Syrian Adventures: My hotel for the first few days

After a very good night of sleep in the Sultan Hotel (horning noises don’t wake me up when I am exhausted !), I discovered that the price of my room was more expensive that I thought. The room was very clean, with a shower and western toilet. But 39$/night was too much for my budget. I tried to make a deal but the hotel was full so they didn’t really care about my bargaining skills. Direction an internet café to find a cheaper one.

After looking at my mails and seeing that Paulius and Jason were thinking that I was already in a pub (Almost No pub in Syria guys !!), I called a couple of cheap hostels.

Alex : Hello, is it the ……hotel ?

Receptionist : unknown arabic answer

Alex : Do you speak English, French, Spanish... Quebecois ?

Receptionist : unknown different answer but I couldnt understant anything anyway…

5th try.

- Hotel Al Kindi ?

-Speak English ? Yes , a bit ?

Room available ? Yes ? Can I visit ? Naam

OK let’s go.This hotel was actually not very far from my first one and I walked through the crazy Syrian traffic to my destination. (I have to say that the Egyptian traffic keeps the gold medal for crazy traffic !). The place is on the 3rd floor of a very small street and it was pretty hard to find it. Oh, wait, didn’t I tell you ? I don’t speak arabic but most of the streets have no name. Luckilu, the Syrian people are very kind and they are always willing to help you even if they don ‘t talk your language. I will talk about it in another post.

Well, about the hotel, they only had a double room (I came alone guys !!!), but it was very cheap. 600 hundred Syrian Pounds ( about 9 euros). The room is not very clean nor is the bathroom, but as I already said, I am on a short budget and I don’t really need anything more. I even have a small TV in my room with 200 channels . 197 arabic channels, Euronews , CNN, and Al Ahly TV (special hello to Youssef, Mahmoud and Mohamed !). Unfortunately, they didn ‘t broadcast the Marseille game of Champion’s league. So i dediced to leave Syria at the end of the week. Just kidding.

Here are some pictures of my first (actually second) beloved room.