Elma Hotel and Art Complex

Great hotel/resort. We enjoyed ourselves very much. The food was excellent. Victoria in the reception was very friendly and helpful. The pool was very clean and relaxing. Parking area was easily accessible and the rooms were very comfortable.

Alma IS a work of ART the architecture the sculptures the paintings the sketches all combined to make our stay a cultural experience ******************************************************************************************

Excellent room, very spaceous with a great view over the mediteranean sea. Lots of interesting art everywhere. It felt like walking around in a musem. Fantastic food with plenty of vegetabled a lot of tasty choices for breakast lunch and dinner.

Excellent hotel. Beautiful room, very quiet, the views are just amazing everywhere you go. The staff was very nice and they made sure our stay is enjoyable. The food was delicious with lots of options even for a vegan. Great place to get away from it all.

The hotel is situated in Zichron-Yakov and have a very nice view over the Mediterranean Sea between the cities of Hadera and Haifa. With a good visibility you can see the both from the hotel. Our experience of a night at this hotel was terrible. It started about half hour after the check in while myself with my wife wanted to take a nap after a one hour drive from Tel Aviv. And then... surprise... without any announcement one of the service workers of the hotel opened our room, went inside the room and told us that he just want to pick us a teenager bed that was on our room ( I don't know why it was there since I mentioned that we need just one double bed...). ZERO PRIVACY at this hotel. If it happened to us, it can probably happen to any guest... being visited by the hotel staff, unannounced. The room was old style designed, the entry room is almost falling while it is wide opened. No mini-bar, just an empty fridge. It doesn't help in any way that the electricity buttons are "hi-tech" touch ones if the room is so old fashioned and has no facilities on it. This hotel is listed as a FIVE stars hotel. Well, we stayed on Five stars hotels, also on four stars hotels and even on three stars hotels all over the world. This hotel has nothing in common to a FIVE stars hotel. Hardly it may be maybe a THREE stars hotel all in any place in the world. Another big bad surprise was the breakfast. I personally don't eat many milk products. Since most of the breakfast products ( but vegetables) were milk based, probably because a strict Kosher demands, I wasn't able to eat much of this "Chef buffet" which the hotel offers. If you want to drink a orange juice during the breakfast, then you have to know that there is a single orange juice machine for all the guests, and yeah, it is a long row to get your 50cc glass of juice at this hotel. In order to summarize it - Nice hotel for the views, very bad staff as you don't have any privacy while any service worker can entry to your room unexpectedly , far lower "real" rank than FIVE stars, and a extremally high price per night ( paid $480 for a Superior Double Room) which I feel it was wasted without getting any close value for it in return. NOT RECOMMENDED !!!!

Beautiful hotel. Staff very helpful. Outside pool very relaxing and good food from pool bar. Lot of art on display. Building and grounds architecturally interesting. Room neat and clean. Housekeeping staff and breakfast wait staff very competent. Breakfast the most Israeli of all hotels. Of course abundant but tasted the most home made. Views of Mediterranean from hilltop were beautiful

Elma is a unique resort, hotel and art centre/gallery. Home for Israeli art and music it has a unique history of renown international style architecture [considered one of Rechters’ masterpieces - originally built as a resort for workers in the sixties]. The architecture takes in breathtaking view. We enjoyed superb hosts and a delicious rich and creative kitchen. Zichron Yaacov is one of the oldest townships in the country - established by Rothschild back to the late 19th century - so there is a lot of interesting sites to visit in this small town. Located at the hilltop overlooking unarguably one of Israels most enchanting mediterranean beach’s. Opened by an Israeli visionary Mrs. Lily Epstein and her family - there is no place like ELMA. A pleasant pools in the complex and a first class SPA are also to be enjoyed. Almost every evening one of its two music venues hosts first class stars of different music garnered and styles including the finest rock music around. Defiantly a wonderful place to restore inspiration and take it easy and connect!

Excellent atmosphere , relaxing and ….different from other hotels , spacious, great views, wonderful food, nice and helpful staff. We plan to come back with friends and family to share other great moments!

Many good things - room was very well-equipped and comfortable. Facilities were excellent, and setting is beautiful. Plenty of free parking inside. Great breakfast, though service could have been better. In fact, service overall could have been a lot better. The only staff member we were impressed with was a person who gave a tour of the property for free at 10:00 am each day. Worth doing if you can. But, lack of people to help out and lack of enthusiasm to help out seemed out of place for a "luxury" hotel. Could have been a "5" if not for the mediocre service.