  6. 06

    Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv Beach by IHG

    A predictable chain room on Gordon Beach

    The Crowne Plaza is at 145 HaYarkon with Gordon Beach in front of it and the Tel Aviv marina next door, and it behaves exactly like the international chain hotel it is. There are two pools, one indoor and one outdoor, a health club with dry and wet saunas, and two restaurants: Bellissima for the buffets and sea views, and the Louis espresso bar for lighter Mediterranean cooking. Its virtue for a planner is that it publishes its terms plainly, which most hotels in this city do not: check-in from 15:00, checkout at 11:00, a minimum check-in age of 21, and self-parking or valet at 150 shekels a day. That last figure is worth reading twice before hiring a car for a city almost nothing in which needs one.

    “The rooms are decently sized for Tel Aviv rooms and the staff is incredible.”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.13,667 ratings

    77% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    HaYarkon St 145, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6345313
    Kitchen
    Hotel, Bar, Business center
    Website
    ihg.com
    Map, hours and reviews

  7. 07

    Embassy Hotel Tel Aviv

    A seafront corner without a seafront hotel

    The Embassy occupies the corner of Shalom Aleichem and HaYarkon 74 and holds 72 rooms and suites fitted out in a deliberate 1950s idiom. It puts Bograshov and Trumpeldor beaches about two minutes away on foot, with Carmel Market and the lanes of Kerem HaTeimanim a short walk inland, which is the compact, walk-everywhere half of the city rather than the resort half. Google files it under apartment building and short-term rental agency as well as hotel, and that mixed billing is a fair description of how a lot of the accommodation at this end of the market here actually works. There is no pool and no sea terrace. What there is, is the position.

    “This hotel is really good, rooms are clean, confortable bed, and good Wifi.”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.51,044 ratings

    89% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    Shalom Aleichem St 5, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6380606
    Kitchen
    Hotel, Apartment building, Hostel
    Map, hours and reviews

  8. 08

    Hotel Metropolitan Tel-Aviv

    One street back, with a rooftop pool in season

    The Metropolitan is at 11 Trumpeldor, one block inland from HaYarkon and about five minutes from the promenade on the hotel's own reckoning. That single block is the entire proposition: the same beaches, the same walk to Carmel Market and Rothschild, without the seafront frontage and the road that comes with it. There is a rooftop pool running from May to October, a fitness club with a gym, a lobby bar and room service, and rooms plus junior and executive suites sold facing either the skyline or the sea. For a traveller who plans to be out of the room all day, it is the unglamorous, correct version of a central Tel Aviv hotel.

    “Very good hotel in a perfect location of Tel Aviv at a great price.”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.13,018 ratings

    78% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    Trumpeldor St 11, Tel Aviv-Yafo
    Kitchen
    Hotel
    Map, hours and reviews

  9. 09

    CUCU Hotel

    Dizengoff rather than the beach

    CUCU is at 83 Dizengoff, in the middle of the shopping and cafe street rather than on the water, which puts the White City blocks, Dizengoff Square and a good deal of the city's eating within a few minutes on foot. The hotel publishes room categories rather than a room count, and the naming is refreshingly honest about what it sells: CUCU Small, CUCU Small with Balcony, CUCU Medium with private balconies, and an XL studio suite with two balconies and a garden view. It presents itself as a young urban hotel and prices its position on the street rather than on the sea. The catches are the obvious ones. Dizengoff is loud late into the night, and the smallest rooms are small even by the standards of this city.

    “The rooms are a bit small but the hotel is nice and clean”
    A reviewer, quoted by Google under the listing.
    4.5639 ratings

    89% of raters gave four or five stars.

    Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings move; this one is a snapshot, not a live figure.

    Address
    Dizengoff St 83, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6433257
    Kitchen
    Hotel
    Map, hours and reviews
The Tel Aviv shoreline and skyline seen from the air, with the beach curving north

Adam Jang / Unsplash

The Tel Aviv shoreline and skyline seen from the air, with the beach curving north.

The decision

The seafront strip, and the arguments against it

HaYarkon Street is the default answer and it is a good one. A hotel on its western side has sand across one road and a level promenade walk of several kilometres in either direction, with Jaffa at one end and the Port at the other. Breakfast comes with a view and the beach is a lift ride. The cost is that HaYarkon is a working through road with buses on it, the beach bars run late, and rooms are sold by aspect, so a sea view is a priced category rather than something the building hands over.

