Best hotels in Tel Aviv | A Curated Visual Guide to Top Stays

Welcome to PressBeyond, the ultimate curated visual guide for design-driven hotels! My name is Will Miller and these are my recommendations for the best boutique and luxury hotels in Tel Aviv.

I am the founder of PressBeyond and I am an ultra-meticulous hotel curator who loves clean visuals. I have individually analyzed and tiered each hotel included in this guide based on a variety of criteria (architecture & design, location, brand & brand affiliation, existing reviews, and my own personal experiences), and importantly, I have hand-selected the leading imagery for each hotel to provide you with easily-digestible, yet detailed and complete, like-for-like, high-level visual profiles. I felt this summarization step was a critical missing piece across existing guides, blogs, and booking platforms. My aim is to make it easier for people to identify hotel environments that resonate with them, along with enabling them to visualize the types of social experiences that those environments help foster. My brain doesn't work when exposed to cluttered content, so my goal was to create the opposite.

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An Overview of the Boutique & Luxury Hotel Landscape in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's Bauhaus inheritance is only part of the story. The White City designation, earned by the concentration of International Style buildings along Rothschild Boulevard and its tributaries, has shaped how the city imagines its own modernity — but the more interesting hospitality conversation is happening at the friction point between that modernist legacy and the Ottoman-era stone of Jaffa to the south. The Norman Tel Aviv, a restored 1920s building in Lev HaIr, handles this tension with particular intelligence: its interiors layer Mandate-period architecture against contemporary craft without tipping into nostalgia. Nearby, Sam & Blondi occupies the same central neighborhood with a sharper, more boutique-scaled ambition, and the Shenkin Hotel keeps things quieter and considerably more affordable without sacrificing the quality of the address. Neve Tzedek, the late-Ottoman neighborhood that predates the city itself, carries the Elkonin Tel Aviv Hotel — an MGallery property in a sensitively restored early-twentieth-century building that represents the highest price point in that quarter — alongside the more casual Brown TLV Urban Hotel, which serves the neighborhood's younger creative constituency at a fraction of the rate. Jaffa absorbs a disproportionate share of design ambition. The Jaffa, a Luxury Collection hotel, was converted by John Pawson from a nineteenth-century French hospital — his characteristic restraint applied to rubble-stone walls and vaulted ceilings produces something genuinely austere in the best sense. The Setai Tel Aviv works a similar vein of ancient-meets-spare within the old city's fabric. Market House Hotel and The Drisco Tel Aviv are smaller in scale but no less serious in their restoration thinking, with the Drisco occupying a building that has served travelers since the late Ottoman period. Soho House brings its familiar members-club grammar to the mix, which either dilutes or democratizes the experience depending on your threshold for brand. The Nahalat Binyamin corridor offers a different proposition again. The Nordoy Hotel is the neighborhood's most considered address, priced accordingly, while The Poli House by Brown Hotels operates one step down in cost with plenty of personality intact. Brown Beach House at Trumpeldor keeps things genuinely casual and beach-proximate — useful if the architecture conversation is secondary to the Mediterranean. The Link Hotel and Mendeli Street Hotel serve the city-center traveler who needs function over statement. Taken together, the portfolio reveals a city where restoration intelligence consistently outperforms new construction as a basis for hospitality design.

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Shenkin Hotel

Tel Aviv • Lev HaIr • OPTIMIZE

avg. $139 / night

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Shenkin Hotel Design Editorial

Shenkin Street has long served as the informal spine of Tel Aviv's most self-consciously creative neighbourhood, a tree-lined corridor through Lev HaIr where vintage clothing shops and third-wave coffee bars crowd the ground floors of Bauhaus-era apartment buildings. The Shenkin Hotel fits this address with considered ease — a seven-storey structure whose rendered concrete facade is animated by deep horizontal floor plates planted with agave and ornamental grasses, and whose left flank is clad entirely in warm-toned timber slats that catch the evening light in the images here like a vertical garden wall pulled taut. The ground-floor lobby opens directly onto the street through full-height glazing shaded by broad black-and-white striped awnings, a detail that keeps the building in conversation with the neighbourhood's café terraces rather than retreating behind hotel formality. Inside, the interiors work a layered eclecticism that suits the street's character — herringbone oak floors run through all guest rooms, caramel-upholstered beds with quilted headboards sit against sheer linen curtains, and bold pop-inflected canvases provide the rooms' primary colour hit. The lobby pairs a deep-buttoned Chesterfield sofa in aged dark leather with a mustard linen settee and an oval oak coffee table, an arrangement that carries the feeling of a well-edited private sitting room. On the roof, horizontal ipe decking and a cedar-clad utility volume frame sun loungers set against an open panorama of the Tel Aviv skyline.

