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Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat

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The Reef Eilat Looking for a dream vacation that feels like a holiday abroad, right here in Israel? Then look no further, the Reef Eilat Hotel, Eilat's first and only boutique hotel located on the beach near the Coral Reef Reserve. 79 rooms and suites that will ensure that your next vacation is a dream come true. Choose from our luxurious deluxe rooms, deluxe pool rooms, deluxe direct pool access rooms or prestigious suites with a private pool suitable for two adults and two children. The rooms are equipped with a king-size bed, a luxurious and well-equipped bathroom, a cozy seating area, LCD screens and balcony with sea views. The hotel offers a swimming pool, sun beds, swings and seating areas and a modern fully equipped gym and beach access. Those who prefer to spend a tranquil holiday soaking up the warm Eilat sun can do so on the nearby beach. The hotel offers a range of complimentary services for the benefit of hotel guests that include high-speed Wi-Fi access in
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Street parking
Free High Speed Internet (WiFi)
Pool
Fitness Centre with Gym / Workout Room
Poolside bar
Beach
Bicycle rental
Children's television networks
Wifi
Outdoor pool
Restaurant
Breakfast available
Breakfast buffet
Bicycles available
Diving
Snorkelling
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Sun loungers / beach chairs
Sun umbrellas
24-hour front desk
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Air conditioning
Desk
Private balcony
Safe
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Electric kettle
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Telephone
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Bottled water
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Languages Spoken
English, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew
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Nadine H wrote a review Aug 2023
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We stayed with our 4 children at the Herbert Samuel Eilat and what can i say it was such an bad experience our trip was completely ruined. The room was dirty and also the bathroom never clean The hotel looks so good in pictures but in real life it was like an very old Hotel The little pool in our room was dirty and it had a lot of insects in it
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Date of stay: August 2023
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marie C wrote a review Jun 2023
Montreal, Canada39 contributions21 helpful votes
Nice place, but not « a go to » for me. It’s a nice hôtel but not very luxurious and maintained. The rooms are ok and confortable but you can easily ear people walk in corridors. There were many family at the same floor of us sonwe were awoke very early each day of our stay.
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Date of stay: June 2023
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PMW425 wrote a review Jun 2023
Indianapolis, Indiana4 contributions
The hotel is beautiful, rooms are clean, spacious and lovely. Pool is beautiful. Breakfasts outstanding. Staff friendly and helpful. As it is about a 7 km ride to downtown, having a car is necessary.
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Date of stay: May 2023
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Emanuel L wrote a review Jun 2023
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Ziva at the front desk is amazing. I booked a room with a pool. It was room 103. The access to the pool is right of the room but it is not handicapped accessible if you need that. The main pool is. My wife and I are people of size and we found the shower area to be problematic. Unlike many hotels where there is a curtain for the shower, this has a glass door that opens INTO the shower reducing the available space until you close the door. My wife was barely able to close it and I could not close it at all. I tried to do my best to keep the water in but there was a pool of it on the bathroom floor which is a hazard. My wife mentioned it to Ziva because I don't speak Hebrew and she was able to change our room to one that has no barrier between the shower and the rest of the bathroom and is designed to have the water squeegeed into the drain, They even provide the squgee. The breakfast buffet is very nice with an omelet station and if you want to bring food to your room they will give you a box. My wife and I don't travel to Eliat frequently but we would consider staying here again.
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Date of stay: June 2023
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Dan S wrote a review May 2023
Montreal, Canada19 contributions114 helpful votes
PROS: Very clean Very friendly staff Nice location: sea view from the room, quiet an relaxed location far away from all the noise and the crowds of the main hotel area Nice and very clean pool Great breakfast CONS: Parking: small parking lot of only 14 cars of which 3 are handicap spots. There are 3 more spots in front of the main door and if all is full you need to park on a white/blue spot (of which there are plenty) and pay city parking of 25 NIS a day. The beach: they have a pretty large shaded area with beach beds and chairs which is free for the guests but there is no hotel supervision and there are people from other hotels using it and it can get busy. Also there is a kite gliding Center near by and when they are active if you in the water you’re afraid if you get one of those huge kites on your head it will not end well. One afternoon those guys from the kite place decided to have a bbq party under the hotel shaded area and they had a boom box with “music” so loud we had to leave and go to the pool. Nobody from the hotel was there to tell them they are bothering us. Bottom line: we’ll go again. We enjoyed the stay. All the cons above will be nice if they can fix but they were not a deal breaker for us.
