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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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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3500 on: August 20, 2017, 10:46:32 AM »
For good food I'd definitely recommend the Plaza. 5 min walk and much better food. WAJ has been a disaster for shabbos meals.
Just did Friday night at WAJ this past shabbos and it was awful. We reserved for 2 and showed up at 9pm after the kotel and they didn't have a table available. After about 20 min of waiting we found someone we know and ended up crashing their table just so we can eat. The service was extremely slow and they were out of the appetizer I wanted and the main course was cold. Definitely wouldn't recommend.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3501 on: August 20, 2017, 10:54:10 AM »
Just did Friday night at WAJ this past shabbos and it was awful. We reserved for 2 and showed up at 9pm after the kotel and they didn't have a table available. After about 20 min of waiting we found someone we know and ended up crashing their table just so we can eat. The service was extremely slow and they were out of the appetizer I wanted and the main course was cold. Definitely wouldn't recommend.

Wow. So any good recommendations to go to for Friday night?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3502 on: August 20, 2017, 11:04:18 AM »
Just did Friday night at WAJ this past shabbos and it was awful. We reserved for 2 and showed up at 9pm after the kotel and they didn't have a table available. After about 20 min of waiting we found someone we know and ended up crashing their table just so we can eat. The service was extremely slow and they were out of the appetizer I wanted and the main course was cold. Definitely wouldn't recommend.

I was there a few weeks  (came late and it was a packed Shabbos) didn't wait anything. but service was 6.5/10
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3503 on: August 20, 2017, 12:12:48 PM »
Just did Friday night at WAJ this past shabbos and it was awful. We reserved for 2 and showed up at 9pm after the kotel and they didn't have a table available. After about 20 min of waiting we found someone we know and ended up crashing their table just so we can eat. The service was extremely slow and they were out of the appetizer I wanted and the main course was cold. Definitely wouldn't recommend.
Did you order beforehand? Were you staying at the hotel?
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3504 on: August 20, 2017, 12:14:36 PM »
Just did Friday night at WAJ this past shabbos and it was awful. We reserved for 2 and showed up at 9pm after the kotel and they didn't have a table available. After about 20 min of waiting we found someone we know and ended up crashing their table just so we can eat. The service was extremely slow and they were out of the appetizer I wanted and the main course was cold. Definitely wouldn't recommend.
Sure hope you complain.
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3505 on: August 20, 2017, 04:55:08 PM »
Sure hope you complain.
Gotta get the facts first. If he has not ordered than it's his loss. If he did, then it's a different story and worthy of a complaint.
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3506 on: August 20, 2017, 05:26:06 PM »
Gotta get the facts first. If he has not ordered than it's his loss. If he did, then it's a different story and worthy of a complaint.
We reserved for 2

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3507 on: August 21, 2017, 09:47:13 AM »
Just did Friday night at WAJ this past shabbos and it was awful. We reserved for 2 and showed up at 9pm after the kotel and they didn't have a table available. After about 20 min of waiting we found someone we know and ended up crashing their table just so we can eat. The service was extremely slow and they were out of the appetizer I wanted and the main course was cold. Definitely wouldn't recommend.
We were there too this past Friday night. Reserved in advance, showed up about 8:45 after the kosel and got a table right away. Service was slow but otherwise good, and the appetizers and soups were just ok, but the mains were very good and not cold. Overall enjoyed but it wasn't as good as reported by others in the past
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3508 on: August 21, 2017, 09:52:49 AM »
Crazy how Friday night at the Waldorf ranges from 1 to 5 stars like this. Guess they need to work on consistency.
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3509 on: August 21, 2017, 09:57:08 AM »
We were there too this past Friday night. Reserved in advance, showed up about 8:45 after the kosel and got a table right away. Service was slow but otherwise good, and the appetizers and soups were just ok, but the mains were very good and not cold. Overall enjoyed but it wasn't as good as reported by others in the past
How was shabbos morning?
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3510 on: August 21, 2017, 10:08:41 AM »
How was shabbos morning?
Kugel was very weak. Rest of the breakfast was decent, not nearly as good as the rest of the week
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3511 on: August 21, 2017, 10:10:42 AM »
Kugel was very weak. Rest of the breakfast was decent, not nearly as good as the rest of the week
Cmon, how was the "cholent"?
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3512 on: August 21, 2017, 10:11:13 AM »
Crazy how Friday night at the Waldorf ranges from 1 to 5 stars like this. Guess they need to work on consistency.
I was there last week for several days. I didn't recognize ONE staff member from my last visit 6 months ago. Seems liked there was a big change and a lot of trainees.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3513 on: August 21, 2017, 10:15:34 AM »
Well they did get a new GM
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3514 on: August 21, 2017, 10:28:49 AM »
OK, so they still working out the kinks.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3515 on: August 21, 2017, 12:20:33 PM »
I was there last week for several days. I didn't recognize ONE staff member from my last visit 6 months ago. Seems liked there was a big change and a lot of trainees.
I'm there quite often was there last week as well.
 yes they got a new manager and a few other top positions but most of the staff (check in, conceriage) are the same , yes they had a few trainees but some if the had other jobs in hotel and have been moved to different department so have trainee badge

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3516 on: August 22, 2017, 02:19:51 PM »
Cmon, how was the "cholent"?

Cholent in WAJ is chick peas!

Why don't you try David's Citadel. Rabanut with Glatt meat/chicken as per the mashgiach.

Both meals are buffet. Tons of delicious food. Surprisingly, shabbos day had heimish food like real chulent and gala (among many many other choices)

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3517 on: August 22, 2017, 09:35:55 PM »
waldorf food was amazing when we were there 1.5/2 years ago, supposedly its been downhill since though.
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3518 on: August 23, 2017, 01:59:29 AM »
Well they did get a new GM
How long ago? Wonder if thats why they stopped being so strict with Points/Voucher bookings.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #3519 on: August 23, 2017, 11:55:53 AM »
How long ago? Wonder if thats why they stopped being so strict with Points/Voucher bookings.
They didn't stop being strict. The guys who manage these stuff are still there and I know they gave someone who used his accounts for a lot of random bookings a hard time last week.
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