Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelFirouzeh Hotel Tehran
Persian hospitality
Normally the loss of money would not really bother me. The problem I had was that due to America's trade embargoes on Iran, the use of foreign credit cards or changing travellers cheques is impossible. So I had an envelope with all my money for Iran. Luckily I only had a small part of that in my wallet at the airport. So my time in Iran would be …
Tehran
I walked to the foreign exchange place. I changed 250 euros and I got 4.6 million Iranian Rials!! I knew I'd be a millionaire some day! Everything is really cheap - museums are around 50c entry, a bottle of water is 40c, a full meal at lunch time was around 3 euros - rice and chicken kebab and a mineral. My hotel is 15 euros a night which is really …
Tehran - Day 2
Today was a really busy day. I left at 9am this morning and just arrived back at 6.30pm.
Today is Friday so that means that nearly everything is closed and the streets are really quiet. (Well as quiet as a city can get when 16m people live in it.) I stayed up until around 2am last night trying to figure out what I was going to do today …
Happy Christmas from Iran
Yesterday (24th) was very warm in Tehran – about 15oC which in a city with constant traffic and the sun shining is very warm. I started the day at the Golestan Palace which is only about 20 mins walk from the hotel. It’s a collection of buildings dating from various kings but the most splendid were from the 19th …
Peel Another Layer
The hospitality continues in Tehran. Our fantastic hotel (Firouzeh) is located in the car spare parts district on busy Amir Kabir Street. It is noisy, dirty, crowded, polluted and teeming with cars and motorbikes all trying to overtake each other irrespective of lane markings. [Later I discover that this is not just our district, but the city of …


