{"type":"city","city":"Eliat","citySlug":"eliat","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/israel/eliat","description":"Eilat sits at the bottom of Israel, pressed between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, where the Negev desert drops to the Red Sea in a series of rust-colored escarpments that seem barely to tolerate the resort city built at their base. The town itself is a familiar Mediterranean beach destination playbook: promenade hotels, dive shops, duty-free shopping, Russian tourists in August. But the surrounding landscape, particularly as you move north into the Arava desert and toward the Edom mountains, is something else entirely. The rock formations change color through the day from terracotta to deep violet, and the emptiness has a physical weight to it. This is the geography that makes Eilat interesting to architects and to the kind of traveler who finds the beach hotels beside the point.\n\nSix Senses Shaharut sits not in Eilat proper but sixty kilometers north, in the Negev highlands near the ancient caravan settlement of Shaharut, at an elevation of roughly 900 meters. The project, designed with the desert's material palette as its starting point, uses local stone, rammed earth tones, and low-profile structures that read as extensions of the plateau rather than impositions on it. The Nabataean spice routes ran through this terrain for centuries, connecting the Red Sea port at Aqaba to the Mediterranean coast, and the site carries that sense of a place people have always paused at, not passed through. Individual tent-like structures and stone villas are dispersed across the ridge with enough distance between them that the silence is genuinely preserved, which in a commercial hospitality context is a harder thing to achieve than it sounds.\n\nThe practical reality is that Six Senses Shaharut operates at a price point, around $963 per night, that reflects both its remoteness and the level of environmental engineering required to run a desert property responsibly. Transfers from Eilat's airport take about an hour, and the road north through the Arava is itself part of the experience, the landscape growing stranger and more spare as the coast disappears. For anyone drawn to extreme topography and the particular calm that comes from staying somewhere that had to work hard to exist where it does, this is not a compromise destination or a detour from Eilat. It is the reason to come.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"Six Senses Shaharut","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/israel/eliat/six-senses-shaharut","city":"Eliat","cityHeader":"Eliat • Shaharut • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Shaharut","loyaltyProgram":"IHG® One Rewards","designSummary":"Cresting a ridge in Israel's Negev desert, where the ancient Incense Route once traced its way toward the Red Sea, a low-slung row of rough-hewn stone pavilions glows amber against the dusk — a silhouette that could belong to a Nabataean settlement if not for the floor-to-ceiling glazing catching the last of the desert light. Six Senses Shaharut, which opened in 2020 near the town of Shaharut overlooking the Arava Valley, was designed by Israeli architect Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects and Planners, with the brief centered on near-invisibility: the massing follows the ridge contour, and the local sandstone used throughout the construction ties the structure physically to its plateau in a way that renders it almost indistinguishable from the escarpment at distance.\n\nInside, the design moves between raw materiality and considered restraint. Rooms are finished in tadelakt-smooth plaster, their floors laid in herringbone terracotta brick, furnished with Beni Ourain-style wool rugs in red and cream and low-slung beds dressed in natural linen. The restaurant's ceiling — an intricate lattice of split timber poles laid in a diagonal geometric pattern — draws directly from traditional Bedouin and Nabataean craft, while kilim-upholstered dining chairs and a monumental driftwood bench ground the space in the nomadic material culture of the wider region. Unpeeled eucalyptus columns support the pool pergola overhead, framing an infinity edge that dissolves into the Jordanian mountains beyond.","snippet":"A ridge-top Negev resort with stone pavilions that echo Nabataean settlements and Bedouin-inspired interiors.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts exploring Israel's Negev Desert","vibe":"Desert-minimalist · archaeological","highlights":["Stone pavilions follow ridge contours, nearly invisible from distance","Interiors blend tadelakt plaster, terracotta brick, and Bedouin craft references","Infinity pool overlooks the Arava Valley toward Jordanian mountains"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$915","pricePerNightExclTax":"$915","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujh8z03vr15ymiwl6ovt51713358369399_41730af9-5327-4eff-b5ab-d7623da8a9fb.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Six Senses Shaharut — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Six Senses Shaharut · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Six Senses Shaharut captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujn5504xj15ymnwsn92p01713358369989_4ed0dc5b-d2cf-4692-8ff8-387a024e71f5.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Six Senses Shaharut — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Six Senses Shaharut · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Six Senses Shaharut, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujsy605z315ym535d6o451713358368745_51249268-d1b0-43bb-8b07-8923ad8e7566.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Six Senses Shaharut — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Six Senses Shaharut · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Six Senses Shaharut — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujyuv070v15ym04pr4yls1713358370610_e72bd5ae-002d-4704-ab9a-3e1a0166ad73.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Six Senses Shaharut — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Six Senses Shaharut · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Six Senses Shaharut, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk4or082m15ymnjmt5li81713358371328_bb790e99-826f-4749-b078-4b51e0b9e71e.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Six Senses Shaharut — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Six Senses Shaharut · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Six Senses Shaharut — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}