This is an older hotel. Some rooms on the second floor were just renovated in mid-September 2011. But most of the rooms were well worn, not very clean and showing their age (our group occupied 25 different rooms). The buffet breakfast and dinners had plenty of food, but the food was not well prepared or nicely laid out. If you are on a strict budget and don't mind a room that is not any cleaner than the one in your own home then this hotel is fine for you. But if you are fanatic for cleanliness avoid this hotel. The staff is friendly. The WiFi is free, but only available in the lobby and only to those with their own laptops. The hotel will rent you their computer for $5 per half hour! The location is some distance from the city center (but we were able to walk to the sea side and the city center). There is a fresh bakery about a block south east of the hotel, and a nice general store about 50 meters (yards) north-east of the store. Avoid the shop next door to the store. The street is noisy and the rooms are not very dark at night so take ear plugs and something to cover your eyes if you need a dark room at night. The TV is free (but with limited channels - it did have BBC News, Russian TV, Romanian TV, Hebrew Language RV etc.). It is better than a back packers hotel but not a hotel for 5 star travelers. The beds were comfortable. The rooms were small (but we went to Israel to see the sights not to sit in a hotel room), the bathroom was extremely small, probably too small for a large American, The front elevator requires you to walk up four steps to access it, but the back elevator is accessed without steps. The hotel rambles over the stores below and so the hallways seem to go on for ever.