Herbert Samuel Hod Dead Sea Hotel

The hotel is priced as a 5 star hotel and has the services and facilities of a 3 star hotel that are shabby. In the bathroom of the "upgraded" room the wooden door was rotted from the shower water. The food at breakfast was ok, we stayed from Friday to Sunday, dinner on Saturday was at a nearby hotel, Milos, with leftovers from the previous meal.

Rooms are not clean , look terrible. Swimming pool not good. Staff is not helpful. We took 2 rooms for family and canceled our reservation with this hotel. To stay here is not possible for family who wants to rest with children. The building is too old

We stayed 3 nights in this old but generally well maintained facility on the shore of the Dead Sea. It has an easy access to the beach and a variety of services. However, the food service is definitely sub standard for Israel. We found a poor selection of low quality food. E.g. all rolls and breads were at least two days old! Fortunately, the food is much easier to improve than the facility. It takes some effort, but there is still hope!

It's actually the second time we're visiting this hotel, before when it was Hod Hotel it was a really poor hotel but when Herbert Samuel chain bought it we thought we should give it another try...too early as the did changed a lot but it's still far from reaching it's potential. The location is great as it's almost the last hotel (only one another after) at the end of the dead sea beach. The lobby is renovated and clean and the staff are nice but could be nicer for sure. Don't expect any dining in the lobby or even drinking as the lobby bar is poor and closes early and most of the time unoccupied. The free WiFi is fast and stable enough. The rooms are a bit small and the beds are terrible so sleeping quality is really poor. The TV offers some channels to entertain you with but nothing special. Water pressure in the bath is strong and really nice although still some repairs are required there. Housekeeping are cleaning in the morning but really fast and not a professional clean unfortunately and it took few phone calls to ask from the reception to replace towels and few other things. Breakfast is OK, nothing special but simply OK, Dinner is really lame and I would recommend skip it and go somewhere else outside. The pool is not so big but clean, the indoor pools at the SPA area are really good offering a dead sea water (salty water) pool, jacuzzi and and mineral pool, but they're rather small and get crowded frequently. We took few SPA treatments and these were really good, professional therapists that worth the time and money spent. View from some of the rooms is really nice so make sure to ask for it when placing a booking. Value for money is OK but as I said, still lot's of potential to make this hotel better.