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Market House Hotel

Tel Aviv • Old Jaffa • SPLURGE

avg. $287 / night

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Market House Hotel Design Editorial

At the corner where Jaffa's old market district meets the pedestrian lanes leading toward the port, a four-storey Ottoman-era building clad in the honey-coloured kurkar limestone characteristic of this coastline was converted into the 66-room Market House Hotel in 2016. The building's curved corner facade, wrought-iron balconies, and arched ground-floor openings survived largely intact, their warm sandstone surfaces given a patina of evident age that no contemporary hotel developer would have the patience — or the stone — to replicate. The copper-toned hip roof, visible in the exterior images, signals the careful restoration without tipping into pastiche. Inside, the design sensibility belongs to a particular strand of Tel Aviv hospitality that arrived in the mid-2010s: equal parts Levantine merchant house and Brooklyn-inflected vintage eclecticism. The double-height lobby arranges tan leather club chairs across a geometric cement-tile floor, open steel shelving carrying books and globes beneath arched timber-framed windows, black-painted industrial ceiling tracks running overhead. Guest rooms carry the same considered mix — panelled headboard walls painted a warm off-white, striped wool throws, yellow Anglepoise-style desk lamps, and painted tongue-and-groove ceiling panels fitted with slow-turning black ceiling fans that make the Mediterranean heat feel intentional rather than oppressive. The restaurant continues the language with marble bistro tables, bentwood Thonet chairs, a roll-top walnut sideboard, and a upright piano tucked against walls lined floor-to-ceiling with bottle storage.

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The Drisco Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv • Jaffa • SPLURGE

avg. $342 / night

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The Drisco Tel Aviv Design Editorial

Built in 1866 by the American Colony of Jaffa — a group of New England settlers who crossed the Atlantic convinced they could hasten the Second Coming by farming the Holy Land — the limestone structure that became The Drisco Hotel carries one of the stranger origin stories in Mediterranean hospitality. The building served successively as a colony dormitory, a convalescent home for British officers during the First World War, and eventually one of the most storied addresses in pre-state Tel Aviv, hosting figures from Kaiser Wilhelm II to Agatha Christie before falling into long disrepair. Its 2016 restoration preserved the Levantine eclectic facade with remarkable fidelity: crenellated roofline, wrought-iron balconies on carved stone brackets, and louvered shutters framing arched windows that glow amber against the Jaffa evening sky. Inside, the 45 rooms navigate the building's layered centuries rather than flatten them. The groin-vaulted suite visible in the images makes no attempt to disguise its medieval Crusader-era bones — whitewashed barrel arches sweep across wide-plank oak floors, with a warm timber headboard and globe sconces providing just enough contemporary friction to keep the room from feeling archaeological. The restaurant works a different register entirely: marble tile floors inlaid with geometric banding, floral-bordered wall tiles, marble columns, and an overhead lattice of black steel framing — an atmosphere closer to a grand Cairo dining room of the 1920s than anything generically boutique. The Moorish brass pendant clusters in the standard rooms pull both worlds into alignment.

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Sam & Blondi

Tel Aviv • Lev HaIr • SPLURGE

avg. $383 / night

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Sam & Blondi Design Editorial

On a corner plot in Lev HaIr — Tel Aviv's historic centre, where Bauhaus geometry meets early Ottoman-influenced building stock — a warm ochre facade layered with tiered balconies, dark louvred shutters, and cascading planters announces Sam & Blondi as something closer to a Levantine townhouse than a conventional hotel. The building's Eclectic-style architecture, characteristic of the early twentieth-century neighbourhoods that preceded the White City's International Style wave, has been carefully restored and extended upward, its ground floor thrown open to the street with a pavement terrace that pulls the neighbourhood through the front door. Inside, the design moves between registers with considerable confidence. The lobby bar pairs a channelled tan leather sofa — clearly in dialogue with Ligne Roset's Togo lineage — with cobalt velvet bar stools, a fluted dark-timber counter finished in black marble, and a vintage crystal rod chandelier suspended against walls with original painted tile-border detailing. Guest rooms carry the same eclecticism upward: scallop-shell headboards in deep navy or charcoal velvet, herringbone-diamond parquet floors in a three-tone wood palette, brass wall sconces, and generous terraces with views across the Tel Aviv skyline. The on-site café, by contrast, strips everything back — exposed kurkar limestone blockwork, a rose-veined marble counter, and open steel shelving giving it the atmosphere of a neighbourhood bakery that predates the hotel by decades.

