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Breakfast:
Paying guests get breakfast for free. If you are staying on points you need to be gold or diamond to get free breakfast. (source)

Parking:
Complimentary (No longer, is now 60sh for self park - Drago)

Shuls Nearby:
Great Synagogue - Approx. 7 minute walk
Kotel around 15min walk thru the mall & arab Shuk (Only suggested when soldiers are present like friday night on the way home)
Hotel has a Shul in the basement
Shul across the street

Hechsher: Plain Rabbanut Yerushayim (not mehadrin)
hechsherim in isreal
whatever your rabbi says you can eat, someone else's rabbi says is treif

If anyone is planing on staying at Waldorf and not eating the free breakfast (Hechsher, Early flight, etc') please PM shimino1

If you get free drinks vouchers and don't use them, I'll buy it off you for 10 shek per voucher.
PM shimino1

If anyone is planing on staying at Waldorf and not eating the free breakfast please PM dragoddfer, and he may be able to pay for the breakfast.

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Author Topic: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem  (Read 1172865 times)

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2340 on: May 24, 2016, 07:02:33 PM »
Can they also see you previous travels?
As in if you've ever been to the hotel before?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2341 on: May 24, 2016, 07:18:23 PM »
Can they also see you previous travels?

As in if you've ever been to the hotel before?

Of course.  They'll likely welcome you "back". 

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2342 on: May 24, 2016, 07:24:49 PM »
Of course.  They'll likely welcome you "back".
Yes I had that. I was just asking him if that's what he was referring to.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2343 on: May 24, 2016, 07:39:52 PM »
What would be the closest Mikvah on the way to the Kosel?

Also if I order a coffee will the milk be חלב ישראל?
You can say what you think when you think what you say.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2344 on: May 24, 2016, 07:44:12 PM »
What would be the closest Mikvah on the way to the Kosel?

Also if I order a coffee will the milk be חלב ישראל?
Weren't you there before?


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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2345 on: May 24, 2016, 07:52:10 PM »
What would be the closest Mikvah on the way to the Kosel?

Also if I order a coffee will the milk be חלב ישראל?
Can't guarantee, but can't imagine they have anything else but c"y

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2346 on: May 24, 2016, 07:57:45 PM »
Weren't you there before?
Thanks
Weren't you there before?
My first time here

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2347 on: May 24, 2016, 08:22:04 PM »
What would be the closest Mikvah on the way to the Kosel?

Also if I order a coffee will the milk be חלב ישראל?

Walking thru the old city right before the stairs down to the wall,  theres a street on the left that leads to a mikvah .

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2348 on: May 25, 2016, 04:42:43 AM »
The Supervisor here indeed confirmed for me that they blocked superior rooms because they don't want points bookings.
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2349 on: May 25, 2016, 04:44:04 AM »
The Supervisor here indeed confirmed for me that they blocked superior rooms because they don't want points bookings.
So why they open them back up?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2350 on: May 25, 2016, 04:49:30 AM »
So why they open them back up?
:e is not the decision maker and he did not know exact details. When I asked him why Superior rooms are not available on weekends he said because they don't want points bookings
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2351 on: May 25, 2016, 05:43:21 AM »
Walking thru the old city right before the stairs down to the wall,  theres a street on the left that leads to a mikvah .

IIRC you need to pass an Arabs property, and it's outdoors.
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2352 on: May 25, 2016, 06:08:22 AM »
:e is not the decision maker and he did not know exact details. When I asked him why Superior rooms are not available on weekends he said because they don't want points bookings
Is there any way to book the superior room at all?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2353 on: May 25, 2016, 06:09:48 AM »
Is there any way to book the superior room at all?
Then or now? Bec now there is availability on some dates.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2354 on: May 25, 2016, 06:13:13 AM »
Then or now? Bec now there is availability on some dates.
On the blocked weekends.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2355 on: May 25, 2016, 06:16:51 AM »
On the blocked weekends.
There are weekends now available.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2356 on: May 25, 2016, 10:47:09 AM »
They've blocked standard rooms now for next Pesach, which they never did all last year.  I had already booked one room for 10 nights and another for 5 so now I just need one more room for 5 nights if they open it back up.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2357 on: May 25, 2016, 10:50:35 AM »
The Supervisor here indeed confirmed for me that they blocked superior rooms because they don't want points bookings.
Do they lose money on point bookings?
Are they allowed to do that?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #2358 on: May 25, 2016, 10:50:40 AM »
They've blocked standard rooms now for next Pesach, which they never did all last year.  I had already booked one room for 10 nights and another for 5 so now I just need one more room for 5 nights if they open it back up.

Wow! Ugh! I had no issue booking a room during this Pesach days before my stay. A real shame.
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