I just got back from this hotel and found it o.k. Service was pleasant though everyone seems to be in a state of confusion. This is a tourist/business hotel and the mixture clashes with Middle Eastern men in business suits or traditional clothing and tacky tourists in shorts.Check out takes forever with only one person handling the cash.
As a single woman I was intimidated by the bar setting.....Though I was curious to see the "show" and enjoy a glass of local wine, the idea ofgoing through the western style double doors, passing all the men and sitting alone was just not worth the effort. Seemed like a strip joint packed with men goggling a girlie show...I never went in.
The dinning room was empty one night when there were no big tourists groups so I had dinner all by myself in this large empty room with only the choice from the menu rather than the huge buffet. It was weird and another couple that came in chose to just return to their room rather than eat in such a depressing atmosphere. However, the hamburger I ordered was one of the best burgers I have ever eaten!
The area is boring with a viewless site and no where to walk. There seems to be no city center. Just an ugly downtown district with ugly architecture, though there is Roman site with museum in the hills. Historically Jordan is wonderful with site seeing in Petra and Wadi and the Dead Sea, Roman ruins etc.But this hotel is located in an boring upper middle class suburb.
The rooms are above average in an old fashion Victorian style setting.which is popular in the Middle East.
The excercise room on the convention floor looks like a ghost town.Yet they charge you to use the equipment! It is not welcoming. I would never use the facilities there. I would not feel safe. Once you arrive on the floor you have to go through a door, up some stairs in an area where no one is around. I was alone with just a young man who claimed to be the massage person. The way the place is set up seems a perfect place for an unscrupulous person to take advantage of a lone woman. Again I did not feel safe. And I live in a Middle Easter country so I was not intimidated by the Middle Eastern men, who can be aggressive with western women, but rather the situation be it in the Middle East or North Dakota, USA!
Next time I visit Jordan I plan on staying at some of the resorts that at least have swimming pools, excercise rooms , enchanting bar setting, etc that are used by a large public. As a lone woman I found myself a prisoner of my room with the t.v. being my only form of entertainment. There is not much of a nightlife or active city life compared to places life Cairo or Mexico City.
But you can't falult the hotel workers for the situational flaws. They in general were all very sweet. However, I would not choose this hotel again a single woman.
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