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The Setai Tel Aviv has opened at a Mediterranean Sea-adjacent site that was built as a 12th century fortress and served as a prison during the Ottoman Empire.
Located in Tel Aviv’s ancient Jaffa district, the 120-room luxury hotel consists of five adjoining buildings at a site known to locals as the Kishle, or “jailhouse” in Turkish. The property features walnut furnishings, Middle Eastern fabrics and custom brass fixtures, while the hotel’s stone corridors and “spear-tipped” bars over the windows are nods to the site’s past.
Guests can access a rooftop infinity pool overlooking the Mediterranean as well as an inner courtyard with citrus and olive trees. The hotel also has a restaurant called Jaya, which specializes in Israeli and Turkish cuisine; a bar offering British high tea service; and a spa with seven treatment rooms and a hammam.
The hotel displays 12th century artifacts that were unearthed during the redevelopment of the property, which functioned as a police station until 2005.
The Setai Tel Aviv is the city’s first hotels to be part of the Leading Hotels of the World collection, and is Israel’s second Setai-branded property after the Setai — Sea of Galilee.
Source: travelweekly.com