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Nordoy Hotel

Tel Aviv • Nahalat Binyamin • SPLURGE

avg. $457 / night

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Nordoy Hotel Design Editorial

That rose-pink facade on Nahalat Binyamin Street — arched windows, wrought-iron balconies, a lead-clad dome sitting incongruously beneath a wall of contemporary Tel Aviv towers — belongs to one of the city's most photographed Ottoman-era buildings, a structure that predates Israel itself by several decades. The Nordoy Hotel was carved from this early twentieth-century mansion, its Eclectic-style exterior preserved with considerable fidelity while the interior was reworked to accommodate around 30 rooms across four floors, with a rooftop terrace added to bring the building into conversation with the skyline pressing in around it. Inside, the rooms balance the building's old bones against warm, considered furnishings: dark herringbone parquet floors, mustard-upholstered platform beds, brass swing-arm reading lamps, and sheer white curtains pooling against tall arched windows. The larger suites feel genuinely residential — a tufted sofa, a gilded glass coffee table, an antique dressing table placed casually near French doors opening to the iron balustrades. The lobby anteroom leans more eclectic in mood, vintage olive-green leather armchairs gathered beneath pendant lights woven from teal rope, ceramic face-plates mounted against the ochre-washed walls. The restaurant continues this layered informality: open timber shelving stacked with wine bottles, gold drum pendants above marble-topped tables, bentwood chairs mixed with darker modern seating, and a hand-lettered chalkboard wall that gives the room the atmosphere of a neighbourhood wine bar rather than hotel dining.

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The Jaffa, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv • Old Jaffa • SPLURGE

avg. $472 / night

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The Jaffa, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Tel Aviv Design Editorial

A nineteenth-century French hospital built by the Franciscan order on the ancient port of Jaffa, one of the oldest cities on earth, provided John Pawson with an architectural problem that few designers would be equipped to handle: how to graft a contemporary hotel onto a building whose very stones carry millennia of accumulated meaning. His answer, visible in the facade image, was a rooftop addition of fluted pale metal — almost luminous against the honey-coloured Jerusalem limestone below — that signals modernity without competing with the original arched windows and carved masonry coursework. The Jaffa, which opened in 2018 with 111 rooms across the converted hospital and a new tower, holds the tension between ruin and renewal more convincingly than most adaptive-reuse projects of its generation. Inside, Pawson's interiors maintain his characteristic restraint: platform beds with under-lit bases float above bleached oak floors, sage-green bed runners providing the only warm note against walls in tallow white. Pierced-screen panels filter Levantine light into lace patterns across the guestrooms, and a deep-red sculptural armchair — visible in the tower rooms — anchors each space against the geometry. The restaurant preserves the original hospital's barrel-vaulted stone arcades, their rough-hewn Kurkar limestone left entirely untouched, lantern light and tropical planting softening what would otherwise be an austere medieval atmosphere. The pool courtyard, framed by white-painted classical facades and a Greek Orthodox church bell tower rising above the treeline, achieves something rare: genuine serenity within one of the Middle East's most densely layered cities.

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Elkonin Tel Aviv Hotel - MGallery

Tel Aviv • Neve Tzedek • OVER THE TOP

avg. $674 / night

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Elkonin Tel Aviv Hotel - MGallery Design Editorial

A three-storey Eclectic-style villa on the edge of Neve Tzedek — Tel Aviv's oldest neighbourhood, founded in 1887 before the city itself existed — gives the Elkonin Tel Aviv MGallery its most compelling design argument: the tension between a carefully restored early-twentieth-century facade, with its arched windows, wrought-iron balustrades, and black-shuttered symmetry, and the crisp contemporary tower that rises directly behind it, the two structures fused into a single property rather than left in polite disagreement. The original building, named for the Elkonin family who commissioned it, carries the plastered white render and Levantine-European proportions typical of Neve Tzedek's founding generation; the tower adds the floors that make a modern hotel commercially viable, with a rooftop lap pool at the summit offering unobstructed views west toward the Mediterranean. The interiors navigate the same duality with considerable assurance. In the restaurant, which is housed within the historic villa, duck-egg blue upper walls meet pale ash joinery, cane-back bistro chairs, and marble-topped tables beneath pendant lights that combine brass fittings with teal ceramic spheres — a palette that feels simultaneously Mediterranean and Tel Avivian. Guest rooms in the tower favour light oak flooring, upholstered headboards in warm taupe and sage, and generously framed floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the city's terracotta rooflines and, on higher floors, the coastline beyond. Patterned rugs in dusty blues and reds ground each room, introducing a handmade warmth against the otherwise clean-lined millwork.

