Friend of mine went to a 5 star hotel in Eilat. 5 star. Took them 1/2 hour to park his car. Then they gave him the wrong room. He had said that he was on his honeymoon but the room had two beds on opposite sides of the room. As he put it, they were really far apart.
The towels in the bathroom were dirty, one with lipstick stains, the other with what looked like poop stains. He went to the restaurant to get some food and it didn't come for 45 minutes. He decided to go swimming. The pool was supposed to be open till 10 PM. At 8:30 PM they announced it was closing.
The Shabbos timers didn't work so the light stayed on all of Shabbos. A shabbos goy was supposed to come by to turn out the light but he never did, at 2:20 AM they gave up on it.
The porch was 2x2 and there was no chair even though other units had chairs.
He asked to see the manager but there was no manager working that day. I hear in Israel whenever you ask to see the manager you are told that he isn't there that day. That's even at so-called five star motels.
My friend tells me that all week long there were problems like this.
He called afterward to get some kind of reimbursement but the lady who takes complaints wasn't there.
I have another friend whose father was visiting from America and stayed in a hotel in Jerusalem. When my friend, who is dressed as a Haredi, came to visit the security wouldn't let him in. They interrogated him, didn't believe that he had any actual business at the hotel. When the father came downstairs and said this is my son they still wouldn't let him in! They had to leave together to get something to eat in the city. Couldn't sit in the lobby or in the room that the father paid for!
I once went to a hotel as I was with my kids and we missed the last bus out of Jerusalem. They said they don't rent to children. I said, we missed the last bus. We'll be out in the morning. The lady said no. I pulled out my credit card. "A room please," I said. She said "no". So we walked back into the dark night at 12 AM with suitcases with nowhere to go. I didn't understand. I have seen children at this hotel. It's a big place near the central bus station. I think she was just being obnoxious.
I immediately recalled what an American oleh rabbi had told me during my pilot trip, that Israelis have no derech eretz but they'll give you the shirt off their back. Here I couldn't even get a room if I paid for it. My experience with Israelis, and I have a hundred stories such as bus drivers tossing us off the bus because they didn't want to finish their route, they won't give you the shirt off of your back. They'll rip it into pieces and toss it not on the floor but in your face. What this rabbi did was cover for these terrible people. That's an act of Zionism. He probably doesn't think of himself as a Zionist because he wants to see himself as being yeshivish but he is a Zionist like most of them.
So in reality, Israelis will not give you the shirt off their back and 5 star hotels are really 1 star hotels because I have stayed in many hotels and motels in America and never did I get dirty towels.
This is the land of lies, big and small. That it's a Jewish country. That is has a functioning democracy. That the economy is strong and it's a high tech stronghold. That is has a humane army. If you haven't been paying attention, the year and a half long assault on Gaza has revealed that lie.
But for today I'm just talking about hotels. 5 star hotel. Another Israeli lie.
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