Hotels near National Park Qumran, Kalia

I so wish we had booked to stay for 2 nights instead of 1. This guesthouse is in a restricted area, due to its proximity to the Palestine border. On arrival, go to the Visitor Centre and speak to the Police. They will issue you with a pass that enables you to pass the checkpoint and drive down to the guest house. Due to border patrols, you are not allowed to access the River Jordan at night. There is ample parking and, currently, the whole area is very quiet. (However, the Catholics are building on the adjacent plot, so this might increase the number of tourists.) There were only half a dozen other people staying when we were there, so we almost had the residence to ourselves. Our room has comfortable twin beds and was utterly quiet. We hadn't realised how far the guest house was from the nearest town and how difficult it was to access the site, so we didn't know where to get dinner. The cooks prepared food for the staff and they kindly provided extra, so that we were able to eat. The absolute highlight for me was sitting on the terrace, watching the sun set over Palestine. It really was rather special and I didn't want to go in to bed.

Pools and view over the Death Sea were perfect!!! Nice spacious room that was very clean.

This is a wonderful and really high-quality Kibbutz Hotel by the Dead Sea. It is safe to stay at the hotel, because the hotel is guarded by a group of +10 soldiers of the Israeli army 24h/7d and the area is fenced with barbed wire. The hotel is like its own village, there is a shop and its own nice terraced houses. And there's a wonderful swimming pool and in the yard you can grill meat in a real wood fire and buy beer from a convenience store 100 meters away. There are nice cats in the yard that you want to feed with pieces of meat. I come back here and grill outside and swim in the wonderful swimming pool or the nearby Dead Sea swimming pool.

Esam in charge of our room was an absolute wonder when it comes to service and making us feel welcome. It was nice with the free mud wrap on the beach.

Very kind staff, they even offered us a free additional room because they didn't have an available triple room with 3 single beds. The breakfast was great. The location is great as well. It is located in a quiet neighborhood, a bit far from the center.