One block inland is the same city without the frontage. Trumpeldor, Mapu, Bograshov, Ben Yehuda and the streets around them sit a few minutes' walk from the identical beaches, a few minutes from Carmel Market, and rather closer to the cafes and shops that people actually spend their evenings in. Nothing is lost except the window. For anyone who intends to be out of the room from breakfast until late, this is the sensible half of the trade.

South is the other real option, and it changes the trip rather than the budget. The hotels around Charles Clore Park and Kaufmann Street stand roughly midway between the modern city and Jaffa, which puts Neve Tzedek's lanes, the old railway station at HaTachana, Florentin and the walk along the promenade into Jaffa closer than they are from anywhere further north. It suits a visitor who came for the old quarters and the markets. It is a longer walk back from Dizengoff at one in the morning.

North and inland are the two remaining positions. The northern end, around Independence Park and up towards the Port, is quieter, greener and more residential, and far enough out that an evening in the centre becomes a decision rather than a step outside. Inland, around Rothschild Boulevard, Habima and Dizengoff, the White City blocks, the theatres and most of the drinking are within a few streets and the sea is a walk. The city is narrow enough that neither cuts anything off: the question is only which end of the walk is worth waking up on.

The stock

City hotels, and none of the things Israel offers everywhere else

Almost everything for rent in Tel Aviv is one type of thing: the urban hotel. The kibbutz guesthouses of the Galilee, the zimmerim of the Golan, the desert khans of the Negev and the pilgrim hospices of Jerusalem have no equivalent inside this city. A visitor planning a route around the country will meet all of those elsewhere and none of them here.

Within that one type there are four bands, and they map onto the geography above. Along the seafront are the large hotels of the national and international groups, Dan, Fattal, Isrotel, Hilton, IHG and Marriott among them, with pools, spas, conference floors and buffet dining rooms. Behind them are the independents and the small conversions, thirty to eighty rooms, usually with a bar and a roof terrace and rarely with a pool. Then the hostels and the serviced apartments, which often have kitchens and no restaurant at all. Then the short lets, which in this city are ordinary flats.

The line between those last two bands is genuinely blurred, and the listing data shows it: the Embassy on HaYarkon is filed by Google under apartment building and short-term rental agency as well as hotel. Tel Aviv is a city of small flats and a great many of them are let by the night. That format buys space, a kitchen and a residential street, and gives up a staffed desk at any hour, a breakfast, and somewhere to leave bags between checkout and an evening flight. Two other things standard elsewhere are not standard here either: pools are largely a seafront and rooftop matter, running only in season outside the big hotels, and parking is a charged extra rather than a car park attached to the building.

The week

Saturday in a Tel Aviv hotel is not Saturday in a Jerusalem one

The arrival rule is the one that catches people, and it is the same across the Israeli groups. Dan's published terms give access to rooms from 15:00, and from 18:00 on Saturdays and the final day of Jewish holidays, with rooms vacated by 12:00. Herods on HaYarkon publishes 15:00 and 11:00 on ordinary days, then 18:00 on Saturdays and holidays with checkout pushed back to 14:00 in compensation. A Saturday morning landing therefore means most of a day carrying luggage, and it is the single most avoidable mistake in planning a first night here.

Beyond the front desk, though, Tel Aviv does not shut. Restaurants and bars trade through Friday night and Saturday, so a hotel dining room here is one option among thousands rather than the only food within walking distance. That is the opposite of the Jerusalem position, and it is why a Shabbat in this city is easy.

What does stop is the transport. Israel Railways keeps Shabbat, so there is no Saturday train to the airport or anywhere else, and most scheduled buses stop too. The city has run its own free municipal buses on Friday nights and Saturdays since the weekend of 21 November 2019, six routes covering some 300 kilometres with 500 stops. Taxis work throughout, but anyone with a Saturday evening flight should settle how they are reaching Ben Gurion before Friday afternoon.

Breakfast is the compensation. The Israeli hotel buffet is a serious meal, and at the seafront hotels it is part of the identity of the place: Cafe 99 at the Dan, Cafe Med at the Hilton, Bellissima at the Crowne Plaza. At the smaller end it is often sold separately from the room, so check what the rate actually includes. Kashrut is not the default it is elsewhere in the country: the Hilton lists four kosher restaurants on its own site, while most Tel Aviv hotels carry no certification and neither do most of the city's restaurants.

The bill

Tax you should not be charged, and a car you probably should not hire

Israel's standard rate of value added tax stands at 18 per cent in 2025, and a tourist should not be paying it on a hotel room. Dan puts the position plainly in its legal terms: the prices on its website refer to tourists only and do not include VAT, and wherever prices are displayed in foreign currency the payment is calculated at the shekel exchange rate on the day it is actually made. The exemption attaches to a room sold to a tourist and settled in foreign currency, and it comes off at the hotel rather than being reclaimed at the airport. Take the passport to the desk at check-in and keep the entry slip with it.

