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NIS 3,000 per night: We visited the new luxury hotel in the north

The Golan Heights is being renewed in a new boutique hotel called "Wild", probably the most luxurious that has opened in the north in recent years and for adults only.

27 rooms and suites, a pool, a wine cellar, a spa and a restaurant there will be waiting for those who are willing to part with thousands of shekels per night.

Here's what we thought

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Ziv Reinstein

Sunday, 19 September 2021, 08:25 Updated: 08:30

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Wild Hotel in the Golan Heights (Photo: Ziv Reinstein, Editing: Nir Chen)

Let's start from the end:

no hotel in the country is worth 3,000 shekels a night!

Neither is Six Senses, which recently opened at dawn, where you will pay NIS 5,000 and more per night.

Take this money and fly with your spouse abroad for four days, and you will still have a surplus to check out Corona again.

But then comes the new wild hotel that recently opened in the Golan Heights and changes the luxury vacation arrangements of the north, Holiday villas, but not in a hotel of this type, Wild is probably the most prestigious hotel that has opened in the north in recent years and brings to the area, and certainly to the Golan Heights, urban chic, contemporary in the miles of nature of the plateau.

Despite its wild name that corresponds with nature, origin and bestiality, Wild is not a hotel that feels like the middle of nowhere.

On the contrary, the most obvious sign of its urbanity are the old Bauhaus houses, which were used by the French customs officers from 1919 onwards.

Here we will only mention that at the end of the days of the Ottoman Empire, the French and British empires divided the bearskin of the Middle East between them, and precisely here, that is, at the junction of the Customs House (Route 91, corner 888). Remains of the bottom).

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It is good that there is shading for adults as well.

The pool at the Wild Hotel (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The French Bauhaus buildings have been preserved and turned into hotel rooms (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

A series of photographs of old and new inside the old dining room (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

It has been years since the British were here, including the Syrians, until 1967, and since Israel took control of the Golan Heights, the customs house has stood desolate. In 2012, Leo Glaser, a good Argentine Jew with quite a few dinosaurs, arrived and purchased the land on its ruins from the Israel Lands Administration. After years of a well-known Israeli bureaucracy and an investment of NIS 15 million, a wild hotel opened this week - "because there is something wild here that is connected to nature," explains hotel manager Neri Eldar, who arrives after years in the hotel industry, including several in New York and most recently .

"Ours is a sophisticated audience, Israelis understand," added Henry. "we know how to do tourism, culinary and hospitality. We tried to present here something authentic and not imitative, because one of the diseases in this country is to do tourism that mimics foreign tourism, and here we want to connect the language of the Golan in terms of visibility, history and culture. There is a sense of wildness here, nature speaks in all its glory, large areas, such as an estate or a chateau. "

French nostalgia items on display at the hotel (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Hotel room (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

(Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

27 rooms and suites await hotel guests who will have the money in their pockets.

The rooms are spread over four buildings on an area of ​​seven dunams, two of which (the Bauhaus) are conservation buildings.

Some rooms face the pool, others the garden and there are also some (mostly some suites) that face the road, since the hotel is on a pretty main junction that connects the Golan Heights with the Galilee.

Suite number 13 is the most expensive suite in the hotel with a living room, a very large bathroom, a balcony in the best international building tradition, with large flower pots and a view of the Naftali Mountains.

But do not need a suite as most of the rooms are relatively large and luxurious. Almost everyone is designed in a different and special way, and Dana Leitersdorf and Tamara Glaser-Shafran believed in the design of the hotel, using the raw materials offered by the Golan - like basalt rocks around the pool or small tuff stones as towel racks - and using natural and recycled materials. Each room has a TV system that turns into a home theater system that connects to a cellphone, hence also placing two brown bags with popcorn for a snack - a nice thought that was added because the popcorn also stands for hours and loses its umbrellas and stains the brown bags with a lot of oil. What's nice is the mini bar that includes fresh water, De Carina chocolates, a kind of Zivan and ginger beer alongside soft drinks.

The entire bathroom is designed in an urban atmosphere as if you were in Hotel Montefiore or another Tel Aviv hotel, and this is the design spirit these days - bathrooms with a pampering bath or shower, with a strong and pampering top shower and of course quality soaps.

Wildly used the prestigious luxite, and an important and ecological advantage is the use of large shampoo / soap / conditioner bottles that are attached to the wall (except for body lotion), instead of those small bottles that pollute our world with unnecessary plastic.

Beyond that the room is equipped with a large and luxurious bed.

The mattress is wide and allows maximum spread lengthwise and widthwise.

Sleeping and decorative pillows are placed on it, and guests the hotel wants to visit will even embroider the initials of their name in gold on one of the expectations, which will be served as a gift at the end of the stay.

Great gimmick.

Urban design of the bathroom (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein system)

(Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Strong and good disintegrations have been recorded in the spa

In terms of facilities in the hotel, in the wild a small and tiny spa with two treatment rooms, but who needs more that you have 27 rooms. It is managed by Yaakov Koltash, who was the senior therapist of the Mitzpe Hayamim Hotel for about 20 years and now lives in Katzrin and got a job at KALB. The Druze, who will come to you with their massages and I was there recorded strong and good breakdowns with some of the experimenters. By the

way massages, they are performed without oils, but with body butter with coconut and other fruits. "Less than an hour is ineffective," Yaakov explains, and he is right.

Another accessory that hotels like to show off is a wine cellar.

In the wild, which is found on a trout where quite a few of the best grapes of the Land of Israel are grown, this is required.

There are about 70 types of wine in the small cellar that can accommodate about 20 people for small events, most of which are grown on Golan basalt soil.

One of them is, believe it or not, a wine called "Wild" by Recanati from Carignan Reserve grapes made from wild fermentation (but has nothing to do with the hotel).

Some of the rooms face the pool (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The opening of Para also heralds culinary renewal in the Golan - an area not abundant in quality restaurants - but more and more culinary places are beginning to emerge in it, see "Materlo" in Ein Zivan, "Gillis" in Nov and others.

Here came the young chef Roi Dori, a total of 27 years old, but with a repertoire of experience in several Tel Aviv restaurants, including one with Michelin stars abroad. Of the Golan, Syrian olives typical of the area and of course vines.The

restaurant will first serve the guests who come to the B&B, but will later (probably after the holidays) also provide a solution for visitors, tourists and just locals who want to celebrate an event in the Golan and will give up traveling to Rosh Pina.

The right recipe

Every hotel loves to show off its history, or what it was before. Everyone recruits the raw materials of their region (culinary or human), and everyone "loves to connect to language, culture and what that brings with it its special place." We are already familiar with all the historic signs, the preservation that combines old and new, the pleasant music played in the pool and the culinary touches served on a bed of contemporary design using new and old techniques. Yes, we've seen it all before.

Wild is no different from them in terms of marketing and the message he wants to convey.

But the feeling in the hotel is really of something calm, pampering and prestigious that does not exist in every splashy boutique hotel, one way or another, that exists in Israel.

Just getting to the Golan puts you somewhere else in terms of vacation.

Add to that a hotel that has really invested thought and attention to every little detail, a pool that has shading (not just kids suffering from the sun), good cuisine, treatments and full bottles of wine - and you get the right recipe for an adult-only vacation.

Is it worth 3,000 shekels?

I still think not.

But be full that they will think so, and enjoy.

So go wild!

The writer was a guest of a wild hotel in the Golan.

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