Renoma

A Boutique Hotel and a Building of Apartments

HaYarkon Street runs the length of the Tel Aviv seafront, one block behind the promenade, and most of what stands on it is a tower with a lobby. Renoma is the other kind of address: a boutique house that runs design suites and serviced apartments side by side, under one reception. The suites have private balconies. The apartments come with one or two bedrooms, full kitchens, high ceilings and walk-in closets, which is a specification you find in a rental and almost never with a twenty-four-hour desk attached. The result is a hotel you can live in rather than pass through.

Why It Works

Tel Aviv is an expensive city to visit and a pleasant one to inhabit, and the difference is usually a kitchen. This property solves it without giving up the things a hotel does well: reception around the clock, daily housekeeping, a gym, bicycles, and a private spa lounge upstairs. A couple here for three nights takes a suite with a balcony; a family or a pair of friends here for a fortnight takes an apartment and shops at the Carmel Market. Both get the same beach two minutes from the door. Very few addresses on this street cover both cases properly.

Why This Location

You are between Bograshov and Jerusalem beaches, which is the middle of the city's swimming coast: lifeguards, matkot players, and a promenade that runs north to the old port and south to Jaffa. Behind you the grid climbs into the centre, with Dizengoff Center and its cinema about eight minutes on foot, the Carmel Market and the Yemenite Quarter around ten, and Rothschild Boulevard fifteen. Bicycles make all of it shorter, and the seafront path is flat the whole way to Jaffa. HaYarkon is busy, as any street on a seafront is, so ask for a room facing away from it if you sleep lightly.

Fast Facts

• Price: Premium

• Vibe: beachside, residential, contemporary, easy

• Rooms: boutique design suites with private balconies, plus one- and two-bedroom luxury apartments with full kitchens and high ceilings

• Best For: longer stays, families, friends travelling together, beach mornings and city afternoons

• Our Favorite Thing About the Hotel: the private spa lounge on the first floor of the mini-tower, with a dry sauna and a hot rain shower before a massage

• Dining: no restaurant on site; the apartments have full kitchens and the Carmel Market is a short walk

• Amenities: private spa lounge, complimentary gym access, free bicycles, twenty-four-hour reception, daily housekeeping, accessible rooms

• Attractions: Bograshov and Jerusalem beaches, the seafront promenade, Carmel Market, Dizengoff Center, Rothschild Boulevard, Jaffa

Suites With Balconies, Apartments With Kitchens

The two formats answer different trips. The design suites are the conventional hotel stay, compact and contemporary, and the balcony is what lifts them: in this climate an outdoor square metre is worth three indoors. The apartments are the interesting half. One or two bedrooms, a real kitchen, ceilings high enough to make a Tel Aviv flat feel generous, and storage that assumes you have unpacked. Ask about the floor when you book, because the higher you are on this street the more sea you see over the buildings in front.

The Spa Lounge on the First Floor

The mini-tower holds a private spa lounge, and private is the operative word: a dry sauna, a hot rain shower and a bespoke massage, booked for you rather than shared with a queue. It is a small facility done properly, which for a house this size is the right decision. Use it after a day of walking the city rather than after the beach, when the point is heat rather than salt.

Bicycles, and How to Use Tel Aviv

The bicycles are free and they change the stay. Tel Aviv is flat, compact and built for two wheels, and from this door the promenade runs uninterrupted south to the Jaffa flea market and north past the marina to the old port. Inland, the Bauhaus blocks of the White City and the cafés of Dizengoff and Ben Yehuda are all a few minutes' ride. Take one out early, before the heat, and do the seafront to Jaffa and back before breakfast.