Parking is the other line worth reading before it appears. The Crowne Plaza publishes self-parking and valet parking at 150 shekels a day, and Dan Panorama offers private parking for an additional fee. Kerbside space in the centre is metered and scarce. The honest advice is that a car is a liability for the city part of a trip: the centre is flat and walkable and the promenade covers the seafront end to end, so a hire car is better collected on the morning the trip leaves town.

Rooms here run small, and the published figures are the useful check. Dan Tel Aviv's smallest category is 24 square metres and its deluxe rooms 28; Herods lists its deluxe, executive and club rooms at 26. Those are ordinary numbers for a dense central city built on a 1920s street plan, and they are worth reading against the photographs before booking the cheapest category at a smart address.

The full list

Every place to stay we found in Tel Aviv

All 20 that Google Maps returned for this area, ranked by rating weighted for how many people rated it, so a five from three people does not outrank a four and a half from three thousand.

Every place to stay in Tel Aviv, from a Google Maps snapshot taken on 2026-08-13
NameKindRatingRatingsPriceWhere
Backstage Hotel an Atlas Boutique Hotelמלון בקסטייג 'Hotel4.91,001n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Shalom & RelaxHotel4.8835n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Dan Panorama Tel -AvivHotel4.68,888n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Tal By The Beach - an Atlas Boutique HotelHotel4.61,577n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
CarltonHotel4.52,293n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Embassy Hotel Tel Avivמלון אמבסי תל אביבHotel4.51,044n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Artist an Atlas Boutique HotelHotel4.5877n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
CUCU HotelHotel4.5639n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Hotel Arbel Tel Avivמלון ארבל תל אביבHotel4.5478n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Hilton Tel AvivHotel4.45,472n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Prima Cityפרימה סיטיHotel4.41,076n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Sea Towerסי טאוארHotel4.31,671n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Dan Tel Aviv HotelHotel4.32,960n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Ultra Hotel Tel Avivמלון אולטרה תל אביבHotel4.2100n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Renaissance Tel Aviv HotelHotel4.22,040n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Herods Tel AvivHotel4.28,472n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Hotel Metropolitan Tel-AvivHotel4.13,018n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv Beach by IHGHotel4.13,667n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Brown Seaside by Brown Hotelsבראון סיסיידHotel4.0967n/aTel Aviv-Yafo
Dream Beach TLV Hotel And SpaHotel3.2473n/aTel Aviv-Yafo

Google Maps, retrieved . Ratings and counts move daily and this table does not: it is a snapshot, and it is here so the ranking above can be checked rather than taken on trust. Prices are Google's own price band, not a menu price.

Tel Aviv at night from above, traffic tracing light trails between the towers

Practical

What to know before you go

  • Do not plan a Saturday morning arrival. Dan gives out rooms from 18:00 on Saturdays and the last day of Jewish holidays against 15:00 midweek, and Herods does the same, so a morning landing means most of a day with luggage.
  • Settle the room in a foreign currency and have the passport and entry slip at the desk. Dan states that the prices on its site refer to tourists only and do not include VAT, and the exemption comes off at the hotel rather than back at the airport.
  • Sleep one street back unless the sea from the window genuinely matters. Trumpeldor, Mapu and Bograshov are the same beaches and the same walks, without HaYarkon's traffic under the balcony.
  • Do not hire a car for the city part of the trip. The Crowne Plaza charges 150 shekels a day for parking, kerbside space in the centre is metered and scarce, and the centre is flat and small enough to walk.
  • Ask for a high floor and ask which way the room faces, at the time of booking. Sea views are a priced category at every seafront hotel, and the beach bars along the promenade run late.
  • Check whether breakfast is in the rate before booking anything small. The big seafront hotels build their mornings around the buffet; smaller places frequently sell it separately.
  • Ask about the lift before booking a converted block inland. Older central buildings were not all built with one, and a booking site's symbols are no substitute for asking the hotel.
  • Work out the Saturday exit before Friday afternoon. There is no train on Shabbat, most scheduled buses stop, and the free municipal Shabbat buses cover six routes rather than the whole network.

Shai Pal / Unsplash

The figures

Numbers behind this page

Each figure carries the year it belongs to and links the source it came from.

