Its cheaper because its off the boardwalk, but a refreshing 6 minute walk past the Eilat Art Museum and The huge mall on the water and your there! Its an awesome hidden jem. no frills, nothing crazy luxurious, but clean and friendly everyone was. the all you can eat buffett was nice, not over the top. overall the fact that we paid a fraction of the cost for a silly 6 minute walk was worth it!

Do not expect a lot from Eilat. It changed a lot in the last years. But when you choose the C Hotel and you get a room on the 8 th floor you can still enyou the City. The rooms on 8 th floor does not have a very small balcony-they have a large terrace. The
terrace is facing the airport what makes your stay very interesting. Believe me it is not noisy. We had two sleeping rooms with refrigerator and a flat screen tv. Breakfast was the best i had in Israel. The central bus station is one minute away. A large shopping mall at the beach is only 5 minutes away. Parking is possible in the hole hotel area.
The staff is helpfull and nice.

This is the hotel that completely ruined my impression of Israel. The room was nice and my husband and I were pretty happy at first, until I woke up at 2 AM as there were HUGE bed bugs in my bed. I've never seen anything like that before! We found and killed 3 of them and brought them in a bloody bag to the reception, where we met a reception guy Andrey who looked and behaved as if he was under the influence of drugs. So this Andrey called another Russian guy named Boris, who is their security guy sitting at the entrance, and asked him to go with us and check our room. My husband and I are Americans, though I am of the Russian descent. Not knowing that, these 2 Russian guys begin talking between themselves in Russian, saying some really nasty things towards us and using bad language. I was completely shocked by their behavior and let them know that I could understand them. There were pretty surprised to find out I could understand what they had been talking about. After that Andrey implied that it was us who had brought the bugs to the hotel!!!! After a very long and agitated conversation he agreed to move us to another room.

The next morning we wanted to discuss the incident with the management of the hotel. What a surprise -- no management could be found! The same thing happened the next day as well, although we were assured that the management already knew about the incident and all appropriate measures had been taken. Nobody offered to reimburse at least some part of the ruined night's rate! It was then that the Russian security guy Boris approached me and said in a threatening voice: "Do you want to cause problems? I can call somebody, and it will be you who will have problems!". My husband was absolutely furious about the whole situation and the people at the reception obviously didn't want him to draw attention to the whole thing. We were invited to a back room, where a female "manager" tried to offer us a free buffet dinner at their restaurant, saying that she couldn't do more as she wasn't authorized, and the main manager could not be reached. To make the story short, after we promised them to write a bad review about their hotel, they reimbursed us half of what we had paid for that night.

Another service that left us disgusted was a woman named Natalie who was selling tours around Israel and Jordan in the lobby of the hotel. She promised a tour to Petra at the rate of USD 170 + 55 Israel crossing fee per person. When we were paying for it, she high-jacked the exchange rate from 3.64 NIS per dollar to 4 NIS per dollar, and we ended up paying USD 186 per person. At that moment we couldn't go with another company, as it happened in the evening on October 31, and from November 1 the Jordanians were raising their border crossing fee by USD 45. So we were stuck with her. I would highly recommend to bring US dollars not to lose a lot of money on this ridiculous exchange rate. Anyway, it's possible to find cheaper tours from somebody else. One of the guys in the group paid USD 210 (including Israel exit fee) for the same tour.

My wife and I were traveling around Israel and Jordan and spent a night here. The price was good (82$) for Israel, which is very expensive. Check in was easy and location is near the bus station, a long but doable walk to the shore front. Nice view out the window. Breakfast was buffet and outstanding; the only decent breakfast during our 18 day vacation. One concern; at 9PM there was a persistent knocking at our door, waking us up. The voice stated he needed to come in; I kept refusing and called the desk. The desk checked and said this was maintenance (we didn't ask for or need any; and this time at night?). Finally the man went away. I complained the next morning at the desk but got the same answer and the man didn't seem to understand that this was not a normal thing to happen at a hotel (I've been to 25 countries including 5 middle east ones; this never happened before). I don't believe this was a maintenance man; security concern was not addressed.
Also, as many people come thru Eilat to go to Petra, Jordan, some helpful words. If going on a guided tour, no problem. If traveling on your own, it's cheaper and you will see a LOT more but some cautions; The Israelis make you pay about $50 USD per person one way to leave the country at Eilat and the Jordanians will charge about the same (Jordanian Dinar only, no plastic) to get into Petra. The Jordanian border station is easy and courteous but expect the cab drivers outside to be very unpleasant and demand you take a tour with them. Refuse strongly and take an expensive cab to Aquaba (no choice) and take a very cheap and really fun bus to Petra bus station, 2 hours; you'll find this a very interesting experience. When in Petra do NOT take a horse ride even if they tell you it's included in the ticket; it's an extortion racket. Say no regularly, take lots of water and be prepared for lots of walking; take a map which you should get in the Jordanian border station. Petra is an incredible place to experience and on your own you'll see far more than the tour groups see.