Hotel Khayyam
If you can't get into An-Nasr al-Jedid, try this place on the side street next door as a last resort. Communal toilets are of the squat variety, and showers are charged at a fee.
If you can't get into An-Nasr al-Jedid, try this place on the side street next door as a last resort. Communal toilets are of the squat variety, and showers are charged at a fee.
In a beautiful hundred-year-old building with high ceilings, this place has enormous rooms with balconies, decorative windows, and a big common area with a massive picture window looking onto the main-street action below.
This excellent five-star has plush, comfortable, well-equipped rooms, a massive swimming pool and tennis courts, a handful of good restaurants, cafés and bars, and a bookshop with a small selection of titles on Syria and the Middle East.
Apart from the science experiments in the soap dispensers, this is a spotlessly clean, modern place and an excellent midrange choice.
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