MeasureFigureAs ofSource
Tourist hotels in Tel Aviv-Yafo78, with nearly 8,500 rooms2018tel-aviv.gov.il
Hotel guests and overnight stays in the cityOver 1.5 million guests, over 3.6 million overnight stays2018tel-aviv.gov.il
Standard Israeli VAT rate18 per cent2025taxsummaries.pwc.com
Check-in at Dan hotels on Saturdays and the last day of festivals18:00, against 15:00 midweek2026danhotels.com
Checkout at Herods Tel Aviv on Saturdays and holidays14:00, against 11:00 midweek2026fattal.co.il
Parking at Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv Beach150 shekels a day, self or valet2026ihg.com
Rooms and suites at the Embassy Hotel722026embassyhoteltelaviv.co.il
Rooftop pool season at Hotel MetropolitanMay to October2026hotelmetropolitan.co.il

The rest of the Tel Aviv guide

Things to do in Tel Aviv →Where to eat in Tel Aviv →Getting to Tel Aviv →The best time to visit Tel Aviv →

Sources and further reading

Every link below was opened and checked when this page was written. Official statements are marked as such: they are the subject's own account, not an independent one.

  1. OfficialDan Hotelsdanhotels.com
    Dan Tel Aviv Hotel

    The address at 99 HaYarkon, the coloured facade, the claim to be the only city hotel with two pools looking at the Mediterranean, one seawater and one indoor heated, Cafe 99 and the 15:00 and 18:00 check-in times.

  2. OfficialDan Hotelsdanhotels.com
    Dan Tel Aviv rooms and suites

    Room sizes from 24 sq m up to a presidential suite of 191, the studio and terrace categories, and entry to the King David lounge from age 18 with the upper categories.

  3. OfficialDan Hotelsdanhotels.com
    Legal terms

    That published prices refer to tourists only and do not include VAT, the foreign-currency conversion rule, and access to rooms from 15:00, 18:00 on Saturdays and the final day of Jewish holidays, with checkout by 12:00.

  4. OfficialDan Hotelsdanhotels.com
    Dan Panorama Tel Aviv Hotel

    The position across from the sand midway between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, proximity to Carmel Market, Neve Tzedek and HaTachana, the claim to the city's largest hotel pool, the health club, the paid private parking and the Saturday check-in.

  5. OfficialHiltonhilton.com
    Hilton Tel Aviv

    The setting in Independence Park, the saltwater outdoor pool, the executive lounge, the Sheva spa with sauna and steam room, the four kosher restaurants including Darya and Cafe Med, and check-in at 15:00 with checkout at noon.

  6. OfficialCarlton Tel Avivcarlton.co.il
    Carlton Tel Aviv

    The beachfront position, the rooftop pool and jacuzzi, the four in-house restaurants and bars, the spa and health club, and the private balconies.

  7. OfficialFattal Hotelsfattal.co.il
    Herods Tel Aviv

    The address at 155 HaYarkon beside Gordon Beach, the seawater pool opening onto the promenade, rooms at 26 sq m and suites from 36 to 127, the spa, and the Saturday and holiday check-in at 18:00 with checkout at 14:00.

  8. OfficialIHG Hotels and Resortsihg.com
    Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv Beach

    The Gordon Beach position with the marina next door, the indoor and outdoor pools, the saunas, the Bellissima and Louis restaurants, the 15:00 and 11:00 times, the minimum check-in age of 21 and parking at 150 shekels a day.

  9. OfficialEmbassy Hotel Tel Avivembassyhoteltelaviv.co.il
    Embassy Hotel Tel Aviv

    The 72 rooms and suites, the 1950s styling, the corner of Shalom Aleichem and HaYarkon 74, and the two-minute walk to Bograshov and Trumpeldor beaches.

  10. OfficialHotel Metropolitanhotelmetropolitan.co.il
    Hotel Metropolitan Tel Aviv

    The address at 11 Trumpeldor, the five-minute walk to the promenade, the rooftop pool from May to October, the fitness club and lobby bar, and the rooms and suites sold facing the skyline or the sea.

  11. OfficialCUCU Hotelcucuhotel.com
    CUCU Hotel

    The Dizengoff Street position, the four published room categories from CUCU Small to the XL studio suite with two balconies and a garden view, and the hotel's description of itself as a young urban hotel within walking distance of the beach.

  12. ReportingThe Times of Israeltimesofisrael.com
    Breaking religious restrictions, buses to roll on Shabbat in Tel Aviv

    The free municipal Shabbat bus service from the weekend of 21 November 2019: six routes covering some 300 kilometres with 500 stops, and the city meeting most of the first-year cost.

  13. DataTel Aviv-Yafo Municipalitytel-aviv.gov.il
    City in Numbers

    The 2018 count of 78 tourist hotels with nearly 8,500 rooms, over 1.5 million guests and over 3.6 million overnight stays, on a municipal area of 52 sq km.