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The Norman Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv • Lev HaIr • OVER THE TOP

avg. $684 / night

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The Norman Tel Aviv Design Editorial

Two Bauhaus-era buildings on Nachmani Street in Tel Aviv's Lev HaIr — a neighbourhood whose layered 1930s fabric earned UNESCO World Heritage status in 2003 — were carefully knit together and restored to create The Norman, which opened in 2014 across 50 rooms and suites spread over five floors. The project, overseen by architect Eran Shitrit with interiors handled by two separate designers working in deliberate contrast, treats the Bauhaus inheritance as a living language rather than a period piece: the white rendered facades, horizontal ribbon windows, and flat roofline visible in the images are original fabric, preserved and backlit to emphasise their geometry against the Tel Aviv dusk. The interior approach splits the two buildings between Ron Arad, who took the original structure with its high-ceilinged rooms, dark-stained herringbone floors, and mid-century furnishings — chartreuse lounge chairs, geometric round rugs, warm walnut wardrobes — and Piero Lissoni, whose rooms carry a quieter sensibility: suede-panelled headboards with suspended pendant lights in smoked glass, parquet in a tighter chevron pattern, sheer linen curtains pooling Mediterranean afternoon light. On the roof, an infinity pool extends toward a teak-decked terrace with views across the White City to the sea. Below street level, a marble-countered omakase restaurant with walnut shelving and red leather counter stools completes a property that holds its contradictions — old and new, restrained and exuberant — with considerable confidence.

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Brown TLV Urban Hotel

Tel Aviv • Neve Tzedek • OPTIMIZE

avg. $107 / night

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Brown TLV Urban Hotel Design Editorial

Perched at the edge of Neve Tzedek, the neighbourhood that predates Tel Aviv itself, Brown TLV Urban Hotel channels the particular energy of a city that has never quite decided whether it wants to be a beach town or a metropolis — and has concluded, triumphantly, that it can be both. The five-storey building, its dark chocolate facade punctuated by Juliet balconies strung with fabric hammock chairs, sits comfortably among the district's low-rise residential fabric while the glass towers of central Tel Aviv rise visibly behind the roofline. Liat Tzoubery's interior concept runs a single consistent idea from ground to roof: deep espresso-stained timber, dark-lacquered walls, and recessed cove lighting that gives every space the warm amber quality of a late-night bar rather than a hotel lobby. Guest rooms carry this through with four-poster beds draped in sheer white linen set against near-black walls — the contrast doing the decorative work that another designer might have assigned to pattern or colour. Black marble shower enclosures behind frosted glass panels, Flos-style arc lamps in polished chrome, and mid-century-inflected writing desks in warm walnut establish a palette that feels genuinely residential rather than assembled. Above it all, a teak-decked rooftop terrace furnished with cushioned daybeds, wirework lanterns, and drought-tolerant plantings delivers the view that earns the whole exercise — the Tel Aviv skyline spread low and glittering across a horizon that still, just barely, carries the salt of the sea.

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Brown Beach House

Tel Aviv • Trumpeldor Beach • OPTIMIZE

avg. $151 / night

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Brown Beach House Design Editorial

That neon flamingo — violet-pink against a white stucco facade, visible from the Ayalon highway and half the boardwalk — tells you immediately what kind of hotel Brown Beach House intends to be. Set on Herbert Samuel Esplanade at Trumpeldor Beach, the six-storey building was developed by the Brown Hotels group, Israel's most design-forward hospitality brand, and carries the irreverent confidence that has made the group's properties essential conversation on the Tel Aviv hotel circuit. The White City vernacular of flat roofs and horizontal balconies gives the exterior a Bauhaus adjacency, but the attitude inside is closer to Miami than Mandate-era modernism. The interiors pursue a warm tropical register throughout — dark-stained herringbone timber floors, marble-topped console tables on brass legs, and black four-poster bed frames upholstered against ochre and mustard yellow seating that runs through every room category. The lobby bar is the most arresting space: a bamboo-clad central counter under a double-height room draped entirely in floor-to-ceiling white sheer curtains, banana palms and bird-of-paradise plants pressing in from every corner, rattan cross-back barstools around a white marble top. The breakfast room keeps the rattan and marble but adds a black-and-white tiled floor and open oak shelving dressed with sunflowers and stacked art books — an atmosphere that sits somewhere between a well-edited beach apartment and a greenhouse that got slightly out of hand.

