by TheWanderingCamel
A wonderfully comfortable room with all the amenities of a first class hotel are what you would expect, and will get, from Le Meridien in Damascus. The hotel is fairly centrally located, it's an easy walk to the museum, the Tekkiye Mosque, the handicraft souk and to the downtown area of Ave 29 May though you might want to take a taxi to the Old City and places further afield.
I would recommend this hotel to anyone who is looking for this level of accommodation.
The best thing about the hotel is the lobby. It's not the traditionally elegant apricot and black banded marble decor, or the comfortable leather seats in the club bar - nice as they are - but the exotic passing parade of guests and visitors to the hotel. A sheik and his entourage from a Gulf state perhaps, a big wedding party with drums and tambours to greet them, women in wonderfully flamboyant robes with henna-decorated feet.
