The hotel is modestly priced and in a great location. My only problem with the hotel is that our room had no window, it was in interior room that was attached to another room that had a window. It was sort of a two bedroom suite, sleeps four, two in each room. There was a group of four of us, so it is not as though none of us had a window, just two of us. I stayed there for two weeks while working on an archaeological project.

On the plus side, the entire hotel is super clean, but the decor is 1970s socialist. It very much reminds me of 1970s era hotels that you would find in Eastern Europe. The hotel lobby is on the 7th floor (If I remember), the first floor is a parking deck and the lower floors are offices or apartments...I don't remember exactly. The hotel is very security oriented, very safe. We had many meals in the hotel dining room. The dining service is also very socialist, no menu to choose from--you were served the dish of the day, you were given a set time for dinner and every seat in the restaurant was filled for that seating, so--service was efficent, but impersonal and if you miss your seating time, no dinner.

You could not ask for a better location, right on Ben Yehuda street--a main shopping/restaurant district. A short walk to Jaffa Gate (To visit the old city/Western Wall/Christian sights) and only a short walk to the Russian Compound, the city's nightclub and bar district.

This is a high tower in the middle of the downtown shopping/restaurant district. Compared to the smaller hotels and inns downtown, the huge advantage of this hotel is the building's height. There is an enormous amount of noise from the pedestrian area round the clock, and in the early morning there can be racket from cars and trucks as well. If you are high enough up in this place (be sure to ask) you will be immune to it. Relative to other modern hotels (Jerusalem Tower, Dan), this one was much cheaper -- about $60, including breakfast, when I stayed there. The difference in price does reflect the fact that this place is nothing fancy. Service at the front desk is very minimal, and a few people manning the reception could speak very little of anything but Hebrew. The rooms are clean and modern, but lots of the public areas are a bit shabby. The elevator has advertisements for a top-floor restaurant and fitness center that seemed to have been defunct for some time. When taking a cab or sherut here, be sure to distinguish this place from the nearby (far inferio) Zion Hotel and the not-so-nearby Mt. Zion Hotel.