Planet Hotel Syria

... lost trying to find our hotel, we ended up at the Citadel, but the hotel is actually found near the National Museum.  The Hotel Syria is found off the main street.  Everyone used a set of electronic scales in the reception, I am now 84kg, still ...

... walk past the Italian Corner Restaurant, and on to Allegro, highly regarded in the Lonely Planet, but providing our first real disappointing restaurant experience in Syria. The Chateaubriand was a piece of ordinary, almost tasteless steak with a lump of ...

... to head out into the night for a look at the old town and a feed.    We have the Lonely Planet map, and maps given to us by the hotel, plus a business card from the hotel in English one side, Arabic the other. We have our moments crossing the ...

... at the town centre. This was a market of at least 10,000 people. We then had to find our way to some accomodation. The lonely planet middle east guide was invaluable. We located a place in the guide - found a taxi to take us there (100 metres down the ...

... car to get through. We get to the hotel and Len stays with the packs on the sidewalk while I go up. Quite a shock, the hotel is listed in Lonely Planet $22-30 per night with breakfast. It is now $60 per night. We check out a couple of other hotels and ...

... citadel as a backdrop. I wondered what CNN would make of all that. Another bloody battle on the streets of Syria.  After checking out of the hotel I took a taxi to the train station and boarded the train for Damascus. This train, despite being in a ...

... , which was about 20 min away from the Souk. Tourist was booked, along with the following 4 hotels in my trusted Lonely Planet... but eventually someone approached me leaving one of the hotels and brought me to Casa de los Andelos (somethingl ike that at ...

... pounds?!   The hotel I planned to stay at was full, but across the road was the Spring Flower Hostel which Lonely Planet and many other people had criticised for the staff using peepholes in the showers to look at the female guests! Well being a ...

... and join them on the way to the same hotel, which is full of course. After checking several hotels, which all are full, we find Hotel Syria. It's not actually a nice hotel, the room is small and not very clean. At the same day I walk around in Aleppo, eat ...

... ;across from the main entrance. Chicken, fries, salad and Lebanese beer were all good. 350 Syrian pounds. Moved into a non-Lonely Planet hotel. Can't even remember the name. It is more spacious than my room in al-Salam and the toilet has a seat. A ...

... . A website I had read recommended it as a must-stay place when in Aleppo, but, at $45 a night, I had ceded to Lonely Planet's advice that it had seen better days and wasn't worth the money. Both inside and out one had to agree with Lonely Planet's ...

... , kebabs and chips, then back to the hotel.    We come out late again to try the famous, Sissi's Restaurant. The Lonely Planet (information for which is at least three years out of date) writes it up as being the best food in Aleppo, but Dianne ...

... have had free wireless for the first month but Syria is not as modern as Turkey and you only get wireless in what the Lonely Planet calls 'mid-range' and 'top-end' hotels. Of course our 'budget' ones don’t bother. Even getting access to Facebook is ...

... difficult to find my way around even with the map in Lonely Planet. By the way, there are some mistakes in the Lonely Planet maps of the city, such as the location of the Sheraton Hotel, and they have not included many of the side streets. There is a ...

... service is mandatory in Syria, similar to Turkey. There was a small internet cafe right next to my hotel. Facebook and Youtube are banned in Syria. An Australian solo traveler told me that I had a Philipino-American accent. Never had that ...

... tripping tomorrow hopefully with my Aleppine friends). I had stayed on the roof in a hostel that gets rave reviews from the Lonely Planet (Sawfan), but that I really WOULDN'T recommend.   I'm not sure where the road trip is yet, but I like suprises ...

... , Mohammed at the Baal-Sharmin hotel did his best to keep me entertained. He really isnt the "mountain of mirth" as Lonely Planet said in the more traditional sense. He's more ... British-like in his dry demeanour. Still, got Tayser from the hotel to give ...

... just to charge me some extra minutes. It was frustrating. After asking around extensively, we arrived at the Sultan Hotel that was an author's choice in the Lonely Planet. The room was nothing more than my room in Palmyra, yet they were asking for $30! ...

... were shocked by the exposure. As I was reading about the guys on motorbikes trying to sell fake ancient coins in the lonely planet, we heard the sound of motorbikes! Unfortunately it was the only downer about this place. They came from nowhere. But I ...

... was not difficult to see why. I had seen pictures of them in the shop windows of tourist agencies in Damascus and in my Lonely Planet guide, but none of them prepared me for its vastness and magnificence.   Dating back to AD217, and torched in 271 ...