Shalom Hotel & Relax

Arriving on HaYarkon Street, guests step into a hotel built like a beach house rather than a city block. Rooms run from 12 to 27 square metres. Bedding is cotton, with duck-down pillows and quilts, and bathrooms are fitted with towels and toiletries from the -417 spa line. Short massages are offered there in summer, and yoga classes run at sunset with a sea breeze on the terrace. A treatment room downstairs handles facials and massages with professional-grade equipment. Check-in runs from 3pm, checkout by noon. The hotel is not kosher, and it welcomes dogs. It sits within walking distance of the beach, the promenade and central Tel Aviv, a compact base for travellers who want the city and the shoreline within the same few blocks.