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Date of stay: May 2023
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ace-1213 wrote a review May 2023
Port Chester, New York26 contributions25 helpful votes
Rooms are large, service was great, rooms were clean, location is nice, very close to the Underwater Observatory and Dolphin Reef, on the Red Sea. There is a pool and beach on the property, but wear water shoes in the Red Sea because the beach is rocky (as are most of the beaches in Eilat). We were able to park for free, but the parking lot is small, so if there’s no room bring your parking ticket. The hotel can arrange for 24 hour parking at 20 ILS per day which is still cheap.
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Date of stay: May 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Fiona912 wrote a review May 2023
Yorkshire, United Kingdom67 contributions11 helpful votes
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This was an extremely disappointing stay & we ended up checking out early - this is I think the worst review Ive ever given. The photos of the hotel from the sea are very misleading as they make it look like the hotel is quite isolated & bordered by trees - if this was ever the case, the trees are long gone & there is a very noisy beach bar/ hotel next door now. At about 07.00 every morning the digger started outside (I’m not sure if this was linked to Reef Eilat or next door but a heads up that there is building work on going would be good as we specifically booked this place as it is sold as peaceful & idylic). Sadly for us our stay coincided with a huge outdoor party/ rave at the hotel next door, I belive this was something to do with an annual holiday celebration of some sort - again, a warning would have been good at teh time of booking as the pumping music started at approx 08.00 & went on until approx 23.00 every night for about 3 days & nights making it impossible to relax. This is fine if you are one of the many youngsters who have booked to go for a big party but if you’re going for a relaxing peaceful holiday its not so good. Then there is the ‘bar’. This has the grand total of about 5 drinks available on the menu, none of which is white wine, and one was a cocktail. The first time we tried it order a drink, we were told that it was the bar tenders first day & she didnt know how to make the cocktail. The next two times we tried, they were out of rum so couldn’t make the cocktail on the menu & I dont belive the rum was ever replaced during our stay. The opening hours of the bar are 12.00-17.00 so theres not much fo a window to get a drink anyway & there is nowhere you can get a drink in the evening at the hotel so you can sit out & enjoy the sunset for example. The bar staff were all without fail, miserable & they were sat on a stool in the corner on their phone. Or there was generally another stool on the customer side of the bar where another member of staff would often be chatting to the bar person - you were always made to feel like you were interrupting, & that everything was too much trouble. I had to ask 3 times for a table to be cleaned when I went out to sunbathe one afternoon (the first time I was told to go & ask reception & then he proceeded to carry on watching whatever on his phone). The limited hours also means that when the hotel is full of kids who are heading to the rave next door, they all have room parties as there is no bar, or were sat around the pool area with shop bought bottle of booze (which is what we ended up doing) On the first night I called down so I could get a glass of white wine (the room comes with a nice bottle of red but I dont like red) & was told that there is no white wine anywhere in the hotel. A few days later I noticed a bottle in a display case by the entrance only to be told that its there ‘to look nice’. I think this’d is the first time ever I have been to any kind of hotel that has no white wine… You do get a couple of small bottles of water on the first day but then you pay for every other bottle when we enquired as to why the bottles hadn’t been replaced. The website sells the restaurant & bar but the restaurant is only open for breakfast now & the bar extremely limited in opening hours as well as menu choices so again the website is quite misleading. The rest of the hotel, rooms, corridors, gym, are pretty tired tbh. Carpets torn & lifted, discoloured headboard, stains on sofa, grout missing in bathroom floor tiles etc. Just about every single beach/ pool umbrella has at least one tear in it, there is missing panel where the car park borders the pool area etc etc. The whole hotel and vast majority of the staff generally give the impression of having given up. The room cleaning was generally to a decent standard but a bit hit & miss as to what you get, one day the towels would be rolled beautifully & placed carefully under the sink, the next day just a loosely folded pile thrown in the room for example. Most of the staff are miserable to the point where we were giving each other a high five if we got a hello back or a smile. The mood was noticeably better the day we left which was after the various holidays were finished so maybe the staff were all frazzled after al the religious holiday periods & the 3 day rave next door (which meant that they were all having room parties in the hotel too)? The beach is stony which cant be helped but it is also littered with lumps of concrete from the building works. The beach loungers are lined up in 3 rows with each lounger approx 2inches from the next one so its impossible to get onto them & quite frankly, who wants to sunbathe that close to a bunch of strangers… The steps into the car park are broken with loose tiles & theres pallets & building materials left in the car park also There were some good parts which redeemed the score a little. Breakfast is amazing, great food, great choice & well presented (good job really as this is the last time in the day you can really get any food at the hotel - there is a v limited pool bar menu but its very limited). The pool guys were all really nice & cheerful (though the steps to