  14. ReferencePwC Worldwide Tax Summariestaxsummaries.pwc.com
    Israel: other taxes impacting corporate entities

    The 2025 standard Israeli VAT rate of 18 per cent, against which the tourist exemption on a hotel room is measured.

Where to stay in Tel Aviv: common questions

Which part of Tel Aviv should I stay in?+

On or just behind HaYarkon Street for a first visit of two or three nights, because it puts the beaches, the promenade and a walk into the centre all within reach. Choose the southern end near Charles Clore Park if the trip is really about Neve Tzedek, Florentin and Jaffa. Choose inland around Rothschild or Dizengoff if it is about the White City, the theatres and the eating. The city is narrow enough that none of these cuts anything off.

Is a sea view worth paying for?+

Only if mornings will actually be spent in the room, because every seafront hotel here sells the sea as a priced category rather than including it. A room facing east at the same hotel is cheaper and often quieter, since HaYarkon carries traffic and the beach bars run late. If quiet matters more than the view, ask for a high floor over the back of the building. Ask at booking rather than at check-in, when whatever is left is what there is.

Do hotels in Tel Aviv close for Shabbat?+

No, but they change their timings. Dan's terms give access to rooms from 18:00 on Saturdays and the final day of Jewish holidays instead of the usual 15:00, and Herods does the same while pushing Saturday checkout back to 14:00. The city around the hotel does not close either: restaurants and bars trade through Friday night and Saturday, which is the opposite of the position in Jerusalem. What stops is the transport.

Do I have to pay VAT on my hotel bill in Tel Aviv?+

Not as a tourist. Dan states in its legal terms that the prices published on its site refer to tourists only and do not include VAT, and that where prices are shown in foreign currency the payment is converted at the shekel rate on the day it is made. The standard Israeli rate stands at 18 per cent, so the difference is real. Settle the room in foreign currency and have the passport and entry slip at the desk, because the exemption is applied by the hotel rather than refunded at the airport.

Is breakfast included, and is it any good?+

At the large seafront hotels it is usually included and it is a substantial buffet, which is a genuine Israeli institution rather than a continental tray. Dan runs its at Cafe 99, the Hilton at Cafe Med and the Crowne Plaza at Bellissima. At smaller hotels and apartment-style properties it is frequently sold separately or not offered at all, so check what the rate covers before booking. In a city with several thousand cafes, going out for breakfast is not a hardship either.

Is there parking, and do I need a car?+

There is parking at most of the larger hotels and it is charged: the Crowne Plaza publishes 150 shekels a day for self-parking or valet, and Dan Panorama offers private parking for a fee. You almost certainly do not need a car in Tel Aviv. The centre is flat and compact, the promenade runs the length of the seafront, and kerbside parking in the middle of the city is metered and scarce. Collect a hire car on the morning the trip leaves town.

Should I stay in Jaffa instead?+

Only if Jaffa is the point of the trip, because it is a separate old city rather than a quarter of Tel Aviv. The promenade runs directly from one to the other, so a hotel at the southern end of the Tel Aviv seafront, around Charles Clore Park, gets most of the benefit while keeping the beaches and the centre within walking distance. Sleeping in Jaffa itself suits a longer stay or a second visit.

Are hostels and short-let apartments better value than hotels?+

Often on price and rarely on everything else. Tel Aviv is a city of small flats and a great many of them are let by the night, which buys space, a kitchen and a residential street. What it gives up is a staffed desk at any hour, a breakfast, somewhere to leave bags between checkout and an evening flight, and any recourse if the flat is not as advertised. The categories genuinely overlap: the Embassy on HaYarkon is filed as an apartment building and a short-term rental agency as well as a hotel.

Are Tel Aviv hotel rooms small?+

Yes, by the standards of a beach resort, and the published figures show it. Dan Tel Aviv's smallest category is 24 square metres and its deluxe rooms 28; Herods lists its deluxe, executive and club rooms at 26. That is normal for a dense central city built on a 1920s street plan. If floor area matters, the studios, terrace rooms and suites are the categories to look at rather than the entry-level room at a smarter address.

Is Tel Aviv a good base for the rest of the country?+

For the coast and the centre, yes, and for the far north and the deep south, no. Caesarea, Haifa, Jaffa and the Judean foothills are all comfortable day trips by train or road, and Jerusalem is a short run inland. The Galilee, the Golan, the Dead Sea and the Negev are better slept in than commuted to. Remember that Israel Railways does not run on Shabbat, which removes Saturday from any train-based day trip.

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