Mount of Olives Hotel - Jerusalem

It was a delightful experience. they were especially helpful in accomadating some difficult dietary needs. We would happily stay there again.

DO NOT STAY AT THIS HOTEL! I usually find all caps annoying, but I couldn't emphasize more the horrible experience that I had at this hotel. I even contacted the hotel to see if they would be willing to dialogue with me about my experience, but noone responded. Here is a list of my complaints: (1) location good but with a hike - if you are a walker, like me, the hike up the Mount of Olives will wind you (even for a 33 year-old man in average fitness). I imagine I lost weight because of having to do this trip twice a day (but my knees suffered because of it). Even for hilly Jerusalem, the hike was a bit much. (2) hotel needs up-keep - the carpets were worn, the walls were drab from not being washed for probably years, the floors were decent...but overall, the hotel needed some major spring cleaning. (3) staff friendly but a bit cantakerous - actually, I should mention that they lied to me. See the point about the itching. They were really not helpful when I complained. (4) room okay - size and such were decent. (5) TV had tons of channels, but only three news stations - with nights being a bit hairy in this locale, I spent the nights in the hotel room. And watching CNN over and over again gets really boring! (6) no shampoo - I had to buy a thing of shampoo for only four nights. And the markets around were selling small-sized bottles (not travel-size but not your regular sized ones) for $3. I felt ripped off. *(7) itching - I barely got any sleep during my stay at the hotel! Every time I stayed in the bed, I started itching. The staff kept saying that this was the first time they had gotten this complaint. I didn't hear anyone else complaining, so I was thinking that maybe I was just allergic to the detergent they were using. And I couldn't find any evidence of bugs. But, on the last day of my stay, I was told by another patron that many other patrons were complaining of itching - of fleas! I'm not sure if it was fleas, but they definitely didn'