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Link Hotel & Hub Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv • City Center • OPTIMIZE

avg. $155 / night

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Link Hotel & Hub Tel Aviv Design Editorial

Street art as a design philosophy rather than a decorative afterthought is a genuine rarity in hospitality, and it anchors everything about Link Hotel & Hub in Tel Aviv's city center. The ten-storey concrete-framed building, its facade articulated by projecting horizontal bands now backlit in amber at dusk, was given a full interior overhaul that placed commissioned murals — layered with graffiti-style portraiture, stencilled figures, and pop iconography — at the center of the guest experience rather than the periphery. The ground-floor hub is the most convincing expression of this: exposed ductwork overhead, smoked-glass globe pendants suspended above herringbone-tiled floors, and walls engulfed in floor-to-ceiling artwork that draws on street culture from Basquiat to contemporary Israeli urban art. The 130 or so guestrooms carry the same visual energy with greater restraint — powder-blue walls paired with upholstered grey platform beds, the street art confined to a single large-format canvas above the headboard, glass-walled shower enclosures lit in chromotherapy blue. The hub lounge functions as much as co-working space as lobby: green velvet sofas, open oak shelving loaded with ceramics and objects, and a stepped seating platform upholstered in acid yellow and red cushions give the room the atmosphere of a creative studio rather than a hotel reception. It is a formula that suits Tel Aviv's self-image as a city permanently in motion between technology and culture.

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Mendeli Street Hotel

Tel Aviv • City Center • OPTIMIZE

avg. $159 / night

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Mendeli Street Hotel Design Editorial

Hebrew script — abstracted, flattened into low relief — runs across the entrance panels and headboard walls of Mendeli Street Hotel as both ornament and cultural signal, a device that anchors this compact Tel Aviv property firmly in place without resorting to folkoric cliché. Designed by Israeli studio Irit Axelrod, the 34-room hotel sits within a mid-century building on a quiet street in the heart of the White City, a short walk from the beach and the Bauhaus fabric of Rothschild Boulevard. The calligraphic motif migrates from facade to interior ceiling, where laser-cut panels in the bar and lobby form an intricate typographic canopy overhead — the same visual language appearing in miniature relief on the all-white bedroom walls, giving each room a textural identity that the otherwise pared-back palette quietly depends on. The rooms themselves hold to a disciplined simplicity: pale oak floors, linen-upholstered bedheads, striped wool throws in red, grey, and teal that introduce the one moment of chromatic warmth against acres of white plaster. Window benches double as daybeds, keeping the floor plans generous despite modest footprints. Downstairs, the ground-floor bar and restaurant around a square timber counter, with chartreuse armchairs, a Moroccan silver pouf, and a living green wall providing the kind of layered informality that Tel Aviv's hotel scene has made something of a signature. The effect throughout is closer to a well-curated apartment than a boutique hotel — intentionally so.

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The Poli House by Brown Hotels

Tel Aviv • Nachalat Binyamin • OPTIMIZE

avg. $219 / night

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The Poli House by Brown Hotels Design Editorial

Built in 1934 at the corner of Tel Aviv's Nachalat Binyamin Street, the curved white tower that houses The Poli House by Brown Hotels is one of the purest surviving examples of International Style architecture in a city that UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site for precisely this kind of building. The original structure, designed in the Bauhaus-influenced manner that European-trained architects brought to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s, presents its characteristic rounded corner balconies, horizontal banding, and flat roof to the street with the confidence of a building that has always understood its own importance. What the renovation — carried out under the direction of Israeli designer Karim Rashid, who completed the interiors around 2016 — does is place that architectural inheritance in deliberate tension with a graphic Pop sensibility. Inside the hotel's 35 rooms, the collision is productive rather than jarring: all-white volumes are activated by acid-yellow seating, turquoise daybed upholstery, and sculpted oval mirrors set flush into the walls, while black-and-white chevron-patterned rugs and wave-relief headboard panels recall Rashid's signature appetite for optical pattern without overwhelming the compact proportions. The rooftop is the property's most assured gesture — a rooftop pool and bar terrace set against the Tel Aviv skyline, patterned cement tiles underfoot, a backlit curved bar in Corian white, and Moroccan-influenced lanterns casting warm light across wire-frame sun loungers. The whole thing holds together because the building was always modern, and Rashid simply pushed that fact forward.

