6/10 Okay
Neil Patrick
Travelled with partner
5 Oct 2023
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
We stayed for 9 nights in Sept 2023 and appeared to be in a minority as foreign tourists. The restaurant was loud and filled with locals, even at breakfast. This is breakfast Israeli style. You are proffered a menu with a selection 6 or so egg-based cooked options, with little leeway to customise. No fry ups. The rest of the breakfast consists of a small buffet, the majority of which comprises salad plates: beetroot, lettuce, couscous dishes. The only cereal on offer is granola which they insist you have with yoghurt, not milk. Their fruit salad is an acerbic mix of julienned Granny Smith-style apples and halved grapes. I can still taste the acid. The room was large, but as others have said, it is noisy til around 2am. Our room was on the 2nd floor, above the patio, which locals use as an outdoor cafe/bar, sitting around all day clinking glasses and shouting loudly. The bathroom was fitted out with towel hooks that couldn't hold any towels and the shower area had a nonsense glass shelf that listed on a downward trajectory so nothing could be placed on it. As for amenities, there is a daytime bar on the roof, along with a very narrow 'two is a crowd' swimming pool. There is a spacious carpark, but be warned: getting thru the barrier isn't straightforward, you are reliant on buzzing the reception desk - and that desk being manned. If, like us, you are holidaying from Europe, think about staying nearer Tel Aviv or Jerusalem as Gedera is remote with a poor range of restaurants.
Neil Patrick
Stayed 9 nights in Sep 2023