Marja Square, Opposite to old Home Office entrance, Damascus
Price
From US$100.00/€67.53/£53.01 per person.
Location/Contact
Location
Website
None (if you know the URL of their website, tell us and we'll add it)
Telephone
Unknown (if you have their phone number, tell us and we'll add it)
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Details
Bedsheets:
Sheets Included
Towels:
Available
Parking:
Available
Airport/Train Pickup:
Airport pick-up available
Luggage Storage:
Available
Pets Allowed:
YES
Age Range Allowed:
Children OK
Lockout:
No Lockout
Curfew:
No Curfew
Reception Hours:
24 Hours
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Description
Features
Free Breakfast
Kitchen
Phones (public or in room)
Air Conditioning
Elevator/Lift
Currency Exchange
Washing Machine (laundry)
Lounge / Common space
Your Comments
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Comment by jenny, Australian
April 2007
This is not a hostel, there are not one hundred or one hundred fifty rooms. This ad is placed by an individual who has some contacts in the cheaper hotels in Damascus. The Orient Star is one of these hotels. The room I was shown was filthy, the toilet had been used and not flushed -- or cleaned, there was food detritus all over the bed -- it was truly disgusting. When I wanted to leave to find another hotel I was threatened, bullied, yelled at, and Abdul said he would charge twice the price on my credit card. It was a very nasty experience and it nearly soured my Syrian stay -- but I found another beaut hotel the following day. A mature, sixty-three-year-old solo woman, I had never been treated like this in any other country in the region, and in six months it was the only bad day. Just to make it clear -- the person doing all the bullying and shouting was the hostel broker, not the hotel staff.
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