the pool were broken & apparently had been for a while). I had to ask 3 people to get extra hangers but I’ll give the guy on reception his due (he was the third) & next time we went to the room there was a pile of hangers there for me. The Spa is done nicely & Svetlana(?) does a good massage, however the toilets are broken in there so you have to go to reception for teh loo) Everyone on reception was also really nice, friendly & helpful to the point where the girl who checked us out was really apologetic & refunded the few days that we didn’t stay for which definitely helped leave a better taste in our mouth. All in all, we were thoroughly confused as to where the great reviews come from regarding this hotel, its tired, dated, with often miserable staff & it is not cheap enough to warrant the level of service & decor problems. We wished we had stayed in the Marina area in the end which is beautifully done & peaceful. Reef Eilat hotel is none of these things sadly & as soon as we had finished diving, we had to escape somewhere else every day - some nights its nice to relax at the hotel when you’ve been doing stuff all day…
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Date of stay: April 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Deena L wrote a review May 2023
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Good service. Excellent breakfast. I especially love the room access direct to pool. I was on the side of the hotel with the pool that wrapped around and it felt like a private pool, especially during the day when I was the only one on my side of the hotel using it
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Date of stay: May 2023
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olatravel wrote a review Apr 2023
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I chose this hotel because it was not in the main big hotel area. We really liked the location. It has a small parking lot but if it’s full you can park right next to the hotel, you just have to pay a little each day. Our room was on the ground floor with a sliding door opening right onto the pool area. This was perfect for us and our 6 year old. We could just go straight to the room to get extra things or after we were done. We also had family staying on a different floor and it was nice that they could come and sit with us on our “porch”. The room itself needed a little TLC but it was comfortable, had a coffee machine and complimentary water, a bottle of wine and some fruit. The pool was very clean, and the chairs around it always had fresh towels. There is a snack bar where you can get fresh fruit, drinks and ice cream. The breakfast was quite the spread and very delicious. Even one day when there were a lot of people the food was fresh and plenty of it. And there is direct access to the beach. There are some beach chairs, a diving center and we walked over to the beach bar to have lunch and hang out. What really was impressive was how nice the staff was. They were just always smiling and super helpful. We really enjoyed our stay.
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Date of stay: April 2023Trip type: Travelled with family
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Maria R wrote a review Mar 2023
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The hotel is 15 mins away from the center of the town. You have to take a cab if you want to go to the center. Hotel is average: clean, friendly staff, comfortable rooms. The hallways are a bit rundown. The rooms are very basic - nothing special. The breakfast was amazing! Good food and great variety.
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Date of stay: March 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip: Make sure you have a car or take a cab. Try the breakfast
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£137 - £244 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
reef hotel eilat
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
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LOCATION
IsraelSouthern DistrictEilat
NUMBER OF ROOMS
79
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Frequently Asked Questions about Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat
Which popular attractions are close to Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Nearby attractions include Underwater Observatory Marine Park (0.8 miles), Coral Beach Nature Reserve (0.3 miles), and Dolphin Reef (1.1 miles).
What are some of the property amenities at Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include free wifi, a pool, and an on-site restaurant.
Which room amenities are available at Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Top room amenities include air conditioning, a flat screen TV, and a desk.
What food & drink options are available at Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Guests can enjoy an on-site restaurant, a poolside bar, and breakfast during their stay.
Is parking available at Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Yes, street parking is available to guests.
What are some restaurants close to Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Conveniently located restaurants include Shahrazad, Buffalo Wings & Rings - Aqaba, and khubza & seneya.
Are there opportunities to exercise at Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Yes, guests have access to a pool and a fitness centre during their stay.
Are any cleaning services offered at Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Yes, dry cleaning and laundry service are offered to guests.
Which languages are spoken by the staff at Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
The staff speaks multiple languages, including English, Russian, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Are there any historical sites close to Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat?
Many travellers enjoy visiting Lawrence's House (4.8 miles), Islamic Ayla City (4.7 miles), and Great Arab Revolt Plaza (4.5 miles).
Does Herbert Samuel The Reef Eilat have any great views?
Yes, guests often enjoy the harbour view available here.