The Baron Hotel Aleppo

... customs officials making us tea and arranging someone's brother to give us a lift into Aleppo. In Aleppo we opted to stay at the Baron Hotel. This place is legendary and deserves the highest reputation. Numerous persons of importance have stayed at this ...

... we use the Riga Hotel wi-fi (with the password our management gives us), then out about 10.30pm to have a beer at the Baron Hotel, as used by T.E.Lawrence and Agatha Christie, but it looks pretty dreary, so carry on to the Al Analib restaurant, which has ...

... churches...mostly Armenian, and always painted rick blues and reds and covered in gold framed paintings. We then head over to the Baron Hotel for a cup of tea. This is an Aleppan institution...the hotel for the Orient Express, it housed Agatha Christie ...

... the main hall was enough to delete all imagined snapshots of this city and start afresh. I was due to book into the Baron Hotel run by old friend of Steven Wright’s, Sally and Armen Mazloumian, who had kindly forwarded notice of my arrival so that ...

... completely comfortable wandering around in Damascus on my own but didn't feel quite as much at ease in Aleppo.   I did manage to stop into the Baron Hotel for a drink.   This is the hotel that T.E. Lawrence - i.e., "Lawrence of ...

... ).  I settled for it out of fatigue. To make up for my shabby sleeping quarters, I went to the rooftop restaurant by the Baron Hotel.  I had been on the road nonstop for the past 24 hours, and I wanted to reward myself. The hummus was quite ...

... there is always the fast car coming up from behind, lights flashing. After an hour we reach the outskirts of Aleppo and the fun really starts. We don't have a hotel booked and in the dark, we have no idea where we are! We keep going straight in, Carole ...

... . We bought sweet bread rolls covered in honey and sesame seeds from a street corner and then Gemma, Jane and I wandered to the Baron's Hotel where we met Euan for a drink . Some famous bods like T E Lawrence and Agatha Christie have stayed there. It has ...

... lonely est plutot bonne. On trouve l'hotel quelques minutes après et ca valait coup de chercher. Les prix sont tout à fait corrects et l'hotel est nickel, il y a même une télé. Le luxe ! Cet hotel est le rendez vous des backpackers, il y a un couples ...

... one night in Aleppo, unfortunately not in the Baron's ...

... both sides of the road were olive groves. From the border it was probably only a half hour to Aleppo, our next destination. Mohsen showed us to the Baron Hotel where we had a look at the rooms. I left Martin there and visited couple of cheaper options ...

... abandoned in the 5th century, yet nobody really knows why. As for those people who feel that us Brits are a troublesome lot, it is with some degree of embarrassment that I have to report seeing T.E. Lawrence's unpaid bar bill in the Baron Hotel. ...