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Soho House Tel Aviv, Jaffa

Tel Aviv • Jaffa • OPTIMIZE

avg. $277 / night

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Soho House Tel Aviv, Jaffa Design Editorial

A nineteenth-century French Crusader-style castle rising from the ancient port city of Jaffa — crenellated tower, honey-limestone ashlar, white-shuttered arched windows — gives Soho House Tel Aviv Jaffa one of the most architecturally charged settings in the group's global portfolio. The building, originally constructed in the 1880s and known as the House of the French Consul, was later expanded to include adjacent Ottoman-era structures, their rough-cut stone walls left entirely exposed through the conversion. Together the structures hold around 45 rooms across several floors, the castle's circular tower visible from the courtyard below where a shallow pool edged in olive-green glazed tile sits beneath fringed terracotta parasols and Italian cypress. Inside, Soho House's in-house design team worked across registers that suit both halves of the building's personality: in some rooms, teal velvet bed bases and boldly striped block-colour curtains hang against tall arched windows, the effect closer to a maximal Mediterranean townhouse than a heritage restoration; in others, sculptural oak headboards with totemic carved finials anchor pale duck-egg walls in a mood that draws more from contemporary craft. The communal lounge brings the building's bones forward most plainly — exposed limestone rubble walls, mint-painted wooden ceiling beams, and an eclectic layering of rattan chairs, oversized ceramic lamps, and tufted cushions that manages to feel assembled rather than decorated. The tension between Crusader castle and 1970s-influenced soft furnishings, against a backdrop of one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, is precisely what makes the hotel work.

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The Setai, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv • Old Jaffa • SPLURGE

avg. $446 / night

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The Setai, Tel Aviv Design Editorial

What was once an Ottoman-era police station and prison at the edge of ancient Jaffa — its massive kurkar limestone walls and vaulted stone arches having witnessed centuries of the city's turbulent history — became The Setai Tel Aviv when the Miami-based Setai Group undertook its conversion in 2017. The architects preserved the fortified precinct's raw fabric with deliberate restraint, leaving the rough-hewn sandstone arcades intact in the restaurant, where barrel vaults span above contemporary oak tables and leather seating, a brass-slatted room divider the only concession to overt decoration. Guestrooms navigate a different register: travertine floors and Moorish-inflected pendant lanterns beside dark-stained headboard panels upholstered in quilted ivory leather, deep crimson Persian-style rugs anchoring the palette against white plaster walls. The Arabesque detailing in the pendant lights echoes the arched windows set into walls nearly a meter thick, their original stone surrounds left untouched. Above the fortification wall's seaward edge, a long infinity pool extends toward the Mediterranean on a teak-decked terrace, the horizon line of the water barely distinguishable from the sea beyond — a view that places the hotel's 120 rooms squarely between the ancient city behind them and one of the most contested coastlines in the world.

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The Ritz-Carlton, Herzliya

Tel Aviv • Herzliya • SPLURGE

avg. $482 / night

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The Ritz-Carlton, Herzliya Design Editorial

At the edge of Herzliya Marina, where leisure boats jostle against a promenade lined with restaurants spilling onto the quayside, a fourteen-storey tower clad in warm brick and pale stone establishes a quietly Mediterranean register that distinguishes the Ritz-Carlton Herzliya from the glass curtain-wall hotels that dominate Tel Aviv's beachfront. The massing is articulated through horizontal banding and recessed balconies that step back toward the upper floors, a louvred timber screen crowning the roofline and giving the building something of the feeling of a large residential block rather than a commercial tower — deliberate, given the marina setting's proximity to Herzliya Pituah, one of Israel's most affluent neighbourhoods. Inside, the interiors work a palette of taupe leather, dark-stained walnut millwork, and pale oak flooring — calm and corporate in the better sense, with floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors pushing each room toward its marina or Mediterranean view. The Herbert Samuel restaurant at ground level, a branch of the acclaimed Tel Aviv original, brings a more considered spatial sensibility: white louvred ceiling baffles, large-format grey stone tile, and cobalt blue chairs set against macassar ebony joinery. The rooftop terrace is the property's most atmospheric space, a teak-decked platform furnished with woven rattan seating and striped cushions beneath a retractable white pergola, the Mediterranean horizon visible across the full width of the glass balustrade.