Aleppo Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Crossing the border from Turkey into Syria we were greeted by a sign, "Welcome to the cradle of civilisation and history!" And we have felt very welcome indeed.

Confession time: so we get to the ancient city of Aleppo, possibly the longest inhabited city in the entire world and our first stop was Costa coffee... Two iced lattes later we ...

Abdurrahman Amca did not let me travel to Aleppo alone. Kindly, he arranged a car and took me there himself. We spent an hour at the gate to get Abdurrahman Amca a visa. Our driver had to bribe the Syrian custom inspectors 100 Suris in order to "expedite" the process. There are ruins stuck in the buffer zone between the two countries and you are...

Bon. Sans vouloir dramatiser le weekend, je passais mes derniers jours arabes (en tant que touriste) à Alep, concluant ainsi ce premier mois de baroudage intensif. Il n'était pas question de se louper après un tel plaisir dans l'est syrien, et j'avais bien l'intention de rester dans la même gamme d'émotions ici, revenu en ville. Mais enfin il y ...

We made our way from Cappadocia Turkey down to Adana (not a good place to get accomodation) arriving at around 10:00pm. The next day we travelled towards the border with Syria. Our goal was to get to Aleppo in Syria before nighfall. Our remaining travel in Turkey was great but when we got to Antayka ( the bordering town with Syria) things got in...

Saturday (November 10) Getting the bus into Syria was no problem, and the actual process of customs/immigration etc only took about 45 minutes whereas I was told to expect a wait of up to 2 hours. Once in Syria, you could immediately notice that you were in a different country which quite surprised me, as I expected Turkey and Syria to be quite ...

From Hama we bus back out into the bleak stony Syrian landscape, all rocks and wasteland, the type you might see in the industrial part of a city and think "I wish they would build something there." It makes you wonder why people get so worked up over this part of the world. Apart from the Fertile Crescent and the areas next to water, it seems ...

We woke up to the beautiful view of the castle and jumped on the bus. I got the back seat, put my feet up and settled in for my sleep. A few hours later we arrived in Aleppo. It is a big city, feels a bit like Cairo and we were staying in the heart of the city, in the middle of the bazaar. The bus couldn't drive to the hotel, but there was a ute...

Not two minutes had passed since we crossed the last border checkpoint into Syria. Phil turned to me and said, this place looks just like the news. The buildings along the road all look a bit more shabby than those in Turkey. The first ones we saw had corregated roofs, and most lack paint. Many urban scapes have a dominant colour. The villages o...