Discount Hotels in Jerusalem

The Prima Kings hotel, Prima Palace and Prima Royale hotel

The Prima Kings hotel, and its siblings, the Prima Palace and Prima Royale, offer some of the best deals among discount hotels in Jerusalem.

This is a popular hotel in a great location. The rooms are on the small side and the central location – right on King George Street, in walking distance to the Old City, Mamilla and Ben Yehuda Streets – means it can be a bit noisy. However, the management is friendly, the lobby is pleasant and the food very decent. It's also next door to two of our favorite (but definitely not discount!) restaurants – Keyara and Sheyan.

This is a tiny hotel with a lovely front courtyard. The rooms are tiny, too, and remind me of old-fashioned European hotels. But the staff is really friendly and attentive, breakfast is very good. It’s a block away from Nahlaot and Mahane Yehuda, Jerusalem’s colorful produce market, and around the corner from Jaffa Street, so you’re right in the center of town and can catch a bus from there to almost anywhere. Turn right from the hotel and you can wander the quaint, narrow streets of Mekor Baruch, of one Jerusalem’s religious neighborhoods.

Due to its high standards of kashrut, the hotel caters to an Orthodox clientele as well as tourists. (See our directory of kosher hotels in Jerusalem.)

This is the most expensive of the Prima hotels (not by much, though). On a quiet, tree-lined street with a quaint name (Mendele Mocher Sfarim - Mendele the Book Seller Street – don’t you just wonder who he was?), this is a well-appointed hotel, clean and comfortable. It’s off King George Street, so it isn’t a long walk to the center of town, or the Old City and there are good bus routes to be had there, too. Like the other two Prima hotels, the staff is helpful and breakfast here gets top ratings.