Shamai Suites Jerusalem

Fair value but right across the street from a raucous hostel that offers a party deck that is VERY NOISY late at night. Also, no front desk or reception staff, you have to call someone to enter building which means you need local phone service on mobile phone.

Great location Big place Clean I love this place.

Location is great! We are close to everything. The apartment was big and very comfortable. Although we didn’t understand the point to have such a big kitchen, there is no utensils at all, even not a coffee machine or a sponge to wash the dishes. In the small room, it looked like beds haven’t been changed. But the real problem was that there is no communication at all. After booking we didn’t receive a message explaining how to check in. It says the check in is from 14h, it also says that there is a reception. I arrived when we were lucky because there was someone cleaning some apartment. He opened the door and let us know the apartment we booked was not ready yet (we have booked the same day). We left our luggages in the parking and Came back 2 hours later, After 1 hour maybe someone answered the message i have sent, saying that someone would come to welcome us. We waited no one came. Someone was leaving the building, so that’s how we could go in. We didn’t know where were our luggages. We tried to look in the different floors for sooemone, we found the same guy repairing something in one of the apartment. He said that our apartment was ready and he had the key, but our luggages were somewhere that someone had closed with a key and this someone had left. To make is shorter, we had our luggages a few hours later. We didn’t hear from the owner. Nothing!! We were lucky this guy was there repairing something. Thats an unacceptable behavior. No respect at all!!

noisy, bad service, dirty, confusing employees, terrible check in experience

The room was okay but checking in was an issue. It wouldn’t have been an issue if we could have been e-mailed a code beforehand to get into the building Also the phone # was useless as we hadn’t found a cell store to buy an Israeli SIM card yet. The amenities such as shampoo & lotions were nice as was the jacuzzi tub but we had to ask for bowls, utensils & cups. We bought our own dish cloth & dish soap as there was none there. We had to ask to have the floor swept. There wasn’t a broom in the room. We weren’t told that there was a Disco adjacent to our room. On 2 nights of our stay the music was so loud we had to leave the room at 1:00 am as we couldn’t sleep it went on ‘til 3:00 am. We are okay with a bit of street noise but this was really too much!

I primarily use ********** because the guest ratings are usually fairly accurate. However, they missed the mark on this one. This hotel offers a central location to great restaurants and activities but falls short on most everything else. There is no lobby...so checking in is challenging. The price is less expensive than most but the furnishings are badly worn. Paint chipping from ceilings, sliding doors that dont properly lock and the inconsistency of hot water make this hotel a little sketchy.